2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
9 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
11 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
15 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
16 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
17 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
21 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
25 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
26 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
31 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
35 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
39 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
40 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
44 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
45 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
46 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
50 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
51 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
55 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
56 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
60 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
61 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
65 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
69 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
70 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
74 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
76 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
78 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
82 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
86 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
87 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
91 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
95 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
99 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
100 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
101 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
102 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
103 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
104 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
108 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
112 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
114 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
115 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
119 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
120 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
124 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
128 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
129 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
130 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
131 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
133 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
135 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
139 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
140 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
144 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
145 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
146 disappeared at the wrong moment.
150 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
151 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
152 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
153 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
154 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
155 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
156 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
160 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
161 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
165 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
169 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
173 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
178 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
182 Options to set iconification layout policy.
183 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
184 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
188 Pinboard background colour option works again.
189 Position iconified windows sensibly.
190 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
194 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
195 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
196 (requested by Ryan Harris).
200 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
201 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
205 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
210 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
211 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
212 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
213 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
214 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
216 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
217 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
221 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
225 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
226 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
227 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
228 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
232 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
233 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
234 Many improvements to the pinboard:
235 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
236 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
237 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
241 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
245 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
246 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
250 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
251 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
252 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
253 restart (Olli Helenius).
257 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
261 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
262 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
263 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
268 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
273 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
274 Small and Large sizes.
278 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
282 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
283 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
287 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
288 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
289 (requested by Gregory Spath).
290 Don't quit while Options window is open.
294 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
295 the window (requested by Ashwin).
296 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
301 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
306 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
307 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
311 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
312 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
317 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
319 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
321 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
325 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
329 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
331 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
333 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
337 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
339 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
340 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
344 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
345 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
349 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
350 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
354 Various speed improvements.
355 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
359 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
360 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
364 Slight speed increase when starting.
368 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
372 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
373 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
374 button is no longer supported.
378 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
382 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
386 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
391 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
392 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
396 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
397 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
398 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
402 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
403 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
404 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
405 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
409 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
410 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
411 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
413 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
418 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
419 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
424 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
428 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
429 and converted to new dialog style.
433 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
434 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
438 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
439 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
443 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
447 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
449 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
453 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
457 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
458 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
459 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
463 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
464 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
468 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
473 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
477 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
478 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
482 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
483 and Cancel is now Revert.
484 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
485 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
489 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
493 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
494 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
496 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
497 (reported by Serban Udrea).
498 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
499 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
503 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
505 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
507 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
510 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
514 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
516 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
520 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
521 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
522 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
526 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
527 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
529 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
531 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
535 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
536 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
540 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
541 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
542 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
543 (requested by Andras Mohari).
547 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
551 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
552 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
556 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
557 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
562 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
563 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
567 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
568 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
569 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
573 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
574 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
578 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
579 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
580 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
581 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
583 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
588 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
589 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
591 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
593 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
597 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
598 any image (saves time).
599 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
600 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
601 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
602 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
604 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
605 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
609 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
610 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
612 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
613 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
615 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
620 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
621 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
622 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
623 has stopped accepting STRING.
627 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
628 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
632 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
637 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
638 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
640 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
641 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
642 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
646 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
647 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
648 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
649 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
650 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
651 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
655 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
656 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
657 Allow '~' in globicons file.
658 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
659 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
660 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
665 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
666 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
667 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
668 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
673 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
674 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
678 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
679 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
681 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
683 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
684 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
685 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
689 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
690 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
691 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
695 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
696 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
700 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
701 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
705 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
707 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
712 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
713 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
717 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
718 their menus correctly.
719 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
724 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
725 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
726 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
730 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
731 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
735 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
739 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
742 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
744 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
745 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
746 the toggle menu items from working!
750 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
752 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
758 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
759 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
763 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
764 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
765 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
766 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
767 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
768 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
772 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
776 File groups are now saved (automatically).
777 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
781 Added Version SOAP RPC.
782 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
783 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
787 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
788 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
793 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
795 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
799 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
800 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
801 bar is displayed in the filer window.
802 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
806 Improved error reporting.
807 Improved sizing code when details are on.
811 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
812 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
813 check box and does 'Yes'.
817 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
818 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
819 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
820 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
825 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
827 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
828 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
830 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
832 Internal changes to options system:
833 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
834 filer is fully initialised).
835 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
837 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
839 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
840 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
841 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
842 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
846 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
847 now reclaims the selection.
848 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
849 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
854 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
855 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
856 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
857 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
858 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
862 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
863 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
865 Code tidying in various places.
869 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
870 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
875 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
876 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
880 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
881 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
882 edit the file, not the file itself!
883 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
887 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
888 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
889 (recommended by Jens Finke).
890 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
891 of the SOAP working draft.
892 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
893 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
894 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
899 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
900 it was in the displayed area before.
902 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
905 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
906 winking effect until the window actually appears.
910 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
911 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
912 Kristian A. Rink and others).
914 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
915 selection (Andras Mohari).
919 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
923 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
927 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
928 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
929 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
933 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
937 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
939 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
940 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
941 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
945 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
946 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
951 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
952 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
953 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
957 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
961 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
965 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
966 replaced by a Restart button.
970 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
971 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
975 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
979 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
983 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
984 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
985 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
989 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
990 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
992 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
993 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
994 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
998 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
999 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1004 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1006 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1007 (requested by Graham Borland).
1008 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1009 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1010 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1014 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1015 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1016 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1017 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1021 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1022 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1023 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1024 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1025 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1026 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1027 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1028 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1029 - Lots of code tidying.
1034 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1035 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1039 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1041 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1043 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1047 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1048 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1052 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1053 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1057 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1058 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1062 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1063 option to access it directly.
1067 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1068 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1069 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1073 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1074 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1075 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1076 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1077 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1078 when the filer is run.
1082 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1083 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1084 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1089 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1093 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1094 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1098 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1100 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1104 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1108 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1109 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1110 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1115 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1116 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1117 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1118 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1119 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1120 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1121 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1125 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1129 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1130 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1134 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1135 of possible actions (Taras).
1136 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1138 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1139 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1143 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1148 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1152 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1155 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1156 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1160 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1161 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1163 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1165 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1166 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1167 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1168 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1172 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1176 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1180 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1184 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1189 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1190 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1191 the first one found.
1192 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1196 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1200 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1201 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1202 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1206 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1207 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1208 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1213 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1214 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1215 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1219 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1221 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1226 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1231 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1235 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1236 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1240 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1242 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1243 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1247 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1251 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1252 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1256 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1257 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1261 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1262 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1264 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1266 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1270 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1274 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1275 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1279 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1283 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1288 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1289 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1293 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1297 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1301 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1303 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1304 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1308 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1309 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1313 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1314 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1315 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1319 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1320 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1324 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1325 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1327 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1329 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1333 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1334 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1335 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1337 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1338 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1340 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1342 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1343 and the default size with no details.
1347 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1348 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1352 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1357 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1362 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1366 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1371 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1372 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1376 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1380 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1381 the button to run it does.
1382 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1383 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1384 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1388 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1389 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1390 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1394 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1398 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1399 and panels into icon.c.
1403 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1404 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1405 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1406 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1410 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1412 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1414 Updated the documentation.
1418 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1419 up if they're too small.
1423 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1425 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1426 (Christopher Arndt).
1427 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1432 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1433 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1437 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1438 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1442 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1443 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1444 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1449 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1454 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1458 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1459 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1464 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1469 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1470 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1474 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1475 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1479 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1483 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1487 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1491 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1492 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1495 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1496 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1501 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1502 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1503 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1504 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1509 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1510 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1512 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1514 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1515 for non-applications.
1519 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1520 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1525 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1529 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1530 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1532 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1536 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1537 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1541 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1542 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1546 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1547 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1551 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1552 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1554 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1555 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1559 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1560 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1562 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1566 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1567 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1570 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1574 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1575 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1579 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1583 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1584 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1587 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1588 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1592 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1596 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1601 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1605 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1606 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1611 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1616 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1620 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1622 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1624 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1625 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1627 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1629 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1630 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1634 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1635 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1636 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1638 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1639 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1643 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1647 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1648 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1652 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1656 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1657 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1659 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1662 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1663 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1664 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1668 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1669 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1674 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1679 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1681 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1684 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1686 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1687 sensible shape itself now.
1689 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1690 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1691 file at all, just a reused inode!
1692 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1693 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1694 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1698 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1702 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1703 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1708 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1709 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1713 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1717 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1718 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1722 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1727 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1731 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1732 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1736 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1737 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1738 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1739 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1740 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1744 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1745 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1746 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1747 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1748 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1752 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1753 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1754 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1758 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1760 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1761 python's portable system.
1762 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1763 set the LANG variable.
1767 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1768 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1770 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1772 Made a few updates to the manual.
1776 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1777 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1779 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1781 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1782 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1786 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1787 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1791 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1792 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1797 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1798 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1799 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1803 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1804 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1808 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1809 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1813 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1814 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1816 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1817 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1818 open... (Denis Manente).
1822 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1826 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1828 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1829 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1830 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1832 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1834 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1836 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1837 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1842 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1843 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1844 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1848 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1849 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1853 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1857 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1861 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1862 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1863 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1867 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1868 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1869 between pinboards...
1871 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1872 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1873 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1877 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1880 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1881 window (Denis Manente).
1883 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1884 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1888 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1889 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1890 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1894 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1897 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1898 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1900 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1905 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1906 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1908 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1912 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1913 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1915 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1917 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1922 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1923 the icon points to as well as its name.
1925 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1926 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1930 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1931 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1932 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1933 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1937 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1941 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1942 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1943 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1947 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1948 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1950 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1951 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1954 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1955 the item after the drag.
1957 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1958 showing where the file really is.
1962 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1963 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1968 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1969 warning is displayed if so.
1971 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1975 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1976 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1977 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1978 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1981 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1982 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1983 works like the panels.
1987 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1988 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1989 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1990 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1991 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1995 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1996 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1997 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1998 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2000 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2005 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2009 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2010 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2013 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2014 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2016 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2019 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2020 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2021 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2022 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2024 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2026 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2027 slightly. Updated the manual.
2029 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2030 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2033 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2034 or bottom panel to make room.
2038 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2043 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2044 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2045 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2046 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2047 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2051 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2053 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2054 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2056 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2060 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2061 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2065 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2069 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2071 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2076 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2077 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2079 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2083 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2084 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2085 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2089 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2090 rewriting the panel system.
2094 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2097 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2098 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2102 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2103 (suggested by James Kermode).
2107 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2108 than as a full path.
2110 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2112 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2113 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2114 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2118 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2119 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2123 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2124 rename something onto another filesystem.
2128 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2130 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2131 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2135 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2139 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2142 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2143 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2145 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2148 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2153 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2154 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2155 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2157 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2158 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2160 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2161 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2166 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2167 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2172 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2173 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2174 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2176 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2177 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2178 of the 'missing image' image.
2182 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2184 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2186 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2191 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2192 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2193 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2194 its name into another program.
2196 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2200 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2202 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2203 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2204 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2206 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2207 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2208 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2211 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2212 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2216 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2217 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2218 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2222 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2223 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2224 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2228 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2229 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2230 and position the icons directly.
2234 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2239 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2240 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2241 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2245 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2249 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2250 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2254 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2259 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2263 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2264 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2265 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2266 some versions of GTK+.
2270 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2275 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2276 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2277 from a sub-sub-menu.
2279 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2280 drawn on a log scale.
2284 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2285 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2286 happy with the UI yet though...
2288 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2289 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2290 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2294 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2295 by Stephen Harrison).
2297 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2299 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2300 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2301 standard types are in Choices.
2302 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2304 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2305 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2306 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2311 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2312 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2313 shell command minibuffer.
2317 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2318 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2319 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2320 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2321 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2323 Default search path for Choices is now:
2324 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2326 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2327 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2328 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2332 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2333 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2337 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2338 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2339 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2344 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2345 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2346 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2349 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2351 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2352 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2353 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2355 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2356 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2360 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2361 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2362 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2363 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2368 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2369 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2370 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2372 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2374 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2375 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2379 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2380 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2381 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2386 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2387 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2390 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2392 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2397 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2402 Added GNU gettext support.
2403 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2407 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2409 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2411 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2416 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2420 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2421 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2423 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2424 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2429 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2430 onto the directory and winks the file.
2434 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2435 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2436 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2438 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2439 instead of random values.
2440 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2442 Applied Bernard's patch:
2443 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2444 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2445 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2446 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2447 it the RISC OS way...
2448 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2449 alignment corrected.
2450 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2455 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2459 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2460 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2464 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2465 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2466 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2467 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2468 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2469 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2470 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2471 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2472 in the file(1) says... box).
2475 Before the Changes file
2476 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2477 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2479 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2480 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2481 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2482 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2483 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD