2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
8 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
10 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
11 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
15 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
16 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
17 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
22 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
24 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
29 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
33 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
34 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
38 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
39 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
40 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
44 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
48 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
49 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
50 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
51 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
52 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
56 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
57 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
58 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
60 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
61 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
62 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
63 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
64 though they may be valid UTF-8.
65 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
67 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
68 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
69 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
70 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
71 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
77 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
78 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
80 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
81 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
86 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
87 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
91 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
92 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
97 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
98 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
99 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
100 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
101 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
102 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
104 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
106 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
107 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
108 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
112 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
113 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
117 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
118 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
122 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
123 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
124 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
125 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
129 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
133 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
134 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
138 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
140 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
141 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
142 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
147 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
148 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
149 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
150 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
154 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
156 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
157 function address (Tony Houghton).
161 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
162 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
167 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
171 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
172 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
176 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
177 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
178 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
182 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
186 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
187 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
188 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
189 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
190 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
195 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
200 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
204 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
205 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
209 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
210 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
214 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
218 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
219 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
224 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
225 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
229 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
230 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
231 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
233 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
235 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
240 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
241 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
245 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
250 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
254 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
255 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
256 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
257 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
259 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
264 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
265 the old one (Stephen Watson).
266 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
267 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
268 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
272 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
277 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
279 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
281 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
282 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
286 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
287 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
289 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
291 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
292 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
293 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
294 reported by Lewis Denizen).
298 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
302 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
303 the binary (Stephen Watson).
307 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
311 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
312 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
313 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
317 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
320 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
322 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
323 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
324 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
325 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
326 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
330 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
334 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
335 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
339 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
343 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
344 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
345 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
347 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
348 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
350 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
351 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
352 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
353 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
357 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
358 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
362 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
363 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
364 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
365 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
370 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
371 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
375 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
376 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
377 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
381 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
382 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
383 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
387 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
391 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
392 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
396 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
397 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
401 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
405 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
406 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
411 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
412 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
416 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
420 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
421 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
422 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
423 when changing to a parent directory.
424 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
428 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
432 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
436 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
438 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
440 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
444 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
446 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
450 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
452 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
456 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
460 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
461 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
462 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
463 reported by Anthony DiSante).
467 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
471 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
475 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
476 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
477 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
478 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
479 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
483 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
484 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
488 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
489 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
494 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
495 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
500 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
501 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
505 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
506 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
510 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
511 (reported by Tony Houghton).
515 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
517 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
518 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
522 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
523 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
527 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
531 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
535 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
539 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
540 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
541 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
545 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
549 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
554 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
558 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
560 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
562 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
566 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
567 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
568 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
570 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
574 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
575 print a warning and then crash.
579 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
580 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
581 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
586 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
590 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
595 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
599 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
603 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
605 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
610 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
611 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
612 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
617 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
618 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
623 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
625 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
626 anyway, and noone had complained).
627 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
628 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
632 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
633 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
634 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
638 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
642 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
643 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
647 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
648 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
649 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
653 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
654 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
655 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
657 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
658 by Simon Templer and others).
662 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
663 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
664 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
668 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
672 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
676 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
677 version number again (Stephen Watson).
681 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
682 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
686 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
690 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
691 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
692 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
693 anyway (Stephen Watson).
697 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
701 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
705 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
707 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
709 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
713 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
714 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
715 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
719 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
720 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
725 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
726 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
727 impossible to change shortcuts.
728 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
729 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
733 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
734 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
739 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
740 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
741 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
745 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
746 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
747 to the functions being missing.
751 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
755 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
759 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
763 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
767 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
768 worries people for no reason.
772 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
776 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
777 files selected (Peter Geer).
781 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
782 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
786 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
790 Added 'Select by Name'.
794 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
798 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
803 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
807 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
809 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
811 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
812 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
816 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
820 Misc changes for next release.
824 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
825 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
829 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
830 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
831 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
832 Watson, reported on #rox).
836 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
837 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
841 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
842 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
846 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
847 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
851 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
852 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
857 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
861 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
863 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
868 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
872 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
873 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
877 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
878 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
882 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
886 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
891 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
892 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
894 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
895 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
899 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
900 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
904 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
909 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
910 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
914 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
915 support not being detected (igla).
919 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
923 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
924 dialog (Stephen Watson).
928 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
932 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
933 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
934 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
935 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
938 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
940 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
941 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
945 New icon for selection ops.
949 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
953 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
957 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
961 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
962 Added icon theme selector.
966 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
970 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
974 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
975 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
979 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
980 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
981 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
985 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
986 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
990 Allow ejecting mounted media.
994 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
995 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
996 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1000 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1004 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1005 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1010 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1011 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1015 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1016 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1020 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1021 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1025 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1029 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1030 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1031 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1035 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1039 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1040 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1041 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1042 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1046 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1047 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1049 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1053 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1057 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1058 bits (Stephen Watson).
1062 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1066 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1070 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1071 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1075 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1079 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1080 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1085 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1086 forward them explicitly.
1090 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1091 help from Götz Waschk).
1095 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1096 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1097 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1101 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1105 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1109 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1113 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1114 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1116 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1118 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1122 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1124 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1126 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1130 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1131 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1132 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1133 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1137 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1141 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1145 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1149 Minor updates to the manual.
1150 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1151 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1155 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1156 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1158 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1160 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1161 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1165 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1166 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1167 reduce flickering effect.
1171 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1175 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1177 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1181 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1182 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1183 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1184 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1185 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1189 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1190 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1194 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1198 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1203 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1204 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1208 Winking now works in List view.
1212 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1216 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1217 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1221 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1222 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1224 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1226 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1230 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1234 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1235 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1237 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1241 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1242 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1246 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1248 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1252 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1253 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1257 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1259 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1263 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1267 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1268 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1273 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1274 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1276 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1278 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1280 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1284 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1288 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1289 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1293 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1298 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1299 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1303 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1305 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1307 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1308 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1313 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1317 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1318 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1319 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1320 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1321 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1322 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1323 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1325 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1329 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1334 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1335 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1339 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1340 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1341 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1342 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1347 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1348 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1349 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1350 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1351 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1352 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1353 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1354 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1355 talent can do something better?
1356 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1357 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1361 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1362 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1363 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1368 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1370 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1371 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1372 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1373 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1374 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1375 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1376 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1377 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1378 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1379 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1380 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1381 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1382 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1386 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1387 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1388 allow fine repositioning.
1389 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1390 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1391 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1392 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1394 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1395 changing the aspect ratio.
1399 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1403 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1407 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1408 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1409 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1413 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1417 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1422 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1423 make sharing icons easier.
1424 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1428 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1429 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1433 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1437 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1439 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1443 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1448 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1453 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1454 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1456 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1457 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1458 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1459 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1463 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1464 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1468 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1472 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1474 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1475 Brian Langenberger).
1479 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1480 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1482 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1486 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1487 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1489 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1491 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1495 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1496 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1501 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1505 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1506 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1507 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1511 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1512 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1516 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1520 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1521 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1525 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1526 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1527 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1531 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1535 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1536 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1537 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1538 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1540 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1541 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1545 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1546 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1550 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1555 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1556 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1560 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1564 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1565 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1566 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1567 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1572 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1573 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1574 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1578 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1582 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1583 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1587 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1588 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1589 since it didn't include the contents.
1590 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1591 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1595 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1599 Style improvements to options window.
1603 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1607 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1609 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1611 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1616 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1617 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1618 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1619 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1623 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1627 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1631 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1632 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1636 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1638 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1643 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1647 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1648 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1649 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1654 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1658 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1662 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1666 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1670 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1671 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1672 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1676 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1677 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1681 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1682 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1687 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1691 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1695 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1700 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1701 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1705 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1706 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1711 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1712 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1716 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1717 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1718 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1722 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1726 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1727 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1728 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1729 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1730 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1734 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1735 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1739 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1740 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1744 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1748 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1749 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1750 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1751 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1752 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1753 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1757 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1758 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1759 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1763 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1764 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1769 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1773 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1775 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1777 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1782 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1786 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1790 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1791 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1796 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1800 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1804 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1805 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1806 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1810 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1814 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1819 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1823 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1824 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1825 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1826 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1830 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1834 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1835 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1839 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1840 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1841 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1845 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1849 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1853 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1854 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1855 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1856 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1857 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1858 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1862 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1863 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1867 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1868 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1869 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1873 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1874 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1878 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1882 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1883 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1884 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1885 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1887 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1889 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1893 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1894 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1895 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1899 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1903 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1904 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1909 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1913 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1917 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1918 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1922 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1923 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1924 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1928 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1929 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1933 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1934 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1938 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1939 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1943 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1947 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1948 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1952 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1954 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1956 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1960 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1964 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1965 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1969 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1973 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1977 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1978 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1979 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1980 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1981 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1982 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1986 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1990 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1992 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1993 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1997 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1998 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2002 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2006 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2007 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2008 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2009 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2011 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2013 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2017 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2018 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2022 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2023 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2024 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2028 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2029 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2030 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2031 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2032 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2033 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2034 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2038 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2039 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2043 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2047 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2051 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2056 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2060 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2061 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2062 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2066 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2067 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2068 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2072 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2073 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2074 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2078 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2079 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2083 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2088 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2089 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2090 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2091 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2092 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2094 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2095 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2099 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2103 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2104 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2105 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2106 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2110 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2111 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2112 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2113 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2114 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2115 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2119 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2123 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2124 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2128 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2129 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2130 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2131 restart (Olli Helenius).
2135 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2139 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2140 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2141 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2146 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2151 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2152 Small and Large sizes.
2156 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2160 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2161 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2165 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2166 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2167 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2168 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2172 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2173 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2174 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2179 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2184 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2185 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2189 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2190 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2195 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2197 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2199 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2203 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2207 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2209 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2211 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2215 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2217 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2218 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2222 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2223 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2227 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2228 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2232 Various speed improvements.
2233 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2237 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2238 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2242 Slight speed increase when starting.
2246 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2250 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2251 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2252 button is no longer supported.
2256 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2260 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2264 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2269 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2270 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2274 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2275 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2276 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2280 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2281 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2282 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2283 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2287 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2288 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2289 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2291 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2296 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2297 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2302 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2306 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2307 and converted to new dialog style.
2311 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2312 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2316 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2317 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2321 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2325 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2327 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2331 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2335 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2336 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2337 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2341 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2342 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2346 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2351 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2355 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2356 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2360 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2361 and Cancel is now Revert.
2362 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2363 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2367 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2371 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2372 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2374 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2375 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2376 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2377 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2381 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2383 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2384 labels display them.
2385 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2388 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2392 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2394 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2398 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2399 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2400 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2404 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2405 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2407 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2409 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2413 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2414 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2418 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2419 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2420 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2421 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2425 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2429 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2430 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2434 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2435 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2440 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2441 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2445 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2446 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2447 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2451 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2452 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2456 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2457 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2458 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2459 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2461 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2466 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2467 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2469 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2471 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2475 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2476 any image (saves time).
2477 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2478 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2479 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2480 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2482 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2483 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2487 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2488 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2490 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2491 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2493 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2498 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2499 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2500 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2501 has stopped accepting STRING.
2505 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2506 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2510 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2515 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2516 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2518 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2519 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2520 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2524 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2525 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2526 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2527 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2528 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2529 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2533 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2534 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2535 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2536 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2537 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2538 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2543 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2544 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2545 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2546 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2551 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2552 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2556 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2557 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2559 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2561 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2562 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2563 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2567 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2568 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2569 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2573 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2574 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2578 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2579 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2583 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2585 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2590 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2591 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2595 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2596 their menus correctly.
2597 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2602 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2603 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2604 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2608 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2609 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2613 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2617 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2620 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2622 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2623 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2624 the toggle menu items from working!
2628 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2630 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2636 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2637 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2641 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2642 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2643 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2644 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2645 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2646 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2650 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2654 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2655 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2659 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2660 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2661 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2665 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2666 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2671 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2673 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2677 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2678 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2679 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2680 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2684 Improved error reporting.
2685 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2689 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2690 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2691 check box and does 'Yes'.
2695 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2696 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2697 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2698 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2703 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2705 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2706 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2708 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2710 Internal changes to options system:
2711 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2712 filer is fully initialised).
2713 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2715 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2717 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2718 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2719 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2720 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2724 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2725 now reclaims the selection.
2726 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2727 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2732 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2733 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2734 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2735 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2736 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2740 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2741 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2743 Code tidying in various places.
2747 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2748 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2753 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2754 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2758 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2759 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2760 edit the file, not the file itself!
2761 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2765 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2766 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2767 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2768 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2769 of the SOAP working draft.
2770 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2771 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2772 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2777 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2778 it was in the displayed area before.
2780 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2783 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2784 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2788 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2789 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2790 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2792 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2793 selection (Andras Mohari).
2797 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2801 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2805 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2806 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2807 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2811 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2815 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2817 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2818 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2819 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2823 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2824 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2829 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2830 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2831 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2835 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2839 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2843 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2844 replaced by a Restart button.
2848 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2849 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2853 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2857 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2861 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2862 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2863 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2867 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2868 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2870 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2871 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2872 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2876 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2877 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2882 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2884 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2885 (requested by Graham Borland).
2886 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2887 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2888 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2892 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2893 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2894 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2895 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2899 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2900 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2901 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2902 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2903 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2904 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2905 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2906 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2907 - Lots of code tidying.
2912 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2913 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2917 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2919 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2921 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2925 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2926 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2930 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2931 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2935 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2936 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2940 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2941 option to access it directly.
2945 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2946 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2947 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2951 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2952 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2953 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2954 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2955 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2956 when the filer is run.
2960 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2961 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2962 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2967 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2971 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2972 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2976 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2978 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2982 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2986 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2987 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2988 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2993 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2994 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2995 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2996 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2997 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2998 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2999 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3003 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3007 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3008 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3012 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3013 of possible actions (Taras).
3014 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3016 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3017 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3021 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3026 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3030 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3033 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3034 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3038 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3039 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3041 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3043 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3044 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3045 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3046 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3050 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3054 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3058 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3062 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3067 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3068 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3069 the first one found.
3070 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3074 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3078 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3079 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3080 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3084 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3085 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3086 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3091 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3092 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3093 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3097 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3099 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3104 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3109 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3113 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3114 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3118 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3120 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3121 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3125 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3129 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3130 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3134 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3135 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3139 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3140 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3142 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3144 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3148 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3152 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3153 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3157 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3161 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3166 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3167 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3171 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3175 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3179 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3181 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3182 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3186 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3187 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3191 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3192 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3193 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3197 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3198 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3202 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3203 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3205 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3207 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3211 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3212 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3213 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3215 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3216 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3218 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3220 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3221 and the default size with no details.
3225 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3226 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3230 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3235 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3240 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3244 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3249 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3250 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3254 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3258 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3259 the button to run it does.
3260 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3261 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3262 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3266 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3267 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3268 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3272 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3276 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3277 and panels into icon.c.
3281 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3282 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3283 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3284 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3288 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3290 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3292 Updated the documentation.
3296 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3297 up if they're too small.
3301 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3303 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3304 (Christopher Arndt).
3305 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3310 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3311 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3315 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3316 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3320 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3321 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3322 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3327 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3332 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3336 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3337 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3342 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3347 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3348 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3352 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3353 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3357 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3361 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3365 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3369 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3370 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3373 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3374 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3379 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3380 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3381 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3382 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3387 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3388 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3390 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3392 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3393 for non-applications.
3397 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3398 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3403 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3407 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3408 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3410 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3414 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3415 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3419 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3420 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3424 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3425 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3429 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3430 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3432 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3433 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3437 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3438 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3440 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3444 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3445 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3448 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3452 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3453 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3457 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3461 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3462 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3465 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3466 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3470 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3474 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3479 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3483 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3484 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3489 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3494 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3498 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3500 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3502 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3503 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3505 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3507 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3508 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3512 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3513 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3514 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3516 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3517 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3521 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3525 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3526 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3530 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3534 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3535 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3537 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3540 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3541 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3542 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3546 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3547 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3552 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3557 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3559 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3562 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3564 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3565 sensible shape itself now.
3567 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3568 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3569 file at all, just a reused inode!
3570 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3571 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3572 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3576 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3580 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3581 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3586 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3587 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3591 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3595 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3596 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3600 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3605 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3609 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3610 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3614 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3615 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3616 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3617 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3618 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3622 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3623 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3624 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3625 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3626 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3630 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3631 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3632 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3636 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3638 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3639 python's portable system.
3640 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3641 set the LANG variable.
3645 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3646 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3648 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3650 Made a few updates to the manual.
3654 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3655 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3657 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3659 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3660 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3664 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3665 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3669 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3670 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3675 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3676 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3677 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3681 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3682 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3686 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3687 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3691 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3692 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3694 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3695 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3696 open... (Denis Manente).
3700 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3704 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3706 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3707 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3708 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3710 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3712 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3714 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3715 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3720 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3721 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3722 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3726 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3727 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3731 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3735 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3739 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3740 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3741 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3745 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3746 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3747 between pinboards...
3749 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3750 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3751 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3755 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3758 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3759 window (Denis Manente).
3761 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3762 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3766 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3767 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3768 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3772 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3775 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3776 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3778 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3783 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3784 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3786 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3790 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3791 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3793 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3795 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3800 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3801 the icon points to as well as its name.
3803 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3804 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3808 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3809 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3810 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3811 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3815 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3819 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3820 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3821 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3825 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3826 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3828 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3829 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3832 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3833 the item after the drag.
3835 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3836 showing where the file really is.
3840 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3841 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3846 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3847 warning is displayed if so.
3849 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3853 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3854 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3855 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3856 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3859 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3860 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3861 works like the panels.
3865 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3866 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3867 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3868 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3869 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3873 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3874 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3875 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3876 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3878 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3883 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3887 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3888 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3891 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3892 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3894 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3897 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3898 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3899 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3900 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3902 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3904 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3905 slightly. Updated the manual.
3907 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3908 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3911 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3912 or bottom panel to make room.
3916 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3921 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3922 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3923 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3924 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3925 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3929 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3931 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3932 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3934 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3938 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3939 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3943 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3947 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3949 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3954 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3955 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3957 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3961 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3962 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3963 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3967 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3968 rewriting the panel system.
3972 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3975 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3976 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3980 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3981 (suggested by James Kermode).
3985 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3986 than as a full path.
3988 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3990 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3991 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3992 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3996 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3997 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4001 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4002 rename something onto another filesystem.
4006 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4008 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4009 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4013 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4017 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4020 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4021 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4023 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4026 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4031 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4032 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4033 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4035 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4036 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4038 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4039 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4044 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4045 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4050 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4051 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4052 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4054 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4055 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4056 of the 'missing image' image.
4060 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4062 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4064 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4069 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4070 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4071 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4072 its name into another program.
4074 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4078 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4080 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4081 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4082 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4084 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4085 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4086 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4089 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4090 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4094 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4095 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4096 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4100 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4101 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4102 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4106 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4107 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4108 and position the icons directly.
4112 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4117 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4118 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4119 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4123 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4127 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4128 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4132 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4137 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4141 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4142 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4143 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4144 some versions of GTK+.
4148 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4153 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4154 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4155 from a sub-sub-menu.
4157 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4158 drawn on a log scale.
4162 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4163 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4164 happy with the UI yet though...
4166 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4167 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4168 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4172 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4173 by Stephen Harrison).
4175 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4177 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4178 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4179 standard types are in Choices.
4180 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4182 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4183 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4184 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4189 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4190 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4191 shell command minibuffer.
4195 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4196 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4197 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4198 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4199 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4201 Default search path for Choices is now:
4202 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4204 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4205 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4206 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4210 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4211 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4215 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4216 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4217 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4222 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4223 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4224 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4227 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4229 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4230 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4231 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4233 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4234 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4238 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4239 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4240 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4241 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4246 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4247 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4248 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4250 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4252 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4253 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4257 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4258 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4259 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4264 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4265 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4268 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4270 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4275 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4280 Added GNU gettext support.
4281 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4285 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4287 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4289 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4294 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4298 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4299 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4301 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4302 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4307 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4308 onto the directory and winks the file.
4312 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4313 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4314 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4316 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4317 instead of random values.
4318 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4320 Applied Bernard's patch:
4321 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4322 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4323 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4324 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4325 it the RISC OS way...
4326 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4327 alignment corrected.
4328 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4333 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4337 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4338 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4342 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4343 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4344 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4345 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4346 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4347 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4348 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4349 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4350 in the file(1) says... box).
4353 Before the Changes file
4354 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4355 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4357 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4358 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4359 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4360 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4361 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD