2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
8 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
9 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
10 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
14 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
15 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
19 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
20 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
21 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
25 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
26 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
30 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
34 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
35 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
36 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
37 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
39 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
41 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
45 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
46 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
47 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
51 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
55 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
56 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
61 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
65 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
69 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
70 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
74 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
75 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
76 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
80 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
81 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
85 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
86 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
90 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
91 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
95 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
99 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
100 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
104 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
106 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
108 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
112 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
116 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
117 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
121 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
125 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
129 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
130 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
131 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
132 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
133 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
134 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
138 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
142 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
144 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
145 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
149 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
150 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
154 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
158 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
159 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
160 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
161 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
163 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
165 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
169 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
170 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
174 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
175 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
176 disappeared at the wrong moment.
180 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
181 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
182 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
183 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
184 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
185 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
186 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
190 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
191 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
195 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
199 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
203 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
208 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
212 Options to set iconification layout policy.
213 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
214 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
218 Pinboard background colour option works again.
219 Position iconified windows sensibly.
220 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
224 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
225 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
226 (requested by Ryan Harris).
230 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
231 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
235 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
240 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
241 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
242 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
243 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
244 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
246 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
247 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
251 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
255 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
256 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
257 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
258 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
262 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
263 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
264 Many improvements to the pinboard:
265 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
266 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
267 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
271 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
275 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
276 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
280 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
281 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
282 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
283 restart (Olli Helenius).
287 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
291 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
292 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
293 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
298 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
303 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
304 Small and Large sizes.
308 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
312 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
313 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
317 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
318 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
319 (requested by Gregory Spath).
320 Don't quit while Options window is open.
324 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
325 the window (requested by Ashwin).
326 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
331 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
336 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
337 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
341 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
342 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
347 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
349 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
351 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
355 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
359 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
361 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
363 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
367 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
369 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
370 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
374 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
375 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
379 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
380 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
384 Various speed improvements.
385 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
389 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
390 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
394 Slight speed increase when starting.
398 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
402 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
403 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
404 button is no longer supported.
408 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
412 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
416 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
421 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
422 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
426 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
427 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
428 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
432 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
433 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
434 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
435 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
439 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
440 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
441 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
443 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
448 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
449 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
454 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
458 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
459 and converted to new dialog style.
463 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
464 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
468 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
469 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
473 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
477 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
479 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
483 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
487 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
488 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
489 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
493 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
494 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
498 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
503 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
507 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
508 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
512 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
513 and Cancel is now Revert.
514 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
515 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
519 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
523 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
524 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
526 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
527 (reported by Serban Udrea).
528 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
529 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
533 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
535 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
537 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
540 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
544 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
546 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
550 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
551 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
552 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
556 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
557 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
559 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
561 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
565 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
566 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
570 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
571 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
572 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
573 (requested by Andras Mohari).
577 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
581 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
582 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
586 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
587 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
592 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
593 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
597 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
598 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
599 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
603 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
604 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
608 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
609 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
610 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
611 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
613 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
618 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
619 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
621 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
623 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
627 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
628 any image (saves time).
629 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
630 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
631 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
632 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
634 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
635 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
639 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
640 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
642 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
643 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
645 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
650 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
651 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
652 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
653 has stopped accepting STRING.
657 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
658 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
662 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
667 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
668 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
670 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
671 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
672 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
676 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
677 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
678 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
679 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
680 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
681 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
685 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
686 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
687 Allow '~' in globicons file.
688 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
689 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
690 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
695 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
696 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
697 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
698 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
703 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
704 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
708 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
709 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
711 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
713 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
714 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
715 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
719 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
720 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
721 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
725 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
726 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
730 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
731 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
735 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
737 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
742 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
743 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
747 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
748 their menus correctly.
749 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
754 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
755 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
756 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
760 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
761 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
765 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
769 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
772 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
774 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
775 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
776 the toggle menu items from working!
780 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
782 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
788 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
789 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
793 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
794 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
795 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
796 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
797 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
798 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
802 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
806 File groups are now saved (automatically).
807 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
811 Added Version SOAP RPC.
812 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
813 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
817 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
818 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
823 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
825 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
829 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
830 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
831 bar is displayed in the filer window.
832 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
836 Improved error reporting.
837 Improved sizing code when details are on.
841 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
842 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
843 check box and does 'Yes'.
847 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
848 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
849 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
850 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
855 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
857 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
858 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
860 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
862 Internal changes to options system:
863 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
864 filer is fully initialised).
865 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
867 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
869 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
870 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
871 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
872 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
876 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
877 now reclaims the selection.
878 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
879 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
884 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
885 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
886 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
887 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
888 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
892 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
893 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
895 Code tidying in various places.
899 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
900 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
905 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
906 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
910 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
911 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
912 edit the file, not the file itself!
913 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
917 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
918 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
919 (recommended by Jens Finke).
920 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
921 of the SOAP working draft.
922 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
923 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
924 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
929 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
930 it was in the displayed area before.
932 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
935 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
936 winking effect until the window actually appears.
940 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
941 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
942 Kristian A. Rink and others).
944 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
945 selection (Andras Mohari).
949 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
953 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
957 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
958 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
959 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
963 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
967 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
969 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
970 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
971 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
975 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
976 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
981 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
982 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
983 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
987 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
991 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
995 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
996 replaced by a Restart button.
1000 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1001 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1005 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1009 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1013 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1014 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1015 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1019 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1020 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1022 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1023 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1024 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1028 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1029 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1034 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1036 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1037 (requested by Graham Borland).
1038 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1039 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1040 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1044 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1045 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1046 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1047 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1051 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1052 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1053 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1054 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1055 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1056 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1057 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1058 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1059 - Lots of code tidying.
1064 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1065 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1069 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1071 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1073 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1077 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1078 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1082 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1083 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1087 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1088 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1092 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1093 option to access it directly.
1097 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1098 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1099 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1103 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1104 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1105 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1106 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1107 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1108 when the filer is run.
1112 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1113 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1114 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1119 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1123 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1124 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1128 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1130 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1134 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1138 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1139 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1140 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1145 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1146 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1147 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1148 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1149 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1150 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1151 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1155 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1159 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1160 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1164 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1165 of possible actions (Taras).
1166 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1168 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1169 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1173 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1178 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1182 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1185 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1186 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1190 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1191 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1193 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1195 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1196 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1197 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1198 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1202 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1206 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1210 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1214 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1219 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1220 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1221 the first one found.
1222 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1226 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1230 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1231 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1232 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1236 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1237 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1238 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1243 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1244 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1245 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1249 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1251 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1256 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1261 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1265 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1266 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1270 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1272 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1273 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1277 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1281 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1282 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1286 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1287 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1291 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1292 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1294 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1296 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1300 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1304 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1305 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1309 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1313 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1318 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1319 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1323 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1327 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1331 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1333 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1334 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1338 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1339 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1343 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1344 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1345 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1349 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1350 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1354 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1355 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1357 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1359 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1363 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1364 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1365 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1367 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1368 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1370 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1372 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1373 and the default size with no details.
1377 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1378 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1382 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1387 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1392 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1396 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1401 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1402 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1406 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1410 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1411 the button to run it does.
1412 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1413 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1414 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1418 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1419 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1420 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1424 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1428 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1429 and panels into icon.c.
1433 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1434 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1435 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1436 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1440 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1442 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1444 Updated the documentation.
1448 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1449 up if they're too small.
1453 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1455 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1456 (Christopher Arndt).
1457 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1462 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1463 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1467 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1468 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1472 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1473 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1474 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1479 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1484 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1488 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1489 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1494 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1499 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1500 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1504 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1505 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1509 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1513 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1517 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1521 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1522 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1525 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1526 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1531 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1532 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1533 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1534 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1539 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1540 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1542 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1544 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1545 for non-applications.
1549 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1550 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1555 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1559 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1560 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1562 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1566 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1567 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1571 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1572 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1576 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1577 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1581 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1582 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1584 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1585 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1589 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1590 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1592 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1596 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1597 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1600 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1604 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1605 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1609 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1613 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1614 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1617 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1618 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1622 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1626 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1631 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1635 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1636 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1641 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1646 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1650 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1652 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1654 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1655 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1657 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1659 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1660 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1664 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1665 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1666 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1668 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1669 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1673 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1677 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1678 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1682 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1686 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1687 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1689 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1692 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1693 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1694 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1698 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1699 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1704 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1709 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1711 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1714 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1716 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1717 sensible shape itself now.
1719 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1720 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1721 file at all, just a reused inode!
1722 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1723 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1724 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1728 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1732 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1733 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1738 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1739 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1743 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1747 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1748 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1752 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1757 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1761 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1762 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1766 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1767 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1768 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1769 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1770 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1774 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1775 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1776 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1777 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1778 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1782 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1783 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1784 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1788 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1790 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1791 python's portable system.
1792 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1793 set the LANG variable.
1797 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1798 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1800 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1802 Made a few updates to the manual.
1806 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1807 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1809 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1811 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1812 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1816 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1817 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1821 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1822 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1827 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1828 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1829 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1833 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1834 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1838 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1839 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1843 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1844 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1846 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1847 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1848 open... (Denis Manente).
1852 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1856 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1858 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1859 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1860 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1862 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1864 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1866 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1867 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1872 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1873 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1874 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1878 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1879 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1883 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1887 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1891 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1892 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1893 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1897 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1898 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1899 between pinboards...
1901 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1902 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1903 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1907 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1910 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1911 window (Denis Manente).
1913 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1914 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1918 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1919 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1920 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1924 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1927 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1928 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1930 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1935 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1936 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1938 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1942 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1943 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1945 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1947 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1952 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1953 the icon points to as well as its name.
1955 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1956 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1960 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1961 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1962 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1963 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1967 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1971 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1972 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1973 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1977 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1978 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1980 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1981 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1984 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1985 the item after the drag.
1987 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1988 showing where the file really is.
1992 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1993 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1998 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1999 warning is displayed if so.
2001 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2005 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2006 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2007 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2008 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2011 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2012 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2013 works like the panels.
2017 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2018 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2019 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2020 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2021 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2025 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2026 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2027 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2028 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2030 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2035 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2039 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2040 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2043 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2044 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2046 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2049 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2050 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2051 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2052 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2054 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2056 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2057 slightly. Updated the manual.
2059 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2060 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2063 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2064 or bottom panel to make room.
2068 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2073 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2074 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2075 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2076 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2077 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2081 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2083 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2084 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2086 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2090 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2091 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2095 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2099 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2101 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2106 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2107 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2109 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2113 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2114 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2115 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2119 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2120 rewriting the panel system.
2124 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2127 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2128 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2132 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2133 (suggested by James Kermode).
2137 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2138 than as a full path.
2140 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2142 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2143 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2144 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2148 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2149 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2153 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2154 rename something onto another filesystem.
2158 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2160 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2161 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2165 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2169 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2172 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2173 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2175 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2178 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2183 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2184 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2185 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2187 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2188 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2190 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2191 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2196 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2197 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2202 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2203 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2204 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2206 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2207 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2208 of the 'missing image' image.
2212 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2214 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2216 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2221 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2222 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2223 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2224 its name into another program.
2226 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2230 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2232 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2233 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2234 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2236 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2237 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2238 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2241 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2242 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2246 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2247 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2248 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2252 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2253 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2254 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2258 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2259 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2260 and position the icons directly.
2264 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2269 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2270 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2271 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2275 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2279 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2280 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2284 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2289 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2293 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2294 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2295 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2296 some versions of GTK+.
2300 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2305 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2306 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2307 from a sub-sub-menu.
2309 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2310 drawn on a log scale.
2314 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2315 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2316 happy with the UI yet though...
2318 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2319 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2320 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2324 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2325 by Stephen Harrison).
2327 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2329 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2330 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2331 standard types are in Choices.
2332 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2334 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2335 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2336 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2341 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2342 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2343 shell command minibuffer.
2347 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2348 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2349 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2350 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2351 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2353 Default search path for Choices is now:
2354 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2356 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2357 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2358 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2362 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2363 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2367 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2368 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2369 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2374 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2375 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2376 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2379 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2381 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2382 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2383 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2385 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2386 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2390 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2391 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2392 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2393 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2398 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2399 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2400 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2402 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2404 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2405 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2409 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2410 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2411 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2416 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2417 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2420 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2422 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2427 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2432 Added GNU gettext support.
2433 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2437 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2439 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2441 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2446 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2450 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2451 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2453 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2454 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2459 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2460 onto the directory and winks the file.
2464 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2465 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2466 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2468 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2469 instead of random values.
2470 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2472 Applied Bernard's patch:
2473 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2474 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2475 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2476 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2477 it the RISC OS way...
2478 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2479 alignment corrected.
2480 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2485 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2489 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2490 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2494 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2495 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2496 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2497 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2498 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2499 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2500 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2501 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2502 in the file(1) says... box).
2505 Before the Changes file
2506 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2507 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2509 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2510 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2511 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2512 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2513 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD