2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
8 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
9 reported by Tristan McLeay).
13 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
14 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
16 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
20 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
21 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
22 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
23 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
27 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
28 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
30 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
32 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
37 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
38 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
39 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
40 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
41 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
46 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
51 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
55 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
56 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
58 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
59 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
60 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
61 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
65 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
66 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
67 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
72 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
74 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
79 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
83 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
84 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
88 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
89 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
90 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
94 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
98 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
99 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
100 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
101 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
102 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
106 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
107 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
108 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
110 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
111 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
112 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
113 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
114 though they may be valid UTF-8.
115 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
117 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
118 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
119 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
120 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
121 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
127 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
128 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
130 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
131 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
136 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
137 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
141 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
142 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
147 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
148 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
149 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
150 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
151 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
152 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
154 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
156 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
157 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
158 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
162 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
163 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
167 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
168 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
172 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
173 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
174 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
175 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
179 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
183 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
184 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
188 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
190 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
191 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
192 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
197 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
198 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
199 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
200 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
204 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
206 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
207 function address (Tony Houghton).
211 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
212 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
217 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
221 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
222 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
226 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
227 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
228 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
232 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
236 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
237 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
238 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
239 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
240 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
245 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
250 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
254 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
255 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
259 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
260 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
264 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
268 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
269 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
271 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
275 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
276 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
280 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
281 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
282 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
284 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
286 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
291 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
292 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
296 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
301 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
305 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
306 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
307 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
308 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
310 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
315 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
316 the old one (Stephen Watson).
317 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
318 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
319 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
323 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
328 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
330 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
332 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
333 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
337 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
338 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
340 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
342 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
343 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
344 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
345 reported by Lewis Denizen).
349 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
353 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
354 the binary (Stephen Watson).
358 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
362 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
363 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
364 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
368 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
371 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
373 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
374 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
375 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
376 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
377 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
381 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
385 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
386 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
390 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
394 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
395 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
396 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
398 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
399 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
401 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
402 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
403 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
404 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
408 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
409 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
413 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
414 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
415 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
416 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
421 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
422 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
426 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
427 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
428 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
432 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
433 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
434 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
438 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
442 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
443 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
447 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
448 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
452 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
456 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
457 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
462 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
463 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
467 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
471 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
472 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
473 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
474 when changing to a parent directory.
475 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
479 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
483 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
487 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
489 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
491 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
495 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
497 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
501 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
503 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
507 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
511 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
512 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
513 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
514 reported by Anthony DiSante).
518 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
522 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
526 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
527 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
528 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
529 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
530 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
534 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
535 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
539 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
540 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
545 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
546 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
551 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
552 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
556 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
557 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
561 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
562 (reported by Tony Houghton).
566 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
568 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
569 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
573 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
574 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
578 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
582 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
586 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
590 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
591 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
592 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
596 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
600 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
605 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
609 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
611 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
613 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
617 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
618 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
619 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
621 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
625 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
626 print a warning and then crash.
630 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
631 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
632 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
637 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
641 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
646 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
650 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
654 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
656 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
661 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
662 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
663 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
668 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
669 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
674 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
676 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
677 anyway, and noone had complained).
678 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
679 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
683 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
684 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
685 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
689 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
693 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
694 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
698 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
699 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
700 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
704 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
705 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
706 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
708 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
709 by Simon Templer and others).
713 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
714 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
715 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
719 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
723 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
727 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
728 version number again (Stephen Watson).
732 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
733 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
737 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
741 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
742 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
743 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
744 anyway (Stephen Watson).
748 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
752 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
756 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
758 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
760 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
764 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
765 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
766 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
770 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
771 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
776 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
777 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
778 impossible to change shortcuts.
779 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
780 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
784 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
785 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
790 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
791 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
792 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
796 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
797 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
798 to the functions being missing.
802 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
806 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
810 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
814 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
818 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
819 worries people for no reason.
823 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
827 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
828 files selected (Peter Geer).
832 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
833 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
837 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
841 Added 'Select by Name'.
845 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
849 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
854 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
858 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
860 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
862 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
863 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
867 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
871 Misc changes for next release.
875 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
876 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
880 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
881 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
882 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
883 Watson, reported on #rox).
887 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
888 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
892 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
893 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
897 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
898 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
902 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
903 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
908 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
912 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
914 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
919 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
923 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
924 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
928 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
929 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
933 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
937 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
942 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
943 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
945 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
946 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
950 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
951 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
955 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
960 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
961 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
965 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
966 support not being detected (igla).
970 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
974 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
975 dialog (Stephen Watson).
979 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
983 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
984 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
985 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
986 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
989 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
991 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
992 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
996 New icon for selection ops.
1000 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1004 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1008 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1012 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1013 Added icon theme selector.
1017 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1021 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1025 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1026 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1030 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1031 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1032 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1036 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1037 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1041 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1045 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1046 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1047 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1051 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1055 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1056 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1061 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1062 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1066 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1067 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1071 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1072 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1076 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1080 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1081 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1082 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1086 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1090 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1091 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1092 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1093 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1097 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1098 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1100 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1104 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1108 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1109 bits (Stephen Watson).
1113 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1117 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1121 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1122 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1126 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1130 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1131 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1136 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1137 forward them explicitly.
1141 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1142 help from Götz Waschk).
1146 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1147 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1148 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1152 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1156 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1160 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1164 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1165 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1167 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1169 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1173 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1175 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1177 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1181 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1182 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1183 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1184 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1188 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1192 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1196 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1200 Minor updates to the manual.
1201 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1202 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1206 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1207 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1209 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1211 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1212 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1216 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1217 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1218 reduce flickering effect.
1222 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1226 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1228 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1232 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1233 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1234 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1235 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1236 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1240 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1241 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1245 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1249 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1254 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1255 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1259 Winking now works in List view.
1263 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1267 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1268 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1272 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1273 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1275 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1277 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1281 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1285 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1286 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1288 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1292 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1293 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1297 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1299 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1303 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1304 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1308 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1310 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1314 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1318 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1319 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1324 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1325 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1327 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1329 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1331 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1335 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1339 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1340 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1344 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1349 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1350 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1354 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1356 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1358 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1359 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1364 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1368 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1369 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1370 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1371 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1372 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1373 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1374 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1376 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1380 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1385 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1386 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1390 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1391 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1392 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1393 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1398 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1399 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1400 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1401 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1402 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1403 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1404 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1405 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1406 talent can do something better?
1407 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1408 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1412 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1413 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1414 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1419 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1421 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1422 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1423 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1424 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1425 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1426 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1427 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1428 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1429 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1430 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1431 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1432 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1433 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1437 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1438 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1439 allow fine repositioning.
1440 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1441 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1442 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1443 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1445 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1446 changing the aspect ratio.
1450 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1454 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1458 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1459 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1460 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1464 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1468 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1473 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1474 make sharing icons easier.
1475 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1479 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1480 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1484 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1488 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1490 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1494 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1499 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1504 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1505 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1507 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1508 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1509 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1510 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1514 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1515 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1519 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1523 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1525 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1526 Brian Langenberger).
1530 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1531 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1533 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1537 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1538 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1540 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1542 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1546 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1547 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1552 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1556 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1557 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1558 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1562 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1563 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1567 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1571 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1572 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1576 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1577 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1578 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1582 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1586 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1587 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1588 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1589 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1591 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1592 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1596 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1597 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1601 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1606 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1607 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1611 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1615 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1616 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1617 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1618 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1623 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1624 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1625 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1629 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1633 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1634 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1638 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1639 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1640 since it didn't include the contents.
1641 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1642 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1646 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1650 Style improvements to options window.
1654 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1658 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1660 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1662 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1667 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1668 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1669 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1670 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1674 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1678 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1682 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1683 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1687 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1689 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1694 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1698 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1699 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1700 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1705 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1709 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1713 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1717 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1721 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1722 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1723 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1727 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1728 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1732 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1733 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1738 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1742 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1746 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1751 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1752 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1756 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1757 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1762 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1763 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1767 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1768 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1769 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1773 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1777 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1778 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1779 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1780 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1781 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1785 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1786 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1790 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1791 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1795 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1799 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1800 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1801 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1802 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1803 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1804 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1808 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1809 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1810 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1814 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1815 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1820 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1824 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1826 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1828 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1833 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1837 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1841 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1842 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1847 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1851 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1855 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1856 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1857 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1861 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1865 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1870 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1874 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1875 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1876 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1877 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1881 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1885 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1886 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1890 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1891 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1892 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1896 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1900 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1904 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1905 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1906 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1907 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1908 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1909 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1913 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1914 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1918 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1919 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1920 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1924 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1925 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1929 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1933 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1934 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1935 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1936 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1938 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1940 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1944 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1945 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1946 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1950 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1954 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1955 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1960 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1964 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1968 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1969 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1973 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1974 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1975 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1979 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1980 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1984 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1985 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1989 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1990 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1994 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1998 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1999 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2003 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2005 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2007 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2011 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2015 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2016 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2020 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2024 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2028 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2029 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2030 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2031 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2032 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2033 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2037 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2041 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2043 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2044 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2048 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2049 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2053 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2057 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2058 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2059 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2060 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2062 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2064 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2068 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2069 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2073 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2074 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2075 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2079 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2080 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2081 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2082 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2083 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2084 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2085 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2089 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2090 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2094 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2098 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2102 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2107 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2111 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2112 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2113 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2117 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2118 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2119 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2123 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2124 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2125 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2129 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2130 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2134 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2139 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2140 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2141 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2142 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2143 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2145 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2146 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2150 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2154 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2155 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2156 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2157 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2161 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2162 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2163 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2164 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2165 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2166 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2170 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2174 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2175 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2179 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2180 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2181 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2182 restart (Olli Helenius).
2186 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2190 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2191 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2192 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2197 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2202 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2203 Small and Large sizes.
2207 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2211 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2212 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2216 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2217 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2218 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2219 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2223 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2224 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2225 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2230 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2235 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2236 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2240 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2241 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2246 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2248 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2250 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2254 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2258 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2260 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2262 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2266 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2268 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2269 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2273 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2274 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2278 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2279 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2283 Various speed improvements.
2284 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2288 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2289 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2293 Slight speed increase when starting.
2297 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2301 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2302 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2303 button is no longer supported.
2307 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2311 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2315 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2320 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2321 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2325 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2326 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2327 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2331 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2332 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2333 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2334 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2338 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2339 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2340 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2342 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2347 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2348 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2353 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2357 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2358 and converted to new dialog style.
2362 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2363 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2367 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2368 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2372 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2376 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2378 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2382 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2386 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2387 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2388 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2392 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2393 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2397 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2402 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2406 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2407 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2411 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2412 and Cancel is now Revert.
2413 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2414 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2418 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2422 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2423 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2425 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2426 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2427 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2428 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2432 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2434 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2435 labels display them.
2436 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2439 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2443 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2445 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2449 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2450 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2451 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2455 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2456 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2458 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2460 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2464 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2465 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2469 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2470 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2471 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2472 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2476 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2480 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2481 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2485 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2486 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2491 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2492 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2496 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2497 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2498 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2502 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2503 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2507 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2508 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2509 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2510 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2512 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2517 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2518 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2520 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2522 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2526 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2527 any image (saves time).
2528 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2529 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2530 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2531 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2533 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2534 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2538 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2539 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2541 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2542 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2544 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2549 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2550 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2551 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2552 has stopped accepting STRING.
2556 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2557 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2561 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2566 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2567 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2569 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2570 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2571 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2575 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2576 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2577 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2578 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2579 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2580 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2584 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2585 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2586 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2587 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2588 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2589 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2594 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2595 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2596 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2597 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2602 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2603 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2607 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2608 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2610 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2612 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2613 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2614 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2618 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2619 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2620 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2624 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2625 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2629 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2630 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2634 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2636 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2641 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2642 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2646 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2647 their menus correctly.
2648 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2653 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2654 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2655 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2659 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2660 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2664 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2668 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2671 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2673 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2674 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2675 the toggle menu items from working!
2679 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2681 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2687 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2688 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2692 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2693 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2694 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2695 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2696 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2697 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2701 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2705 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2706 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2710 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2711 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2712 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2716 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2717 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2722 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2724 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2728 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2729 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2730 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2731 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2735 Improved error reporting.
2736 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2740 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2741 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2742 check box and does 'Yes'.
2746 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2747 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2748 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2749 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2754 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2756 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2757 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2759 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2761 Internal changes to options system:
2762 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2763 filer is fully initialised).
2764 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2766 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2768 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2769 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2770 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2771 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2775 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2776 now reclaims the selection.
2777 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2778 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2783 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2784 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2785 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2786 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2787 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2791 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2792 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2794 Code tidying in various places.
2798 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2799 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2804 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2805 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2809 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2810 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2811 edit the file, not the file itself!
2812 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2816 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2817 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2818 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2819 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2820 of the SOAP working draft.
2821 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2822 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2823 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2828 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2829 it was in the displayed area before.
2831 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2834 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2835 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2839 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2840 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2841 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2843 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2844 selection (Andras Mohari).
2848 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2852 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2856 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2857 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2858 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2862 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2866 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2868 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2869 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2870 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2874 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2875 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2880 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2881 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2882 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2886 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2890 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2894 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2895 replaced by a Restart button.
2899 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2900 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2904 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2908 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2912 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2913 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2914 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2918 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2919 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2921 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2922 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2923 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2927 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2928 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2933 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2935 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2936 (requested by Graham Borland).
2937 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2938 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2939 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2943 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2944 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2945 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2946 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2950 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2951 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2952 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2953 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2954 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2955 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2956 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2957 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2958 - Lots of code tidying.
2963 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2964 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2968 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2970 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2972 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2976 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2977 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2981 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2982 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2986 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2987 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2991 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2992 option to access it directly.
2996 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2997 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2998 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3002 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3003 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3004 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3005 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3006 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3007 when the filer is run.
3011 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3012 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3013 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3018 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3022 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3023 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3027 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3029 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3033 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3037 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3038 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3039 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3044 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3045 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3046 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3047 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3048 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3049 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3050 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3054 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3058 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3059 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3063 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3064 of possible actions (Taras).
3065 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3067 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3068 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3072 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3077 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3081 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3084 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3085 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3089 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3090 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3092 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3094 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3095 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3096 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3097 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3101 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3105 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3109 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3113 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3118 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3119 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3120 the first one found.
3121 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3125 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3129 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3130 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3131 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3135 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3136 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3137 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3142 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3143 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3144 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3148 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3150 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3155 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3160 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3164 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3165 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3169 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3171 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3172 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3176 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3180 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3181 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3185 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3186 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3190 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3191 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3193 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3195 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3199 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3203 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3204 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3208 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3212 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3217 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3218 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3222 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3226 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3230 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3232 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3233 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3237 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3238 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3242 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3243 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3244 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3248 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3249 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3253 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3254 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3256 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3258 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3262 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3263 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3264 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3266 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3267 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3269 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3271 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3272 and the default size with no details.
3276 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3277 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3281 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3286 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3291 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3295 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3300 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3301 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3305 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3309 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3310 the button to run it does.
3311 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3312 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3313 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3317 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3318 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3319 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3323 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3327 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3328 and panels into icon.c.
3332 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3333 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3334 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3335 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3339 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3341 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3343 Updated the documentation.
3347 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3348 up if they're too small.
3352 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3354 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3355 (Christopher Arndt).
3356 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3361 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3362 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3366 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3367 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3371 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3372 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3373 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3378 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3383 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3387 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3388 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3393 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3398 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3399 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3403 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3404 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3408 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3412 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3416 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3420 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3421 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3424 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3425 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3430 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3431 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3432 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3433 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3438 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3439 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3441 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3443 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3444 for non-applications.
3448 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3449 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3454 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3458 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3459 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3461 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3465 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3466 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3470 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3471 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3475 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3476 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3480 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3481 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3483 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3484 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3488 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3489 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3491 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3495 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3496 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3499 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3503 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3504 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3508 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3512 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3513 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3516 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3517 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3521 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3525 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3530 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3534 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3535 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3540 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3545 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3549 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3551 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3553 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3554 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3556 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3558 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3559 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3563 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3564 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3565 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3567 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3568 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3572 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3576 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3577 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3581 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3585 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3586 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3588 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3591 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3592 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3593 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3597 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3598 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3603 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3608 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3610 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3613 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3615 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3616 sensible shape itself now.
3618 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3619 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3620 file at all, just a reused inode!
3621 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3622 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3623 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3627 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3631 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3632 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3637 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3638 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3642 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3646 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3647 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3651 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3656 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3660 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3661 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3665 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3666 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3667 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3668 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3669 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3673 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3674 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3675 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3676 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3677 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3681 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3682 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3683 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3687 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3689 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3690 python's portable system.
3691 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3692 set the LANG variable.
3696 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3697 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3699 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3701 Made a few updates to the manual.
3705 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3706 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3708 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3710 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3711 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3715 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3716 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3720 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3721 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3726 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3727 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3728 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3732 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3733 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3737 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3738 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3742 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3743 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3745 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3746 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3747 open... (Denis Manente).
3751 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3755 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3757 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3758 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3759 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3761 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3763 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3765 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3766 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3771 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3772 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3773 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3777 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3778 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3782 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3786 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3790 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3791 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3792 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3796 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3797 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3798 between pinboards...
3800 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3801 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3802 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3806 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3809 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3810 window (Denis Manente).
3812 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3813 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3817 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3818 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3819 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3823 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3826 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3827 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3829 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3834 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3835 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3837 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3841 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3842 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3844 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3846 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3851 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3852 the icon points to as well as its name.
3854 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3855 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3859 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3860 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3861 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3862 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3866 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3870 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3871 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3872 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3876 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3877 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3879 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3880 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3883 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3884 the item after the drag.
3886 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3887 showing where the file really is.
3891 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3892 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3897 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3898 warning is displayed if so.
3900 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3904 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3905 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3906 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3907 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3910 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3911 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3912 works like the panels.
3916 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3917 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3918 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3919 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3920 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3924 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3925 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3926 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3927 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3929 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3934 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3938 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3939 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3942 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3943 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3945 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3948 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3949 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3950 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3951 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3953 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3955 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3956 slightly. Updated the manual.
3958 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3959 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3962 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3963 or bottom panel to make room.
3967 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3972 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3973 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3974 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3975 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3976 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3980 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3982 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3983 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3985 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3989 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3990 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3994 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3998 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4000 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4005 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4006 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4008 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4012 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4013 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4014 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4018 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4019 rewriting the panel system.
4023 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4026 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4027 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4031 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4032 (suggested by James Kermode).
4036 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4037 than as a full path.
4039 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4041 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4042 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4043 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4047 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4048 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4052 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4053 rename something onto another filesystem.
4057 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4059 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4060 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4064 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4068 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4071 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4072 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4074 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4077 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4082 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4083 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4084 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4086 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4087 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4089 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4090 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4095 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4096 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4101 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4102 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4103 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4105 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4106 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4107 of the 'missing image' image.
4111 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4113 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4115 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4120 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4121 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4122 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4123 its name into another program.
4125 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4129 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4131 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4132 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4133 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4135 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4136 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4137 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4140 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4141 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4145 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4146 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4147 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4151 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4152 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4153 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4157 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4158 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4159 and position the icons directly.
4163 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4168 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4169 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4170 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4174 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4178 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4179 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4183 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4188 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4192 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4193 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4194 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4195 some versions of GTK+.
4199 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4204 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4205 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4206 from a sub-sub-menu.
4208 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4209 drawn on a log scale.
4213 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4214 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4215 happy with the UI yet though...
4217 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4218 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4219 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4223 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4224 by Stephen Harrison).
4226 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4228 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4229 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4230 standard types are in Choices.
4231 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4233 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4234 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4235 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4240 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4241 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4242 shell command minibuffer.
4246 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4247 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4248 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4249 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4250 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4252 Default search path for Choices is now:
4253 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4255 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4256 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4257 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4261 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4262 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4266 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4267 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4268 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4273 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4274 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4275 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4278 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4280 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4281 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4282 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4284 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4285 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4289 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4290 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4291 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4292 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4297 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4298 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4299 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4301 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4303 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4304 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4308 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4309 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4310 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4315 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4316 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4319 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4321 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4326 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4331 Added GNU gettext support.
4332 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4336 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4338 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4340 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4345 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4349 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4350 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4352 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4353 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4358 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4359 onto the directory and winks the file.
4363 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4364 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4365 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4367 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4368 instead of random values.
4369 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4371 Applied Bernard's patch:
4372 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4373 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4374 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4375 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4376 it the RISC OS way...
4377 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4378 alignment corrected.
4379 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4384 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4388 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4389 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4393 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4394 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4395 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4396 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4397 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4398 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4399 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4400 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4401 in the file(1) says... box).
4404 Before the Changes file
4405 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4406 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4408 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4409 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4410 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4411 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4412 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD