2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
11 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
15 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
16 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
17 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
21 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
22 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
26 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
27 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
32 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
36 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
40 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
45 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
46 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
50 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
51 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
56 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
57 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
61 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
62 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
63 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
67 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
71 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
72 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
73 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
74 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
75 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
79 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
84 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
85 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiew).
89 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
93 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
94 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
95 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
96 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
97 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
98 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
102 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
103 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
104 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
108 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
109 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
114 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
118 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
120 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
122 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
127 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
131 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
135 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
136 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
141 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
145 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
149 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
150 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
151 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
155 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
159 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
164 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
168 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
169 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
170 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
171 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
175 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
179 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
180 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
184 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
185 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
186 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
190 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
194 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
198 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
199 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
200 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
201 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
202 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
203 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
207 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
208 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
212 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
213 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
214 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
218 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
219 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
223 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
227 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
228 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
229 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
230 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
232 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
234 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
238 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
239 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
240 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
244 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
248 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
249 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
254 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
258 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
262 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
263 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
267 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
268 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
269 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
273 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
274 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
278 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
279 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
283 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
284 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
288 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
292 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
293 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
297 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
299 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
301 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
305 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
309 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
310 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
314 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
318 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
322 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
323 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
324 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
325 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
326 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
327 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
331 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
335 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
337 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
338 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
342 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
343 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
347 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
351 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
352 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
353 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
354 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
356 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
358 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
362 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
363 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
367 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
368 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
369 disappeared at the wrong moment.
373 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
374 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
375 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
376 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
377 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
378 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
379 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
383 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
384 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
388 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
392 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
396 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
401 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
405 Options to set iconification layout policy.
406 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
407 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
411 Pinboard background colour option works again.
412 Position iconified windows sensibly.
413 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
417 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
418 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
419 (requested by Ryan Harris).
423 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
424 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
428 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
433 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
434 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
435 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
436 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
437 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
439 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
440 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
444 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
448 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
449 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
450 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
451 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
455 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
456 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
457 Many improvements to the pinboard:
458 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
459 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
460 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
464 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
468 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
469 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
473 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
474 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
475 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
476 restart (Olli Helenius).
480 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
484 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
485 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
486 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
491 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
496 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
497 Small and Large sizes.
501 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
505 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
506 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
510 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
511 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
512 (requested by Gregory Spath).
513 Don't quit while Options window is open.
517 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
518 the window (requested by Ashwin).
519 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
524 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
529 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
530 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
534 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
535 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
540 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
542 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
544 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
548 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
552 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
554 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
556 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
560 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
562 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
563 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
567 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
568 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
572 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
573 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
577 Various speed improvements.
578 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
582 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
583 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
587 Slight speed increase when starting.
591 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
595 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
596 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
597 button is no longer supported.
601 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
605 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
609 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
614 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
615 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
619 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
620 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
621 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
625 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
626 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
627 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
628 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
632 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
633 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
634 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
636 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
641 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
642 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
647 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
651 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
652 and converted to new dialog style.
656 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
657 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
661 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
662 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
666 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
670 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
672 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
676 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
680 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
681 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
682 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
686 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
687 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
691 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
696 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
700 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
701 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
705 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
706 and Cancel is now Revert.
707 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
708 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
712 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
716 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
717 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
719 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
720 (reported by Serban Udrea).
721 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
722 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
726 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
728 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
730 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
733 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
737 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
739 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
743 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
744 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
745 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
749 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
750 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
752 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
754 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
758 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
759 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
763 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
764 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
765 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
766 (requested by Andras Mohari).
770 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
774 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
775 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
779 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
780 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
785 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
786 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
790 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
791 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
792 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
796 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
797 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
801 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
802 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
803 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
804 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
806 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
811 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
812 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
814 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
816 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
820 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
821 any image (saves time).
822 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
823 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
824 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
825 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
827 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
828 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
832 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
833 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
835 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
836 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
838 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
843 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
844 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
845 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
846 has stopped accepting STRING.
850 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
851 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
855 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
860 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
861 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
863 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
864 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
865 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
869 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
870 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
871 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
872 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
873 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
874 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
878 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
879 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
880 Allow '~' in globicons file.
881 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
882 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
883 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
888 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
889 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
890 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
891 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
896 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
897 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
901 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
902 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
904 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
906 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
907 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
908 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
912 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
913 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
914 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
918 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
919 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
923 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
924 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
928 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
930 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
935 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
936 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
940 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
941 their menus correctly.
942 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
947 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
948 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
949 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
953 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
954 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
958 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
962 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
965 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
967 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
968 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
969 the toggle menu items from working!
973 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
975 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
981 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
982 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
986 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
987 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
988 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
989 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
990 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
991 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
995 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
999 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1000 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1004 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1005 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1006 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1010 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1011 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1016 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1018 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1022 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1023 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1024 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1025 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1029 Improved error reporting.
1030 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1034 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1035 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1036 check box and does 'Yes'.
1040 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1041 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1042 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
1043 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1048 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1050 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1051 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1053 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1055 Internal changes to options system:
1056 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1057 filer is fully initialised).
1058 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1060 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1062 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1063 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1064 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1065 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1069 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1070 now reclaims the selection.
1071 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1072 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1077 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1078 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1079 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1080 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1081 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1085 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1086 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1088 Code tidying in various places.
1092 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1093 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1098 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1099 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1103 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1104 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1105 edit the file, not the file itself!
1106 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1110 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1111 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1112 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1113 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1114 of the SOAP working draft.
1115 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1116 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1117 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1122 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1123 it was in the displayed area before.
1125 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1128 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1129 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1133 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1134 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1135 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1137 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1138 selection (Andras Mohari).
1142 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1146 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1150 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1151 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1152 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1156 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1160 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1162 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1163 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1164 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1168 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1169 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1174 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1175 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1176 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1180 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1184 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1188 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1189 replaced by a Restart button.
1193 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1194 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1198 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1202 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1206 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1207 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1208 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1212 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1213 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1215 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1216 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1217 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1221 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1222 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1227 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1229 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1230 (requested by Graham Borland).
1231 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1232 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1233 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1237 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1238 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1239 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1240 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1244 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1245 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1246 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1247 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1248 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1249 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1250 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1251 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1252 - Lots of code tidying.
1257 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1258 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1262 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1264 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1266 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1270 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1271 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1275 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1276 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1280 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1281 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1285 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1286 option to access it directly.
1290 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1291 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1292 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1296 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1297 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1298 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1299 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1300 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1301 when the filer is run.
1305 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1306 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1307 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1312 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1316 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1317 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1321 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1323 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1327 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1331 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1332 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1333 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1338 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1339 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1340 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1341 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1342 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1343 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1344 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1348 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1352 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1353 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1357 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1358 of possible actions (Taras).
1359 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1361 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1362 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1366 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1371 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1375 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1378 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1379 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1383 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1384 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1386 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1388 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1389 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1390 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1391 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1395 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1399 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1403 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1407 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1412 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1413 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1414 the first one found.
1415 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1419 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1423 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1424 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1425 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1429 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1430 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1431 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1436 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1437 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1438 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1442 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1444 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1449 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1454 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1458 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1459 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1463 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1465 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1466 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1470 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1474 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1475 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1479 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1480 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1484 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1485 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1487 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1489 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1493 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1497 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1498 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1502 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1506 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1511 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1512 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1516 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1520 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1524 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1526 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1527 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1531 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1532 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1536 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1537 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1538 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1542 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1543 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1547 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1548 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1550 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1552 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1556 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1557 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1558 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1560 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1561 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1563 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1565 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1566 and the default size with no details.
1570 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1571 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1575 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1580 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1585 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1589 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1594 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1595 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1599 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1603 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1604 the button to run it does.
1605 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1606 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1607 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1611 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1612 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1613 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1617 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1621 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1622 and panels into icon.c.
1626 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1627 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1628 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1629 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1633 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1635 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1637 Updated the documentation.
1641 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1642 up if they're too small.
1646 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1648 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1649 (Christopher Arndt).
1650 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1655 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1656 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1660 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1661 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1665 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1666 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1667 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1672 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1677 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1681 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1682 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1687 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1692 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1693 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1697 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1698 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1702 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1706 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1710 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1714 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1715 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1718 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1719 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1724 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1725 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1726 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1727 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1732 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1733 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1735 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1737 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1738 for non-applications.
1742 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1743 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1748 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1752 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1753 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1755 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1759 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1760 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1764 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1765 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1769 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1770 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1774 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1775 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1777 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1778 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1782 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1783 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1785 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1789 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1790 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1793 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1797 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1798 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1802 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1806 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1807 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1810 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1811 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1815 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1819 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1824 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1828 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1829 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1834 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1839 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1843 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1845 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1847 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1848 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1850 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1852 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1853 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1857 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1858 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1859 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1861 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1862 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1866 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1870 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1871 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1875 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1879 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1880 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1882 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1885 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1886 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1887 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1891 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1892 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1897 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1902 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1904 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1907 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1909 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1910 sensible shape itself now.
1912 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1913 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1914 file at all, just a reused inode!
1915 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1916 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1917 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1921 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1925 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1926 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1931 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1932 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1936 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1940 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1941 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1945 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1950 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1954 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1955 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1959 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1960 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1961 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1962 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1963 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1967 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1968 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1969 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1970 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1971 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1975 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1976 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1977 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1981 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1983 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1984 python's portable system.
1985 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1986 set the LANG variable.
1990 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1991 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1993 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1995 Made a few updates to the manual.
1999 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2000 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2002 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2004 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2005 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2009 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2010 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2014 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2015 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2020 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2021 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2022 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2026 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2027 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2031 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2032 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2036 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2037 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2039 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2040 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2041 open... (Denis Manente).
2045 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2049 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2051 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2052 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2053 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2055 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2057 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2059 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2060 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2065 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2066 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2067 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2071 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2072 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2076 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2080 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2084 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2085 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2086 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2090 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2091 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2092 between pinboards...
2094 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2095 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2096 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2100 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2103 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2104 window (Denis Manente).
2106 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2107 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2111 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2112 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2113 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2117 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2120 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2121 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2123 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2128 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2129 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2131 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2135 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2136 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2138 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2140 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2145 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2146 the icon points to as well as its name.
2148 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2149 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2153 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2154 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2155 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2156 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2160 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2164 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2165 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2166 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2170 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2171 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2173 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2174 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2177 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2178 the item after the drag.
2180 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2181 showing where the file really is.
2185 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2186 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2191 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2192 warning is displayed if so.
2194 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2198 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2199 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2200 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2201 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2204 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2205 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2206 works like the panels.
2210 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2211 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2212 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2213 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2214 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2218 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2219 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2220 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2221 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2223 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2228 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2232 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2233 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2236 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2237 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2239 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2242 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2243 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2244 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2245 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2247 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2249 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2250 slightly. Updated the manual.
2252 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2253 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2256 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2257 or bottom panel to make room.
2261 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2266 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2267 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2268 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2269 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2270 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2274 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2276 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2277 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2279 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2283 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2284 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2288 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2292 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2294 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2299 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2300 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2302 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2306 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2307 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2308 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2312 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2313 rewriting the panel system.
2317 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2320 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2321 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2325 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2326 (suggested by James Kermode).
2330 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2331 than as a full path.
2333 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2335 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2336 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2337 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2341 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2342 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2346 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2347 rename something onto another filesystem.
2351 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2353 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2354 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2358 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2362 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2365 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2366 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2368 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2371 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2376 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2377 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2378 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2380 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2381 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2383 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2384 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2389 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2390 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2395 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2396 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2397 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2399 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2400 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2401 of the 'missing image' image.
2405 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2407 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2409 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2414 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2415 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2416 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2417 its name into another program.
2419 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2423 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2425 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2426 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2427 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2429 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2430 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2431 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2434 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2435 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2439 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2440 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2441 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2445 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2446 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2447 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2451 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2452 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2453 and position the icons directly.
2457 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2462 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2463 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2464 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2468 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2472 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2473 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2477 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2482 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2486 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2487 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2488 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2489 some versions of GTK+.
2493 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2498 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2499 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2500 from a sub-sub-menu.
2502 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2503 drawn on a log scale.
2507 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2508 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2509 happy with the UI yet though...
2511 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2512 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2513 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2517 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2518 by Stephen Harrison).
2520 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2522 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2523 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2524 standard types are in Choices.
2525 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2527 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2528 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2529 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2534 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2535 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2536 shell command minibuffer.
2540 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2541 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2542 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2543 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2544 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2546 Default search path for Choices is now:
2547 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2549 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2550 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2551 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2555 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2556 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2560 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2561 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2562 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2567 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2568 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2569 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2572 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2574 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2575 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2576 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2578 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2579 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2583 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2584 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2585 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2586 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2591 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2592 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2593 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2595 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2597 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2598 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2602 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2603 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2604 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2609 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2610 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2613 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2615 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2620 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2625 Added GNU gettext support.
2626 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2630 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2632 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2634 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2639 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2643 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2644 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2646 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2647 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2652 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2653 onto the directory and winks the file.
2657 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2658 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2659 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2661 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2662 instead of random values.
2663 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2665 Applied Bernard's patch:
2666 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2667 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2668 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2669 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2670 it the RISC OS way...
2671 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2672 alignment corrected.
2673 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2678 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2682 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2683 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2687 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2688 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2689 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2690 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2691 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2692 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2693 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2694 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2695 in the file(1) says... box).
2698 Before the Changes file
2699 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2700 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2702 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2703 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2704 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2705 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2706 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD