2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
8 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
9 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
10 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
15 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
16 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
17 Always use case-insensitive sort.
21 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
25 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
26 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
30 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
31 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
32 since it didn't include the contents.
33 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
34 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
38 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
42 Style improvements to options window.
46 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
50 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
52 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
54 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
59 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
60 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
61 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
62 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
66 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
70 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
74 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
75 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
79 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
81 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
86 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
90 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
91 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
92 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
97 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
101 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
105 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
109 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
113 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
114 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
115 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
119 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
120 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
124 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
125 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
130 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
134 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
138 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
143 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
144 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
148 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
149 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
154 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
155 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
159 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
160 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
161 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
165 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
169 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
170 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
171 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
172 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
173 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
177 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
178 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
182 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
183 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
187 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
191 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
192 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
193 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
194 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
195 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
196 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
200 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
201 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
202 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
206 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
207 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
212 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
216 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
218 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
220 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
225 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
229 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
233 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
234 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
239 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
243 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
247 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
248 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
249 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
253 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
257 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
262 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
266 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
267 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
268 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
269 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
273 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
277 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
278 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
282 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
283 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
284 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
288 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
292 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
296 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
297 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
298 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
299 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
300 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
301 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
305 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
306 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
310 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
311 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
312 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
316 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
317 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
321 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
325 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
326 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
327 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
328 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
330 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
332 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
336 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
337 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
338 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
342 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
346 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
347 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
352 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
356 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
360 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
361 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
365 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
366 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
367 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
371 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
372 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
376 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
377 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
381 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
382 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
386 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
390 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
391 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
395 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
397 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
399 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
403 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
407 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
408 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
412 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
416 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
420 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
421 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
422 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
423 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
424 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
425 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
429 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
433 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
435 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
436 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
440 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
441 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
445 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
449 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
450 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
451 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
452 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
454 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
456 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
460 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
461 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
465 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
466 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
467 disappeared at the wrong moment.
471 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
472 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
473 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
474 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
475 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
476 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
477 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
481 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
482 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
486 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
490 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
494 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
499 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
503 Options to set iconification layout policy.
504 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
505 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
509 Pinboard background colour option works again.
510 Position iconified windows sensibly.
511 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
515 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
516 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
517 (requested by Ryan Harris).
521 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
522 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
526 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
531 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
532 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
533 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
534 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
535 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
537 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
538 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
542 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
546 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
547 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
548 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
549 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
553 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
554 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
555 Many improvements to the pinboard:
556 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
557 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
558 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
562 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
566 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
567 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
571 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
572 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
573 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
574 restart (Olli Helenius).
578 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
582 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
583 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
584 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
589 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
594 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
595 Small and Large sizes.
599 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
603 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
604 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
608 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
609 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
610 (requested by Gregory Spath).
611 Don't quit while Options window is open.
615 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
616 the window (requested by Ashwin).
617 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
622 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
627 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
628 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
632 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
633 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
638 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
640 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
642 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
646 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
650 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
652 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
654 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
658 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
660 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
661 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
665 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
666 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
670 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
671 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
675 Various speed improvements.
676 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
680 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
681 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
685 Slight speed increase when starting.
689 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
693 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
694 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
695 button is no longer supported.
699 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
703 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
707 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
712 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
713 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
717 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
718 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
719 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
723 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
724 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
725 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
726 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
730 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
731 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
732 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
734 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
739 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
740 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
745 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
749 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
750 and converted to new dialog style.
754 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
755 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
759 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
760 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
764 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
768 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
770 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
774 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
778 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
779 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
780 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
784 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
785 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
789 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
794 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
798 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
799 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
803 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
804 and Cancel is now Revert.
805 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
806 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
810 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
814 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
815 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
817 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
818 (reported by Serban Udrea).
819 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
820 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
824 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
826 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
828 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
831 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
835 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
837 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
841 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
842 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
843 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
847 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
848 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
850 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
852 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
856 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
857 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
861 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
862 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
863 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
864 (requested by Andras Mohari).
868 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
872 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
873 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
877 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
878 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
883 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
884 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
888 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
889 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
890 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
894 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
895 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
899 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
900 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
901 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
902 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
904 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
909 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
910 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
912 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
914 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
918 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
919 any image (saves time).
920 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
921 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
922 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
923 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
925 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
926 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
930 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
931 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
933 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
934 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
936 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
941 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
942 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
943 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
944 has stopped accepting STRING.
948 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
949 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
953 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
958 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
959 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
961 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
962 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
963 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
967 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
968 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
969 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
970 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
971 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
972 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
976 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
977 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
978 Allow '~' in globicons file.
979 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
980 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
981 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
986 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
987 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
988 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
989 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
994 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
995 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
999 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1000 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1002 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1004 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1005 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1006 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1010 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1011 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1012 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1016 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1017 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1021 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1022 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1026 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1028 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1033 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1034 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1038 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1039 their menus correctly.
1040 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1045 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1046 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1047 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1051 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1052 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1056 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1060 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1063 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1065 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1066 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1067 the toggle menu items from working!
1071 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1073 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1079 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1080 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1084 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1085 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1086 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1087 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1088 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1089 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1093 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1097 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1098 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1102 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1103 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1104 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1108 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1109 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1114 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1116 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1120 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1121 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1122 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1123 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1127 Improved error reporting.
1128 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1132 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1133 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1134 check box and does 'Yes'.
1138 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1139 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1140 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
1141 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1146 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1148 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1149 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1151 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1153 Internal changes to options system:
1154 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1155 filer is fully initialised).
1156 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1158 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1160 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1161 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1162 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1163 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1167 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1168 now reclaims the selection.
1169 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1170 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1175 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1176 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1177 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1178 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1179 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1183 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1184 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1186 Code tidying in various places.
1190 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1191 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1196 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1197 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1201 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1202 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1203 edit the file, not the file itself!
1204 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1208 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1209 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1210 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1211 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1212 of the SOAP working draft.
1213 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1214 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1215 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1220 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1221 it was in the displayed area before.
1223 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1226 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1227 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1231 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1232 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1233 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1235 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1236 selection (Andras Mohari).
1240 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1244 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1248 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1249 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1250 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1254 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1258 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1260 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1261 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1262 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1266 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1267 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1272 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1273 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1274 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1278 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1282 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1286 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1287 replaced by a Restart button.
1291 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1292 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1296 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1300 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1304 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1305 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1306 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1310 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1311 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1313 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1314 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1315 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1319 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1320 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1325 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1327 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1328 (requested by Graham Borland).
1329 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1330 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1331 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1335 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1336 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1337 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1338 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1342 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1343 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1344 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1345 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1346 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1347 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1348 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1349 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1350 - Lots of code tidying.
1355 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1356 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1360 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1362 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1364 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1368 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1369 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1373 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1374 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1378 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1379 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1383 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1384 option to access it directly.
1388 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1389 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1390 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1394 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1395 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1396 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1397 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1398 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1399 when the filer is run.
1403 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1404 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1405 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1410 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1414 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1415 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1419 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1421 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1425 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1429 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1430 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1431 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1436 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1437 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1438 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1439 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1440 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1441 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1442 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1446 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1450 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1451 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1455 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1456 of possible actions (Taras).
1457 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1459 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1460 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1464 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1469 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1473 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1476 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1477 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1481 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1482 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1484 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1486 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1487 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1488 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1489 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1493 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1497 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1501 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1505 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1510 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1511 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1512 the first one found.
1513 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1517 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1521 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1522 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1523 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1527 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1528 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1529 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1534 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1535 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1536 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1540 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1542 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1547 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1552 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1556 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1557 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1561 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1563 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1564 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1568 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1572 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1573 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1577 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1578 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1582 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1583 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1585 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1587 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1591 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1595 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1596 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1600 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1604 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1609 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1610 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1614 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1618 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1622 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1624 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1625 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1629 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1630 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1634 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1635 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1636 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1640 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1641 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1645 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1646 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1648 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1650 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1654 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1655 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1656 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1658 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1659 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1661 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1663 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1664 and the default size with no details.
1668 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1669 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1673 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1678 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1683 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1687 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1692 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1693 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1697 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1701 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1702 the button to run it does.
1703 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1704 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1705 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1709 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1710 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1711 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1715 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1719 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1720 and panels into icon.c.
1724 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1725 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1726 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1727 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1731 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1733 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1735 Updated the documentation.
1739 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1740 up if they're too small.
1744 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1746 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1747 (Christopher Arndt).
1748 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1753 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1754 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1758 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1759 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1763 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1764 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1765 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1770 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1775 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1779 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1780 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1785 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1790 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1791 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1795 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1796 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1800 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1804 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1808 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1812 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1813 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1816 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1817 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1822 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1823 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1824 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1825 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1830 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1831 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1833 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1835 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1836 for non-applications.
1840 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1841 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1846 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1850 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1851 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1853 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1857 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1858 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1862 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1863 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1867 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1868 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1872 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1873 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1875 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1876 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1880 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1881 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1883 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1887 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1888 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1891 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1895 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1896 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1900 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1904 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1905 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1908 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1909 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1913 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1917 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1922 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1926 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1927 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1932 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1937 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1941 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1943 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1945 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1946 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1948 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1950 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1951 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1955 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1956 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1957 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1959 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1960 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1964 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1968 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1969 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1973 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1977 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1978 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1980 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1983 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1984 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1985 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1989 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1990 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1995 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2000 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2002 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2005 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2007 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2008 sensible shape itself now.
2010 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2011 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2012 file at all, just a reused inode!
2013 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2014 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2015 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2019 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2023 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2024 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2029 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2030 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2034 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2038 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2039 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2043 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2048 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2052 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2053 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2057 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2058 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2059 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2060 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2061 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2065 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2066 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2067 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2068 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2069 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2073 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2074 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2075 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2079 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2081 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2082 python's portable system.
2083 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2084 set the LANG variable.
2088 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2089 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2091 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2093 Made a few updates to the manual.
2097 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2098 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2100 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2102 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2103 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2107 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2108 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2112 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2113 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2118 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2119 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2120 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2124 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2125 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2129 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2130 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2134 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2135 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2137 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2138 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2139 open... (Denis Manente).
2143 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2147 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2149 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2150 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2151 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2153 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2155 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2157 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2158 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2163 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2164 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2165 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2169 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2170 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2174 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2178 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2182 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2183 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2184 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2188 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2189 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2190 between pinboards...
2192 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2193 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2194 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2198 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2201 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2202 window (Denis Manente).
2204 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2205 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2209 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2210 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2211 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2215 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2218 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2219 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2221 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2226 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2227 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2229 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2233 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2234 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2236 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2238 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2243 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2244 the icon points to as well as its name.
2246 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2247 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2251 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2252 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2253 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2254 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2258 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2262 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2263 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2264 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2268 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2269 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2271 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2272 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2275 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2276 the item after the drag.
2278 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2279 showing where the file really is.
2283 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2284 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2289 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2290 warning is displayed if so.
2292 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2296 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2297 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2298 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2299 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2302 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2303 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2304 works like the panels.
2308 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2309 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2310 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2311 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2312 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2316 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2317 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2318 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2319 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2321 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2326 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2330 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2331 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2334 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2335 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2337 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2340 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2341 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2342 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2343 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2345 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2347 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2348 slightly. Updated the manual.
2350 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2351 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2354 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2355 or bottom panel to make room.
2359 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2364 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2365 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2366 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2367 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2368 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2372 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2374 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2375 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2377 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2381 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2382 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2386 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2390 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2392 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2397 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2398 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2400 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2404 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2405 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2406 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2410 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2411 rewriting the panel system.
2415 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2418 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2419 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2423 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2424 (suggested by James Kermode).
2428 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2429 than as a full path.
2431 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2433 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2434 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2435 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2439 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2440 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2444 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2445 rename something onto another filesystem.
2449 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2451 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2452 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2456 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2460 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2463 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2464 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2466 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2469 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2474 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2475 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2476 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2478 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2479 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2481 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2482 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2487 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2488 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2493 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2494 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2495 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2497 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2498 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2499 of the 'missing image' image.
2503 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2505 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2507 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2512 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2513 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2514 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2515 its name into another program.
2517 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2521 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2523 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2524 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2525 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2527 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2528 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2529 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2532 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2533 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2537 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2538 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2539 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2543 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2544 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2545 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2549 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2550 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2551 and position the icons directly.
2555 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2560 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2561 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2562 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2566 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2570 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2571 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2575 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2580 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2584 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2585 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2586 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2587 some versions of GTK+.
2591 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2596 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2597 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2598 from a sub-sub-menu.
2600 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2601 drawn on a log scale.
2605 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2606 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2607 happy with the UI yet though...
2609 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2610 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2611 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2615 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2616 by Stephen Harrison).
2618 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2620 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2621 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2622 standard types are in Choices.
2623 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2625 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2626 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2627 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2632 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2633 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2634 shell command minibuffer.
2638 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2639 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2640 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2641 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2642 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2644 Default search path for Choices is now:
2645 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2647 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2648 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2649 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2653 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2654 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2658 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2659 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2660 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2665 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2666 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2667 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2670 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2672 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2673 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2674 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2676 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2677 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2681 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2682 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2683 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2684 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2689 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2690 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2691 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2693 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2695 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2696 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2700 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2701 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2702 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2707 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2708 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2711 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2713 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2718 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2723 Added GNU gettext support.
2724 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2728 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2730 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2732 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2737 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2741 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2742 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2744 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2745 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2750 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2751 onto the directory and winks the file.
2755 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2756 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2757 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2759 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2760 instead of random values.
2761 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2763 Applied Bernard's patch:
2764 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2765 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2766 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2767 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2768 it the RISC OS way...
2769 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2770 alignment corrected.
2771 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2776 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2780 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2781 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2785 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2786 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2787 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2788 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2789 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2790 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2791 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2792 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2793 in the file(1) says... box).
2796 Before the Changes file
2797 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2798 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2800 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2801 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2802 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2803 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2804 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD