2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
6 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
7 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
11 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
15 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
16 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
18 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
19 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
20 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
24 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
29 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
33 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
34 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
38 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
42 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
43 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
44 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
48 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
52 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
53 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
57 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
58 manually (Thomas Leonard).
62 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
63 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
64 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
69 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
70 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
74 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
75 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
76 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
77 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
81 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
82 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
83 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
87 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
91 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
95 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
96 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
100 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
101 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
102 reported by Tristan McLeay).
106 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
107 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
109 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
113 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
114 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
115 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
116 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
120 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
121 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
123 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
125 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
130 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
131 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
132 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
133 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
134 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
139 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
144 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
148 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
149 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
151 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
152 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
153 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
154 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
158 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
159 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
160 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
165 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
167 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
172 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
176 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
177 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
181 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
182 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
183 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
187 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
191 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
192 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
193 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
194 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
195 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
199 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
200 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
201 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
203 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
204 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
205 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
206 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
207 though they may be valid UTF-8.
208 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
210 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
211 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
212 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
213 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
214 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
220 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
221 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
223 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
224 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
229 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
230 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
234 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
235 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
240 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
241 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
242 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
243 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
244 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
245 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
247 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
249 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
250 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
251 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
255 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
256 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
260 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
261 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
265 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
266 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
267 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
268 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
272 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
276 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
277 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
281 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
283 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
284 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
285 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
290 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
291 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
292 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
293 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
297 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
299 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
300 function address (Tony Houghton).
304 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
305 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
310 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
314 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
315 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
319 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
320 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
321 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
325 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
329 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
330 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
331 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
332 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
333 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
338 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
343 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
347 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
348 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
352 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
353 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
357 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
361 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
362 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
364 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
368 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
369 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
373 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
374 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
375 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
377 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
379 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
384 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
385 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
389 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
394 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
398 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
399 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
400 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
401 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
403 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
408 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
409 the old one (Stephen Watson).
410 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
411 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
412 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
416 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
421 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
423 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
425 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
426 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
430 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
431 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
433 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
435 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
436 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
437 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
438 reported by Lewis Denizen).
442 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
446 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
447 the binary (Stephen Watson).
451 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
455 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
456 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
457 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
461 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
464 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
466 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
467 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
468 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
469 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
470 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
474 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
478 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
479 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
483 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
487 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
488 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
489 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
491 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
492 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
494 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
495 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
496 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
497 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
501 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
502 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
506 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
507 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
508 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
509 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
514 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
515 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
519 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
520 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
521 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
525 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
526 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
527 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
531 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
535 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
536 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
540 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
541 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
545 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
549 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
550 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
555 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
556 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
560 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
564 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
565 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
566 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
567 when changing to a parent directory.
568 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
572 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
576 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
580 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
582 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
584 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
588 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
590 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
594 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
596 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
600 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
604 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
605 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
606 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
607 reported by Anthony DiSante).
611 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
615 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
619 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
620 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
621 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
622 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
623 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
627 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
628 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
632 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
633 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
638 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
639 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
644 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
645 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
649 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
650 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
654 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
655 (reported by Tony Houghton).
659 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
661 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
662 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
666 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
667 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
671 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
675 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
679 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
683 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
684 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
685 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
689 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
693 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
698 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
702 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
704 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
706 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
710 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
711 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
712 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
714 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
718 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
719 print a warning and then crash.
723 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
724 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
725 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
730 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
734 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
739 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
743 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
747 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
749 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
754 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
755 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
756 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
761 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
762 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
767 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
769 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
770 anyway, and noone had complained).
771 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
772 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
776 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
777 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
778 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
782 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
786 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
787 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
791 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
792 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
793 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
797 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
798 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
799 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
801 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
802 by Simon Templer and others).
806 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
807 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
808 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
812 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
816 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
820 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
821 version number again (Stephen Watson).
825 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
826 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
830 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
834 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
835 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
836 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
837 anyway (Stephen Watson).
841 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
845 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
849 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
851 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
853 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
857 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
858 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
859 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
863 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
864 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
869 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
870 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
871 impossible to change shortcuts.
872 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
873 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
877 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
878 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
883 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
884 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
885 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
889 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
890 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
891 to the functions being missing.
895 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
899 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
903 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
907 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
911 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
912 worries people for no reason.
916 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
920 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
921 files selected (Peter Geer).
925 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
926 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
930 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
934 Added 'Select by Name'.
938 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
942 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
947 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
951 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
953 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
955 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
956 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
960 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
964 Misc changes for next release.
968 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
969 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
973 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
974 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
975 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
976 Watson, reported on #rox).
980 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
981 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
985 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
986 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
990 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
991 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
995 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
996 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1001 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1005 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1007 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1012 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1016 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1017 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1021 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1022 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1026 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1030 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1035 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1036 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1037 for the same reason.
1038 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1039 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1043 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1044 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1048 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1053 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1054 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1058 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1059 support not being detected (igla).
1063 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1067 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1068 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1072 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1076 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1077 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1078 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1079 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1082 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1084 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1085 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1089 New icon for selection ops.
1093 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1097 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1101 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1105 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1106 Added icon theme selector.
1110 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1114 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1118 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1119 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1123 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1124 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1125 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1129 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1130 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1134 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1138 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1139 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1140 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1144 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1148 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1149 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1154 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1155 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1159 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1160 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1164 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1165 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1169 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1173 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1174 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1175 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1179 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1183 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1184 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1185 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1186 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1190 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1191 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1193 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1197 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1201 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1202 bits (Stephen Watson).
1206 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1210 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1214 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1215 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1219 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1223 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1224 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1229 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1230 forward them explicitly.
1234 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1235 help from Götz Waschk).
1239 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1240 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1241 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1245 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1249 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1253 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1257 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1258 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1260 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1262 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1266 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1268 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1270 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1274 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1275 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1276 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1277 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1281 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1285 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1289 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1293 Minor updates to the manual.
1294 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1295 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1299 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1300 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1302 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1304 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1305 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1309 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1310 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1311 reduce flickering effect.
1315 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1319 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1321 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1325 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1326 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1327 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1328 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1329 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1333 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1334 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1338 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1342 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1347 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1348 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1352 Winking now works in List view.
1356 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1360 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1361 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1365 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1366 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1368 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1370 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1374 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1378 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1379 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1381 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1385 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1386 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1390 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1392 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1396 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1397 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1401 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1403 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1407 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1411 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1412 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1417 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1418 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1420 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1422 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1424 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1428 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1432 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1433 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1437 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1442 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1443 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1447 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1449 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1451 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1452 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1457 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1461 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1462 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1463 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1464 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1465 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1466 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1467 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1469 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1473 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1478 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1479 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1483 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1484 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1485 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1486 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1491 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1492 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1493 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1494 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1495 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1496 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1497 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1498 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1499 talent can do something better?
1500 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1501 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1505 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1506 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1507 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1512 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1514 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1515 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1516 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1517 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1518 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1519 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1520 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1521 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1522 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1523 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1524 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1525 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1526 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1530 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1531 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1532 allow fine repositioning.
1533 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1534 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1535 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1536 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1538 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1539 changing the aspect ratio.
1543 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1547 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1551 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1552 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1553 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1557 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1561 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1566 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1567 make sharing icons easier.
1568 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1572 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1573 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1577 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1581 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1583 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1587 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1592 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1597 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1598 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1600 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1601 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1602 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1603 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1607 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1608 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1612 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1616 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1618 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1619 Brian Langenberger).
1623 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1624 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1626 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1630 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1631 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1633 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1635 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1639 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1640 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1645 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1649 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1650 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1651 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1655 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1656 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1660 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1664 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1665 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1669 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1670 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1671 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1675 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1679 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1680 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1681 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1682 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1684 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1685 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1689 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1690 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1694 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1699 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1700 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1704 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1708 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1709 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1710 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1711 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1716 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1717 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1718 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1722 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1726 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1727 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1731 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1732 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1733 since it didn't include the contents.
1734 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1735 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1739 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1743 Style improvements to options window.
1747 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1751 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1753 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1755 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1760 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1761 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1762 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1763 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1767 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1771 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1775 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1776 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1780 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1782 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1787 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1791 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1792 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1793 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1798 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1802 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1806 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1810 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1814 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1815 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1816 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1820 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1821 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1825 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1826 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1831 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1835 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1839 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1844 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1845 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1849 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1850 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1855 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1856 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1860 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1861 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1862 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1866 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1870 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1871 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1872 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1873 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1874 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1878 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1879 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1883 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1884 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1888 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1892 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1893 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1894 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1895 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1896 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1897 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1901 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1902 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1903 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1907 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1908 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1913 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1917 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1919 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1921 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1926 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1930 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1934 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1935 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1940 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1944 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1948 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1949 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1950 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1954 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1958 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1963 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1967 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1968 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1969 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1970 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1974 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1978 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1979 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1983 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1984 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1985 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1989 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1993 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1997 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1998 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1999 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2000 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2001 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2002 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2006 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2007 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2011 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2012 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2013 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2017 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2018 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2022 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2026 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2027 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2028 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2029 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2031 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2033 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2037 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2038 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2039 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2043 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2047 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2048 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2053 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2057 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2061 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2062 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2066 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2067 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2068 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2072 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2073 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2077 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2078 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2082 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2083 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2087 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2091 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2092 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2096 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2098 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2100 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2104 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2108 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2109 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2113 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2117 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2121 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2122 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2123 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2124 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2125 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2126 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2130 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2134 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2136 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2137 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2141 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2142 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2146 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2150 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2151 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2152 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2153 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2155 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2157 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2161 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2162 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2166 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2167 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2168 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2172 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2173 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2174 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2175 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2176 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2177 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2178 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2182 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2183 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2187 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2191 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2195 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2200 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2204 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2205 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2206 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2210 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2211 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2212 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2216 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2217 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2218 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2222 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2223 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2227 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2232 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2233 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2234 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2235 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2236 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2238 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2239 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2243 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2247 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2248 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2249 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2250 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2254 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2255 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2256 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2257 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2258 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2259 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2263 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2267 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2268 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2272 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2273 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2274 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2275 restart (Olli Helenius).
2279 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2283 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2284 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2285 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2290 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2295 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2296 Small and Large sizes.
2300 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2304 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2305 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2309 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2310 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2311 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2312 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2316 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2317 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2318 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2323 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2328 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2329 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2333 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2334 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2339 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2341 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2343 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2347 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2351 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2353 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2355 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2359 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2361 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2362 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2366 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2367 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2371 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2372 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2376 Various speed improvements.
2377 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2381 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2382 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2386 Slight speed increase when starting.
2390 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2394 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2395 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2396 button is no longer supported.
2400 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2404 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2408 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2413 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2414 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2418 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2419 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2420 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2424 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2425 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2426 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2427 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2431 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2432 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2433 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2435 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2440 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2441 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2446 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2450 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2451 and converted to new dialog style.
2455 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2456 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2460 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2461 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2465 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2469 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2471 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2475 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2479 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2480 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2481 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2485 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2486 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2490 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2495 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2499 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2500 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2504 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2505 and Cancel is now Revert.
2506 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2507 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2511 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2515 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2516 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2518 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2519 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2520 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2521 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2525 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2527 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2528 labels display them.
2529 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2532 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2536 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2538 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2542 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2543 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2544 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2548 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2549 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2551 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2553 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2557 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2558 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2562 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2563 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2564 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2565 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2569 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2573 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2574 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2578 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2579 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2584 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2585 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2589 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2590 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2591 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2595 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2596 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2600 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2601 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2602 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2603 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2605 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2610 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2611 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2613 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2615 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2619 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2620 any image (saves time).
2621 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2622 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2623 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2624 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2626 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2627 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2631 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2632 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2634 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2635 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2637 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2642 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2643 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2644 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2645 has stopped accepting STRING.
2649 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2650 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2654 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2659 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2660 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2662 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2663 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2664 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2668 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2669 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2670 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2671 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2672 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2673 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2677 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2678 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2679 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2680 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2681 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2682 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2687 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2688 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2689 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2690 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2695 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2696 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2700 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2701 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2703 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2705 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2706 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2707 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2711 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2712 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2713 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2717 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2718 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2722 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2723 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2727 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2729 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2734 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2735 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2739 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2740 their menus correctly.
2741 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2746 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2747 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2748 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2752 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2753 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2757 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2761 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2764 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2766 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2767 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2768 the toggle menu items from working!
2772 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2774 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2780 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2781 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2785 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2786 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2787 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2788 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2789 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2790 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2794 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2798 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2799 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2803 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2804 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2805 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2809 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2810 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2815 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2817 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2821 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2822 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2823 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2824 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2828 Improved error reporting.
2829 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2833 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2834 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2835 check box and does 'Yes'.
2839 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2840 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2841 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2842 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2847 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2849 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2850 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2852 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2854 Internal changes to options system:
2855 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2856 filer is fully initialised).
2857 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2859 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2861 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2862 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2863 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2864 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2868 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2869 now reclaims the selection.
2870 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2871 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2876 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2877 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2878 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2879 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2880 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2884 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2885 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2887 Code tidying in various places.
2891 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2892 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2897 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2898 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2902 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2903 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2904 edit the file, not the file itself!
2905 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2909 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2910 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2911 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2912 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2913 of the SOAP working draft.
2914 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2915 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2916 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2921 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2922 it was in the displayed area before.
2924 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2927 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2928 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2932 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2933 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2934 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2936 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2937 selection (Andras Mohari).
2941 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2945 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2949 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2950 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2951 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2955 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2959 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2961 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2962 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2963 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2967 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2968 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2973 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2974 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2975 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2979 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2983 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2987 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2988 replaced by a Restart button.
2992 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2993 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2997 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3001 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3005 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3006 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3007 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3011 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3012 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3014 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3015 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3016 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3020 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3021 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3026 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3028 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3029 (requested by Graham Borland).
3030 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3031 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3032 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3036 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3037 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3038 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3039 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3043 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3044 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3045 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3046 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3047 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3048 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3049 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3050 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3051 - Lots of code tidying.
3056 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3057 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3061 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3063 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3065 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3069 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3070 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3074 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3075 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3079 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3080 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3084 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3085 option to access it directly.
3089 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3090 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3091 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3095 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3096 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3097 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3098 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3099 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3100 when the filer is run.
3104 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3105 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3106 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3111 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3115 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3116 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3120 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3122 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3126 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3130 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3131 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3132 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3137 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3138 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3139 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3140 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3141 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3142 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3143 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3147 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3151 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3152 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3156 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3157 of possible actions (Taras).
3158 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3160 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3161 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3165 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3170 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3174 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3177 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3178 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3182 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3183 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3185 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3187 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3188 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3189 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3190 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3194 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3198 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3202 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3206 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3211 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3212 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3213 the first one found.
3214 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3218 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3222 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3223 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3224 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3228 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3229 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3230 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3235 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3236 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3237 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3241 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3243 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3248 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3253 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3257 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3258 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3262 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3264 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3265 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3269 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3273 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3274 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3278 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3279 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3283 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3284 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3286 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3288 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3292 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3296 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3297 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3301 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3305 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3310 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3311 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3315 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3319 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3323 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3325 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3326 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3330 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3331 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3335 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3336 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3337 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3341 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3342 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3346 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3347 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3349 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3351 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3355 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3356 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3357 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3359 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3360 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3362 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3364 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3365 and the default size with no details.
3369 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3370 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3374 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3379 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3384 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3388 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3393 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3394 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3398 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3402 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3403 the button to run it does.
3404 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3405 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3406 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3410 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3411 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3412 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3416 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3420 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3421 and panels into icon.c.
3425 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3426 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3427 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3428 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3432 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3434 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3436 Updated the documentation.
3440 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3441 up if they're too small.
3445 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3447 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3448 (Christopher Arndt).
3449 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3454 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3455 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3459 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3460 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3464 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3465 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3466 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3471 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3476 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3480 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3481 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3486 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3491 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3492 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3496 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3497 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3501 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3505 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3509 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3513 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3514 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3517 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3518 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3523 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3524 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3525 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3526 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3531 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3532 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3534 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3536 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3537 for non-applications.
3541 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3542 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3547 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3551 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3552 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3554 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3558 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3559 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3563 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3564 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3568 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3569 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3573 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3574 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3576 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3577 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3581 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3582 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3584 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3588 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3589 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3592 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3596 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3597 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3601 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3605 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3606 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3609 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3610 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3614 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3618 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3623 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3627 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3628 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3633 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3638 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3642 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3644 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3646 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3647 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3649 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3651 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3652 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3656 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3657 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3658 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3660 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3661 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3665 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3669 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3670 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3674 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3678 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3679 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3681 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3684 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3685 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3686 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3690 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3691 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3696 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3701 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3703 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3706 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3708 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3709 sensible shape itself now.
3711 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3712 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3713 file at all, just a reused inode!
3714 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3715 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3716 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3720 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3724 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3725 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3730 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3731 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3735 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3739 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3740 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3744 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3749 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3753 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3754 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3758 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3759 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3760 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3761 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3762 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3766 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3767 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3768 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3769 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3770 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3774 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3775 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3776 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3780 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3782 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3783 python's portable system.
3784 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3785 set the LANG variable.
3789 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3790 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3792 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3794 Made a few updates to the manual.
3798 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3799 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3801 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3803 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3804 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3808 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3809 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3813 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3814 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3819 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3820 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3821 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3825 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3826 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3830 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3831 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3835 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3836 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3838 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3839 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3840 open... (Denis Manente).
3844 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3848 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3850 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3851 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3852 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3854 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3856 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3858 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3859 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3864 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3865 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3866 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3870 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3871 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3875 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3879 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3883 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3884 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3885 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3889 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3890 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3891 between pinboards...
3893 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3894 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3895 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3899 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3902 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3903 window (Denis Manente).
3905 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3906 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3910 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3911 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3912 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3916 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3919 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3920 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3922 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3927 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3928 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3930 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3934 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3935 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3937 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3939 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3944 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3945 the icon points to as well as its name.
3947 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3948 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3952 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3953 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3954 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3955 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3959 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3963 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3964 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3965 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3969 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3970 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3972 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3973 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3976 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3977 the item after the drag.
3979 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3980 showing where the file really is.
3984 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3985 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3990 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3991 warning is displayed if so.
3993 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3997 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3998 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3999 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4000 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4003 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4004 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4005 works like the panels.
4009 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4010 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4011 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4012 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4013 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4017 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4018 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4019 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4020 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4022 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4027 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4031 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4032 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4035 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4036 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4038 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4041 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4042 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4043 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4044 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4046 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4048 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4049 slightly. Updated the manual.
4051 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4052 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4055 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4056 or bottom panel to make room.
4060 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4065 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4066 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4067 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4068 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4069 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4073 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4075 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4076 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4078 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4082 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4083 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4087 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4091 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4093 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4098 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4099 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4101 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4105 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4106 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4107 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4111 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4112 rewriting the panel system.
4116 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4119 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4120 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4124 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4125 (suggested by James Kermode).
4129 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4130 than as a full path.
4132 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4134 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4135 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4136 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4140 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4141 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4145 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4146 rename something onto another filesystem.
4150 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4152 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4153 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4157 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4161 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4164 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4165 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4167 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4170 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4175 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4176 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4177 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4179 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4180 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4182 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4183 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4188 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4189 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4194 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4195 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4196 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4198 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4199 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4200 of the 'missing image' image.
4204 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4206 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4208 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4213 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4214 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4215 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4216 its name into another program.
4218 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4222 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4224 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4225 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4226 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4228 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4229 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4230 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4233 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4234 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4238 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4239 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4240 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4244 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4245 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4246 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4250 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4251 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4252 and position the icons directly.
4256 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4261 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4262 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4263 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4267 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4271 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4272 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4276 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4281 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4285 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4286 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4287 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4288 some versions of GTK+.
4292 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4297 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4298 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4299 from a sub-sub-menu.
4301 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4302 drawn on a log scale.
4306 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4307 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4308 happy with the UI yet though...
4310 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4311 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4312 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4316 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4317 by Stephen Harrison).
4319 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4321 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4322 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4323 standard types are in Choices.
4324 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4326 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4327 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4328 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4333 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4334 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4335 shell command minibuffer.
4339 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4340 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4341 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4342 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4343 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4345 Default search path for Choices is now:
4346 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4348 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4349 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4350 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4354 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4355 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4359 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4360 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4361 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4366 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4367 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4368 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4371 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4373 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4374 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4375 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4377 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4378 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4382 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4383 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4384 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4385 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4390 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4391 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4392 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4394 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4396 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4397 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4401 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4402 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4403 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4408 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4409 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4412 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4414 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4419 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4424 Added GNU gettext support.
4425 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4429 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4431 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4433 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4438 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4442 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4443 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4445 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4446 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4451 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4452 onto the directory and winks the file.
4456 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4457 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4458 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4460 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4461 instead of random values.
4462 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4464 Applied Bernard's patch:
4465 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4466 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4467 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4468 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4469 it the RISC OS way...
4470 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4471 alignment corrected.
4472 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4477 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4481 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4482 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4486 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4487 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4488 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4489 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4490 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4491 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4492 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4493 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4494 in the file(1) says... box).
4497 Before the Changes file
4498 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4499 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4501 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4502 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4503 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4504 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4505 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD