2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Bugfix: New detail crashes cleanice theme (reported by Andras Mohari; reported
8 as CleanIce bug #1383457). Try another value...
12 Highlight icons using the theme's preferred colour instead of always using
14 Bugfix: Don't set style detail to "base" when highlighting items in a
15 Collection, as it confuses GTK's lighthouseblue theme engine
20 Bugfix: Changing the display style crashes the filer with GTK >= 2.8.9 because
21 it sends a selection changed event before the view has finished
22 initialising (Thomas Leonard; reported by Tobias Kieslich).
23 Removed some done entries from the TODO file (Stephen Watson).
25 13-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4)
27 Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
31 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
32 Make Path optional in PanelRemove SOAP call, allowing removal of items based
33 only on their label (Jonatan Liljedahl).
34 Bugfix: The install script failed to compile ROX-Filer on Debian systems, due
35 to a bug in recent versions of xterm (Vincent Lefèvre). Added a
37 Bugfix: On 64-bit systems communication between ROX-Filer processes didn't
38 work, because GDK uses sizeof(long) bytes (not always 4 bytes) to store
39 a 32 bit property (Lucas Hazel).
43 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
44 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
45 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
50 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
54 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
55 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
57 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
58 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
59 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
63 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
68 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
72 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
73 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
77 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
81 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
82 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
83 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
87 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
91 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
92 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
96 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
97 manually (Thomas Leonard).
101 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
102 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
103 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
108 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
109 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
113 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
114 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
115 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
116 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
120 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
121 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
122 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
126 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
130 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
134 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
135 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
139 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
140 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
141 reported by Tristan McLeay).
145 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
146 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
148 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
152 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
153 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
154 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
155 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
159 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
160 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
162 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
164 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
169 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
170 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
171 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
172 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
173 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
178 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
183 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
187 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
188 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
190 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
191 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
192 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
193 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
197 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
198 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
199 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
204 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
206 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
211 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
215 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
216 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
220 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
221 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
222 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
226 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
230 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
231 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
232 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
233 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
234 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
238 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
239 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
240 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
242 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
243 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
244 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
245 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
246 though they may be valid UTF-8.
247 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
249 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
250 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
251 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
252 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
253 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
259 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
260 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
262 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
263 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
268 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
269 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
273 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
274 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
279 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
280 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
281 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
282 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
283 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
284 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
286 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
288 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
289 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
290 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
294 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
295 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
299 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
300 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
304 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
305 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
306 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
307 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
311 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
315 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
316 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
320 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
322 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
323 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
324 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
329 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
330 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
331 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
332 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
336 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
338 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
339 function address (Tony Houghton).
343 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
344 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
349 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
353 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
354 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
358 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
359 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
360 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
364 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
368 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
369 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
370 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
371 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
372 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
377 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
382 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
386 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
387 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
391 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
392 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
396 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
400 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
401 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
403 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
407 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
408 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
412 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
413 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
414 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
416 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
418 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
423 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
424 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
428 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
433 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
437 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
438 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
439 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
440 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
442 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
447 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
448 the old one (Stephen Watson).
449 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
450 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
451 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
455 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
460 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
462 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
464 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
465 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
469 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
470 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
472 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
474 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
475 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
476 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
477 reported by Lewis Denizen).
481 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
485 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
486 the binary (Stephen Watson).
490 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
494 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
495 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
496 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
500 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
503 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
505 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
506 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
507 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
508 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
509 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
513 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
517 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
518 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
522 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
526 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
527 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
528 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
530 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
531 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
533 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
534 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
535 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
536 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
540 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
541 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
545 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
546 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
547 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
548 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
553 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
554 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
558 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
559 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
560 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
564 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
565 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
566 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
570 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
574 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
575 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
579 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
580 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
584 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
588 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
589 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
594 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
595 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
599 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
603 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
604 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
605 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
606 when changing to a parent directory.
607 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
611 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
615 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
619 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
621 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
623 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
627 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
629 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
633 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
635 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
639 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
643 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
644 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
645 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
646 reported by Anthony DiSante).
650 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
654 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
658 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
659 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
660 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
661 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
662 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
666 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
667 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
671 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
672 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
677 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
678 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
683 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
684 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
688 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
689 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
693 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
694 (reported by Tony Houghton).
698 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
700 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
701 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
705 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
706 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
710 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
714 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
718 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
722 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
723 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
724 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
728 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
732 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
737 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
741 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
743 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
745 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
749 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
750 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
751 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
753 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
757 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
758 print a warning and then crash.
762 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
763 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
764 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
769 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
773 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
778 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
782 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
786 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
788 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
793 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
794 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
795 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
800 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
801 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
806 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
808 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
809 anyway, and noone had complained).
810 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
811 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
815 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
816 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
817 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
821 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
825 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
826 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
830 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
831 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
832 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
836 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
837 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
838 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
840 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
841 by Simon Templer and others).
845 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
846 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
847 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
851 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
855 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
859 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
860 version number again (Stephen Watson).
864 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
865 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
869 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
873 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
874 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
875 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
876 anyway (Stephen Watson).
880 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
884 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
888 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
890 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
892 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
896 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
897 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
898 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
902 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
903 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
908 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
909 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
910 impossible to change shortcuts.
911 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
912 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
916 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
917 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
922 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
923 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
924 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
928 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
929 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
930 to the functions being missing.
934 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
938 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
942 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
946 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
950 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
951 worries people for no reason.
955 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
959 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
960 files selected (Peter Geer).
964 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
965 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
969 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
973 Added 'Select by Name'.
977 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
981 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
986 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
990 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
992 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
994 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
995 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
999 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1003 Misc changes for next release.
1007 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
1008 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
1012 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
1013 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
1014 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
1015 Watson, reported on #rox).
1019 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
1020 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
1024 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
1025 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
1029 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
1030 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
1034 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
1035 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1040 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1044 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1046 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1051 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1055 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1056 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1060 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1061 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1065 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1069 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1074 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1075 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1076 for the same reason.
1077 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1078 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1082 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1083 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1087 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1092 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1093 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1097 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1098 support not being detected (igla).
1102 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1106 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1107 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1111 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1115 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1116 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1117 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1118 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1121 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1123 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1124 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1128 New icon for selection ops.
1132 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1136 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1140 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1144 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1145 Added icon theme selector.
1149 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1153 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1157 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1158 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1162 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1163 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1164 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1168 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1169 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1173 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1177 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1178 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1179 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1183 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1187 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1188 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1193 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1194 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1198 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1199 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1203 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1204 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1208 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1212 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1213 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1214 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1218 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1222 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1223 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1224 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1225 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1229 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1230 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1232 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1236 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1240 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1241 bits (Stephen Watson).
1245 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1249 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1253 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1254 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1258 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1262 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1263 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1268 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1269 forward them explicitly.
1273 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1274 help from Götz Waschk).
1278 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1279 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1280 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1284 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1288 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1292 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1296 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1297 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1299 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1301 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1305 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1307 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1309 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1313 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1314 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1315 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1316 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1320 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1324 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1328 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1332 Minor updates to the manual.
1333 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1334 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1338 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1339 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1341 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1343 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1344 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1348 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1349 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1350 reduce flickering effect.
1354 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1358 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1360 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1364 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1365 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1366 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1367 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1368 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1372 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1373 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1377 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1381 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1386 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1387 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1391 Winking now works in List view.
1395 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1399 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1400 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1404 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1405 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1407 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1409 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1413 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1417 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1418 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1420 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1424 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1425 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1429 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1431 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1435 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1436 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1440 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1442 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1446 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1450 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1451 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1456 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1457 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1459 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1461 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1463 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1467 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1471 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1472 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1476 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1481 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1482 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1486 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1488 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1490 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1491 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1496 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1500 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1501 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1502 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1503 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1504 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1505 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1506 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1508 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1512 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1517 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1518 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1522 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1523 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1524 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1525 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1530 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1531 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1532 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1533 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1534 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1535 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1536 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1537 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1538 talent can do something better?
1539 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1540 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1544 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1545 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1546 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1551 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1553 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1554 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1555 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1556 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1557 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1558 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1559 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1560 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1561 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1562 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1563 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1564 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1565 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1569 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1570 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1571 allow fine repositioning.
1572 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1573 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1574 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1575 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1577 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1578 changing the aspect ratio.
1582 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1586 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1590 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1591 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1592 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1596 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1600 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1605 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1606 make sharing icons easier.
1607 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1611 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1612 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1616 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1620 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1622 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1626 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1631 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1636 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1637 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1639 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1640 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1641 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1642 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1646 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1647 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1651 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1655 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1657 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1658 Brian Langenberger).
1662 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1663 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1665 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1669 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1670 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1672 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1674 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1678 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1679 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1684 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1688 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1689 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1690 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1694 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1695 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1699 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1703 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1704 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1708 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1709 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1710 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1714 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1718 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1719 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1720 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1721 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1723 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1724 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1728 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1729 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1733 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1738 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1739 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1743 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1747 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1748 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1749 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1750 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1755 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1756 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1757 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1761 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1765 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1766 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1770 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1771 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1772 since it didn't include the contents.
1773 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1774 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1778 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1782 Style improvements to options window.
1786 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1790 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1792 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1794 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1799 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1800 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1801 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1802 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1806 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1810 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1814 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1815 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1819 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1821 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1826 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1830 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1831 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1832 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1837 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1841 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1845 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1849 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1853 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1854 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1855 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1859 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1860 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1864 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1865 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1870 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1874 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1878 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1883 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1884 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1888 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1889 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1894 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1895 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1899 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1900 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1901 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1905 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1909 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1910 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1911 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1912 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1913 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1917 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1918 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1922 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1923 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1927 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1931 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1932 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1933 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1934 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1935 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1936 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1940 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1941 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1942 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1946 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1947 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1952 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1956 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1958 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1960 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1965 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1969 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1973 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1974 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1979 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1983 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1987 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1988 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1989 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1993 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1997 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
2002 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2006 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
2007 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
2008 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
2009 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2013 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
2017 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2018 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
2022 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
2023 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
2024 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
2028 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
2032 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
2036 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2037 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2038 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2039 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2040 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2041 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2045 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2046 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2050 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2051 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2052 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2056 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2057 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2061 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2065 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2066 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2067 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2068 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2070 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2072 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2076 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2077 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2078 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2082 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2086 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2087 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2092 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2096 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2100 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2101 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2105 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2106 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2107 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2111 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2112 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2116 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2117 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2121 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2122 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2126 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2130 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2131 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2135 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2137 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2139 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2143 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2147 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2148 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2152 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2156 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2160 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2161 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2162 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2163 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2164 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2165 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2169 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2173 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2175 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2176 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2180 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2181 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2185 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2189 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2190 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2191 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2192 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2194 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2196 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2200 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2201 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2205 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2206 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2207 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2211 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2212 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2213 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2214 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2215 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2216 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2217 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2221 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2222 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2226 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2230 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2234 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2239 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2243 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2244 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2245 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2249 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2250 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2251 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2255 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2256 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2257 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2261 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2262 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2266 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2271 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2272 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2273 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2274 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2275 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2277 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2278 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2282 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2286 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2287 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2288 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2289 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2293 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2294 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2295 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2296 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2297 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2298 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2302 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2306 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2307 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2311 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2312 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2313 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2314 restart (Olli Helenius).
2318 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2322 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2323 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2324 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2329 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2334 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2335 Small and Large sizes.
2339 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2343 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2344 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2348 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2349 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2350 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2351 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2355 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2356 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2357 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2362 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2367 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2368 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2372 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2373 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2378 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2380 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2382 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2386 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2390 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2392 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2394 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2398 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2400 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2401 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2405 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2406 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2410 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2411 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2415 Various speed improvements.
2416 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2420 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2421 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2425 Slight speed increase when starting.
2429 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2433 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2434 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2435 button is no longer supported.
2439 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2443 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2447 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2452 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2453 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2457 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2458 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2459 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2463 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2464 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2465 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2466 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2470 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2471 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2472 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2474 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2479 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2480 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2485 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2489 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2490 and converted to new dialog style.
2494 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2495 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2499 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2500 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2504 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2508 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2510 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2514 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2518 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2519 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2520 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2524 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2525 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2529 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2534 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2538 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2539 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2543 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2544 and Cancel is now Revert.
2545 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2546 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2550 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2554 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2555 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2557 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2558 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2559 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2560 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2564 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2566 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2567 labels display them.
2568 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2571 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2575 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2577 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2581 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2582 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2583 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2587 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2588 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2590 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2592 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2596 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2597 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2601 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2602 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2603 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2604 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2608 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2612 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2613 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2617 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2618 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2623 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2624 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2628 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2629 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2630 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2634 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2635 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2639 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2640 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2641 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2642 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2644 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2649 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2650 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2652 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2654 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2658 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2659 any image (saves time).
2660 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2661 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2662 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2663 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2665 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2666 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2670 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2671 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2673 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2674 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2676 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2681 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2682 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2683 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2684 has stopped accepting STRING.
2688 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2689 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2693 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2698 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2699 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2701 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2702 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2703 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2707 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2708 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2709 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2710 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2711 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2712 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2716 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2717 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2718 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2719 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2720 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2721 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2726 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2727 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2728 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2729 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2734 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2735 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2739 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2740 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2742 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2744 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2745 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2746 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2750 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2751 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2752 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2756 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2757 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2761 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2762 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2766 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2768 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2773 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2774 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2778 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2779 their menus correctly.
2780 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2785 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2786 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2787 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2791 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2792 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2796 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2800 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2803 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2805 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2806 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2807 the toggle menu items from working!
2811 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2813 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2819 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2820 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2824 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2825 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2826 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2827 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2828 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2829 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2833 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2837 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2838 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2842 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2843 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2844 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2848 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2849 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2854 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2856 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2860 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2861 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2862 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2863 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2867 Improved error reporting.
2868 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2872 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2873 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2874 check box and does 'Yes'.
2878 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2879 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2880 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2881 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2886 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2888 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2889 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2891 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2893 Internal changes to options system:
2894 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2895 filer is fully initialised).
2896 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2898 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2900 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2901 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2902 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2903 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2907 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2908 now reclaims the selection.
2909 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2910 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2915 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2916 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2917 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2918 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2919 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2923 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2924 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2926 Code tidying in various places.
2930 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2931 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2936 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2937 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2941 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2942 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2943 edit the file, not the file itself!
2944 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2948 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2949 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2950 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2951 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2952 of the SOAP working draft.
2953 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2954 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2955 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2960 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2961 it was in the displayed area before.
2963 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2966 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2967 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2971 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2972 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2973 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2975 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2976 selection (Andras Mohari).
2980 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2984 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2988 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2989 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2990 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2994 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2998 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
3000 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
3001 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
3002 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
3006 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
3007 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
3012 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
3013 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
3014 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
3018 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
3022 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
3026 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
3027 replaced by a Restart button.
3031 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
3032 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
3036 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3040 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3044 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3045 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3046 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3050 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3051 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3053 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3054 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3055 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3059 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3060 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3065 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3067 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3068 (requested by Graham Borland).
3069 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3070 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3071 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3075 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3076 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3077 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3078 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3082 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3083 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3084 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3085 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3086 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3087 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3088 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3089 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3090 - Lots of code tidying.
3095 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3096 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3100 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3102 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3104 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3108 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3109 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3113 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3114 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3118 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3119 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3123 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3124 option to access it directly.
3128 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3129 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3130 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3134 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3135 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3136 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3137 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3138 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3139 when the filer is run.
3143 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3144 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3145 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3150 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3154 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3155 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3159 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3161 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3165 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3169 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3170 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3171 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3176 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3177 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3178 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3179 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3180 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3181 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3182 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3186 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3190 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3191 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3195 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3196 of possible actions (Taras).
3197 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3199 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3200 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3204 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3209 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3213 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3216 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3217 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3221 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3222 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3224 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3226 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3227 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3228 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3229 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3233 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3237 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3241 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3245 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3250 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3251 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3252 the first one found.
3253 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3257 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3261 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3262 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3263 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3267 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3268 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3269 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3274 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3275 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3276 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3280 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3282 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3287 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3292 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3296 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3297 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3301 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3303 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3304 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3308 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3312 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3313 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3317 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3318 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3322 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3323 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3325 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3327 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3331 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3335 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3336 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3340 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3344 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3349 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3350 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3354 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3358 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3362 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3364 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3365 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3369 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3370 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3374 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3375 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3376 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3380 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3381 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3385 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3386 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3388 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3390 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3394 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3395 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3396 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3398 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3399 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3401 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3403 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3404 and the default size with no details.
3408 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3409 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3413 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3418 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3423 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3427 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3432 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3433 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3437 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3441 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3442 the button to run it does.
3443 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3444 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3445 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3449 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3450 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3451 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3455 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3459 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3460 and panels into icon.c.
3464 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3465 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3466 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3467 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3471 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3473 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3475 Updated the documentation.
3479 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3480 up if they're too small.
3484 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3486 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3487 (Christopher Arndt).
3488 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3493 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3494 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3498 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3499 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3503 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3504 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3505 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3510 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3515 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3519 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3520 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3525 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3530 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3531 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3535 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3536 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3540 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3544 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3548 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3552 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3553 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3556 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3557 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3562 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3563 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3564 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3565 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3570 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3571 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3573 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3575 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3576 for non-applications.
3580 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3581 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3586 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3590 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3591 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3593 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3597 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3598 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3602 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3603 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3607 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3608 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3612 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3613 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3615 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3616 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3620 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3621 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3623 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3627 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3628 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3631 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3635 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3636 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3640 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3644 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3645 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3648 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3649 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3653 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3657 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3662 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3666 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3667 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3672 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3677 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3681 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3683 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3685 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3686 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3688 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3690 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3691 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3695 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3696 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3697 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3699 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3700 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3704 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3708 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3709 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3713 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3717 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3718 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3720 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3723 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3724 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3725 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3729 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3730 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3735 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3740 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3742 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3745 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3747 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3748 sensible shape itself now.
3750 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3751 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3752 file at all, just a reused inode!
3753 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3754 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3755 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3759 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3763 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3764 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3769 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3770 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3774 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3778 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3779 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3783 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3788 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3792 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3793 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3797 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3798 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3799 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3800 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3801 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3805 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3806 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3807 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3808 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3809 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3813 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3814 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3815 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3819 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3821 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3822 python's portable system.
3823 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3824 set the LANG variable.
3828 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3829 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3831 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3833 Made a few updates to the manual.
3837 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3838 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3840 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3842 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3843 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3847 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3848 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3852 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3853 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3858 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3859 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3860 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3864 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3865 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3869 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3870 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3874 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3875 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3877 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3878 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3879 open... (Denis Manente).
3883 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3887 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3889 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3890 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3891 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3893 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3895 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3897 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3898 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3903 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3904 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3905 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3909 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3910 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3914 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3918 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3922 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3923 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3924 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3928 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3929 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3930 between pinboards...
3932 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3933 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3934 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3938 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3941 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3942 window (Denis Manente).
3944 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3945 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3949 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3950 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3951 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3955 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3958 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3959 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3961 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3966 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3967 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3969 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3973 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3974 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3976 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3978 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3983 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3984 the icon points to as well as its name.
3986 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3987 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3991 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3992 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3993 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3994 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3998 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4002 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
4003 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
4004 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
4008 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
4009 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
4011 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
4012 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
4015 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
4016 the item after the drag.
4018 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
4019 showing where the file really is.
4023 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
4024 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
4029 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
4030 warning is displayed if so.
4032 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
4036 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4037 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4038 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4039 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4042 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4043 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4044 works like the panels.
4048 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4049 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4050 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4051 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4052 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4056 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4057 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4058 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4059 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4061 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4066 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4070 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4071 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4074 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4075 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4077 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4080 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4081 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4082 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4083 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4085 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4087 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4088 slightly. Updated the manual.
4090 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4091 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4094 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4095 or bottom panel to make room.
4099 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4104 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4105 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4106 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4107 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4108 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4112 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4114 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4115 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4117 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4121 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4122 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4126 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4130 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4132 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4137 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4138 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4140 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4144 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4145 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4146 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4150 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4151 rewriting the panel system.
4155 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4158 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4159 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4163 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4164 (suggested by James Kermode).
4168 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4169 than as a full path.
4171 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4173 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4174 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4175 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4179 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4180 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4184 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4185 rename something onto another filesystem.
4189 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4191 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4192 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4196 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4200 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4203 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4204 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4206 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4209 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4214 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4215 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4216 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4218 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4219 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4221 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4222 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4227 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4228 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4233 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4234 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4235 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4237 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4238 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4239 of the 'missing image' image.
4243 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4245 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4247 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4252 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4253 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4254 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4255 its name into another program.
4257 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4261 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4263 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4264 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4265 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4267 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4268 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4269 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4272 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4273 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4277 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4278 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4279 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4283 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4284 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4285 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4289 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4290 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4291 and position the icons directly.
4295 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4300 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4301 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4302 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4306 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4310 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4311 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4315 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4320 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4324 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4325 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4326 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4327 some versions of GTK+.
4331 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4336 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4337 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4338 from a sub-sub-menu.
4340 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4341 drawn on a log scale.
4345 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4346 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4347 happy with the UI yet though...
4349 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4350 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4351 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4355 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4356 by Stephen Harrison).
4358 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4360 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4361 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4362 standard types are in Choices.
4363 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4365 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4366 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4367 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4372 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4373 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4374 shell command minibuffer.
4378 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4379 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4380 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4381 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4382 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4384 Default search path for Choices is now:
4385 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4387 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4388 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4389 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4393 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4394 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4398 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4399 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4400 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4405 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4406 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4407 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4410 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4412 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4413 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4414 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4416 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4417 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4421 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4422 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4423 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4424 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4429 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4430 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4431 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4433 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4435 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4436 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4440 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4441 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4442 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4447 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4448 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4451 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4453 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4458 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4463 Added GNU gettext support.
4464 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4468 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4470 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4472 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4477 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4481 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4482 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4484 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4485 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4490 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4491 onto the directory and winks the file.
4495 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4496 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4497 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4499 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4500 instead of random values.
4501 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4503 Applied Bernard's patch:
4504 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4505 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4506 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4507 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4508 it the RISC OS way...
4509 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4510 alignment corrected.
4511 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4516 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4520 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4521 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4525 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4526 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4527 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4528 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4529 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4530 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4531 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4532 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4533 in the file(1) says... box).
4536 Before the Changes file
4537 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4538 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4540 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4541 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4542 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4543 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4544 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD