2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
11 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
12 files selected (Peter Geer).
16 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
17 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
21 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
25 Added 'Select by Name'.
29 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
33 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
38 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
42 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
44 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
46 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
47 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
51 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
55 Misc changes for next release.
59 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
60 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
64 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
65 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
66 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
67 Watson, reported on #rox).
71 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
72 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
76 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
77 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
81 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
82 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
86 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
87 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
92 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
96 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
98 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
103 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
107 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
108 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
112 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
113 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
117 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
121 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
126 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
127 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
129 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
130 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
134 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
135 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
139 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
144 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
149 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
150 support not being detected (igla).
154 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
158 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
159 dialog (Stephen Watson).
163 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
167 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
168 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
169 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
170 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
173 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
175 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
176 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
180 New icon for selection ops.
184 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
188 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
192 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
196 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
197 Added icon theme selector.
201 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
205 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
209 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
210 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
214 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
215 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
216 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
220 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
221 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
225 Allow ejecting mounted media.
229 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
230 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
231 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
235 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
239 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
240 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
245 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
246 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
250 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
251 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
255 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
256 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
260 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
264 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
265 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
266 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
270 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
274 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
275 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
276 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
277 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
281 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
282 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
284 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
288 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
292 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
293 bits (Stephen Watson).
297 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
301 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
305 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
306 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
310 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
314 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
315 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
320 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
321 forward them explicitly.
325 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
326 help from Götz Waschk).
330 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
331 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
332 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
336 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
340 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
344 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
348 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
349 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
351 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
353 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
357 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
359 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
361 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
365 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
366 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
367 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
368 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
372 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
376 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
380 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
384 Minor updates to the manual.
385 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
386 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
390 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
391 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
393 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
395 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
396 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
400 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
401 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
402 reduce flickering effect.
406 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
410 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
412 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
416 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
417 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
418 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
419 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
420 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
424 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
425 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
429 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
433 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
438 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
439 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
443 Winking now works in List view.
447 Lasso selections now work in List view.
451 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
452 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
456 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
457 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
459 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
461 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
465 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
469 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
470 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
472 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
476 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
477 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
481 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
483 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
487 Centre the image for iconified windows.
488 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
492 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
494 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
498 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
502 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
503 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
508 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
509 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
511 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
513 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
515 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
519 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
523 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
524 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
528 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
533 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
534 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
538 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
540 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
542 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
543 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
548 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
552 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
553 (suggested by Michael Adams).
554 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
555 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
556 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
557 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
558 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
560 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
564 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
569 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
570 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
574 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
575 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
576 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
577 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
582 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
583 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
584 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
585 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
586 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
587 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
588 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
589 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
590 talent can do something better?
591 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
592 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
596 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
597 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
598 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
603 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
605 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
606 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
607 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
608 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
609 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
610 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
611 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
612 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
613 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
614 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
615 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
616 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
617 label wasn't hidden / shown.
621 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
622 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
623 allow fine repositioning.
624 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
625 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
626 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
627 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
629 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
630 changing the aspect ratio.
634 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
638 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
642 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
643 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
644 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
648 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
652 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
657 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
658 make sharing icons easier.
659 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
663 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
664 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
668 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
672 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
674 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
678 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
683 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
688 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
689 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
691 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
692 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
693 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
694 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
698 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
699 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
703 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
707 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
709 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
714 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
715 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
717 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
721 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
722 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
724 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
726 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
730 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
731 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
736 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
740 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
741 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
742 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
746 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
747 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
751 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
755 Preserve selection when changing view type.
756 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
760 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
761 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
762 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
766 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
770 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
771 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
772 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
773 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
775 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
776 the information in the tooltips anyway.
780 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
781 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
785 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
790 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
791 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
795 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
799 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
800 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
801 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
802 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
807 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
808 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
809 Always use case-insensitive sort.
813 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
817 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
818 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
822 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
823 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
824 since it didn't include the contents.
825 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
826 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
830 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
834 Style improvements to options window.
838 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
842 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
844 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
846 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
851 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
852 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
853 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
854 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
858 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
862 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
866 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
867 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
871 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
873 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
878 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
882 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
883 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
884 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
889 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
893 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
897 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
901 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
905 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
906 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
907 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
911 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
912 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
916 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
917 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
922 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
926 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
930 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
935 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
936 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
940 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
941 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
946 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
947 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
951 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
952 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
953 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
957 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
961 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
962 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
963 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
964 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
965 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
969 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
970 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
974 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
975 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
979 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
983 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
984 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
985 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
986 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
987 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
988 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
992 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
993 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
994 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
998 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
999 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1004 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1008 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1010 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1012 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1017 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1021 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1025 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1026 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1031 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1035 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1039 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1040 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1041 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1045 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1049 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1054 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1058 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1059 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1060 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1061 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1065 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1069 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1070 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1074 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1075 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1076 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1080 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1084 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1088 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1089 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1090 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1091 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1092 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1093 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1097 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1098 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1102 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1103 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1104 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1108 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1109 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1113 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1117 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1118 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1119 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1120 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1122 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1124 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1128 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1129 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1130 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1134 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1138 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1139 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1144 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1148 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1152 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1153 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1157 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1158 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1159 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1163 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1164 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1168 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1169 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1173 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1174 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1178 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1182 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1183 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1187 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1189 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1191 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1195 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1199 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1200 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1204 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1208 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1212 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1213 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1214 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1215 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1216 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1217 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1221 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1225 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1227 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1228 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1232 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1233 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1237 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1241 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1242 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1243 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1244 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1246 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1248 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1252 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1253 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1257 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1258 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1259 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1263 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1264 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1265 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1266 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1267 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1268 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1269 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1273 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1274 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1278 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1282 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1286 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1291 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1295 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1296 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1297 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1301 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1302 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1303 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1307 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1308 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1309 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1313 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1314 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1318 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1323 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1324 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1325 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1326 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1327 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1329 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1330 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1334 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1338 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1339 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1340 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1341 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1345 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1346 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1347 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1348 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1349 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1350 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1354 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1358 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1359 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1363 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1364 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1365 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1366 restart (Olli Helenius).
1370 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1374 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1375 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1376 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1381 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1386 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1387 Small and Large sizes.
1391 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1395 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1396 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1400 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1401 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1402 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1403 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1407 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1408 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1409 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1414 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1419 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1420 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1424 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1425 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1430 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1432 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1434 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1438 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1442 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1444 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1446 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1450 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1452 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1453 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1457 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1458 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1462 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1463 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1467 Various speed improvements.
1468 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1472 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1473 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1477 Slight speed increase when starting.
1481 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1485 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1486 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1487 button is no longer supported.
1491 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1495 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1499 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1504 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1505 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1509 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1510 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1511 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1515 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1516 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1517 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1518 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1522 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1523 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1524 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1526 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1531 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1532 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1537 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1541 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1542 and converted to new dialog style.
1546 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1547 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1551 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1552 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1556 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1560 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1562 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1566 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1570 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1571 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1572 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1576 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1577 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1581 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1586 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1590 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1591 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1595 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1596 and Cancel is now Revert.
1597 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1598 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1602 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1606 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1607 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1609 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1610 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1611 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1612 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1616 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1618 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1619 labels display them.
1620 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1623 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1627 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1629 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1633 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1634 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1635 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1639 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1640 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1642 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1644 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1648 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1649 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1653 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1654 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1655 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1656 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1660 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1664 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1665 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1669 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1670 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1675 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1676 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1680 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1681 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1682 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1686 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1687 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1691 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1692 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1693 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1694 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1696 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1701 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1702 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1704 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1706 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1710 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1711 any image (saves time).
1712 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1713 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1714 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1715 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1717 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1718 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1722 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1723 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1725 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1726 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1728 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1733 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1734 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1735 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1736 has stopped accepting STRING.
1740 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1741 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1745 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1750 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1751 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1753 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1754 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1755 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1759 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1760 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1761 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1762 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1763 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1764 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1768 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1769 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1770 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1771 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1772 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1773 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1778 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1779 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1780 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1781 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1786 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1787 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1791 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1792 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1794 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1796 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1797 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1798 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1802 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1803 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1804 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1808 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1809 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1813 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1814 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1818 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1820 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1825 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1826 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1830 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1831 their menus correctly.
1832 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1837 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1838 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1839 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1843 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1844 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1848 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1852 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1855 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1857 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1858 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1859 the toggle menu items from working!
1863 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1865 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1871 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1872 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1876 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1877 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1878 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1879 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1880 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1881 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1885 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1889 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1890 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1894 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1895 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1896 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1900 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1901 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1906 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1908 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1912 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1913 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1914 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1915 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1919 Improved error reporting.
1920 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1924 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1925 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1926 check box and does 'Yes'.
1930 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1931 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1932 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1933 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1938 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1940 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1941 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1943 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1945 Internal changes to options system:
1946 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1947 filer is fully initialised).
1948 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1950 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1952 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1953 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1954 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1955 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1959 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1960 now reclaims the selection.
1961 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1962 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1967 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1968 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1969 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1970 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1971 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1975 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1976 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1978 Code tidying in various places.
1982 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1983 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1988 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1989 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1993 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1994 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1995 edit the file, not the file itself!
1996 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2000 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2001 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2002 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2003 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2004 of the SOAP working draft.
2005 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2006 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2007 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2012 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2013 it was in the displayed area before.
2015 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2018 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2019 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2023 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2024 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2025 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2027 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2028 selection (Andras Mohari).
2032 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2036 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2040 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2041 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2042 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2046 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2050 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2052 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2053 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2054 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2058 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2059 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2064 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2065 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2066 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2070 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2074 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2078 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2079 replaced by a Restart button.
2083 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2084 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2088 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2092 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2096 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2097 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2098 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2102 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2103 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2105 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2106 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2107 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2111 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2112 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2117 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2119 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2120 (requested by Graham Borland).
2121 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2122 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2123 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2127 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2128 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2129 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2130 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2134 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2135 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2136 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2137 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2138 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2139 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2140 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2141 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2142 - Lots of code tidying.
2147 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2148 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2152 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2154 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2156 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2160 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2161 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2165 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2166 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2170 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2171 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2175 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2176 option to access it directly.
2180 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2181 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2182 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2186 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2187 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2188 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2189 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2190 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2191 when the filer is run.
2195 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2196 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2197 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2202 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2206 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2207 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2211 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2213 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2217 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2221 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2222 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2223 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2228 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2229 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2230 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2231 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2232 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2233 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2234 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2238 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2242 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2243 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2247 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2248 of possible actions (Taras).
2249 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2251 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2252 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2256 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2261 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2265 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2268 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2269 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2273 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2274 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2276 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2278 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2279 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2280 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2281 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2285 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2289 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2293 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2297 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2302 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2303 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2304 the first one found.
2305 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2309 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2313 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2314 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2315 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2319 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2320 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2321 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2326 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2327 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2328 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2332 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2334 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2339 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2344 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2348 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2349 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2353 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2355 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2356 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2360 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2364 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2365 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2369 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2370 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2374 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2375 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2377 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2379 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2383 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2387 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2388 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2392 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2396 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2401 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2402 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2406 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2410 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2414 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2416 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2417 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2421 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2422 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2426 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2427 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2428 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2432 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2433 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2437 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2438 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2440 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2442 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2446 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2447 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2448 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2450 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2451 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2453 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2455 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2456 and the default size with no details.
2460 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2461 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2465 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2470 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2475 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2479 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2484 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2485 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2489 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2493 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2494 the button to run it does.
2495 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2496 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2497 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2501 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2502 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2503 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2507 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2511 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2512 and panels into icon.c.
2516 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2517 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2518 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2519 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2523 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2525 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2527 Updated the documentation.
2531 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2532 up if they're too small.
2536 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2538 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2539 (Christopher Arndt).
2540 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2545 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2546 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2550 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2551 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2555 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2556 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2557 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2562 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2567 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2571 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2572 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2577 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2582 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2583 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2587 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2588 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2592 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2596 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2600 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2604 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2605 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2608 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2609 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2614 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2615 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2616 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2617 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2622 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2623 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2625 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2627 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2628 for non-applications.
2632 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2633 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2638 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2642 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2643 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2645 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2649 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2650 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2654 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2655 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2659 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2660 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2664 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2665 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2667 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2668 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2672 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2673 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2675 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2679 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2680 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2683 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2687 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2688 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2692 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2696 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2697 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2700 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2701 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2705 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2709 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2714 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2718 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2719 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2724 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2729 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2733 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2735 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2737 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2738 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2740 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2742 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2743 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2747 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2748 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2749 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2751 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2752 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2756 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2760 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2761 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2765 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2769 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2770 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2772 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2775 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2776 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2777 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2781 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2782 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2787 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2792 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2794 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2797 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2799 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2800 sensible shape itself now.
2802 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2803 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2804 file at all, just a reused inode!
2805 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2806 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2807 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2811 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2815 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2816 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2821 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2822 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2826 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2830 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2831 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2835 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2840 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2844 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2845 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2849 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2850 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2851 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2852 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2853 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2857 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2858 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2859 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2860 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2861 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2865 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2866 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2867 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2871 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2873 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2874 python's portable system.
2875 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2876 set the LANG variable.
2880 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2881 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2883 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2885 Made a few updates to the manual.
2889 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2890 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2892 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2894 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2895 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2899 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2900 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2904 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2905 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2910 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2911 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2912 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2916 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2917 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2921 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2922 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2926 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2927 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2929 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2930 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2931 open... (Denis Manente).
2935 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2939 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2941 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2942 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2943 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2945 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2947 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2949 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2950 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2955 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2956 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2957 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2961 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2962 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2966 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2970 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2974 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2975 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2976 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2980 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2981 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2982 between pinboards...
2984 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2985 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2986 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2990 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2993 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2994 window (Denis Manente).
2996 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2997 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3001 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3002 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3003 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3007 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3010 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3011 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3013 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3018 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3019 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3021 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3025 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3026 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3028 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3030 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3035 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3036 the icon points to as well as its name.
3038 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3039 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3043 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3044 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3045 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3046 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3050 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3054 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3055 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3056 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3060 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3061 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3063 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3064 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3067 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3068 the item after the drag.
3070 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3071 showing where the file really is.
3075 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3076 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3081 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3082 warning is displayed if so.
3084 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3088 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3089 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3090 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3091 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3094 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3095 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3096 works like the panels.
3100 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3101 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3102 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3103 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3104 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3108 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3109 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3110 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3111 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3113 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3118 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3122 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3123 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3126 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3127 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3129 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3132 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3133 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3134 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3135 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3137 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3139 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3140 slightly. Updated the manual.
3142 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3143 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3146 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3147 or bottom panel to make room.
3151 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3156 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3157 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3158 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3159 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3160 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3164 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3166 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3167 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3169 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3173 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3174 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3178 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3182 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3184 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3189 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3190 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3192 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3196 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3197 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3198 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3202 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3203 rewriting the panel system.
3207 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3210 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3211 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3215 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3216 (suggested by James Kermode).
3220 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3221 than as a full path.
3223 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3225 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3226 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3227 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3231 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3232 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3236 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3237 rename something onto another filesystem.
3241 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3243 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3244 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3248 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3252 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3255 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3256 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3258 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3261 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3266 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3267 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3268 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3270 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3271 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3273 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3274 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3279 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3280 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3285 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3286 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3287 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3289 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3290 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3291 of the 'missing image' image.
3295 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3297 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3299 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3304 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3305 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3306 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3307 its name into another program.
3309 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3313 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3315 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3316 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3317 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3319 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3320 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3321 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3324 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3325 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3329 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3330 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3331 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3335 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3336 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3337 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3341 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3342 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3343 and position the icons directly.
3347 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3352 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3353 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3354 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3358 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3362 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3363 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3367 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3372 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3376 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3377 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3378 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3379 some versions of GTK+.
3383 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3388 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3389 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3390 from a sub-sub-menu.
3392 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3393 drawn on a log scale.
3397 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3398 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3399 happy with the UI yet though...
3401 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3402 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3403 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3407 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3408 by Stephen Harrison).
3410 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3412 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3413 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3414 standard types are in Choices.
3415 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3417 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3418 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3419 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3424 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3425 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3426 shell command minibuffer.
3430 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3431 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3432 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3433 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3434 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3436 Default search path for Choices is now:
3437 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3439 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3440 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3441 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3445 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3446 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3450 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3451 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3452 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3457 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3458 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3459 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3462 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3464 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3465 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3466 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3468 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3469 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3473 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3474 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3475 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3476 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3481 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3482 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3483 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3485 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3487 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3488 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3492 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3493 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3494 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3499 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3500 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3503 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3505 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3510 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3515 Added GNU gettext support.
3516 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3520 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3522 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3524 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3529 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3533 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3534 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3536 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3537 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3542 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3543 onto the directory and winks the file.
3547 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3548 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3549 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3551 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3552 instead of random values.
3553 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3555 Applied Bernard's patch:
3556 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3557 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3558 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3559 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3560 it the RISC OS way...
3561 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3562 alignment corrected.
3563 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3568 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3572 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3573 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3577 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3578 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3579 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3580 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3581 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3582 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3583 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3584 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3585 in the file(1) says... box).
3588 Before the Changes file
3589 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3590 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3592 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3593 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3594 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3595 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3596 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD