2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
8 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
9 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (suggested by Jesse Wagner).
10 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
12 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
17 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
18 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
22 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
27 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
31 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
32 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
33 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
34 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
36 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
41 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
42 the old one (Stephen Watson).
43 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
44 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
45 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
49 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
54 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
56 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
58 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
62 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
63 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
65 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
67 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
68 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
69 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
70 reported by Lewis Denizen).
74 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
78 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
79 the binary (Stephen Watson).
83 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
87 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
88 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
89 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
93 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
96 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
98 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
99 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
100 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
101 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
102 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
106 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
110 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
111 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
115 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
119 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
120 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
121 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
123 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
124 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
126 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
127 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
128 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
129 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
133 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
134 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
138 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
139 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
140 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
141 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
146 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
147 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
151 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
152 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
153 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
157 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
158 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
159 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
163 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
167 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
168 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
172 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
173 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
177 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
181 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
182 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
187 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
188 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
192 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
196 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
197 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
198 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
199 when changing to a parent directory.
200 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
204 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
208 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
212 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
214 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
216 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
220 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
222 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
226 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
228 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
232 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
236 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
237 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
238 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
239 reported by Anthony DiSante).
243 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
247 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
251 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
252 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
253 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
254 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
255 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
259 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
260 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
264 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
265 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
270 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
271 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
276 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
277 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
281 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
282 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
286 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
287 (reported by Tony Houghton).
291 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
293 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
294 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
298 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
299 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
303 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
307 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
311 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
315 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
316 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
317 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
321 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
325 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
330 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
334 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
336 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
338 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
342 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
343 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
344 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
346 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
350 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
351 print a warning and then crash.
355 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
356 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
357 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
362 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
366 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
371 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
375 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
379 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
381 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
386 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
387 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
388 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
393 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
394 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
399 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
401 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
402 anyway, and noone had complained).
403 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
404 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
408 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
409 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
410 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
414 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
418 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
419 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
423 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
424 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
425 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
429 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
430 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
431 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
433 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
434 by Simon Templer and others).
438 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
439 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
440 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
444 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
448 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
452 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
453 version number again (Stephen Watson).
457 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
458 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
462 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
466 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
467 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
468 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
469 anyway (Stephen Watson).
473 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
477 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
481 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
483 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
485 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
489 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
490 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
491 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
495 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
496 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
501 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
502 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
503 impossible to change shortcuts.
504 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
505 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
509 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
510 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
515 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
516 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
517 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
521 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
522 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
523 to the functions being missing.
527 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
531 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
535 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
539 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
543 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
544 worries people for no reason.
548 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
552 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
553 files selected (Peter Geer).
557 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
558 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
562 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
566 Added 'Select by Name'.
570 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
574 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
579 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
583 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
585 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
587 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
588 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
592 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
596 Misc changes for next release.
600 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
601 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
605 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
606 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
607 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
608 Watson, reported on #rox).
612 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
613 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
617 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
618 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
622 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
623 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
627 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
628 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
633 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
637 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
639 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
644 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
648 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
649 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
653 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
654 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
658 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
662 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
667 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
668 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
670 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
671 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
675 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
676 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
680 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
685 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
686 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
690 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
691 support not being detected (igla).
695 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
699 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
700 dialog (Stephen Watson).
704 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
708 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
709 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
710 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
711 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
714 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
716 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
717 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
721 New icon for selection ops.
725 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
729 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
733 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
737 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
738 Added icon theme selector.
742 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
746 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
750 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
751 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
755 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
756 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
757 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
761 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
762 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
766 Allow ejecting mounted media.
770 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
771 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
772 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
776 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
780 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
781 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
786 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
787 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
791 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
792 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
796 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
797 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
801 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
805 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
806 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
807 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
811 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
815 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
816 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
817 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
818 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
822 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
823 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
825 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
829 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
833 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
834 bits (Stephen Watson).
838 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
842 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
846 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
847 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
851 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
855 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
856 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
861 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
862 forward them explicitly.
866 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
867 help from Götz Waschk).
871 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
872 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
873 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
877 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
881 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
885 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
889 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
890 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
892 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
894 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
898 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
900 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
902 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
906 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
907 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
908 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
909 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
913 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
917 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
921 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
925 Minor updates to the manual.
926 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
927 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
931 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
932 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
934 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
936 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
937 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
941 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
942 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
943 reduce flickering effect.
947 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
951 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
953 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
957 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
958 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
959 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
960 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
961 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
965 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
966 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
970 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
974 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
979 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
980 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
984 Winking now works in List view.
988 Lasso selections now work in List view.
992 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
993 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
997 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
998 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1000 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1002 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1006 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1010 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1011 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1013 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1017 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1018 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1022 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1024 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1028 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1029 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1033 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1035 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1039 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1043 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1044 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1049 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1050 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1052 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1054 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1056 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1060 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1064 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1065 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1069 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1074 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1075 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1079 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1081 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1083 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1084 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1089 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1093 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1094 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1095 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1096 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1097 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1098 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1099 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1101 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1105 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1110 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1111 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1115 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1116 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1117 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1118 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1123 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1124 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1125 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1126 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1127 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1128 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1129 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1130 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1131 talent can do something better?
1132 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1133 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1137 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1138 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1139 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1144 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1146 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1147 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1148 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1149 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1150 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1151 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1152 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1153 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1154 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1155 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1156 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1157 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1158 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1162 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1163 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1164 allow fine repositioning.
1165 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1166 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1167 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1168 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1170 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1171 changing the aspect ratio.
1175 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1179 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1183 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1184 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1185 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1189 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1193 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1198 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1199 make sharing icons easier.
1200 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1204 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1205 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1209 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1213 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1215 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1219 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1224 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1229 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1230 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1232 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1233 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1234 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1235 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1239 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1240 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1244 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1248 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1250 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1251 Brian Langenberger).
1255 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1256 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1258 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1262 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1263 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1265 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1267 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1271 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1272 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1277 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1281 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1282 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1283 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1287 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1288 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1292 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1296 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1297 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1301 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1302 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1303 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1307 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1311 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1312 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1313 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1314 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1316 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1317 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1321 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1322 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1326 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1331 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1332 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1336 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1340 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1341 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1342 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1343 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1348 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1349 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1350 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1354 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1358 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1359 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1363 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1364 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1365 since it didn't include the contents.
1366 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1367 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1371 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1375 Style improvements to options window.
1379 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1383 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1385 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1387 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1392 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1393 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1394 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1395 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1399 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1403 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1407 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1408 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1412 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1414 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1419 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1423 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1424 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1425 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1430 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1434 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1438 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1442 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1446 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1447 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1448 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1452 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1453 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1457 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1458 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1463 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1467 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1471 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1476 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1477 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1481 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1482 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1487 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1488 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1492 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1493 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1494 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1498 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1502 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1503 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1504 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1505 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1506 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1510 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1511 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1515 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1516 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1520 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1524 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1525 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1526 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1527 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1528 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1529 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1533 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1534 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1535 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1539 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1540 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1545 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1549 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1551 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1553 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1558 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1562 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1566 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1567 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1572 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1576 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1580 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1581 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1582 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1586 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1590 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1595 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1599 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1600 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1601 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1602 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1606 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1610 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1611 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1615 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1616 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1617 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1621 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1625 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1629 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1630 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1631 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1632 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1633 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1634 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1638 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1639 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1643 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1644 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1645 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1649 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1650 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1654 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1658 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1659 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1660 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1661 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1663 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1665 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1669 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1670 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1671 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1675 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1679 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1680 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1685 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1689 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1693 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1694 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1698 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1699 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1700 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1704 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1705 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1709 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1710 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1714 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1715 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1719 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1723 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1724 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1728 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1730 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1732 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1736 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1740 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1741 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1745 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1749 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1753 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1754 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1755 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1756 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1757 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1758 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1762 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1766 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1768 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1769 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1773 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1774 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1778 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1782 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1783 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1784 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1785 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1787 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1789 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1793 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1794 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1798 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1799 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1800 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1804 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1805 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1806 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1807 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1808 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1809 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1810 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1814 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1815 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1819 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1823 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1827 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1832 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1836 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1837 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1838 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1842 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1843 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1844 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1848 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1849 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1850 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1854 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1855 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1859 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1864 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1865 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1866 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1867 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1868 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1870 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1871 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1875 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1879 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1880 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1881 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1882 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1886 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1887 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1888 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1889 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1890 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1891 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1895 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1899 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1900 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1904 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1905 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1906 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1907 restart (Olli Helenius).
1911 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1915 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1916 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1917 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1922 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1927 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1928 Small and Large sizes.
1932 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1936 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1937 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1941 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1942 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1943 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1944 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1948 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1949 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1950 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1955 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1960 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1961 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1965 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1966 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1971 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1973 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1975 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1979 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1983 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1985 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1987 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1991 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1993 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1994 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1998 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1999 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2003 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2004 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2008 Various speed improvements.
2009 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2013 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2014 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2018 Slight speed increase when starting.
2022 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2026 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2027 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2028 button is no longer supported.
2032 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2036 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2040 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2045 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2046 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2050 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2051 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2052 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2056 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2057 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2058 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2059 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2063 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2064 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2065 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2067 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2072 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2073 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2078 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2082 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2083 and converted to new dialog style.
2087 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2088 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2092 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2093 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2097 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2101 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2103 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2107 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2111 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2112 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2113 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2117 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2118 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2122 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2127 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2131 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2132 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2136 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2137 and Cancel is now Revert.
2138 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2139 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2143 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2147 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2148 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2150 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2151 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2152 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2153 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2157 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2159 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2160 labels display them.
2161 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2164 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2168 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2170 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2174 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2175 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2176 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2180 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2181 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2183 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2185 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2189 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2190 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2194 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2195 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2196 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2197 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2201 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2205 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2206 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2210 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2211 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2216 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2217 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2221 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2222 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2223 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2227 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2228 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2232 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2233 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2234 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2235 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2237 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2242 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2243 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2245 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2247 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2251 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2252 any image (saves time).
2253 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2254 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2255 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2256 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2258 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2259 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2263 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2264 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2266 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2267 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2269 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2274 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2275 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2276 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2277 has stopped accepting STRING.
2281 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2282 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2286 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2291 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2292 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2294 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2295 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2296 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2300 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2301 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2302 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2303 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2304 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2305 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2309 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2310 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2311 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2312 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2313 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2314 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2319 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2320 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2321 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2322 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2327 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2328 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2332 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2333 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2335 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2337 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2338 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2339 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2343 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2344 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2345 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2349 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2350 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2354 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2355 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2359 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2361 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2366 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2367 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2371 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2372 their menus correctly.
2373 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2378 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2379 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2380 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2384 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2385 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2389 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2393 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2396 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2398 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2399 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2400 the toggle menu items from working!
2404 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2406 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2412 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2413 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2417 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2418 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2419 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2420 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2421 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2422 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2426 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2430 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2431 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2435 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2436 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2437 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2441 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2442 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2447 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2449 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2453 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2454 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2455 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2456 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2460 Improved error reporting.
2461 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2465 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2466 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2467 check box and does 'Yes'.
2471 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2472 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2473 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2474 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2479 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2481 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2482 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2484 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2486 Internal changes to options system:
2487 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2488 filer is fully initialised).
2489 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2491 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2493 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2494 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2495 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2496 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2500 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2501 now reclaims the selection.
2502 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2503 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2508 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2509 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2510 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2511 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2512 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2516 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2517 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2519 Code tidying in various places.
2523 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2524 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2529 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2530 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2534 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2535 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2536 edit the file, not the file itself!
2537 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2541 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2542 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2543 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2544 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2545 of the SOAP working draft.
2546 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2547 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2548 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2553 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2554 it was in the displayed area before.
2556 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2559 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2560 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2564 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2565 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2566 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2568 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2569 selection (Andras Mohari).
2573 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2577 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2581 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2582 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2583 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2587 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2591 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2593 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2594 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2595 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2599 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2600 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2605 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2606 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2607 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2611 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2615 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2619 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2620 replaced by a Restart button.
2624 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2625 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2629 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2633 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2637 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2638 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2639 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2643 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2644 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2646 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2647 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2648 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2652 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2653 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2658 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2660 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2661 (requested by Graham Borland).
2662 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2663 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2664 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2668 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2669 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2670 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2671 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2675 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2676 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2677 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2678 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2679 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2680 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2681 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2682 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2683 - Lots of code tidying.
2688 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2689 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2693 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2695 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2697 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2701 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2702 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2706 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2707 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2711 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2712 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2716 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2717 option to access it directly.
2721 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2722 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2723 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2727 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2728 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2729 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2730 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2731 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2732 when the filer is run.
2736 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2737 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2738 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2743 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2747 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2748 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2752 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2754 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2758 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2762 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2763 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2764 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2769 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2770 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2771 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2772 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2773 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2774 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2775 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2779 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2783 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2784 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2788 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2789 of possible actions (Taras).
2790 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2792 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2793 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2797 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2802 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2806 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2809 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2810 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2814 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2815 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2817 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2819 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2820 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2821 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2822 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2826 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2830 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2834 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2838 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2843 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2844 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2845 the first one found.
2846 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2850 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2854 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2855 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2856 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2860 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2861 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2862 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2867 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2868 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2869 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2873 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2875 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2880 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2885 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2889 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2890 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2894 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2896 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2897 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2901 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2905 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2906 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2910 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2911 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2915 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2916 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2918 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2920 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2924 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2928 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2929 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2933 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2937 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2942 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2943 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2947 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2951 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2955 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2957 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2958 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2962 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2963 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2967 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2968 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2969 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2973 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2974 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2978 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2979 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2981 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2983 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2987 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2988 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2989 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2991 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2992 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2994 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2996 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2997 and the default size with no details.
3001 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3002 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3006 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3011 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3016 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3020 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3025 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3026 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3030 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3034 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3035 the button to run it does.
3036 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3037 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3038 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3042 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3043 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3044 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3048 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3052 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3053 and panels into icon.c.
3057 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3058 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3059 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3060 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3064 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3066 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3068 Updated the documentation.
3072 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3073 up if they're too small.
3077 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3079 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3080 (Christopher Arndt).
3081 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3086 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3087 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3091 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3092 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3096 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3097 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3098 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3103 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3108 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3112 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3113 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3118 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3123 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3124 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3128 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3129 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3133 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3137 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3141 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3145 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3146 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3149 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3150 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3155 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3156 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3157 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3158 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3163 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3164 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3166 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3168 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3169 for non-applications.
3173 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3174 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3179 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3183 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3184 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3186 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3190 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3191 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3195 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3196 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3200 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3201 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3205 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3206 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3208 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3209 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3213 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3214 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3216 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3220 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3221 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3224 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3228 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3229 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3233 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3237 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3238 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3241 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3242 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3246 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3250 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3255 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3259 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3260 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3265 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3270 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3274 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3276 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3278 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3279 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3281 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3283 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3284 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3288 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3289 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3290 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3292 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3293 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3297 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3301 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3302 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3306 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3310 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3311 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3313 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3316 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3317 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3318 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3322 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3323 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3328 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3333 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3335 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3338 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3340 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3341 sensible shape itself now.
3343 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3344 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3345 file at all, just a reused inode!
3346 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3347 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3348 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3352 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3356 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3357 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3362 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3363 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3367 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3371 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3372 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3376 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3381 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3385 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3386 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3390 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3391 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3392 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3393 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3394 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3398 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3399 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3400 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3401 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3402 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3406 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3407 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3408 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3412 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3414 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3415 python's portable system.
3416 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3417 set the LANG variable.
3421 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3422 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3424 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3426 Made a few updates to the manual.
3430 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3431 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3433 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3435 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3436 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3440 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3441 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3445 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3446 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3451 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3452 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3453 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3457 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3458 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3462 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3463 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3467 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3468 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3470 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3471 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3472 open... (Denis Manente).
3476 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3480 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3482 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3483 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3484 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3486 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3488 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3490 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3491 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3496 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3497 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3498 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3502 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3503 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3507 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3511 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3515 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3516 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3517 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3521 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3522 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3523 between pinboards...
3525 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3526 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3527 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3531 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3534 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3535 window (Denis Manente).
3537 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3538 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3542 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3543 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3544 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3548 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3551 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3552 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3554 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3559 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3560 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3562 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3566 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3567 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3569 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3571 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3576 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3577 the icon points to as well as its name.
3579 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3580 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3584 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3585 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3586 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3587 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3591 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3595 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3596 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3597 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3601 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3602 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3604 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3605 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3608 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3609 the item after the drag.
3611 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3612 showing where the file really is.
3616 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3617 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3622 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3623 warning is displayed if so.
3625 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3629 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3630 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3631 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3632 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3635 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3636 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3637 works like the panels.
3641 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3642 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3643 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3644 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3645 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3649 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3650 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3651 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3652 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3654 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3659 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3663 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3664 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3667 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3668 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3670 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3673 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3674 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3675 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3676 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3678 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3680 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3681 slightly. Updated the manual.
3683 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3684 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3687 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3688 or bottom panel to make room.
3692 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3697 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3698 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3699 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3700 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3701 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3705 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3707 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3708 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3710 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3714 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3715 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3719 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3723 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3725 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3730 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3731 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3733 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3737 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3738 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3739 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3743 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3744 rewriting the panel system.
3748 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3751 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3752 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3756 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3757 (suggested by James Kermode).
3761 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3762 than as a full path.
3764 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3766 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3767 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3768 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3772 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3773 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3777 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3778 rename something onto another filesystem.
3782 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3784 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3785 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3789 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3793 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3796 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3797 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3799 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3802 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3807 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3808 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3809 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3811 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3812 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3814 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3815 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3820 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3821 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3826 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3827 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3828 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3830 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3831 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3832 of the 'missing image' image.
3836 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3838 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3840 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3845 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3846 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3847 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3848 its name into another program.
3850 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3854 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3856 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3857 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3858 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3860 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3861 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3862 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3865 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3866 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3870 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3871 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3872 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3876 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3877 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3878 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3882 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3883 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3884 and position the icons directly.
3888 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3893 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3894 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3895 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3899 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3903 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3904 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3908 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3913 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3917 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3918 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3919 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3920 some versions of GTK+.
3924 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3929 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3930 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3931 from a sub-sub-menu.
3933 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3934 drawn on a log scale.
3938 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3939 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3940 happy with the UI yet though...
3942 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3943 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3944 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3948 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3949 by Stephen Harrison).
3951 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3953 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3954 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3955 standard types are in Choices.
3956 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3958 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3959 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3960 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3965 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3966 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3967 shell command minibuffer.
3971 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3972 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3973 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3974 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3975 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3977 Default search path for Choices is now:
3978 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3980 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3981 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3982 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3986 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3987 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3991 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3992 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3993 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3998 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3999 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4000 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4003 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4005 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4006 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4007 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4009 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4010 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4014 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4015 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4016 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4017 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4022 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4023 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4024 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4026 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4028 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4029 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4033 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4034 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4035 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4040 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4041 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4044 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4046 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4051 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4056 Added GNU gettext support.
4057 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4061 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4063 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4065 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4070 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4074 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4075 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4077 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4078 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4083 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4084 onto the directory and winks the file.
4088 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4089 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4090 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4092 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4093 instead of random values.
4094 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4096 Applied Bernard's patch:
4097 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4098 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4099 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4100 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4101 it the RISC OS way...
4102 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4103 alignment corrected.
4104 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4109 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4113 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4114 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4118 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4119 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4120 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4121 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4122 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4123 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4124 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4125 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4126 in the file(1) says... box).
4129 Before the Changes file
4130 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4131 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4133 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4134 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4135 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4136 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4137 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD