2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
8 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
12 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
16 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
21 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
25 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
26 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
27 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
28 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
32 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
36 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
37 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
41 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
42 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
43 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
47 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
51 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
55 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
56 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
57 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
58 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
59 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
60 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
64 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
65 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
69 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
70 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
71 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
75 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
76 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
80 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
84 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
85 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
86 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
87 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
89 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
91 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
95 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
96 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
97 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
101 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
105 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
106 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
111 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
115 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
119 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
120 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
124 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
125 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
126 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
130 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
131 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
135 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
136 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
140 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
141 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
145 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
149 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
150 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
154 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
156 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
158 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
162 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
166 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
167 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
171 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
175 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
179 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
180 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
181 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
182 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
183 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
184 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
188 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
192 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
194 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
195 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
199 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
200 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
204 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
208 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
209 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
210 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
211 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
213 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
215 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
219 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
220 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
224 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
225 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
226 disappeared at the wrong moment.
230 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
231 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
232 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
233 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
234 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
235 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
236 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
240 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
241 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
245 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
249 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
253 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
258 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
262 Options to set iconification layout policy.
263 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
264 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
268 Pinboard background colour option works again.
269 Position iconified windows sensibly.
270 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
274 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
275 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
276 (requested by Ryan Harris).
280 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
281 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
285 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
290 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
291 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
292 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
293 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
294 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
296 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
297 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
301 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
305 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
306 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
307 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
308 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
312 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
313 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
314 Many improvements to the pinboard:
315 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
316 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
317 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
321 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
325 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
326 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
330 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
331 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
332 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
333 restart (Olli Helenius).
337 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
341 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
342 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
343 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
348 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
353 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
354 Small and Large sizes.
358 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
362 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
363 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
367 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
368 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
369 (requested by Gregory Spath).
370 Don't quit while Options window is open.
374 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
375 the window (requested by Ashwin).
376 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
381 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
386 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
387 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
391 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
392 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
397 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
399 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
401 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
405 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
409 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
411 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
413 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
417 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
419 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
420 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
424 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
425 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
429 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
430 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
434 Various speed improvements.
435 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
439 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
440 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
444 Slight speed increase when starting.
448 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
452 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
453 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
454 button is no longer supported.
458 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
462 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
466 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
471 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
472 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
476 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
477 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
478 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
482 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
483 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
484 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
485 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
489 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
490 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
491 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
493 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
498 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
499 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
504 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
508 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
509 and converted to new dialog style.
513 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
514 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
518 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
519 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
523 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
527 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
529 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
533 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
537 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
538 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
539 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
543 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
544 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
548 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
553 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
557 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
558 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
562 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
563 and Cancel is now Revert.
564 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
565 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
569 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
573 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
574 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
576 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
577 (reported by Serban Udrea).
578 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
579 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
583 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
585 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
587 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
590 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
594 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
596 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
600 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
601 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
602 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
606 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
607 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
609 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
611 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
615 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
616 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
620 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
621 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
622 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
623 (requested by Andras Mohari).
627 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
631 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
632 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
636 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
637 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
642 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
643 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
647 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
648 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
649 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
653 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
654 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
658 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
659 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
660 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
661 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
663 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
668 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
669 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
671 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
673 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
677 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
678 any image (saves time).
679 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
680 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
681 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
682 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
684 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
685 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
689 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
690 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
692 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
693 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
695 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
700 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
701 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
702 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
703 has stopped accepting STRING.
707 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
708 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
712 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
717 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
718 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
720 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
721 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
722 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
726 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
727 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
728 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
729 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
730 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
731 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
735 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
736 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
737 Allow '~' in globicons file.
738 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
739 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
740 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
745 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
746 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
747 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
748 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
753 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
754 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
758 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
759 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
761 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
763 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
764 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
765 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
769 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
770 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
771 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
775 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
776 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
780 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
781 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
785 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
787 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
792 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
793 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
797 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
798 their menus correctly.
799 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
804 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
805 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
806 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
810 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
811 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
815 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
819 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
822 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
824 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
825 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
826 the toggle menu items from working!
830 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
832 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
838 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
839 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
843 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
844 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
845 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
846 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
847 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
848 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
852 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
856 File groups are now saved (automatically).
857 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
861 Added Version SOAP RPC.
862 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
863 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
867 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
868 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
873 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
875 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
879 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
880 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
881 bar is displayed in the filer window.
882 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
886 Improved error reporting.
887 Improved sizing code when details are on.
891 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
892 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
893 check box and does 'Yes'.
897 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
898 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
899 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
900 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
905 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
907 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
908 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
910 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
912 Internal changes to options system:
913 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
914 filer is fully initialised).
915 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
917 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
919 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
920 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
921 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
922 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
926 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
927 now reclaims the selection.
928 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
929 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
934 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
935 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
936 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
937 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
938 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
942 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
943 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
945 Code tidying in various places.
949 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
950 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
955 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
956 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
960 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
961 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
962 edit the file, not the file itself!
963 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
967 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
968 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
969 (recommended by Jens Finke).
970 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
971 of the SOAP working draft.
972 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
973 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
974 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
979 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
980 it was in the displayed area before.
982 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
985 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
986 winking effect until the window actually appears.
990 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
991 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
992 Kristian A. Rink and others).
994 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
995 selection (Andras Mohari).
999 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1003 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1007 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1008 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1009 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1013 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1017 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1019 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1020 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1021 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1025 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1026 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1031 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1032 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1033 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1037 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1041 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1045 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1046 replaced by a Restart button.
1050 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1051 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1055 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1059 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1063 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1064 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1065 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1069 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1070 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1072 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1073 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1074 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1078 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1079 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1084 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1086 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1087 (requested by Graham Borland).
1088 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1089 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1090 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1094 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1095 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1096 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1097 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1101 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1102 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1103 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1104 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1105 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1106 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1107 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1108 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1109 - Lots of code tidying.
1114 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1115 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1119 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1121 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1123 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1127 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1128 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1132 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1133 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1137 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1138 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1142 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1143 option to access it directly.
1147 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1148 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1149 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1153 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1154 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1155 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1156 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1157 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1158 when the filer is run.
1162 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1163 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1164 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1169 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1173 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1174 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1178 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1180 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1184 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1188 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1189 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1190 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1195 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1196 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1197 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1198 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1199 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1200 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1201 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1205 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1209 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1210 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1214 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1215 of possible actions (Taras).
1216 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1218 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1219 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1223 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1228 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1232 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1235 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1236 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1240 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1241 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1243 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1245 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1246 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1247 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1248 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1252 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1256 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1260 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1264 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1269 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1270 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1271 the first one found.
1272 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1276 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1280 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1281 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1282 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1286 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1287 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1288 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1293 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1294 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1295 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1299 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1301 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1306 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1311 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1315 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1316 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1320 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1322 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1323 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1327 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1331 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1332 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1336 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1337 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1341 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1342 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1344 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1346 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1350 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1354 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1355 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1359 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1363 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1368 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1369 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1373 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1377 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1381 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1383 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1384 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1388 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1389 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1393 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1394 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1395 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1399 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1400 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1404 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1405 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1407 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1409 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1413 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1414 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1415 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1417 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1418 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1420 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1422 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1423 and the default size with no details.
1427 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1428 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1432 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1437 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1442 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1446 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1451 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1452 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1456 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1460 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1461 the button to run it does.
1462 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1463 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1464 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1468 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1469 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1470 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1474 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1478 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1479 and panels into icon.c.
1483 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1484 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1485 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1486 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1490 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1492 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1494 Updated the documentation.
1498 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1499 up if they're too small.
1503 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1505 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1506 (Christopher Arndt).
1507 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1512 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1513 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1517 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1518 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1522 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1523 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1524 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1529 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1534 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1538 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1539 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1544 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1549 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1550 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1554 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1555 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1559 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1563 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1567 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1571 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1572 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1575 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1576 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1581 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1582 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1583 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1584 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1589 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1590 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1592 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1594 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1595 for non-applications.
1599 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1600 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1605 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1609 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1610 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1612 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1616 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1617 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1621 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1622 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1626 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1627 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1631 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1632 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1634 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1635 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1639 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1640 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1642 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1646 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1647 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1650 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1654 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1655 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1659 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1663 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1664 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1667 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1668 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1672 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1676 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1681 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1685 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1686 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1691 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1696 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1700 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1702 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1704 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1705 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1707 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1709 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1710 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1714 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1715 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1716 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1718 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1719 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1723 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1727 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1728 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1732 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1736 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1737 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1739 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1742 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1743 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1744 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1748 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1749 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1754 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1759 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1761 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1764 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1766 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1767 sensible shape itself now.
1769 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1770 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1771 file at all, just a reused inode!
1772 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1773 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1774 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1778 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1782 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1783 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1788 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1789 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1793 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1797 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1798 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1802 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1807 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1811 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1812 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1816 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1817 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1818 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1819 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1820 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1824 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1825 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1826 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1827 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1828 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1832 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1833 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1834 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1838 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1840 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1841 python's portable system.
1842 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1843 set the LANG variable.
1847 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1848 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1850 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1852 Made a few updates to the manual.
1856 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1857 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1859 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1861 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1862 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1866 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1867 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1871 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1872 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1877 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1878 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1879 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1883 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1884 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1888 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1889 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1893 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1894 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1896 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1897 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1898 open... (Denis Manente).
1902 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1906 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1908 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1909 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1910 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1912 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1914 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1916 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1917 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1922 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1923 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1924 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1928 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1929 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1933 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1937 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1941 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1942 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1943 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1947 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1948 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1949 between pinboards...
1951 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1952 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1953 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1957 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1960 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1961 window (Denis Manente).
1963 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1964 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1968 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1969 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1970 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1974 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1977 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1978 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1980 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1985 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1986 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1988 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1992 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1993 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1995 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1997 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2002 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2003 the icon points to as well as its name.
2005 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2006 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2010 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2011 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2012 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2013 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2017 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2021 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2022 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2023 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2027 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2028 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2030 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2031 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2034 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2035 the item after the drag.
2037 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2038 showing where the file really is.
2042 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2043 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2048 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2049 warning is displayed if so.
2051 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2055 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2056 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2057 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2058 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2061 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2062 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2063 works like the panels.
2067 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2068 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2069 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2070 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2071 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2075 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2076 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2077 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2078 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2080 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2085 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2089 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2090 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2093 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2094 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2096 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2099 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2100 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2101 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2102 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2104 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2106 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2107 slightly. Updated the manual.
2109 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2110 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2113 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2114 or bottom panel to make room.
2118 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2123 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2124 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2125 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2126 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2127 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2131 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2133 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2134 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2136 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2140 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2141 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2145 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2149 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2151 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2156 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2157 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2159 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2163 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2164 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2165 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2169 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2170 rewriting the panel system.
2174 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2177 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2178 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2182 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2183 (suggested by James Kermode).
2187 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2188 than as a full path.
2190 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2192 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2193 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2194 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2198 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2199 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2203 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2204 rename something onto another filesystem.
2208 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2210 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2211 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2215 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2219 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2222 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2223 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2225 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2228 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2233 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2234 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2235 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2237 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2238 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2240 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2241 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2246 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2247 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2252 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2253 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2254 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2256 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2257 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2258 of the 'missing image' image.
2262 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2264 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2266 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2271 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2272 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2273 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2274 its name into another program.
2276 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2280 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2282 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2283 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2284 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2286 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2287 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2288 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2291 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2292 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2296 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2297 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2298 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2302 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2303 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2304 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2308 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2309 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2310 and position the icons directly.
2314 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2319 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2320 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2321 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2325 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2329 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2330 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2334 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2339 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2343 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2344 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2345 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2346 some versions of GTK+.
2350 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2355 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2356 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2357 from a sub-sub-menu.
2359 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2360 drawn on a log scale.
2364 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2365 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2366 happy with the UI yet though...
2368 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2369 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2370 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2374 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2375 by Stephen Harrison).
2377 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2379 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2380 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2381 standard types are in Choices.
2382 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2384 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2385 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2386 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2391 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2392 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2393 shell command minibuffer.
2397 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2398 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2399 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2400 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2401 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2403 Default search path for Choices is now:
2404 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2406 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2407 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2408 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2412 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2413 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2417 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2418 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2419 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2424 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2425 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2426 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2429 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2431 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2432 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2433 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2435 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2436 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2440 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2441 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2442 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2443 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2448 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2449 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2450 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2452 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2454 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2455 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2459 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2460 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2461 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2466 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2467 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2470 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2472 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2477 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2482 Added GNU gettext support.
2483 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2487 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2489 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2491 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2496 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2500 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2501 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2503 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2504 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2509 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2510 onto the directory and winks the file.
2514 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2515 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2516 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2518 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2519 instead of random values.
2520 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2522 Applied Bernard's patch:
2523 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2524 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2525 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2526 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2527 it the RISC OS way...
2528 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2529 alignment corrected.
2530 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2535 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2539 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2540 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2544 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2545 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2546 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2547 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2548 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2549 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2550 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2551 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2552 in the file(1) says... box).
2555 Before the Changes file
2556 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2557 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2559 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2560 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2561 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2562 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2563 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD