2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
11 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
12 Make Path optional in PanelRemove SOAP call, allowing removal of items based
13 only on their label (Jonatan Liljedahl).
14 Bugfix: The install script failed to compile ROX-Filer on Debian systems, due
15 to a bug in recent versions of xterm (Vincent Lefèvre). Added
17 Bugfix: On 64-bit systems communication between ROX-Filer processes didn't
18 work, because GDK uses sizeof(long) bytes (not always 4 bytes) to store
19 a 32 bit property (Lucas Hazel).
23 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
24 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
25 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
30 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
34 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
35 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
37 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
38 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
39 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
43 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
48 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
52 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
53 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
57 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
61 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
62 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
63 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
67 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
71 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
72 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
76 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
77 manually (Thomas Leonard).
81 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
82 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
83 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
88 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
89 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
93 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
94 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
95 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
96 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
100 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
101 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
102 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
106 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
110 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
114 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
115 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
119 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
120 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
121 reported by Tristan McLeay).
125 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
126 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
128 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
132 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
133 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
134 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
135 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
139 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
140 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
142 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
144 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
149 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
150 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
151 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
152 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
153 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
158 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
163 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
167 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
168 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
170 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
171 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
172 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
173 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
177 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
178 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
179 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
184 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
186 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
191 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
195 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
196 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
200 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
201 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
202 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
206 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
210 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
211 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
212 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
213 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
214 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
218 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
219 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
220 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
222 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
223 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
224 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
225 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
226 though they may be valid UTF-8.
227 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
229 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
230 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
231 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
232 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
233 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
239 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
240 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
242 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
243 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
248 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
249 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
253 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
254 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
259 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
260 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
261 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
262 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
263 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
264 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
266 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
268 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
269 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
270 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
274 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
275 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
279 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
280 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
284 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
285 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
286 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
287 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
291 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
295 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
296 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
300 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
302 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
303 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
304 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
309 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
310 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
311 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
312 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
316 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
318 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
319 function address (Tony Houghton).
323 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
324 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
329 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
333 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
334 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
338 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
339 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
340 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
344 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
348 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
349 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
350 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
351 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
352 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
357 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
362 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
366 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
367 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
371 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
372 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
376 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
380 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
381 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
383 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
387 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
388 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
392 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
393 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
394 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
396 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
398 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
403 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
404 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
408 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
413 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
417 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
418 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
419 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
420 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
422 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
427 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
428 the old one (Stephen Watson).
429 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
430 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
431 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
435 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
440 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
442 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
444 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
445 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
449 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
450 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
452 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
454 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
455 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
456 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
457 reported by Lewis Denizen).
461 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
465 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
466 the binary (Stephen Watson).
470 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
474 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
475 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
476 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
480 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
483 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
485 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
486 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
487 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
488 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
489 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
493 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
497 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
498 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
502 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
506 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
507 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
508 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
510 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
511 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
513 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
514 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
515 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
516 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
520 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
521 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
525 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
526 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
527 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
528 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
533 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
534 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
538 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
539 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
540 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
544 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
545 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
546 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
550 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
554 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
555 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
559 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
560 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
564 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
568 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
569 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
574 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
575 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
579 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
583 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
584 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
585 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
586 when changing to a parent directory.
587 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
591 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
595 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
599 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
601 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
603 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
607 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
609 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
613 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
615 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
619 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
623 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
624 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
625 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
626 reported by Anthony DiSante).
630 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
634 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
638 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
639 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
640 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
641 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
642 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
646 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
647 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
651 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
652 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
657 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
658 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
663 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
664 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
668 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
669 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
673 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
674 (reported by Tony Houghton).
678 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
680 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
681 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
685 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
686 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
690 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
694 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
698 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
702 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
703 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
704 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
708 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
712 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
717 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
721 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
723 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
725 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
729 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
730 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
731 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
733 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
737 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
738 print a warning and then crash.
742 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
743 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
744 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
749 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
753 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
758 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
762 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
766 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
768 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
773 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
774 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
775 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
780 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
781 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
786 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
788 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
789 anyway, and noone had complained).
790 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
791 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
795 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
796 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
797 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
801 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
805 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
806 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
810 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
811 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
812 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
816 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
817 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
818 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
820 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
821 by Simon Templer and others).
825 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
826 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
827 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
831 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
835 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
839 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
840 version number again (Stephen Watson).
844 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
845 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
849 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
853 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
854 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
855 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
856 anyway (Stephen Watson).
860 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
864 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
868 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
870 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
872 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
876 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
877 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
878 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
882 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
883 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
888 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
889 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
890 impossible to change shortcuts.
891 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
892 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
896 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
897 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
902 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
903 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
904 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
908 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
909 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
910 to the functions being missing.
914 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
918 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
922 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
926 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
930 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
931 worries people for no reason.
935 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
939 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
940 files selected (Peter Geer).
944 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
945 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
949 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
953 Added 'Select by Name'.
957 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
961 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
966 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
970 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
972 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
974 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
975 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
979 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
983 Misc changes for next release.
987 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
988 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
992 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
993 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
994 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
995 Watson, reported on #rox).
999 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
1000 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
1004 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
1005 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
1009 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
1010 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
1014 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
1015 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1020 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1024 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1026 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1031 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1035 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1036 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1040 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1041 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1045 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1049 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1054 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1055 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1056 for the same reason.
1057 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1058 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1062 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1063 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1067 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1072 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1073 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1077 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1078 support not being detected (igla).
1082 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1086 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1087 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1091 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1095 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1096 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1097 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1098 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1101 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1103 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1104 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1108 New icon for selection ops.
1112 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1116 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1120 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1124 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1125 Added icon theme selector.
1129 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1133 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1137 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1138 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1142 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1143 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1144 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1148 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1149 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1153 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1157 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1158 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1159 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1163 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1167 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1168 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1173 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1174 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1178 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1179 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1183 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1184 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1188 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1192 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1193 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1194 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1198 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1202 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1203 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1204 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1205 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1209 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1210 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1212 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1216 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1220 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1221 bits (Stephen Watson).
1225 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1229 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1233 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1234 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1238 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1242 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1243 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1248 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1249 forward them explicitly.
1253 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1254 help from Götz Waschk).
1258 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1259 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1260 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1264 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1268 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1272 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1276 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1277 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1279 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1281 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1285 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1287 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1289 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1293 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1294 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1295 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1296 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1300 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1304 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1308 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1312 Minor updates to the manual.
1313 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1314 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1318 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1319 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1321 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1323 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1324 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1328 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1329 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1330 reduce flickering effect.
1334 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1338 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1340 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1344 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1345 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1346 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1347 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1348 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1352 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1353 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1357 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1361 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1366 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1367 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1371 Winking now works in List view.
1375 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1379 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1380 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1384 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1385 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1387 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1389 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1393 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1397 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1398 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1400 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1404 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1405 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1409 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1411 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1415 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1416 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1420 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1422 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1426 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1430 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1431 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1436 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1437 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1439 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1441 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1443 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1447 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1451 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1452 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1456 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1461 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1462 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1466 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1468 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1470 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1471 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1476 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1480 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1481 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1482 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1483 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1484 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1485 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1486 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1488 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1492 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1497 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1498 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1502 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1503 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1504 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1505 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1510 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1511 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1512 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1513 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1514 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1515 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1516 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1517 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1518 talent can do something better?
1519 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1520 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1524 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1525 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1526 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1531 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1533 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1534 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1535 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1536 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1537 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1538 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1539 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1540 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1541 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1542 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1543 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1544 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1545 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1549 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1550 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1551 allow fine repositioning.
1552 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1553 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1554 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1555 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1557 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1558 changing the aspect ratio.
1562 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1566 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1570 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1571 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1572 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1576 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1580 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1585 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1586 make sharing icons easier.
1587 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1591 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1592 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1596 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1600 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1602 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1606 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1611 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1616 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1617 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1619 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1620 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1621 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1622 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1626 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1627 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1631 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1635 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1637 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1638 Brian Langenberger).
1642 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1643 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1645 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1649 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1650 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1652 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1654 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1658 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1659 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1664 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1668 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1669 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1670 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1674 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1675 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1679 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1683 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1684 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1688 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1689 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1690 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1694 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1698 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1699 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1700 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1701 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1703 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1704 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1708 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1709 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1713 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1718 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1719 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1723 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1727 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1728 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1729 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1730 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1735 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1736 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1737 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1741 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1745 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1746 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1750 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1751 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1752 since it didn't include the contents.
1753 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1754 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1758 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1762 Style improvements to options window.
1766 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1770 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1772 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1774 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1779 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1780 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1781 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1782 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1786 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1790 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1794 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1795 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1799 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1801 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1806 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1810 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1811 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1812 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1817 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1821 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1825 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1829 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1833 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1834 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1835 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1839 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1840 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1844 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1845 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1850 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1854 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1858 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1863 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1864 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1868 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1869 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1874 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1875 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1879 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1880 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1881 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1885 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1889 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1890 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1891 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1892 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1893 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1897 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1898 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1902 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1903 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1907 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1911 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1912 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1913 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1914 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1915 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1916 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1920 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1921 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1922 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1926 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1927 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1932 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1936 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1938 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1940 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1945 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1949 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1953 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1954 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1959 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1963 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1967 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1968 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1969 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1973 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1977 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1982 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1986 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1987 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1988 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1989 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1993 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1997 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1998 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
2002 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
2003 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
2004 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
2008 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
2012 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
2016 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2017 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2018 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2019 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2020 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2021 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2025 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2026 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2030 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2031 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2032 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2036 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2037 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2041 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2045 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2046 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2047 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2048 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2050 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2052 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2056 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2057 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2058 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2062 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2066 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2067 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2072 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2076 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2080 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2081 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2085 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2086 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2087 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2091 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2092 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2096 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2097 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2101 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2102 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2106 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2110 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2111 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2115 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2117 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2119 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2123 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2127 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2128 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2132 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2136 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2140 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2141 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2142 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2143 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2144 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2145 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2149 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2153 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2155 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2156 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2160 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2161 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2165 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2169 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2170 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2171 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2172 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2174 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2176 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2180 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2181 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2185 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2186 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2187 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2191 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2192 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2193 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2194 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2195 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2196 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2197 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2201 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2202 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2206 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2210 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2214 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2219 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2223 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2224 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2225 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2229 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2230 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2231 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2235 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2236 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2237 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2241 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2242 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2246 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2251 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2252 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2253 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2254 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2255 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2257 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2258 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2262 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2266 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2267 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2268 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2269 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2273 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2274 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2275 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2276 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2277 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2278 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2282 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2286 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2287 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2291 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2292 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2293 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2294 restart (Olli Helenius).
2298 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2302 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2303 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2304 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2309 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2314 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2315 Small and Large sizes.
2319 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2323 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2324 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2328 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2329 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2330 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2331 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2335 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2336 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2337 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2342 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2347 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2348 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2352 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2353 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2358 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2360 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2362 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2366 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2370 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2372 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2374 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2378 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2380 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2381 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2385 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2386 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2390 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2391 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2395 Various speed improvements.
2396 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2400 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2401 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2405 Slight speed increase when starting.
2409 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2413 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2414 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2415 button is no longer supported.
2419 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2423 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2427 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2432 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2433 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2437 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2438 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2439 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2443 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2444 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2445 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2446 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2450 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2451 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2452 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2454 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2459 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2460 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2465 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2469 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2470 and converted to new dialog style.
2474 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2475 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2479 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2480 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2484 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2488 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2490 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2494 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2498 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2499 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2500 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2504 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2505 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2509 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2514 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2518 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2519 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2523 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2524 and Cancel is now Revert.
2525 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2526 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2530 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2534 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2535 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2537 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2538 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2539 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2540 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2544 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2546 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2547 labels display them.
2548 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2551 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2555 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2557 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2561 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2562 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2563 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2567 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2568 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2570 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2572 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2576 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2577 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2581 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2582 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2583 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2584 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2588 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2592 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2593 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2597 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2598 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2603 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2604 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2608 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2609 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2610 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2614 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2615 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2619 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2620 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2621 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2622 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2624 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2629 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2630 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2632 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2634 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2638 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2639 any image (saves time).
2640 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2641 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2642 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2643 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2645 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2646 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2650 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2651 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2653 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2654 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2656 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2661 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2662 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2663 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2664 has stopped accepting STRING.
2668 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2669 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2673 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2678 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2679 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2681 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2682 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2683 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2687 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2688 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2689 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2690 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2691 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2692 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2696 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2697 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2698 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2699 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2700 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2701 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2706 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2707 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2708 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2709 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2714 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2715 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2719 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2720 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2722 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2724 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2725 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2726 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2730 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2731 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2732 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2736 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2737 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2741 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2742 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2746 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2748 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2753 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2754 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2758 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2759 their menus correctly.
2760 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2765 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2766 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2767 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2771 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2772 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2776 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2780 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2783 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2785 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2786 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2787 the toggle menu items from working!
2791 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2793 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2799 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2800 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2804 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2805 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2806 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2807 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2808 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2809 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2813 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2817 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2818 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2822 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2823 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2824 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2828 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2829 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2834 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2836 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2840 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2841 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2842 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2843 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2847 Improved error reporting.
2848 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2852 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2853 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2854 check box and does 'Yes'.
2858 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2859 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2860 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2861 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2866 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2868 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2869 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2871 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2873 Internal changes to options system:
2874 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2875 filer is fully initialised).
2876 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2878 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2880 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2881 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2882 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2883 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2887 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2888 now reclaims the selection.
2889 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2890 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2895 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2896 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2897 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2898 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2899 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2903 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2904 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2906 Code tidying in various places.
2910 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2911 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2916 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2917 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2921 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2922 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2923 edit the file, not the file itself!
2924 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2928 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2929 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2930 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2931 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2932 of the SOAP working draft.
2933 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2934 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2935 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2940 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2941 it was in the displayed area before.
2943 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2946 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2947 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2951 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2952 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2953 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2955 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2956 selection (Andras Mohari).
2960 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2964 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2968 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2969 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2970 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2974 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2978 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2980 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2981 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2982 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2986 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2987 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2992 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2993 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2994 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2998 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
3002 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
3006 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
3007 replaced by a Restart button.
3011 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
3012 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
3016 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3020 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3024 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3025 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3026 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3030 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3031 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3033 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3034 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3035 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3039 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3040 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3045 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3047 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3048 (requested by Graham Borland).
3049 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3050 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3051 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3055 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3056 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3057 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3058 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3062 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3063 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3064 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3065 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3066 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3067 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3068 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3069 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3070 - Lots of code tidying.
3075 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3076 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3080 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3082 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3084 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3088 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3089 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3093 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3094 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3098 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3099 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3103 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3104 option to access it directly.
3108 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3109 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3110 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3114 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3115 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3116 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3117 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3118 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3119 when the filer is run.
3123 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3124 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3125 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3130 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3134 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3135 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3139 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3141 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3145 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3149 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3150 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3151 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3156 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3157 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3158 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3159 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3160 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3161 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3162 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3166 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3170 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3171 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3175 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3176 of possible actions (Taras).
3177 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3179 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3180 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3184 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3189 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3193 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3196 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3197 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3201 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3202 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3204 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3206 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3207 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3208 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3209 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3213 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3217 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3221 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3225 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3230 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3231 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3232 the first one found.
3233 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3237 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3241 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3242 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3243 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3247 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3248 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3249 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3254 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3255 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3256 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3260 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3262 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3267 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3272 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3276 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3277 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3281 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3283 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3284 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3288 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3292 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3293 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3297 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3298 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3302 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3303 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3305 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3307 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3311 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3315 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3316 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3320 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3324 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3329 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3330 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3334 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3338 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3342 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3344 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3345 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3349 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3350 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3354 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3355 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3356 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3360 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3361 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3365 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3366 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3368 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3370 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3374 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3375 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3376 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3378 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3379 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3381 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3383 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3384 and the default size with no details.
3388 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3389 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3393 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3398 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3403 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3407 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3412 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3413 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3417 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3421 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3422 the button to run it does.
3423 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3424 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3425 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3429 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3430 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3431 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3435 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3439 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3440 and panels into icon.c.
3444 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3445 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3446 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3447 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3451 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3453 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3455 Updated the documentation.
3459 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3460 up if they're too small.
3464 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3466 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3467 (Christopher Arndt).
3468 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3473 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3474 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3478 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3479 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3483 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3484 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3485 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3490 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3495 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3499 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3500 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3505 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3510 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3511 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3515 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3516 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3520 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3524 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3528 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3532 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3533 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3536 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3537 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3542 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3543 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3544 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3545 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3550 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3551 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3553 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3555 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3556 for non-applications.
3560 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3561 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3566 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3570 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3571 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3573 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3577 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3578 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3582 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3583 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3587 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3588 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3592 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3593 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3595 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3596 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3600 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3601 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3603 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3607 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3608 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3611 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3615 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3616 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3620 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3624 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3625 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3628 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3629 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3633 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3637 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3642 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3646 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3647 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3652 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3657 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3661 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3663 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3665 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3666 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3668 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3670 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3671 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3675 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3676 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3677 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3679 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3680 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3684 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3688 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3689 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3693 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3697 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3698 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3700 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3703 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3704 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3705 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3709 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3710 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3715 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3720 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3722 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3725 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3727 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3728 sensible shape itself now.
3730 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3731 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3732 file at all, just a reused inode!
3733 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3734 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3735 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3739 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3743 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3744 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3749 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3750 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3754 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3758 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3759 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3763 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3768 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3772 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3773 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3777 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3778 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3779 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3780 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3781 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3785 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3786 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3787 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3788 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3789 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3793 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3794 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3795 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3799 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3801 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3802 python's portable system.
3803 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3804 set the LANG variable.
3808 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3809 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3811 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3813 Made a few updates to the manual.
3817 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3818 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3820 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3822 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3823 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3827 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3828 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3832 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3833 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3838 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3839 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3840 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3844 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3845 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3849 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3850 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3854 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3855 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3857 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3858 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3859 open... (Denis Manente).
3863 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3867 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3869 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3870 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3871 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3873 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3875 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3877 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3878 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3883 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3884 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3885 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3889 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3890 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3894 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3898 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3902 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3903 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3904 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3908 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3909 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3910 between pinboards...
3912 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3913 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3914 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3918 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3921 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3922 window (Denis Manente).
3924 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3925 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3929 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3930 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3931 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3935 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3938 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3939 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3941 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3946 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3947 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3949 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3953 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3954 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3956 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3958 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3963 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3964 the icon points to as well as its name.
3966 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3967 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3971 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3972 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3973 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3974 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3978 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3982 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3983 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3984 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3988 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3989 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3991 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3992 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3995 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3996 the item after the drag.
3998 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3999 showing where the file really is.
4003 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
4004 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
4009 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
4010 warning is displayed if so.
4012 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
4016 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4017 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4018 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4019 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4022 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4023 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4024 works like the panels.
4028 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4029 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4030 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4031 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4032 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4036 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4037 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4038 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4039 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4041 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4046 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4050 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4051 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4054 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4055 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4057 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4060 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4061 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4062 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4063 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4065 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4067 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4068 slightly. Updated the manual.
4070 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4071 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4074 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4075 or bottom panel to make room.
4079 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4084 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4085 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4086 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4087 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4088 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4092 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4094 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4095 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4097 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4101 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4102 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4106 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4110 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4112 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4117 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4118 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4120 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4124 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4125 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4126 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4130 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4131 rewriting the panel system.
4135 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4138 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4139 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4143 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4144 (suggested by James Kermode).
4148 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4149 than as a full path.
4151 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4153 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4154 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4155 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4159 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4160 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4164 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4165 rename something onto another filesystem.
4169 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4171 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4172 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4176 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4180 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4183 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4184 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4186 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4189 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4194 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4195 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4196 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4198 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4199 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4201 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4202 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4207 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4208 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4213 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4214 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4215 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4217 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4218 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4219 of the 'missing image' image.
4223 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4225 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4227 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4232 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4233 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4234 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4235 its name into another program.
4237 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4241 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4243 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4244 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4245 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4247 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4248 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4249 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4252 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4253 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4257 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4258 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4259 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4263 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4264 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4265 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4269 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4270 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4271 and position the icons directly.
4275 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4280 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4281 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4282 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4286 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4290 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4291 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4295 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4300 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4304 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4305 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4306 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4307 some versions of GTK+.
4311 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4316 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4317 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4318 from a sub-sub-menu.
4320 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4321 drawn on a log scale.
4325 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4326 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4327 happy with the UI yet though...
4329 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4330 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4331 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4335 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4336 by Stephen Harrison).
4338 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4340 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4341 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4342 standard types are in Choices.
4343 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4345 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4346 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4347 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4352 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4353 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4354 shell command minibuffer.
4358 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4359 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4360 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4361 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4362 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4364 Default search path for Choices is now:
4365 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4367 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4368 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4369 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4373 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4374 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4378 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4379 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4380 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4385 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4386 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4387 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4390 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4392 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4393 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4394 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4396 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4397 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4401 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4402 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4403 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4404 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4409 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4410 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4411 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4413 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4415 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4416 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4420 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4421 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4422 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4427 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4428 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4431 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4433 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4438 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4443 Added GNU gettext support.
4444 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4448 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4450 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4452 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4457 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4461 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4462 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4464 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4465 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4470 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4471 onto the directory and winks the file.
4475 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4476 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4477 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4479 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4480 instead of random values.
4481 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4483 Applied Bernard's patch:
4484 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4485 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4486 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4487 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4488 it the RISC OS way...
4489 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4490 alignment corrected.
4491 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4496 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4500 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4501 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4505 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4506 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4507 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4508 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4509 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4510 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4511 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4512 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4513 in the file(1) says... box).
4516 Before the Changes file
4517 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4518 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4520 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4521 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4522 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4523 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4524 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD