2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
9 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
11 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
12 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
16 Added Japanese translation (UTUMI Hirosi).
17 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
18 reduce flickering effect.
22 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
26 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
28 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
32 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
33 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
34 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
35 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
36 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
40 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
41 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
45 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
49 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
54 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
55 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
59 Winking now works in List view.
63 Lasso selections now work in List view.
67 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
68 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
72 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
73 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
75 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
77 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
81 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
85 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
86 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
88 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
92 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
93 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
97 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
99 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
103 Centre the image for iconified windows.
104 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
108 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
110 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
114 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
118 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
119 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
124 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
125 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
127 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
129 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
131 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
135 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
139 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
140 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
144 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
149 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
150 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
154 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
156 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
158 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
159 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
164 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
168 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
169 (suggested by Michael Adams).
170 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
171 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
172 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
173 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
174 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
176 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
180 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
185 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
186 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
190 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
191 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
192 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
193 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
198 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
199 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
200 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
201 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
202 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
203 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
204 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
205 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
206 talent can do something better?
207 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
208 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
212 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
213 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
214 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
219 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
221 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
222 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
223 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
224 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
225 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
226 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
227 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
228 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
229 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
230 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
231 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
232 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
233 label wasn't hidden / shown.
237 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
238 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
239 allow fine repositioning.
240 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
241 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
242 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
243 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
245 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
246 changing the aspect ratio.
250 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
254 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
258 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
259 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
260 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
264 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
268 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
273 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
274 make sharing icons easier.
275 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
279 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
280 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
284 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
288 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
290 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
294 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
299 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
304 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
305 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
307 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
308 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
309 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
310 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
314 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
315 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
319 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
323 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
325 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
330 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
331 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
333 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
337 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
338 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
340 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
342 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
346 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
347 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
352 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
356 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
357 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
358 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
362 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
363 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
367 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
371 Preserve selection when changing view type.
372 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
376 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
377 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
378 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
382 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
386 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
387 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
388 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
389 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
391 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
392 the information in the tooltips anyway.
396 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
397 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
401 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
406 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
407 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
411 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
415 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
416 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
417 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
418 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
423 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
424 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
425 Always use case-insensitive sort.
429 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
433 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
434 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
438 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
439 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
440 since it didn't include the contents.
441 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
442 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
446 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
450 Style improvements to options window.
454 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
458 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
460 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
462 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
467 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
468 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
469 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
470 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
474 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
478 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
482 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
483 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
487 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
489 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
494 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
498 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
499 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
500 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
505 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
509 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
513 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
517 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
521 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
522 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
523 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
527 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
528 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
532 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
533 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
538 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
542 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
546 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
551 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
552 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
556 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
557 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
562 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
563 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
567 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
568 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
569 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
573 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
577 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
578 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
579 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
580 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
581 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
585 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
586 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
590 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
591 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
595 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
599 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
600 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
601 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
602 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
603 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
604 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
608 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
609 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
610 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
614 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
615 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
620 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
624 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
626 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
628 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
633 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
637 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
641 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
642 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
647 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
651 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
655 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
656 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
657 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
661 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
665 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
670 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
674 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
675 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
676 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
677 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
681 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
685 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
686 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
690 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
691 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
692 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
696 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
700 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
704 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
705 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
706 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
707 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
708 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
709 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
713 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
714 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
718 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
719 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
720 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
724 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
725 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
729 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
733 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
734 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
735 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
736 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
738 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
740 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
744 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
745 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
746 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
750 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
754 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
755 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
760 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
764 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
768 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
769 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
773 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
774 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
775 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
779 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
780 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
784 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
785 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
789 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
790 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
794 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
798 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
799 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
803 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
805 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
807 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
811 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
815 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
816 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
820 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
824 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
828 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
829 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
830 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
831 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
832 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
833 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
837 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
841 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
843 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
844 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
848 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
849 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
853 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
857 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
858 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
859 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
860 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
862 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
864 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
868 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
869 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
873 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
874 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
875 disappeared at the wrong moment.
879 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
880 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
881 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
882 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
883 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
884 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
885 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
889 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
890 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
894 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
898 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
902 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
907 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
911 Options to set iconification layout policy.
912 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
913 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
917 Pinboard background colour option works again.
918 Position iconified windows sensibly.
919 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
923 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
924 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
925 (requested by Ryan Harris).
929 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
930 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
934 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
939 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
940 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
941 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
942 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
943 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
945 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
946 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
950 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
954 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
955 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
956 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
957 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
961 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
962 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
963 Many improvements to the pinboard:
964 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
965 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
966 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
970 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
974 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
975 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
979 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
980 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
981 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
982 restart (Olli Helenius).
986 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
990 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
991 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
992 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
997 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1002 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1003 Small and Large sizes.
1007 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1011 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1012 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1016 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1017 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1018 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1019 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1023 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1024 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1025 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1030 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1035 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1036 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1040 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1041 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1046 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1048 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1050 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1054 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1058 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1060 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1062 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1066 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1068 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1069 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1073 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1074 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1078 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1079 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1083 Various speed improvements.
1084 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1088 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1089 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1093 Slight speed increase when starting.
1097 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1101 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1102 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1103 button is no longer supported.
1107 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1111 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1115 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1120 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1121 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1125 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1126 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1127 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1131 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1132 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1133 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1134 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1138 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1139 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1140 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1142 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1147 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1148 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1153 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1157 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1158 and converted to new dialog style.
1162 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1163 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1167 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1168 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1172 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1176 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1178 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1182 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1186 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1187 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1188 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1192 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1193 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1197 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1202 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1206 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1207 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1211 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1212 and Cancel is now Revert.
1213 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1214 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1218 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1222 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1223 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1225 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1226 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1227 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1228 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1232 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1234 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1235 labels display them.
1236 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1239 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1243 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1245 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1249 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1250 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1251 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1255 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1256 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1258 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1260 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1264 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1265 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1269 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1270 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1271 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1272 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1276 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1280 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1281 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1285 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1286 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1291 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1292 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1296 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1297 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1298 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1302 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1303 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1307 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1308 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1309 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1310 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1312 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1317 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1318 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1320 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1322 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1326 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1327 any image (saves time).
1328 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1329 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1330 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1331 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1333 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1334 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1338 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1339 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1341 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1342 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1344 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1349 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1350 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1351 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1352 has stopped accepting STRING.
1356 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1357 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1361 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1366 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1367 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1369 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1370 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1371 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1375 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1376 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1377 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1378 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1379 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1380 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1384 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1385 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1386 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1387 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1388 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1389 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1394 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1395 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1396 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1397 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1402 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1403 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1407 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1408 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1410 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1412 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1413 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1414 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1418 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1419 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1420 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1424 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1425 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1429 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1430 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1434 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1436 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1441 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1442 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1446 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1447 their menus correctly.
1448 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1453 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1454 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1455 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1459 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1460 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1464 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1468 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1471 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1473 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1474 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1475 the toggle menu items from working!
1479 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1481 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1487 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1488 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1492 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1493 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1494 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1495 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1496 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1497 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1501 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1505 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1506 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1510 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1511 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1512 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1516 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1517 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1522 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1524 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1528 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1529 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1530 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1531 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1535 Improved error reporting.
1536 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1540 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1541 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1542 check box and does 'Yes'.
1546 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1547 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1548 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1549 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1554 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1556 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1557 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1559 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1561 Internal changes to options system:
1562 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1563 filer is fully initialised).
1564 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1566 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1568 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1569 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1570 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1571 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1575 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1576 now reclaims the selection.
1577 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1578 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1583 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1584 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1585 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1586 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1587 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1591 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1592 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1594 Code tidying in various places.
1598 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1599 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1604 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1605 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1609 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1610 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1611 edit the file, not the file itself!
1612 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1616 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1617 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1618 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1619 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1620 of the SOAP working draft.
1621 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1622 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1623 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1628 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1629 it was in the displayed area before.
1631 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1634 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1635 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1639 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1640 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1641 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1643 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1644 selection (Andras Mohari).
1648 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1652 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1656 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1657 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1658 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1662 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1666 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1668 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1669 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1670 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1674 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1675 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1680 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1681 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1682 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1686 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1690 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1694 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1695 replaced by a Restart button.
1699 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1700 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1704 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1708 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1712 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1713 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1714 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1718 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1719 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1721 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1722 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1723 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1727 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1728 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1733 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1735 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1736 (requested by Graham Borland).
1737 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1738 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1739 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1743 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1744 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1745 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1746 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1750 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1751 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1752 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1753 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1754 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1755 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1756 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1757 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1758 - Lots of code tidying.
1763 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1764 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1768 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1770 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1772 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1776 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1777 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1781 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1782 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1786 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1787 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1791 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1792 option to access it directly.
1796 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1797 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1798 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1802 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1803 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1804 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1805 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1806 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1807 when the filer is run.
1811 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1812 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1813 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1818 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1822 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1823 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1827 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1829 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1833 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1837 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1838 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1839 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1844 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1845 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1846 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1847 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1848 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1849 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1850 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1854 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1858 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1859 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1863 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1864 of possible actions (Taras).
1865 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1867 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1868 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1872 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1877 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1881 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1884 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1885 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1889 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1890 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1892 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1894 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1895 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1896 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1897 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1901 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1905 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1909 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1913 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1918 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1919 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1920 the first one found.
1921 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1925 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1929 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1930 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1931 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1935 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1936 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1937 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1942 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1943 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1944 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1948 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1950 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1955 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1960 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1964 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1965 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1969 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1971 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1972 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1976 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1980 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1981 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1985 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1986 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1990 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1991 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1993 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1995 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1999 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2003 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2004 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2008 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2012 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2017 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2018 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2022 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2026 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2030 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2032 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2033 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2037 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2038 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2042 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2043 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2044 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2048 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2049 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2053 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2054 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2056 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2058 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2062 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2063 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2064 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2066 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2067 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2069 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2071 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2072 and the default size with no details.
2076 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2077 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2081 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2086 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2091 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2095 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2100 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2101 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2105 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2109 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2110 the button to run it does.
2111 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2112 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2113 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2117 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2118 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2119 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2123 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2127 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2128 and panels into icon.c.
2132 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2133 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2134 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2135 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2139 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2141 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2143 Updated the documentation.
2147 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2148 up if they're too small.
2152 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2154 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2155 (Christopher Arndt).
2156 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2161 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2162 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2166 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2167 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2171 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2172 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2173 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2178 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2183 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2187 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2188 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2193 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2198 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2199 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2203 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2204 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2208 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2212 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2216 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2220 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2221 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2224 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2225 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2230 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2231 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2232 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2233 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2238 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2239 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2241 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2243 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2244 for non-applications.
2248 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2249 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2254 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2258 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2259 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2261 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2265 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2266 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2270 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2271 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2275 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2276 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2280 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2281 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2283 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2284 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2288 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2289 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2291 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2295 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2296 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2299 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2303 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2304 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2308 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2312 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2313 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2316 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2317 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2321 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2325 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2330 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2334 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2335 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2340 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2345 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2349 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2351 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2353 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2354 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2356 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2358 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2359 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2363 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2364 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2365 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2367 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2368 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2372 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2376 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2377 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2381 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2385 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2386 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2388 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2391 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2392 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2393 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2397 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2398 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2403 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2408 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2410 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2413 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2415 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2416 sensible shape itself now.
2418 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2419 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2420 file at all, just a reused inode!
2421 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2422 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2423 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2427 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2431 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2432 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2437 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2438 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2442 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2446 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2447 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2451 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2456 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2460 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2461 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2465 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2466 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2467 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2468 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2469 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2473 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2474 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2475 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2476 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2477 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2481 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2482 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2483 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2487 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2489 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2490 python's portable system.
2491 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2492 set the LANG variable.
2496 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2497 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2499 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2501 Made a few updates to the manual.
2505 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2506 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2508 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2510 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2511 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2515 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2516 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2520 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2521 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2526 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2527 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2528 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2532 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2533 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2537 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2538 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2542 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2543 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2545 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2546 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2547 open... (Denis Manente).
2551 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2555 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2557 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2558 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2559 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2561 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2563 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2565 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2566 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2571 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2572 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2573 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2577 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2578 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2582 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2586 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2590 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2591 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2592 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2596 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2597 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2598 between pinboards...
2600 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2601 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2602 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2606 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2609 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2610 window (Denis Manente).
2612 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2613 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2617 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2618 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2619 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2623 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2626 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2627 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2629 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2634 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2635 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2637 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2641 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2642 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2644 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2646 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2651 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2652 the icon points to as well as its name.
2654 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2655 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2659 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2660 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2661 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2662 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2666 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2670 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2671 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2672 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2676 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2677 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2679 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2680 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2683 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2684 the item after the drag.
2686 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2687 showing where the file really is.
2691 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2692 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2697 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2698 warning is displayed if so.
2700 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2704 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2705 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2706 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2707 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2710 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2711 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2712 works like the panels.
2716 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2717 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2718 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2719 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2720 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2724 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2725 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2726 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2727 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2729 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2734 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2738 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2739 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2742 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2743 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2745 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2748 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2749 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2750 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2751 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2753 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2755 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2756 slightly. Updated the manual.
2758 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2759 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2762 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2763 or bottom panel to make room.
2767 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2772 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2773 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2774 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2775 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2776 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2780 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2782 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2783 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2785 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2789 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2790 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2794 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2798 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2800 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2805 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2806 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2808 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2812 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2813 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2814 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2818 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2819 rewriting the panel system.
2823 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2826 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2827 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2831 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2832 (suggested by James Kermode).
2836 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2837 than as a full path.
2839 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2841 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2842 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2843 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2847 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2848 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2852 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2853 rename something onto another filesystem.
2857 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2859 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2860 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2864 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2868 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2871 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2872 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2874 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2877 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2882 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2883 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2884 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2886 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2887 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2889 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2890 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2895 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2896 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2901 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2902 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2903 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2905 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2906 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2907 of the 'missing image' image.
2911 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2913 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2915 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2920 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2921 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2922 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2923 its name into another program.
2925 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2929 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2931 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2932 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2933 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2935 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2936 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2937 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2940 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2941 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2945 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2946 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2947 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2951 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2952 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2953 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2957 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2958 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2959 and position the icons directly.
2963 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2968 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2969 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2970 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2974 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2978 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2979 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2983 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2988 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2992 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2993 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2994 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2995 some versions of GTK+.
2999 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3004 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3005 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3006 from a sub-sub-menu.
3008 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3009 drawn on a log scale.
3013 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3014 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3015 happy with the UI yet though...
3017 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3018 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3019 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3023 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3024 by Stephen Harrison).
3026 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3028 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3029 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3030 standard types are in Choices.
3031 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3033 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3034 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3035 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3040 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3041 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3042 shell command minibuffer.
3046 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3047 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3048 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3049 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3050 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3052 Default search path for Choices is now:
3053 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3055 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3056 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3057 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3061 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3062 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3066 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3067 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3068 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3073 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3074 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3075 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3078 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3080 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3081 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3082 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3084 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3085 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3089 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3090 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3091 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3092 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3097 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3098 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3099 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3101 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3103 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3104 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3108 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3109 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3110 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3115 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3116 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3119 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3121 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3126 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3131 Added GNU gettext support.
3132 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3136 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3138 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3140 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3145 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3149 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3150 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3152 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3153 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3158 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3159 onto the directory and winks the file.
3163 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3164 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3165 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3167 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3168 instead of random values.
3169 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3171 Applied Bernard's patch:
3172 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3173 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3174 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3175 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3176 it the RISC OS way...
3177 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3178 alignment corrected.
3179 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3184 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3188 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3189 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3193 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3194 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3195 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3196 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3197 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3198 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3199 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3200 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3201 in the file(1) says... box).
3204 Before the Changes file
3205 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3206 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3208 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3209 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3210 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3211 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3212 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD