2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
8 print a warning and then crash.
12 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
13 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
14 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
19 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
23 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
28 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
32 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
36 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
38 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
43 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
44 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
45 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
50 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
51 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
56 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
58 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
59 anyway, and noone had complained).
60 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
61 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
65 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
66 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
67 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
71 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
75 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
76 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
80 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
81 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
82 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
86 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
87 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
88 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
90 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
91 by Simon Templer and others).
95 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
96 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
97 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
101 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
105 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
109 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
110 version number again (Stephen Watson).
114 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
115 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
119 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
123 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
124 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
125 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
126 anyway (Stephen Watson).
130 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
134 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
138 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
140 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
142 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
146 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
147 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
148 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
152 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
153 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
158 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
159 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
160 impossible to change shortcuts.
161 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
162 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
166 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
167 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
172 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
173 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
174 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
178 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
179 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
180 to the functions being missing.
184 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
188 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
192 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
196 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
200 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
201 worries people for no reason.
205 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
209 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
210 files selected (Peter Geer).
214 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
215 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
219 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
223 Added 'Select by Name'.
227 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
231 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
236 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
240 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
242 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
244 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
245 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
249 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
253 Misc changes for next release.
257 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
258 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
262 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
263 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
264 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
265 Watson, reported on #rox).
269 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
270 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
274 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
275 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
279 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
280 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
284 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
285 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
290 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
294 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
296 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
301 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
305 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
306 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
310 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
311 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
315 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
319 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
324 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
325 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
327 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
328 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
332 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
333 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
337 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
342 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
343 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
347 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
348 support not being detected (igla).
352 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
356 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
357 dialog (Stephen Watson).
361 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
365 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
366 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
367 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
368 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
371 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
373 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
374 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
378 New icon for selection ops.
382 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
386 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
390 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
394 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
395 Added icon theme selector.
399 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
403 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
407 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
408 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
412 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
413 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
414 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
418 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
419 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
423 Allow ejecting mounted media.
427 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
428 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
429 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
433 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
437 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
438 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
443 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
444 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
448 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
449 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
453 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
454 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
458 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
462 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
463 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
464 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
468 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
472 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
473 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
474 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
475 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
479 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
480 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
482 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
486 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
490 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
491 bits (Stephen Watson).
495 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
499 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
503 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
504 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
508 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
512 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
513 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
518 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
519 forward them explicitly.
523 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
524 help from Götz Waschk).
528 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
529 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
530 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
534 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
538 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
542 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
546 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
547 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
549 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
551 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
555 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
557 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
559 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
563 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
564 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
565 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
566 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
570 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
574 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
578 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
582 Minor updates to the manual.
583 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
584 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
588 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
589 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
591 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
593 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
594 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
598 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
599 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
600 reduce flickering effect.
604 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
608 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
610 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
614 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
615 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
616 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
617 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
618 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
622 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
623 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
627 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
631 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
636 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
637 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
641 Winking now works in List view.
645 Lasso selections now work in List view.
649 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
650 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
654 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
655 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
657 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
659 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
663 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
667 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
668 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
670 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
674 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
675 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
679 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
681 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
685 Centre the image for iconified windows.
686 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
690 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
692 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
696 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
700 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
701 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
706 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
707 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
709 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
711 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
713 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
717 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
721 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
722 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
726 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
731 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
732 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
736 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
738 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
740 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
741 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
746 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
750 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
751 (suggested by Michael Adams).
752 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
753 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
754 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
755 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
756 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
758 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
762 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
767 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
768 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
772 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
773 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
774 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
775 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
780 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
781 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
782 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
783 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
784 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
785 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
786 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
787 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
788 talent can do something better?
789 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
790 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
794 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
795 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
796 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
801 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
803 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
804 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
805 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
806 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
807 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
808 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
809 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
810 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
811 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
812 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
813 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
814 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
815 label wasn't hidden / shown.
819 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
820 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
821 allow fine repositioning.
822 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
823 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
824 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
825 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
827 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
828 changing the aspect ratio.
832 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
836 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
840 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
841 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
842 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
846 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
850 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
855 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
856 make sharing icons easier.
857 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
861 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
862 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
866 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
870 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
872 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
876 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
881 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
886 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
887 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
889 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
890 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
891 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
892 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
896 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
897 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
901 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
905 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
907 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
912 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
913 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
915 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
919 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
920 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
922 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
924 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
928 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
929 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
934 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
938 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
939 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
940 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
944 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
945 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
949 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
953 Preserve selection when changing view type.
954 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
958 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
959 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
960 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
964 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
968 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
969 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
970 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
971 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
973 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
974 the information in the tooltips anyway.
978 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
979 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
983 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
988 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
989 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
993 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
997 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
998 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
999 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1000 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1005 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1006 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1007 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1011 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1015 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1016 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1020 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1021 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1022 since it didn't include the contents.
1023 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1024 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1028 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1032 Style improvements to options window.
1036 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1040 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1042 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1044 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1049 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1050 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1051 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1052 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1056 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1060 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1064 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1065 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1069 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1071 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1076 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1080 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1081 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1082 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1087 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1091 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1095 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1099 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1103 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1104 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1105 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1109 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1110 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1114 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1115 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1120 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1124 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1128 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1133 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1134 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1138 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1139 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1144 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1145 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1149 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1150 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1151 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1155 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1159 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1160 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1161 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1162 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1163 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1167 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1168 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1172 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1173 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1177 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1181 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1182 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1183 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1184 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1185 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1186 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1190 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1191 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1192 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1196 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1197 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1202 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1206 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1208 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1210 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1215 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1219 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1223 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1224 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1229 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1233 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1237 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1238 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1239 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1243 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1247 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1252 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1256 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1257 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1258 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1259 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1263 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1267 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1268 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1272 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1273 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1274 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1278 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1282 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1286 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1287 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1288 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1289 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1290 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1291 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1295 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1296 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1300 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1301 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1302 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1306 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1307 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1311 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1315 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1316 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1317 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1318 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1320 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1322 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1326 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1327 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1328 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1332 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1336 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1337 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1342 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1346 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1350 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1351 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1355 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1356 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1357 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1361 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1362 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1366 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1367 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1371 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1372 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1376 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1380 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1381 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1385 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1387 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1389 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1393 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1397 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1398 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1402 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1406 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1410 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1411 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1412 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1413 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1414 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1415 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1419 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1423 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1425 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1426 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1430 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1431 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1435 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1439 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1440 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1441 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1442 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1444 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1446 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1450 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1451 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1455 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1456 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1457 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1461 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1462 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1463 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1464 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1465 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1466 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1467 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1471 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1472 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1476 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1480 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1484 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1489 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1493 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1494 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1495 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1499 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1500 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1501 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1505 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1506 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1507 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1511 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1512 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1516 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1521 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1522 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1523 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1524 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1525 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1527 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1528 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1532 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1536 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1537 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1538 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1539 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1543 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1544 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1545 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1546 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1547 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1548 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1552 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1556 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1557 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1561 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1562 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1563 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1564 restart (Olli Helenius).
1568 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1572 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1573 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1574 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1579 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1584 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1585 Small and Large sizes.
1589 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1593 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1594 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1598 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1599 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1600 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1601 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1605 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1606 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1607 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1612 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1617 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1618 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1622 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1623 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1628 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1630 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1632 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1636 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1640 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1642 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1644 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1648 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1650 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1651 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1655 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1656 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1660 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1661 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1665 Various speed improvements.
1666 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1670 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1671 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1675 Slight speed increase when starting.
1679 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1683 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1684 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1685 button is no longer supported.
1689 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1693 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1697 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1702 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1703 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1707 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1708 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1709 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1713 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1714 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1715 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1716 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1720 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1721 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1722 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1724 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1729 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1730 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1735 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1739 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1740 and converted to new dialog style.
1744 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1745 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1749 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1750 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1754 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1758 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1760 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1764 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1768 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1769 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1770 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1774 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1775 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1779 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1784 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1788 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1789 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1793 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1794 and Cancel is now Revert.
1795 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1796 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1800 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1804 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1805 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1807 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1808 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1809 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1810 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1814 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1816 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1817 labels display them.
1818 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1821 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1825 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1827 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1831 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1832 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1833 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1837 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1838 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1840 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1842 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1846 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1847 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1851 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1852 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1853 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1854 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1858 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1862 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1863 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1867 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1868 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1873 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1874 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1878 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1879 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1880 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1884 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1885 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1889 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1890 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1891 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1892 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1894 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1899 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1900 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1902 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1904 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1908 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1909 any image (saves time).
1910 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1911 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1912 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1913 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1915 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1916 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1920 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1921 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1923 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1924 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1926 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1931 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1932 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1933 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1934 has stopped accepting STRING.
1938 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1939 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1943 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1948 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1949 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1951 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1952 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1953 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1957 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1958 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1959 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1960 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1961 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1962 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1966 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1967 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1968 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1969 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1970 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1971 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1976 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1977 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1978 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1979 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1984 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1985 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1989 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1990 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1992 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1994 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1995 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1996 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2000 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2001 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2002 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2006 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2007 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2011 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2012 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2016 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2018 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2023 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2024 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2028 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2029 their menus correctly.
2030 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2035 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2036 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2037 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2041 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2042 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2046 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2050 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2053 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2055 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2056 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2057 the toggle menu items from working!
2061 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2063 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2069 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2070 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2074 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2075 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2076 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2077 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2078 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2079 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2083 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2087 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2088 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2092 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2093 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2094 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2098 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2099 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2104 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2106 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2110 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2111 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2112 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2113 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2117 Improved error reporting.
2118 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2122 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2123 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2124 check box and does 'Yes'.
2128 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2129 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2130 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2131 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2136 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2138 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2139 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2141 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2143 Internal changes to options system:
2144 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2145 filer is fully initialised).
2146 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2148 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2150 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2151 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2152 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2153 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2157 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2158 now reclaims the selection.
2159 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2160 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2165 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2166 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2167 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2168 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2169 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2173 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2174 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2176 Code tidying in various places.
2180 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2181 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2186 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2187 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2191 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2192 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2193 edit the file, not the file itself!
2194 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2198 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2199 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2200 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2201 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2202 of the SOAP working draft.
2203 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2204 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2205 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2210 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2211 it was in the displayed area before.
2213 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2216 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2217 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2221 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2222 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2223 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2225 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2226 selection (Andras Mohari).
2230 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2234 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2238 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2239 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2240 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2244 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2248 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2250 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2251 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2252 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2256 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2257 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2262 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2263 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2264 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2268 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2272 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2276 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2277 replaced by a Restart button.
2281 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2282 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2286 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2290 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2294 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2295 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2296 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2300 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2301 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2303 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2304 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2305 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2309 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2310 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2315 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2317 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2318 (requested by Graham Borland).
2319 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2320 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2321 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2325 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2326 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2327 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2328 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2332 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2333 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2334 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2335 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2336 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2337 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2338 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2339 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2340 - Lots of code tidying.
2345 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2346 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2350 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2352 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2354 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2358 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2359 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2363 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2364 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2368 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2369 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2373 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2374 option to access it directly.
2378 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2379 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2380 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2384 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2385 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2386 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2387 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2388 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2389 when the filer is run.
2393 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2394 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2395 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2400 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2404 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2405 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2409 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2411 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2415 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2419 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2420 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2421 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2426 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2427 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2428 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2429 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2430 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2431 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2432 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2436 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2440 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2441 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2445 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2446 of possible actions (Taras).
2447 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2449 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2450 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2454 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2459 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2463 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2466 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2467 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2471 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2472 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2474 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2476 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2477 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2478 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2479 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2483 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2487 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2491 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2495 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2500 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2501 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2502 the first one found.
2503 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2507 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2511 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2512 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2513 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2517 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2518 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2519 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2524 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2525 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2526 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2530 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2532 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2537 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2542 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2546 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2547 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2551 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2553 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2554 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2558 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2562 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2563 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2567 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2568 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2572 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2573 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2575 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2577 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2581 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2585 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2586 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2590 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2594 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2599 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2600 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2604 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2608 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2612 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2614 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2615 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2619 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2620 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2624 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2625 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2626 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2630 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2631 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2635 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2636 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2638 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2640 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2644 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2645 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2646 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2648 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2649 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2651 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2653 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2654 and the default size with no details.
2658 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2659 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2663 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2668 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2673 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2677 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2682 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2683 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2687 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2691 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2692 the button to run it does.
2693 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2694 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2695 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2699 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2700 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2701 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2705 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2709 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2710 and panels into icon.c.
2714 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2715 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2716 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2717 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2721 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2723 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2725 Updated the documentation.
2729 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2730 up if they're too small.
2734 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2736 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2737 (Christopher Arndt).
2738 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2743 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2744 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2748 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2749 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2753 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2754 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2755 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2760 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2765 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2769 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2770 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2775 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2780 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2781 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2785 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2786 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2790 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2794 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2798 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2802 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2803 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2806 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2807 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2812 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2813 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2814 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2815 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2820 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2821 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2823 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2825 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2826 for non-applications.
2830 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2831 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2836 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2840 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2841 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2843 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2847 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2848 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2852 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2853 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2857 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2858 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2862 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2863 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2865 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2866 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2870 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2871 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2873 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2877 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2878 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2881 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2885 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2886 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2890 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2894 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2895 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2898 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2899 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2903 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2907 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2912 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2916 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2917 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2922 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2927 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2931 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2933 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2935 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2936 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2938 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2940 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2941 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2945 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2946 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2947 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2949 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2950 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2954 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2958 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2959 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2963 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2967 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2968 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2970 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2973 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2974 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2975 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2979 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2980 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2985 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2990 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2992 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2995 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2997 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2998 sensible shape itself now.
3000 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3001 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3002 file at all, just a reused inode!
3003 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3004 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3005 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3009 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3013 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3014 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3019 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3020 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3024 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3028 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3029 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3033 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3038 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3042 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3043 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3047 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3048 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3049 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3050 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3051 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3055 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3056 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3057 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3058 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3059 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3063 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3064 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3065 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3069 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3071 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3072 python's portable system.
3073 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3074 set the LANG variable.
3078 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3079 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3081 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3083 Made a few updates to the manual.
3087 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3088 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3090 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3092 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3093 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3097 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3098 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3102 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3103 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3108 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3109 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3110 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3114 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3115 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3119 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3120 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3124 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3125 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3127 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3128 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3129 open... (Denis Manente).
3133 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3137 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3139 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3140 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3141 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3143 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3145 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3147 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3148 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3153 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3154 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3155 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3159 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3160 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3164 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3168 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3172 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3173 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3174 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3178 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3179 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3180 between pinboards...
3182 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3183 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3184 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3188 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3191 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3192 window (Denis Manente).
3194 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3195 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3199 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3200 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3201 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3205 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3208 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3209 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3211 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3216 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3217 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3219 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3223 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3224 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3226 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3228 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3233 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3234 the icon points to as well as its name.
3236 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3237 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3241 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3242 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3243 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3244 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3248 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3252 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3253 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3254 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3258 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3259 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3261 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3262 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3265 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3266 the item after the drag.
3268 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3269 showing where the file really is.
3273 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3274 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3279 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3280 warning is displayed if so.
3282 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3286 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3287 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3288 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3289 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3292 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3293 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3294 works like the panels.
3298 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3299 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3300 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3301 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3302 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3306 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3307 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3308 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3309 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3311 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3316 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3320 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3321 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3324 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3325 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3327 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3330 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3331 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3332 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3333 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3335 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3337 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3338 slightly. Updated the manual.
3340 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3341 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3344 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3345 or bottom panel to make room.
3349 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3354 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3355 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3356 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3357 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3358 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3362 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3364 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3365 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3367 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3371 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3372 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3376 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3380 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3382 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3387 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3388 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3390 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3394 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3395 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3396 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3400 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3401 rewriting the panel system.
3405 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3408 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3409 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3413 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3414 (suggested by James Kermode).
3418 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3419 than as a full path.
3421 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3423 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3424 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3425 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3429 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3430 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3434 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3435 rename something onto another filesystem.
3439 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3441 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3442 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3446 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3450 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3453 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3454 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3456 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3459 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3464 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3465 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3466 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3468 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3469 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3471 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3472 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3477 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3478 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3483 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3484 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3485 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3487 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3488 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3489 of the 'missing image' image.
3493 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3495 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3497 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3502 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3503 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3504 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3505 its name into another program.
3507 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3511 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3513 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3514 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3515 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3517 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3518 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3519 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3522 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3523 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3527 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3528 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3529 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3533 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3534 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3535 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3539 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3540 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3541 and position the icons directly.
3545 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3550 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3551 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3552 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3556 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3560 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3561 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3565 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3570 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3574 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3575 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3576 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3577 some versions of GTK+.
3581 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3586 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3587 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3588 from a sub-sub-menu.
3590 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3591 drawn on a log scale.
3595 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3596 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3597 happy with the UI yet though...
3599 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3600 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3601 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3605 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3606 by Stephen Harrison).
3608 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3610 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3611 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3612 standard types are in Choices.
3613 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3615 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3616 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3617 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3622 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3623 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3624 shell command minibuffer.
3628 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3629 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3630 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3631 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3632 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3634 Default search path for Choices is now:
3635 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3637 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3638 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3639 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3643 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3644 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3648 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3649 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3650 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3655 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3656 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3657 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3660 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3662 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3663 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3664 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3666 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3667 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3671 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3672 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3673 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3674 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3679 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3680 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3681 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3683 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3685 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3686 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3690 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3691 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3692 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3697 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3698 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3701 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3703 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3708 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3713 Added GNU gettext support.
3714 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3718 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3720 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3722 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3727 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3731 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3732 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3734 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3735 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3740 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3741 onto the directory and winks the file.
3745 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3746 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3747 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3749 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3750 instead of random values.
3751 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3753 Applied Bernard's patch:
3754 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3755 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3756 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3757 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3758 it the RISC OS way...
3759 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3760 alignment corrected.
3761 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3766 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3770 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3771 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3775 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3776 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3777 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3778 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3779 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3780 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3781 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3782 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3783 in the file(1) says... box).
3786 Before the Changes file
3787 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3788 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3790 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3791 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3792 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3793 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3794 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD