2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
5 * Note: you don't need to update file this when committing a change. Just add a
6 * log message with the commit and I'll update this file only when making a new
9 Release 2.8 (2008-05-17)
11 - Add a "keep panel on top" option (Tony Houghton)
12 On compiz-fusion 0.7.4, the panels come off the screen; I think it's
13 compiz's fault. This is a work-around (reported by Lucas Hazel).
15 - Support "Path" key in .desktop files (Stephen Watson)
16 Reported by Mildred in http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=19
17 36189&group_id=7023&atid=107023
19 - Updated Vietnamese translation (Anh Tuan).
21 - Renamed icons to use new freedesktop.org scheme.
22 - Use correct name for coredump icon (Stephen Watson).
24 - Don't crash trying to display invalid timestamps. localtime() can
25 return NULL if the input is out-of-range.
27 - MIME magic lookup now returns text/plain for certain unknown file
28 types (Stephen Watson). Restored the code, lost in the update to the
29 newer XDG MIME code, which checks unknown files to see if they are
32 - Updated Russian translation (Nikita E. Shalaev).
34 - Fix validity error in French manual XML (Stephen Watson)
36 - Italian translation update (Yuri Bongiorno).
38 - Typo in panel options (Vincent Lefèvre).
40 - Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
42 - Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
47 - Don't try to copy install.sh when building binary release.
49 - Give choice of using 0launch when building. 'make' gives the old
50 behaviour. 'make with0launch' gets the headers using 0launch.
52 - Updated Chinese Translations (BabyfaiCheung)
54 - Fixed segfault on startup due to missing import. Recent versions of
55 GTK import time.h for us, but older ones didn't, leading to a segfault
58 - Running 'make' in the src directory now uses 0launch to find the
59 headers. This ensures that doing a normal build uses the same headers
60 that 0compile will use, hopefully detecting problems earlier (e.g. use
61 of a function from a newer GTK than the one we want to support). Note
62 that 'AppRun --compile' is unaffected.
64 - Fixed check to ensure that the ROX theme is available. Before, we
65 just checked that the postscript icon could be found, but now we
66 fallback to the GNOME theme so that always succeeds. Also, if the
67 theme exists but is a broken link then we fix it automatically rather
68 than popping up a box telling the user to fix it.
70 - Fix: Set the output codeset to UTF-8 (Andras Mohari). This should fix
71 the problems in non-UTF-8 locales.
73 - Ensure the Glade templates go in the binary release. Reported by
76 - Fix checking for gcc version (Stephen Watson).
78 - Don't use -fno-stack-protector unless we are using GCC 4.1 or later
79 (Stephen Watson). Should probably also check for GLIBC as well.
81 - Fix typo in the save display settings window (Stephen Watson).
82 (Reported by Vincent Lefèvre)
84 - Fixed typo in label. Reported by Vincent Lefèvre.
86 - Updated README. Was *very* out-of-date (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
88 - Removed install script. I haven't run this thing for years. There are
89 plenty of better ways of adding the filer to your system (using a
90 package, Zero Install, running it in-place, etc). Also added Glade to
91 the requirements in the manual, and updated the instructions there.
93 - Remove unnecessary argument in the unmount message (Adam Sampson).
95 - Only set -fno-stack-protector when using GCC.
98 Release 2.7 (2007-11-29)
103 - New panel configuration GUI (Tony Houghton):
104 - Created new Panel Options dialog in Templates.glade.
105 - Changing panel side is now in the dialog.
106 - Created new panel menu item.
107 - Implemented Remove Panel menu item.
108 - Pinboard menu has "Add panel" submenu.
109 - Added panel_side_to_{translated_}name.
110 - Options are stored with each panel.
112 Use new panels config file to decide which panels to create with -S (Tony
115 Fixed some problems and cleaned up some things in my new Panel Options
116 code spotted by Thomas Leonard (Tony Houghton).
118 Got rid of panel options from main Options dialog (Tony Houghton).
119 No longer warn about options without widgets.
121 - Added a log viewer (Thomas Leonard).
122 On the Window menu there is now a "Show Log" item which opens a window
123 displaying a log of recent actions. Currently, only actions involving
124 an action window are logged. The action is logged when you request the
125 action (so it might not have actually been performed). The log window
126 was created using Glade, and this therefore adds a Glade dependency
127 on ROX-Filer, along with some support code to use it.
129 Make the log window close when the Close button is clicked (Stephen Watson)
131 - Added automatic placement and updating to PinboardAdd RPC (Dennis
134 - Try to find icons in ROX and gnome themes if not in configured
135 theme (Tony Houghton).
140 - Use text/base theme colours for the Collection widget,
141 not fg/bg. (Andras Mohari) This provides a good default for the
142 Collection widget, and is consistent with other widgets (GtkEntry,
145 Setting the colours in .gtkrc-2.0 is unnecessary now (unless someone
146 wants to override theme colours, of course).
148 - Updated xdgmime* files from CVS source (retrieved 2007-08-18)
151 - Making new ROX-Filer releases is now handled by 0release (Thomas
157 - Switched completely to standard gettext (Thomas Leonard).
158 We used to use our own implementation of the gettext functions so that
159 the user could switch langauges on the fly. However, that doesn't work
160 with Glade and it wasn't very useful anyway, so it has all been
163 One visible change is that e.g. "LANG=fr rox -n" no longer works. You
164 have to use the full string (e.g. "LANG=fr_FR.utf8 rox -n").
166 - Added preliminary support for Glade translations (Andras Mohari, as
167 suggested by Lennon Cook). We check for the presence of libintl.h
168 and use the bindtextdomain() call to tell Glade where to find its
171 Build failed on Solaris, because libintl wasn't linked in (Stephen
174 - Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
176 - Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
181 - In the Properties box, the text in the "Contents Indicate" part of the
182 box can now be selected and pasted (Thomas Leonard).
184 - Made uniconify from pinboard work properly with metacity (Tony
185 Houghton): _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message now has timestamp and source
186 field is set to 2 (pretend we're a pager).
188 When uniconifying, set "requestor's currently active window"
189 to zero to be on the safe side (Thomas Leonard).
191 - Arrow keys didn't work in details view (Thomas Leonard; reported by
192 Dennis Nezic and others).
193 GTK likes to select rows as you move over them. Since we don't want
194 that, ROX-Filer marks the rows as unselectable. However, newer GTK
195 versions refuse to move the cursor at all if the selection behaviour
198 - Don't print CRITICAL message if there is no fstab available,
199 for Mac OS X (Stephen Watson, suggested by Anders F Björklund).
201 - Make it clearer what the "Save Display Settings" does (Stephen
204 - Combined adding of release event with motion event for pinboard icons
205 (Tony Houghton). Doesn't seem necessary to add release event
206 explicitly, but best be on safe side.
208 - Fixed build problem on GTK 2.6: GTK_STOCK_INFO doesn't exist
209 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Stephen Watson).
211 - Escape special characters when opening the shell minibuffer (Thomas Leonard).
212 If you click on files while the shell minibuffer is open then the names are
213 escaped, but if you open it with a file under the cursor then the name wasn't
214 escaped (reported by Nils-Erik Svangård).
216 - Fix occasional core dump with multiple magic matches (Stephen
219 - Use the directory icon for mount points if the icon theme has no icon
220 for mount points (Andras Mohari).
222 - Use pathdup() in diritem_restart(), not readlink_dup(), to ensure that
223 we get the full pathname and not a path relative to the filer's
224 working directory (Stephen Watson).
226 - Fixed crash when running a .desktop file in terminal (Dennis Tomas).
228 - Strip .xpm or .svg extensions from Icon entry in .desktop files
231 - When clicking on toolbar buttons, don't crash if gtk_get_current_event
232 returns NULL (Thomas Leonard). This is the case when ATK is used.
234 - Need to use unsigned char when reading the header of an Exif file to
235 avoid problems on some hardware (Stephen Watson, reported by Musus
239 Release 2.6.1 (2007-06-10)
241 SESSION MANAGER CHANGES
243 - When run with -S, restart with -S too rather than expanding the current
244 panels and pinboard on the command-line (Thomas Leonard).
246 - If the filer was started with -S, ask the session manager to automatically
247 restart it if it crashes (Thomas Leonard).
249 - If 0launch is available, use that as the session restart command when using a
250 session manager. Without this, restoring a session would always reload the
251 same version of ROX-Filer that was used when you saved it, not the current
252 version (Thomas Leonard).
256 - Shouldn't use == in /bin/sh scripts, that's a bashism (Stephen Watson).
258 - Don't abort the build if we can't create debugging symbols (Thomas Leonard,
259 reported through 0compile as bug#1678076).
263 - Reduced panel border width to 1 pixel (Tony Houghton).
265 - For JPEG files in Exif format attempt to read an embedded thumbnail first
268 - Bugfix: The Thumb::Size tag is optional in the thumbnail spec (reported by
273 - Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
275 - Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
278 Release 2.6 (2007-02-25)
282 - If a .desktop file says "Terminal=true" then run the program in a terminal
283 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Frank McCormick). Note: this is currently
284 hard-coded to use xterm.
286 - Option to display xattr indicator now independant of xattr support option
288 - The symlink and xattr emblems are now loaded from stock items and therefore
289 themeable. Made clear that setting type on directories sets the contents, not
290 the directory. inode/* types excluded from the list of types available for
291 setting (Stephen Watson).
293 - Added "Fit" backdrop image scaling mode (Peter Hyman). Like "Scale", this
294 scales the image without distorting it, but it will make it larger than the
295 screen if necessary to avoid a border.
297 - New MIME type for Jar archives.
299 - Lookup URI handlers by scheme in choices (Stephen Watson)
301 - Added -U option for parsing filenames in URL form (Stephen Watson).
303 - Added a new SOAP method, RunURI, and made the -U option use that. In addition
304 error returns from SOAP methods implicitly invoked (not via -R) are printed
305 as simple messages rather than the XML data (Stephen Watson).
307 - Add eject button to the unmount/don't unmount dialog (Stephen Watson).
309 - Mount and unmount commands can have additional parameters, eject command can
310 also be changed in the same way (Jim Ramsay, Stephen Watson).
312 - Menu option to control whether directories are filtered by name along with
313 other files (Janek Kozicki and Andras Mohari).
318 - Don't try to thumbnail zero-byte files. They're either empty, or special and
319 may cause us to hang (Thomas Leonard; reported by Barry Kauler).
321 - Always use the default RTL setting to render filenames, even if they start
322 with a character that suggests the opposite. Fixes a positioning problem
323 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Alexander McLeay).
325 - Use $MAKE to run make, for *BSD users
327 - Don't display a warning about deprecated options; it just confuses people
328 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Peter).
330 - When moving the cursor down on the last row of a collection in vertical mode,
331 move to the start of the next column (Thomas Leonard).
333 - When reporting an invalid MIME type, include the type's name in the error
334 message (Thomas Leonard).
336 - Fix bug when checking for escape characters in command string (Stephen Watson).
341 - Removed code to set location of pkg-config files. No longer needed, since the
342 discovery of ${pcfiledir} (suggested by Stephen Watson).
344 - Made ROX-Filer-src.xml use the gtk-2.4 build environment, rather than
345 depending on all the headers directly. The build environment sets up a
346 temporary directory with some symlinks, which means you can compile without
347 having any version of the GTK headers installed at all. Before, an existing
348 -dev installation was required (but only to get the major version number of
354 - Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
356 - Updated Hungarian translation (amohari).
358 - Updated Italian translation (deslar).
360 - Updated Russian translation (Nikita E. Shalaev).
362 - Updated Ukrainian translation (Yury Bulka).
364 - Updated Vietnamese translation (Anhtuan).
367 Release 2.5 (2006-07-07)
371 - Allow pinboard and panel icons to be locked (Dennis Tomas, suggested
374 - Display extra information in properties box for desktop files (Stephen
377 - Allow setting icons in the AppInfo.xml file (Dennis Tomas). Example:
380 <Item option="--options" icon="gtk-preferences">...</Item>
383 - Added SetIcon and UnsetIcon SOAP calls (Jonatan Liljedahl). With this
384 you can have your volume manager (like ivman) set icons for the
385 mounted media that represents what type of media it is (cdr, cdrw, usb
388 - Right-clicking on the Show/hide button now turns thumbnails on and off
391 - Added options to change the "mount" and "umount" commands (Thomas
392 Leonard). This may be useful for using programs such as "pmount" and
393 "pumount" (which allow mounting removable media without an fstab
394 entry, or encrypted filesystems).
396 - Added a 'Manage Thumbnails' link to the Options box (Thomas Leonard).
397 If 0launch isn't available, tell the user the URL of the program we
398 were trying to run so they can get it themselves. Tell users about
399 right-click behaviour in a tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
404 - Removed separator from icon properties dialog box (Thomas Leonard).
406 - Updated Word MIME type for new MIME database (Keith Warno).
408 - When the handler for a MIME type is a symlink to a program, run the
409 program using the target of the symlink rather than the link itself so
410 that programs like gvim see the right name and behave correctly
411 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Keith Warno).
413 - Use full URI, not local path, for DocBook stylesheet (Pär Forsling).
415 - When setting or clearing a globicon, redraw pinboard and panel icons
418 - When loading MIME icons from the current theme only get the pathname
419 from GTK, but actually load it through our own cache (Thomas Leonard).
420 GTK was loading a new copy of the image each time!
422 - Changed name of save settings menu option to be more explicit (Stephen
425 - In many .desktop files there is no "%F" or similar parameter to the
426 "Exec" entry, although the application can open files. Work around
427 this problem by adding the arguments to the end of the command in this
430 - Added Zero Install source interface (Thomas Leonard). Run this with
431 0launch to compile against the GTK and GLib 2.4 headers (which will be
432 downloaded automatically). This produces a binary that runs with these
433 older versions, as well as with all later releases. Note that this has
434 been somewhat superceded by the GTK-2.4 compatibility environment:
436 http://0install.net/2006/interfaces/GTK-2.4.xml
438 - New type for XML files; "application/" rather than "text/" to match
439 freedesktop.org updates (Thomas Leonard).
441 - Moved test for a hidden file into its own function. Allows us to
442 define additional tests as to whether a file is hidden, rather than
443 just the first character of the file name (Stephen Watson).
445 - Updated source file headers by removing the Id line, updating the
446 year and clarifying the copyrights (Thomas Leonard).
448 - The monospace font for the list view is now configurable via a
449 ViewDetails::mono-font gtkrc entry (Stephen Watson).
451 - When iconfiying a window, try to find space on the pinboard of the
452 current screen first (Tony Houghton).
454 - Updated the help text for rox --help (Andras Mohari).
456 - Use a monospace font for the size and permissions columsn in the list
457 view (Andras Mohari).
462 - When a panel icon's image changed, the display didn't update (Thomas
463 Leonard, reported by Dennis Tomas).
465 - Any line in a .desktop file would be ignored if there was a blank line
466 directly before it (Dennis Tomas).
468 - Escape " characters when generating translations for the Options.xml
469 file (Andras Mohari).
471 - When reading the output from 'du' for the Properties box, set the
472 channel's encoding to NULL to avoid errors with non-UTF-8 filenames
475 - When running ROX-Filer for the first time ever, don't tell users that
476 the Choices directory has been migrated unless they already had one.
477 Also, don't bother creating symlinks to the new locations in this
478 case. Other applications have had a while to catch up to the new
479 system, and the message is rather confusing to new users (Thomas
485 - Updated Chinese Translations (Babyfai Cheung).
487 - Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
489 - Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
491 - Updated Hungarian translation and converted to UTF-8 (Andras Mohari).
493 - Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
495 - Updated Russian translation (Nikita E. Shalaev).
497 - Added Ukrainian translation (Yourko).
499 - Added Vietnamese translation (Xomhau Newnick).
501 - Updated instructions for creating a translation (reported by Yourko).
503 - Make sure all the help message is translatable (Stephen Watson,
504 reported by Andras Mohari).
508 30-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4.1)
510 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
514 Some .desktop files put ".png" after the icon name, which prevents the icon
515 from being found. Ignore it (Thomass Leonard; reported by Peter).
519 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
523 If we can't find libc.so.6 for xattr support, try libc.so in case we only have
524 uClib (Lucas Correia Villa Real).
528 Allow .desktop files to be used as run actions (Thomas Leonard).
532 Bugfix: New detail crashes cleanice theme (reported by Andras Mohari; reported
533 as CleanIce bug #1383457). Try another value...
537 Highlight icons using the theme's preferred colour instead of always using
538 blue (Andras Mohari).
539 Bugfix: Don't set style detail to "base" when highlighting items in a
540 Collection, as it confuses GTK's lighthouseblue theme engine
545 Bugfix: Changing the display style crashes the filer with GTK >= 2.8.9 because
546 it sends a selection changed event before the view has finished
547 initialising (Thomas Leonard; reported by Tobias Kieslich).
548 Removed some done entries from the TODO file (Stephen Watson).
550 13-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4)
552 Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
556 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
557 Make Path optional in PanelRemove SOAP call, allowing removal of items based
558 only on their label (Jonatan Liljedahl).
559 Bugfix: The install script failed to compile ROX-Filer on Debian systems, due
560 to a bug in recent versions of xterm (Vincent Lefèvre). Added a
562 Bugfix: On 64-bit systems communication between ROX-Filer processes didn't
563 work, because GDK uses sizeof(long) bytes (not always 4 bytes) to store
564 a 32 bit property (Lucas Hazel).
568 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
569 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
570 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
575 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
579 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
580 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
582 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
583 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
584 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
588 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
593 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
597 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
598 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
602 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
606 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
607 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
608 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
612 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
616 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
617 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
621 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
622 manually (Thomas Leonard).
626 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
627 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
628 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
633 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
634 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
638 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
639 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
640 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
641 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
645 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
646 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
647 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
651 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
655 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
659 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
660 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
664 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
665 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
666 reported by Tristan McLeay).
670 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
671 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
673 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
677 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
678 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
679 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
680 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
684 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
685 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
687 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
689 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
694 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
695 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
696 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
697 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
698 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
703 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
708 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
712 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
713 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
715 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
716 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
717 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
718 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
722 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
723 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
724 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
729 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
731 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
736 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
740 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
741 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
745 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
746 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
747 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
751 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
755 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
756 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
757 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
758 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
759 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
763 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
764 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
765 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
767 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
768 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
769 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
770 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
771 though they may be valid UTF-8.
772 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
774 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
775 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
776 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
777 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
778 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
784 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
785 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
787 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
788 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
793 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
794 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
798 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
799 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
804 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
805 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
806 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
807 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
808 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
809 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
811 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
813 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
814 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
815 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
819 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
820 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
824 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
825 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
829 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
830 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
831 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
832 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
836 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
840 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
841 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
845 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
847 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
848 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
849 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
854 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
855 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
856 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
857 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
861 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
863 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
864 function address (Tony Houghton).
868 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
869 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
874 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
878 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
879 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
883 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
884 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
885 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
889 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
893 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
894 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
895 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
896 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
897 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
902 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
907 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
911 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
912 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
916 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
917 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
921 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
925 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
926 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
928 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
932 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
933 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
937 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
938 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
939 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
941 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
943 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
948 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
949 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
953 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
958 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
962 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
963 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
964 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
965 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
967 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
972 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
973 the old one (Stephen Watson).
974 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
975 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
976 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
980 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
985 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
987 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
989 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
990 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
994 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
995 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
997 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
999 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1000 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
1001 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
1002 reported by Lewis Denizen).
1006 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1010 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
1011 the binary (Stephen Watson).
1015 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1019 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
1020 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
1021 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
1025 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
1028 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
1030 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
1031 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
1032 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
1033 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
1034 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
1038 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
1042 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
1043 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
1047 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
1051 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
1052 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
1053 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
1055 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
1056 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
1058 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
1059 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
1060 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
1061 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
1065 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
1066 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
1070 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
1071 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
1072 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
1073 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
1078 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
1079 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
1083 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
1084 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
1085 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
1089 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
1090 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
1091 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
1095 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
1099 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
1100 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
1104 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
1105 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1109 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
1113 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
1114 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
1119 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
1120 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
1124 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
1128 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
1129 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
1130 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
1131 when changing to a parent directory.
1132 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
1136 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1140 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
1144 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
1146 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
1148 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
1152 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
1154 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1158 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
1160 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1164 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
1168 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
1169 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
1170 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
1171 reported by Anthony DiSante).
1175 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
1179 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1183 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
1184 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
1185 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
1186 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
1187 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
1191 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
1192 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
1196 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
1197 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
1202 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
1203 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
1208 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
1209 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
1213 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
1214 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
1218 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
1219 (reported by Tony Houghton).
1223 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
1225 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
1226 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
1230 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
1231 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
1235 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
1239 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
1243 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
1247 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
1248 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
1249 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
1253 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1257 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
1262 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
1266 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1268 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
1270 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
1274 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1275 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
1276 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
1278 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
1282 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
1283 print a warning and then crash.
1287 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
1288 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
1289 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
1294 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
1298 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
1303 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
1307 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
1311 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
1313 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
1318 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
1319 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
1320 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
1325 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
1326 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
1331 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
1333 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
1334 anyway, and noone had complained).
1335 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
1336 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
1340 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
1341 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
1342 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
1346 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
1350 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
1351 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
1355 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
1356 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
1357 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
1361 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
1362 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
1363 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
1365 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
1366 by Simon Templer and others).
1370 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
1371 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
1372 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
1376 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
1380 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
1384 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
1385 version number again (Stephen Watson).
1389 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
1390 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
1394 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
1398 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
1399 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
1400 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
1401 anyway (Stephen Watson).
1405 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1409 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1413 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1415 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
1417 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
1421 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
1422 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
1423 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
1427 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
1428 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
1433 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
1434 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
1435 impossible to change shortcuts.
1436 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
1437 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
1441 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
1442 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
1447 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
1448 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
1449 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1453 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
1454 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
1455 to the functions being missing.
1459 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
1463 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
1467 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
1471 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
1475 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
1476 worries people for no reason.
1480 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
1484 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
1485 files selected (Peter Geer).
1489 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
1490 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
1494 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
1498 Added 'Select by Name'.
1502 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
1506 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
1511 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1515 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1517 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
1519 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1520 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1524 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1528 Misc changes for next release.
1532 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
1533 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
1537 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
1538 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
1539 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
1540 Watson, reported on #rox).
1544 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
1545 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
1549 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
1550 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
1554 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
1555 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
1559 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
1560 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1565 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1569 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1571 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1576 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1580 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1581 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1585 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1586 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1590 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1594 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1599 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1600 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1601 for the same reason.
1602 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1603 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1607 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1608 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1612 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1617 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1618 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1622 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1623 support not being detected (igla).
1627 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1631 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1632 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1636 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1640 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1641 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1642 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1643 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1646 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1648 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1649 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1653 New icon for selection ops.
1657 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1661 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1665 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1669 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1670 Added icon theme selector.
1674 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1678 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1682 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1683 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1687 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1688 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1689 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1693 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1694 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1698 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1702 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1703 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1704 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1708 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1712 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1713 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1718 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1719 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1723 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1724 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1728 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1729 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1733 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1737 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1738 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1739 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1743 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1747 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1748 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1749 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1750 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1754 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1755 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1757 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1761 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1765 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1766 bits (Stephen Watson).
1770 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1774 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1778 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1779 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1783 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1787 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1788 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1793 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1794 forward them explicitly.
1798 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1799 help from Götz Waschk).
1803 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1804 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1805 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1809 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1813 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1817 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1821 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1822 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1824 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1826 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1830 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1832 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1834 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1838 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1839 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1840 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1841 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1845 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1849 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1853 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1857 Minor updates to the manual.
1858 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1859 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1863 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1864 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1866 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1868 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1869 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1873 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1874 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1875 reduce flickering effect.
1879 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1883 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1885 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1889 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1890 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1891 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1892 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1893 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1897 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1898 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1902 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1906 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1911 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1912 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1916 Winking now works in List view.
1920 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1924 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1925 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1929 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1930 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1932 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1934 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1938 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1942 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1943 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1945 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1949 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1950 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1954 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1956 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1960 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1961 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1965 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1967 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1971 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1975 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1976 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1981 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1982 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1984 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1986 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1988 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1992 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1996 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1997 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2001 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
2006 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
2007 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
2011 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
2013 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
2015 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2016 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
2021 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
2025 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
2026 (suggested by Michael Adams).
2027 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
2028 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
2029 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
2030 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
2031 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
2033 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
2037 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
2042 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2043 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
2047 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
2048 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
2049 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
2050 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
2055 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
2056 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
2057 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
2058 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
2059 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
2060 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
2061 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
2062 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
2063 talent can do something better?
2064 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
2065 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2069 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
2070 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
2071 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
2076 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
2078 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
2079 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
2080 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
2081 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
2082 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
2083 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
2084 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
2085 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
2086 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
2087 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
2088 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
2089 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
2090 label wasn't hidden / shown.
2094 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
2095 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
2096 allow fine repositioning.
2097 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
2098 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
2099 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
2100 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
2102 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
2103 changing the aspect ratio.
2107 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
2111 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
2115 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
2116 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
2117 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2121 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
2125 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
2130 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
2131 make sharing icons easier.
2132 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2136 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
2137 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
2141 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
2145 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
2147 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
2151 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
2156 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
2161 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2162 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
2164 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
2165 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
2166 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
2167 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
2171 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
2172 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
2176 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2180 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
2182 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
2183 Brian Langenberger).
2187 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
2188 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
2190 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
2194 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
2195 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2197 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
2199 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
2203 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
2204 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
2209 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2213 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
2214 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2215 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2219 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2220 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2224 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
2228 Preserve selection when changing view type.
2229 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
2233 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
2234 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
2235 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
2239 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
2243 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
2244 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
2245 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
2246 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
2248 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
2249 the information in the tooltips anyway.
2253 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
2254 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
2258 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
2263 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
2264 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
2268 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
2272 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
2273 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
2274 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
2275 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
2280 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
2281 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
2282 Always use case-insensitive sort.
2286 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2290 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
2291 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
2295 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
2296 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
2297 since it didn't include the contents.
2298 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
2299 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
2303 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2307 Style improvements to options window.
2311 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2315 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
2317 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
2319 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
2324 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
2325 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
2326 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
2327 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
2331 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
2335 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
2339 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2340 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
2344 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
2346 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
2351 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
2355 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2356 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
2357 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
2362 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
2366 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
2370 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
2374 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
2378 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
2379 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
2380 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
2384 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
2385 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
2389 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
2390 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
2395 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
2399 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
2403 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
2408 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
2409 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
2413 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
2414 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
2419 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
2420 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
2424 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
2425 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
2426 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
2430 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2434 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
2435 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
2436 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
2437 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
2438 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
2442 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
2443 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2447 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2448 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2452 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2456 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
2457 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
2458 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
2459 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2460 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
2461 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
2465 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2466 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2467 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
2471 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
2472 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
2477 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2481 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2483 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
2485 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
2490 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
2494 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
2498 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
2499 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
2504 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
2508 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2512 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
2513 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
2514 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2518 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2522 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
2527 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2531 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
2532 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
2533 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
2534 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2538 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
2542 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2543 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
2547 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
2548 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
2549 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
2553 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
2557 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
2561 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2562 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2563 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2564 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2565 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2566 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2570 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2571 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2575 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2576 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2577 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2581 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2582 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2586 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2590 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2591 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2592 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2593 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2595 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2597 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2601 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2602 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2603 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2607 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2611 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2612 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2617 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2621 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2625 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2626 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2630 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2631 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2632 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2636 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2637 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2641 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2642 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2646 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2647 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2651 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2655 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2656 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2660 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2662 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2664 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2668 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2672 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2673 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2677 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2681 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2685 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2686 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2687 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2688 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2689 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2690 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2694 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2698 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2700 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2701 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2705 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2706 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2710 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2714 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2715 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2716 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2717 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2719 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2721 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2725 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2726 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2730 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2731 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2732 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2736 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2737 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2738 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2739 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2740 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2741 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2742 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2746 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2747 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2751 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2755 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2759 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2764 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2768 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2769 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2770 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2774 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2775 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2776 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2780 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2781 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2782 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2786 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2787 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2791 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2796 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2797 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2798 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2799 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2800 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2802 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2803 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2807 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2811 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2812 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2813 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2814 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2818 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2819 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2820 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2821 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2822 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2823 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2827 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2831 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2832 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2836 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2837 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2838 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2839 restart (Olli Helenius).
2843 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2847 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2848 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2849 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2854 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2859 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2860 Small and Large sizes.
2864 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2868 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2869 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2873 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2874 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2875 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2876 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2880 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2881 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2882 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2887 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2892 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2893 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2897 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2898 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2903 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2905 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2907 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2911 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2915 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2917 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2919 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2923 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2925 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2926 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2930 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2931 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2935 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2936 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2940 Various speed improvements.
2941 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2945 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2946 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2950 Slight speed increase when starting.
2954 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2958 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2959 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2960 button is no longer supported.
2964 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2968 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2972 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2977 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2978 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2982 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2983 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2984 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2988 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2989 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2990 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2991 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2995 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2996 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2997 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2999 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
3004 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
3005 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
3010 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
3014 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
3015 and converted to new dialog style.
3019 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
3020 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
3024 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
3025 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
3029 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
3033 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
3035 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
3039 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
3043 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
3044 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
3045 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
3049 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
3050 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
3054 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
3059 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
3063 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
3064 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
3068 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
3069 and Cancel is now Revert.
3070 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
3071 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
3075 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
3079 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
3080 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
3082 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
3083 (reported by Serban Udrea).
3084 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
3085 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
3089 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
3091 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
3092 labels display them.
3093 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
3096 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
3100 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
3102 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
3106 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
3107 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
3108 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
3112 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3113 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
3115 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
3117 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
3121 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
3122 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3126 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
3127 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
3128 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
3129 (requested by Andras Mohari).
3133 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3137 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
3138 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3142 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
3143 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
3148 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
3149 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
3153 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3154 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
3155 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
3159 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
3160 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
3164 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
3165 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
3166 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
3167 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
3169 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
3174 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
3175 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
3177 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
3179 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3183 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
3184 any image (saves time).
3185 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
3186 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
3187 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
3188 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
3190 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3191 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
3195 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
3196 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
3198 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
3199 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
3201 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
3206 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
3207 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
3208 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
3209 has stopped accepting STRING.
3213 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
3214 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
3218 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
3223 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
3224 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
3226 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
3227 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
3228 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
3232 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
3233 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
3234 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
3235 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
3236 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
3237 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
3241 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
3242 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
3243 Allow '~' in globicons file.
3244 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
3245 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
3246 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
3251 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
3252 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
3253 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
3254 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
3259 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3260 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
3264 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
3265 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
3267 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
3269 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
3270 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
3271 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3275 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
3276 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
3277 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3281 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
3282 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
3286 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
3287 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
3291 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
3293 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
3298 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3299 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3303 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
3304 their menus correctly.
3305 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
3310 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
3311 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
3312 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
3316 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3317 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
3321 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3325 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
3328 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
3330 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3331 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
3332 the toggle menu items from working!
3336 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
3338 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
3344 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
3345 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
3349 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3350 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
3351 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
3352 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
3353 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
3354 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
3358 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
3362 File groups are now saved (automatically).
3363 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
3367 Added Version SOAP RPC.
3368 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
3369 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
3373 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
3374 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
3379 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
3381 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
3385 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
3386 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
3387 bar is displayed in the filer window.
3388 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
3392 Improved error reporting.
3393 Improved sizing code when details are on.
3397 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
3398 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
3399 check box and does 'Yes'.
3403 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
3404 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
3405 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
3406 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
3411 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
3413 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3414 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
3416 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
3418 Internal changes to options system:
3419 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
3420 filer is fully initialised).
3421 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
3423 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
3425 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
3426 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
3427 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
3428 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
3432 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
3433 now reclaims the selection.
3434 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
3435 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
3440 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
3441 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
3442 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
3443 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
3444 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
3448 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
3449 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
3451 Code tidying in various places.
3455 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
3456 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
3461 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
3462 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
3466 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
3467 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
3468 edit the file, not the file itself!
3469 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
3473 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3474 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
3475 (recommended by Jens Finke).
3476 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
3477 of the SOAP working draft.
3478 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
3479 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
3480 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
3485 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
3486 it was in the displayed area before.
3488 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
3491 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
3492 winking effect until the window actually appears.
3496 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
3497 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
3498 Kristian A. Rink and others).
3500 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
3501 selection (Andras Mohari).
3505 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
3509 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
3513 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
3514 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
3515 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
3519 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
3523 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
3525 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
3526 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
3527 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
3531 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
3532 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
3537 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
3538 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
3539 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
3543 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
3547 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
3551 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
3552 replaced by a Restart button.
3556 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
3557 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
3561 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3565 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3569 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3570 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3571 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3575 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3576 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3578 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3579 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3580 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3584 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3585 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3590 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3592 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3593 (requested by Graham Borland).
3594 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3595 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3596 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3600 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3601 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3602 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3603 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3607 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3608 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3609 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3610 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3611 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3612 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3613 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3614 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3615 - Lots of code tidying.
3620 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3621 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3625 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3627 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3629 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3633 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3634 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3638 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3639 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3643 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3644 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3648 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3649 option to access it directly.
3653 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3654 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3655 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3659 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3660 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3661 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3662 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3663 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3664 when the filer is run.
3668 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3669 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3670 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3675 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3679 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3680 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3684 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3686 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3690 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3694 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3695 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3696 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3701 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3702 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3703 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3704 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3705 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3706 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3707 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3711 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3715 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3716 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3720 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3721 of possible actions (Taras).
3722 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3724 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3725 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3729 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3734 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3738 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3741 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3742 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3746 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3747 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3749 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3751 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3752 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3753 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3754 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3758 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3762 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3766 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3770 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3775 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3776 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3777 the first one found.
3778 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3782 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3786 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3787 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3788 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3792 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3793 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3794 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3799 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3800 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3801 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3805 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3807 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3812 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3817 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3821 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3822 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3826 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3828 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3829 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3833 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3837 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3838 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3842 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3843 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3847 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3848 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3850 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3852 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3856 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3860 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3861 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3865 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3869 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3874 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3875 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3879 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3883 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3887 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3889 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3890 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3894 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3895 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3899 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3900 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3901 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3905 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3906 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3910 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3911 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3913 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3915 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3919 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3920 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3921 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3923 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3924 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3926 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3928 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3929 and the default size with no details.
3933 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3934 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3938 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3943 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3948 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3952 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3957 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3958 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3962 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3966 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3967 the button to run it does.
3968 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3969 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3970 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3974 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3975 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3976 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3980 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3984 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3985 and panels into icon.c.
3989 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3990 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3991 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3992 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3996 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3998 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
4000 Updated the documentation.
4004 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
4005 up if they're too small.
4009 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
4011 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
4012 (Christopher Arndt).
4013 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
4018 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
4019 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
4023 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
4024 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
4028 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
4029 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
4030 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
4035 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
4040 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
4044 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
4045 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
4050 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
4055 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
4056 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
4060 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
4061 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
4065 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
4069 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
4073 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
4077 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
4078 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
4081 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
4082 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
4087 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
4088 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
4089 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4090 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
4095 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
4096 held over the item (Denis Manente).
4098 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
4100 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
4101 for non-applications.
4105 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
4106 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
4111 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
4115 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
4116 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
4118 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
4122 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
4123 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
4127 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
4128 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
4132 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
4133 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
4137 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
4138 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
4140 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
4141 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
4145 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
4146 standard output (Stephen Watson).
4148 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
4152 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
4153 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
4156 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
4160 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
4161 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
4165 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
4169 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
4170 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
4173 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
4174 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
4178 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
4182 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
4187 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4191 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
4192 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
4197 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
4202 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
4206 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
4208 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
4210 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
4211 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
4213 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
4215 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
4216 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
4220 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
4221 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
4222 were used (Diego Zamboni).
4224 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
4225 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
4229 Many internal changes to the Options system.
4233 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
4234 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
4238 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
4242 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
4243 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
4245 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
4248 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
4249 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
4250 lines in the form 'option Text'.
4254 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
4255 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
4260 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
4265 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4267 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
4270 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
4272 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
4273 sensible shape itself now.
4275 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
4276 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
4277 file at all, just a reused inode!
4278 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
4279 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
4280 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
4284 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
4288 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
4289 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
4294 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
4295 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
4299 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
4303 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
4304 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
4308 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
4313 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
4317 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
4318 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
4322 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
4323 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4324 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
4325 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
4326 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
4330 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
4331 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
4332 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
4333 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
4334 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
4338 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
4339 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
4340 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
4344 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
4346 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
4347 python's portable system.
4348 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
4349 set the LANG variable.
4353 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
4354 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
4356 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
4358 Made a few updates to the manual.
4362 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
4363 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
4365 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
4367 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
4368 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
4372 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
4373 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
4377 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
4378 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
4383 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
4384 by Wilbert Berendsen).
4385 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
4389 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
4390 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
4394 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
4395 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
4399 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
4400 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
4402 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
4403 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
4404 open... (Denis Manente).
4408 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4412 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4414 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
4415 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
4416 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
4418 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
4420 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
4422 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
4423 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
4428 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
4429 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
4430 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
4434 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
4435 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
4439 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4443 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
4447 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
4448 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
4449 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
4453 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
4454 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
4455 between pinboards...
4457 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
4458 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
4459 background - seems to be necessary :-(
4463 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
4466 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
4467 window (Denis Manente).
4469 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
4470 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
4474 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
4475 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
4476 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
4480 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
4483 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
4484 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
4486 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
4491 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
4492 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
4494 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
4498 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
4499 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
4501 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
4503 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
4508 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
4509 the icon points to as well as its name.
4511 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
4512 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
4516 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
4517 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
4518 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
4519 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
4523 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4527 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
4528 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
4529 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
4533 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
4534 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
4536 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
4537 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
4540 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
4541 the item after the drag.
4543 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
4544 showing where the file really is.
4548 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
4549 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
4554 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
4555 warning is displayed if so.
4557 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
4561 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4562 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4563 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4564 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4567 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4568 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4569 works like the panels.
4573 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4574 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4575 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4576 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4577 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4581 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4582 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4583 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4584 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4586 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4591 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4595 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4596 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4599 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4600 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4602 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4605 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4606 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4607 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4608 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4610 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4612 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4613 slightly. Updated the manual.
4615 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4616 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4619 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4620 or bottom panel to make room.
4624 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4629 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4630 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4631 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4632 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4633 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4637 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4639 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4640 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4642 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4646 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4647 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4651 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4655 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4657 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4662 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4663 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4665 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4669 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4670 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4671 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4675 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4676 rewriting the panel system.
4680 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4683 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4684 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4688 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4689 (suggested by James Kermode).
4693 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4694 than as a full path.
4696 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4698 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4699 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4700 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4704 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4705 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4709 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4710 rename something onto another filesystem.
4714 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4716 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4717 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4721 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4725 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4728 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4729 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4731 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4734 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4739 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4740 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4741 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4743 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4744 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4746 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4747 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4752 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4753 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4758 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4759 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4760 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4762 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4763 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4764 of the 'missing image' image.
4768 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4770 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4772 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4777 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4778 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4779 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4780 its name into another program.
4782 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4786 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4788 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4789 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4790 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4792 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4793 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4794 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4797 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4798 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4802 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4803 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4804 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4808 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4809 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4810 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4814 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4815 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4816 and position the icons directly.
4820 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4825 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4826 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4827 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4831 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4835 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4836 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4840 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4845 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4849 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4850 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4851 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4852 some versions of GTK+.
4856 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4861 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4862 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4863 from a sub-sub-menu.
4865 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4866 drawn on a log scale.
4870 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4871 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4872 happy with the UI yet though...
4874 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4875 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4876 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4880 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4881 by Stephen Harrison).
4883 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4885 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4886 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4887 standard types are in Choices.
4888 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4890 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4891 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4892 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4897 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4898 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4899 shell command minibuffer.
4903 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4904 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4905 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4906 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4907 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4909 Default search path for Choices is now:
4910 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4912 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4913 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4914 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4918 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4919 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4923 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4924 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4925 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4930 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4931 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4932 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4935 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4937 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4938 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4939 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4941 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4942 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4946 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4947 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4948 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4949 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4954 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4955 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4956 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4958 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4960 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4961 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4965 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4966 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4967 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4972 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4973 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4976 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4978 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4983 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4988 Added GNU gettext support.
4989 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4993 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4995 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4997 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
5002 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
5006 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
5007 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
5009 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
5010 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
5015 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
5016 onto the directory and winks the file.
5020 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
5021 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
5022 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
5024 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
5025 instead of random values.
5026 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
5028 Applied Bernard's patch:
5029 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
5030 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
5031 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
5032 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
5033 it the RISC OS way...
5034 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
5035 alignment corrected.
5036 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
5041 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
5045 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
5046 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
5050 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
5051 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
5052 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
5053 - Option to only display one window per directory.
5054 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
5055 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
5056 - Errors in options are only reported once.
5057 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
5058 in the file(1) says... box).
5061 Before the Changes file
5062 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5063 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
5065 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
5066 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
5067 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
5068 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
5069 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD