2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
11 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
16 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
17 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
21 Winking now works in List view.
25 Lasso selections now work in List view.
29 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
30 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
34 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
35 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
37 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
39 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
43 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
47 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
48 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
50 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
54 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
55 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
59 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
61 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
65 Centre the image for iconified windows.
66 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
70 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
72 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
76 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
80 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
81 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
86 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
87 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
89 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
91 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
93 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
97 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
101 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
102 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
106 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
111 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
112 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
116 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
118 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
120 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
121 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
126 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
130 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
131 (suggested by Michael Adams).
132 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
133 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
134 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
135 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
136 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
138 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
142 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
147 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
148 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
152 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
153 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
154 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
155 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
160 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
161 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
162 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
163 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
164 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
165 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
166 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
167 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
168 talent can do something better?
169 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
170 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
174 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
175 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
176 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
181 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
183 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
184 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
185 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
186 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
187 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
188 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
189 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
190 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
191 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
192 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
193 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
194 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
195 label wasn't hidden / shown.
199 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
200 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
201 allow fine repositioning.
202 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
203 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
204 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
205 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
207 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
208 changing the aspect ratio.
212 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
216 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
220 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
221 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
222 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
226 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
230 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
235 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
236 make sharing icons easier.
237 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
241 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
242 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
246 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
250 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
252 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
256 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
261 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
266 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
267 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
269 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
270 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
271 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
272 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
276 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
277 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
281 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
285 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
287 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
292 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
293 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
295 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
299 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
300 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
302 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
304 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
308 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
309 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
314 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
318 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
319 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
320 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
324 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
325 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
329 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
333 Preserve selection when changing view type.
334 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
338 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
339 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
340 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
344 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
348 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
349 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
350 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
351 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
353 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
354 the information in the tooltips anyway.
358 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
359 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
363 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
368 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
369 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
373 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
377 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
378 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
379 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
380 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
385 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
386 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
387 Always use case-insensitive sort.
391 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
395 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
396 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
400 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
401 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
402 since it didn't include the contents.
403 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
404 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
408 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
412 Style improvements to options window.
416 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
420 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
422 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
424 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
429 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
430 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
431 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
432 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
436 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
440 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
444 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
445 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
449 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
451 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
456 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
460 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
461 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
462 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
467 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
471 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
475 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
479 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
483 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
484 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
485 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
489 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
490 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
494 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
495 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
500 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
504 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
508 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
513 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
514 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
518 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
519 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
524 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
525 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
529 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
530 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
531 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
535 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
539 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
540 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
541 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
542 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
543 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
547 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
548 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
552 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
553 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
557 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
561 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
562 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
563 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
564 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
565 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
566 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
570 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
571 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
572 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
576 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
577 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
582 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
586 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
588 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
590 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
595 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
599 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
603 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
604 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
609 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
613 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
617 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
618 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
619 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
623 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
627 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
632 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
636 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
637 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
638 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
639 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
643 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
647 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
648 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
652 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
653 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
654 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
658 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
662 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
666 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
667 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
668 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
669 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
670 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
671 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
675 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
676 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
680 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
681 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
682 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
686 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
687 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
691 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
695 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
696 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
697 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
698 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
700 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
702 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
706 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
707 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
708 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
712 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
716 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
717 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
722 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
726 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
730 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
731 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
735 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
736 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
737 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
741 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
742 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
746 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
747 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
751 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
752 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
756 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
760 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
761 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
765 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
767 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
769 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
773 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
777 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
778 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
782 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
786 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
790 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
791 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
792 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
793 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
794 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
795 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
799 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
803 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
805 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
806 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
810 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
811 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
815 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
819 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
820 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
821 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
822 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
824 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
826 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
830 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
831 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
835 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
836 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
837 disappeared at the wrong moment.
841 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
842 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
843 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
844 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
845 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
846 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
847 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
851 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
852 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
856 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
860 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
864 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
869 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
873 Options to set iconification layout policy.
874 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
875 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
879 Pinboard background colour option works again.
880 Position iconified windows sensibly.
881 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
885 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
886 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
887 (requested by Ryan Harris).
891 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
892 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
896 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
901 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
902 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
903 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
904 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
905 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
907 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
908 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
912 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
916 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
917 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
918 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
919 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
923 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
924 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
925 Many improvements to the pinboard:
926 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
927 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
928 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
932 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
936 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
937 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
941 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
942 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
943 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
944 restart (Olli Helenius).
948 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
952 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
953 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
954 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
959 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
964 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
965 Small and Large sizes.
969 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
973 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
974 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
978 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
979 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
980 (requested by Gregory Spath).
981 Don't quit while Options window is open.
985 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
986 the window (requested by Ashwin).
987 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
992 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
997 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
998 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1002 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1003 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1008 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1010 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1012 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1016 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1020 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1022 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1024 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1028 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1030 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1031 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1035 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1036 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1040 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1041 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1045 Various speed improvements.
1046 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1050 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1051 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1055 Slight speed increase when starting.
1059 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1063 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1064 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1065 button is no longer supported.
1069 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1073 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1077 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1082 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1083 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1087 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1088 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1089 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1093 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1094 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1095 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1096 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1100 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1101 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1102 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1104 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1109 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1110 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1115 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1119 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1120 and converted to new dialog style.
1124 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1125 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1129 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1130 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1134 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1138 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1140 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1144 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1148 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1149 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1150 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1154 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1155 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1159 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1164 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1168 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1169 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1173 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1174 and Cancel is now Revert.
1175 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1176 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1180 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1184 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1185 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1187 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1188 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1189 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1190 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1194 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1196 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1197 labels display them.
1198 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1201 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1205 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1207 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1211 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1212 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1213 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1217 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1218 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1220 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1222 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1226 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1227 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1231 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1232 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1233 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1234 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1238 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1242 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1243 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1247 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1248 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1253 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1254 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1258 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1259 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1260 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1264 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1265 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1269 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1270 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1271 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1272 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1274 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1279 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1280 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1282 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1284 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1288 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1289 any image (saves time).
1290 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1291 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1292 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1293 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1295 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1296 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1300 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1301 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1303 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1304 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1306 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1311 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1312 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1313 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1314 has stopped accepting STRING.
1318 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1319 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1323 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1328 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1329 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1331 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1332 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1333 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1337 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1338 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1339 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1340 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1341 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1342 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1346 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1347 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1348 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1349 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1350 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1351 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1356 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1357 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1358 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1359 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1364 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1365 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1369 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1370 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1372 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1374 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1375 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1376 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1380 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1381 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1382 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1386 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1387 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1391 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1392 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1396 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1398 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1403 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1404 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1408 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1409 their menus correctly.
1410 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1415 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1416 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1417 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1421 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1422 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1426 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1430 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1433 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1435 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1436 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1437 the toggle menu items from working!
1441 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1443 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1449 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1450 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1454 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1455 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1456 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1457 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1458 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1459 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1463 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1467 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1468 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1472 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1473 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1474 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1478 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1479 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1484 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1486 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1490 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1491 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1492 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1493 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1497 Improved error reporting.
1498 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1502 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1503 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1504 check box and does 'Yes'.
1508 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1509 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1510 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1511 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1516 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1518 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1519 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1521 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1523 Internal changes to options system:
1524 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1525 filer is fully initialised).
1526 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1528 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1530 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1531 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1532 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1533 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1537 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1538 now reclaims the selection.
1539 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1540 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1545 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1546 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1547 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1548 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1549 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1553 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1554 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1556 Code tidying in various places.
1560 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1561 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1566 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1567 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1571 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1572 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1573 edit the file, not the file itself!
1574 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1578 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1579 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1580 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1581 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1582 of the SOAP working draft.
1583 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1584 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1585 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1590 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1591 it was in the displayed area before.
1593 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1596 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1597 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1601 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1602 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1603 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1605 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1606 selection (Andras Mohari).
1610 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1614 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1618 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1619 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1620 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1624 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1628 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1630 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1631 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1632 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1636 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1637 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1642 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1643 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1644 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1648 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1652 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1656 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1657 replaced by a Restart button.
1661 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1662 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1666 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1670 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1674 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1675 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1676 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1680 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1681 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1683 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1684 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1685 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1689 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1690 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1695 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1697 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1698 (requested by Graham Borland).
1699 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1700 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1701 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1705 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1706 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1707 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1708 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1712 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1713 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1714 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1715 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1716 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1717 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1718 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1719 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1720 - Lots of code tidying.
1725 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1726 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1730 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1732 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1734 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1738 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1739 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1743 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1744 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1748 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1749 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1753 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1754 option to access it directly.
1758 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1759 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1760 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1764 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1765 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1766 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1767 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1768 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1769 when the filer is run.
1773 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1774 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1775 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1780 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1784 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1785 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1789 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1791 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1795 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1799 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1800 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1801 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1806 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1807 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1808 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1809 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1810 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1811 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1812 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1816 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1820 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1821 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1825 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1826 of possible actions (Taras).
1827 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1829 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1830 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1834 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1839 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1843 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1846 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1847 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1851 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1852 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1854 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1856 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1857 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1858 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1859 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1863 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1867 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1871 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1875 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1880 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1881 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1882 the first one found.
1883 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1887 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1891 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1892 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1893 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1897 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1898 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1899 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1904 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1905 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1906 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1910 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1912 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1917 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1922 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1926 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1927 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1931 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1933 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1934 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1938 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1942 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1943 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1947 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1948 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1952 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1953 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1955 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1957 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1961 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1965 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1966 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1970 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1974 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1979 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1980 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1984 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1988 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1992 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1994 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1995 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1999 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2000 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2004 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2005 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2006 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2010 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2011 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2015 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2016 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2018 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2020 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2024 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2025 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2026 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2028 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2029 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2031 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2033 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2034 and the default size with no details.
2038 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2039 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2043 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2048 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2053 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2057 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2062 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2063 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2067 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2071 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2072 the button to run it does.
2073 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2074 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2075 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2079 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2080 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2081 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2085 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2089 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2090 and panels into icon.c.
2094 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2095 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2096 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2097 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2101 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2103 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2105 Updated the documentation.
2109 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2110 up if they're too small.
2114 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2116 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2117 (Christopher Arndt).
2118 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2123 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2124 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2128 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2129 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2133 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2134 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2135 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2140 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2145 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2149 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2150 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2155 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2160 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2161 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2165 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2166 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2170 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2174 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2178 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2182 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2183 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2186 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2187 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2192 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2193 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2194 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2195 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2200 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2201 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2203 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2205 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2206 for non-applications.
2210 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2211 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2216 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2220 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2221 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2223 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2227 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2228 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2232 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2233 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2237 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2238 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2242 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2243 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2245 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2246 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2250 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2251 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2253 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2257 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2258 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2261 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2265 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2266 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2270 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2274 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2275 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2278 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2279 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2283 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2287 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2292 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2296 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2297 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2302 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2307 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2311 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2313 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2315 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2316 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2318 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2320 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2321 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2325 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2326 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2327 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2329 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2330 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2334 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2338 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2339 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2343 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2347 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2348 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2350 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2353 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2354 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2355 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2359 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2360 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2365 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2370 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2372 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2375 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2377 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2378 sensible shape itself now.
2380 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2381 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2382 file at all, just a reused inode!
2383 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2384 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2385 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2389 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2393 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2394 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2399 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2400 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2404 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2408 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2409 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2413 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2418 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2422 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2423 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2427 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2428 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2429 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2430 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2431 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2435 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2436 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2437 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2438 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2439 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2443 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2444 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2445 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2449 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2451 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2452 python's portable system.
2453 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2454 set the LANG variable.
2458 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2459 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2461 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2463 Made a few updates to the manual.
2467 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2468 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2470 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2472 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2473 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2477 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2478 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2482 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2483 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2488 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2489 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2490 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2494 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2495 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2499 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2500 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2504 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2505 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2507 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2508 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2509 open... (Denis Manente).
2513 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2517 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2519 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2520 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2521 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2523 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2525 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2527 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2528 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2533 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2534 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2535 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2539 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2540 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2544 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2548 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2552 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2553 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2554 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2558 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2559 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2560 between pinboards...
2562 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2563 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2564 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2568 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2571 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2572 window (Denis Manente).
2574 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2575 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2579 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2580 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2581 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2585 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2588 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2589 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2591 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2596 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2597 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2599 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2603 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2604 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2606 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2608 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2613 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2614 the icon points to as well as its name.
2616 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2617 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2621 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2622 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2623 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2624 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2628 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2632 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2633 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2634 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2638 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2639 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2641 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2642 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2645 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2646 the item after the drag.
2648 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2649 showing where the file really is.
2653 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2654 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2659 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2660 warning is displayed if so.
2662 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2666 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2667 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2668 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2669 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2672 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2673 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2674 works like the panels.
2678 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2679 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2680 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2681 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2682 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2686 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2687 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2688 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2689 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2691 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2696 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2700 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2701 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2704 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2705 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2707 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2710 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2711 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2712 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2713 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2715 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2717 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2718 slightly. Updated the manual.
2720 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2721 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2724 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2725 or bottom panel to make room.
2729 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2734 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2735 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2736 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2737 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2738 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2742 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2744 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2745 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2747 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2751 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2752 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2756 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2760 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2762 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2767 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2768 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2770 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2774 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2775 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2776 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2780 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2781 rewriting the panel system.
2785 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2788 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2789 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2793 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2794 (suggested by James Kermode).
2798 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2799 than as a full path.
2801 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2803 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2804 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2805 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2809 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2810 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2814 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2815 rename something onto another filesystem.
2819 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2821 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2822 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2826 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2830 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2833 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2834 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2836 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2839 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2844 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2845 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2846 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2848 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2849 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2851 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2852 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2857 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2858 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2863 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2864 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2865 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2867 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2868 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2869 of the 'missing image' image.
2873 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2875 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2877 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2882 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2883 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2884 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2885 its name into another program.
2887 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2891 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2893 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2894 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2895 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2897 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2898 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2899 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2902 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2903 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2907 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2908 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2909 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2913 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2914 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2915 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2919 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2920 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2921 and position the icons directly.
2925 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2930 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2931 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2932 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2936 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2940 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2941 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2945 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2950 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2954 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2955 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2956 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2957 some versions of GTK+.
2961 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2966 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2967 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2968 from a sub-sub-menu.
2970 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2971 drawn on a log scale.
2975 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2976 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2977 happy with the UI yet though...
2979 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2980 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2981 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2985 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2986 by Stephen Harrison).
2988 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2990 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2991 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2992 standard types are in Choices.
2993 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2995 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2996 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2997 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3002 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3003 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3004 shell command minibuffer.
3008 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3009 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3010 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3011 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3012 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3014 Default search path for Choices is now:
3015 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3017 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3018 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3019 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3023 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3024 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3028 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3029 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3030 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3035 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3036 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3037 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3040 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3042 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3043 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3044 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3046 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3047 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3051 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3052 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3053 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3054 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3059 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3060 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3061 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3063 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3065 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3066 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3070 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3071 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3072 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3077 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3078 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3081 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3083 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3088 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3093 Added GNU gettext support.
3094 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3098 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3100 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3102 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3107 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3111 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3112 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3114 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3115 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3120 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3121 onto the directory and winks the file.
3125 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3126 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3127 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3129 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3130 instead of random values.
3131 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3133 Applied Bernard's patch:
3134 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3135 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3136 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3137 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3138 it the RISC OS way...
3139 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3140 alignment corrected.
3141 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3146 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3150 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3151 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3155 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3156 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3157 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3158 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3159 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3160 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3161 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3162 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3163 in the file(1) says... box).
3166 Before the Changes file
3167 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3168 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3170 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3171 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3172 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3173 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3174 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD