2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
8 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
9 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
10 reported by Lewis Denizen).
14 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
18 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
19 the binary (Stephen Watson).
23 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
27 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
28 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
29 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
33 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
36 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
38 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
39 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
40 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
41 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
42 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
46 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
50 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
51 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
55 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
59 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
60 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
61 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
63 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
64 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
66 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
67 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
68 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
69 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
73 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
74 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
78 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
79 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
80 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
81 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
86 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
87 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
91 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
92 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
93 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
97 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
98 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
99 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
103 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
107 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
108 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
112 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
113 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
117 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
121 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
122 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
127 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
128 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
132 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
136 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
137 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
138 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
139 when changing to a parent directory.
140 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
144 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
148 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
152 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
154 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
156 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
160 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
162 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
166 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
168 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
172 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
176 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
177 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
178 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
179 reported by Anthony DiSante).
183 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
187 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
191 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
192 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
193 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
194 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
195 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
199 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
200 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
204 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
205 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
210 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
211 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
216 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
217 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
221 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
222 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
226 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
227 (reported by Tony Houghton).
231 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
233 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
234 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
238 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
239 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
243 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
247 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
251 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
255 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
256 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
257 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
261 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
265 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
270 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
274 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
276 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
278 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
282 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
283 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
284 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
286 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
290 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
291 print a warning and then crash.
295 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
296 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
297 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
302 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
306 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
311 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
315 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
319 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
321 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
326 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
327 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
328 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
333 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
334 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
339 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
341 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
342 anyway, and noone had complained).
343 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
344 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
348 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
349 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
350 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
354 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
358 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
359 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
363 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
364 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
365 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
369 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
370 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
371 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
373 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
374 by Simon Templer and others).
378 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
379 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
380 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
384 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
388 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
392 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
393 version number again (Stephen Watson).
397 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
398 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
402 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
406 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
407 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
408 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
409 anyway (Stephen Watson).
413 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
417 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
421 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
423 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
425 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
429 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
430 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
431 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
435 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
436 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
441 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
442 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
443 impossible to change shortcuts.
444 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
445 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
449 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
450 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
455 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
456 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
457 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
461 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
462 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
463 to the functions being missing.
467 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
471 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
475 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
479 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
483 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
484 worries people for no reason.
488 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
492 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
493 files selected (Peter Geer).
497 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
498 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
502 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
506 Added 'Select by Name'.
510 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
514 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
519 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
523 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
525 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
527 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
528 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
532 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
536 Misc changes for next release.
540 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
541 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
545 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
546 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
547 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
548 Watson, reported on #rox).
552 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
553 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
557 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
558 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
562 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
563 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
567 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
568 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
573 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
577 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
579 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
584 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
588 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
589 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
593 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
594 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
598 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
602 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
607 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
608 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
610 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
611 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
615 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
616 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
620 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
625 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
626 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
630 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
631 support not being detected (igla).
635 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
639 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
640 dialog (Stephen Watson).
644 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
648 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
649 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
650 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
651 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
654 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
656 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
657 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
661 New icon for selection ops.
665 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
669 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
673 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
677 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
678 Added icon theme selector.
682 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
686 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
690 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
691 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
695 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
696 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
697 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
701 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
702 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
706 Allow ejecting mounted media.
710 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
711 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
712 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
716 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
720 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
721 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
726 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
727 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
731 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
732 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
736 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
737 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
741 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
745 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
746 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
747 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
751 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
755 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
756 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
757 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
758 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
762 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
763 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
765 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
769 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
773 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
774 bits (Stephen Watson).
778 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
782 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
786 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
787 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
791 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
795 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
796 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
801 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
802 forward them explicitly.
806 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
807 help from Götz Waschk).
811 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
812 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
813 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
817 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
821 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
825 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
829 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
830 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
832 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
834 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
838 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
840 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
842 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
846 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
847 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
848 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
849 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
853 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
857 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
861 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
865 Minor updates to the manual.
866 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
867 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
871 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
872 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
874 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
876 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
877 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
881 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
882 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
883 reduce flickering effect.
887 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
891 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
893 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
897 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
898 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
899 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
900 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
901 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
905 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
906 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
910 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
914 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
919 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
920 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
924 Winking now works in List view.
928 Lasso selections now work in List view.
932 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
933 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
937 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
938 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
940 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
942 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
946 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
950 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
951 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
953 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
957 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
958 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
962 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
964 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
968 Centre the image for iconified windows.
969 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
973 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
975 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
979 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
983 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
984 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
989 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
990 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
992 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
994 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
996 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1000 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1004 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1005 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1009 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1014 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1015 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1019 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1021 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1023 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1024 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1029 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1033 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1034 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1035 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1036 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1037 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1038 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1039 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1041 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1045 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1050 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1051 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1055 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1056 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1057 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1058 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1063 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1064 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1065 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1066 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1067 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1068 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1069 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1070 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1071 talent can do something better?
1072 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1073 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1077 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1078 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1079 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1084 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1086 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1087 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1088 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1089 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1090 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1091 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1092 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1093 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1094 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1095 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1096 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1097 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1098 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1102 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1103 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1104 allow fine repositioning.
1105 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1106 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1107 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1108 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1110 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1111 changing the aspect ratio.
1115 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1119 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1123 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1124 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1125 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1129 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1133 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1138 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1139 make sharing icons easier.
1140 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1144 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1145 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1149 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1153 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1155 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1159 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1164 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1169 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1170 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1172 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1173 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1174 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1175 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1179 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1180 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1184 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1188 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1190 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1191 Brian Langenberger).
1195 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1196 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1198 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1202 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1203 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1205 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1207 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1211 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1212 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1217 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1221 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1222 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1223 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1227 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1228 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1232 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1236 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1237 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1241 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1242 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1243 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1247 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1251 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1252 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1253 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1254 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1256 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1257 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1261 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1262 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1266 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1271 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1272 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1276 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1280 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1281 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1282 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1283 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1288 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1289 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1290 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1294 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1298 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1299 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1303 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1304 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1305 since it didn't include the contents.
1306 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1307 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1311 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1315 Style improvements to options window.
1319 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1323 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1325 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1327 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1332 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1333 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1334 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1335 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1339 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1343 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1347 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1348 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1352 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1354 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1359 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1363 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1364 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1365 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1370 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1374 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1378 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1382 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1386 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1387 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1388 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1392 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1393 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1397 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1398 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1403 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1407 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1411 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1416 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1417 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1421 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1422 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1427 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1428 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1432 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1433 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1434 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1438 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1442 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1443 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1444 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1445 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1446 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1450 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1451 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1455 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1456 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1460 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1464 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1465 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1466 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1467 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1468 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1469 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1473 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1474 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1475 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1479 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1480 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1485 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1489 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1491 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1493 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1498 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1502 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1506 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1507 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1512 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1516 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1520 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1521 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1522 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1526 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1530 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1535 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1539 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1540 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1541 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1542 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1546 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1550 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1551 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1555 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1556 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1557 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1561 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1565 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1569 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1570 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1571 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1572 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1573 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1574 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1578 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1579 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1583 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1584 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1585 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1589 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1590 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1594 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1598 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1599 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1600 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1601 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1603 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1605 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1609 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1610 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1611 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1615 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1619 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1620 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1625 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1629 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1633 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1634 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1638 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1639 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1640 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1644 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1645 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1649 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1650 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1654 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1655 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1659 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1663 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1664 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1668 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1670 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1672 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1676 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1680 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1681 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1685 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1689 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1693 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1694 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1695 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1696 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1697 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1698 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1702 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1706 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1708 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1709 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1713 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1714 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1718 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1722 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1723 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1724 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1725 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1727 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1729 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1733 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1734 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1738 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1739 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1740 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1744 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1745 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1746 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1747 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1748 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1749 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1750 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1754 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1755 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1759 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1763 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1767 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1772 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1776 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1777 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1778 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1782 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1783 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1784 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1788 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1789 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1790 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1794 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1795 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1799 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1804 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1805 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1806 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1807 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1808 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1810 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1811 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1815 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1819 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1820 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1821 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1822 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1826 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1827 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1828 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1829 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1830 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1831 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1835 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1839 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1840 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1844 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1845 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1846 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1847 restart (Olli Helenius).
1851 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1855 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1856 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1857 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1862 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1867 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1868 Small and Large sizes.
1872 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1876 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1877 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1881 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1882 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1883 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1884 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1888 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1889 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1890 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1895 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1900 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1901 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1905 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1906 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1911 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1913 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1915 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1919 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1923 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1925 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1927 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1931 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1933 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1934 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1938 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1939 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1943 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1944 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1948 Various speed improvements.
1949 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1953 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1954 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1958 Slight speed increase when starting.
1962 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1966 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1967 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1968 button is no longer supported.
1972 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1976 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1980 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1985 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1986 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1990 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1991 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1992 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1996 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1997 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1998 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1999 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2003 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2004 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2005 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2007 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2012 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2013 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2018 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2022 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2023 and converted to new dialog style.
2027 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2028 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2032 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2033 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2037 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2041 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2043 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2047 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2051 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2052 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2053 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2057 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2058 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2062 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2067 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2071 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2072 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2076 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2077 and Cancel is now Revert.
2078 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2079 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2083 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2087 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2088 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2090 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2091 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2092 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2093 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2097 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2099 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2100 labels display them.
2101 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2104 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2108 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2110 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2114 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2115 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2116 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2120 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2121 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2123 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2125 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2129 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2130 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2134 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2135 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2136 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2137 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2141 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2145 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2146 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2150 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2151 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2156 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2157 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2161 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2162 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2163 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2167 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2168 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2172 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2173 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2174 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2175 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2177 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2182 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2183 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2185 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2187 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2191 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2192 any image (saves time).
2193 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2194 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2195 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2196 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2198 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2199 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2203 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2204 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2206 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2207 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2209 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2214 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2215 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2216 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2217 has stopped accepting STRING.
2221 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2222 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2226 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2231 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2232 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2234 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2235 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2236 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2240 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2241 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2242 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2243 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2244 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2245 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2249 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2250 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2251 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2252 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2253 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2254 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2259 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2260 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2261 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2262 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2267 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2268 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2272 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2273 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2275 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2277 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2278 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2279 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2283 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2284 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2285 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2289 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2290 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2294 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2295 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2299 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2301 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2306 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2307 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2311 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2312 their menus correctly.
2313 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2318 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2319 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2320 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2324 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2325 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2329 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2333 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2336 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2338 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2339 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2340 the toggle menu items from working!
2344 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2346 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2352 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2353 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2357 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2358 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2359 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2360 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2361 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2362 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2366 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2370 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2371 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2375 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2376 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2377 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2381 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2382 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2387 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2389 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2393 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2394 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2395 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2396 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2400 Improved error reporting.
2401 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2405 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2406 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2407 check box and does 'Yes'.
2411 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2412 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2413 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2414 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2419 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2421 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2422 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2424 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2426 Internal changes to options system:
2427 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2428 filer is fully initialised).
2429 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2431 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2433 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2434 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2435 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2436 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2440 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2441 now reclaims the selection.
2442 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2443 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2448 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2449 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2450 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2451 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2452 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2456 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2457 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2459 Code tidying in various places.
2463 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2464 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2469 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2470 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2474 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2475 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2476 edit the file, not the file itself!
2477 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2481 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2482 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2483 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2484 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2485 of the SOAP working draft.
2486 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2487 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2488 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2493 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2494 it was in the displayed area before.
2496 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2499 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2500 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2504 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2505 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2506 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2508 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2509 selection (Andras Mohari).
2513 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2517 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2521 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2522 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2523 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2527 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2531 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2533 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2534 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2535 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2539 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2540 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2545 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2546 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2547 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2551 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2555 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2559 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2560 replaced by a Restart button.
2564 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2565 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2569 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2573 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2577 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2578 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2579 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2583 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2584 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2586 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2587 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2588 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2592 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2593 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2598 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2600 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2601 (requested by Graham Borland).
2602 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2603 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2604 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2608 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2609 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2610 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2611 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2615 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2616 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2617 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2618 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2619 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2620 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2621 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2622 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2623 - Lots of code tidying.
2628 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2629 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2633 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2635 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2637 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2641 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2642 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2646 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2647 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2651 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2652 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2656 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2657 option to access it directly.
2661 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2662 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2663 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2667 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2668 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2669 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2670 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2671 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2672 when the filer is run.
2676 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2677 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2678 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2683 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2687 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2688 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2692 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2694 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2698 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2702 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2703 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2704 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2709 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2710 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2711 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2712 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2713 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2714 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2715 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2719 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2723 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2724 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2728 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2729 of possible actions (Taras).
2730 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2732 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2733 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2737 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2742 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2746 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2749 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2750 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2754 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2755 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2757 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2759 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2760 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2761 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2762 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2766 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2770 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2774 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2778 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2783 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2784 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2785 the first one found.
2786 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2790 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2794 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2795 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2796 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2800 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2801 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2802 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2807 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2808 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2809 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2813 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2815 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2820 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2825 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2829 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2830 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2834 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2836 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2837 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2841 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2845 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2846 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2850 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2851 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2855 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2856 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2858 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2860 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2864 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2868 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2869 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2873 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2877 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2882 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2883 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2887 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2891 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2895 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2897 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2898 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2902 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2903 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2907 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2908 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2909 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2913 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2914 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2918 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2919 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2921 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2923 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2927 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2928 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2929 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2931 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2932 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2934 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2936 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2937 and the default size with no details.
2941 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2942 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2946 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2951 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2956 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2960 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2965 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2966 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2970 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2974 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2975 the button to run it does.
2976 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2977 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2978 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2982 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2983 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2984 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2988 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2992 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2993 and panels into icon.c.
2997 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2998 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2999 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3000 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3004 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3006 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3008 Updated the documentation.
3012 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3013 up if they're too small.
3017 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3019 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3020 (Christopher Arndt).
3021 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3026 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3027 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3031 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3032 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3036 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3037 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3038 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3043 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3048 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3052 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3053 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3058 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3063 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3064 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3068 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3069 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3073 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3077 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3081 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3085 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3086 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3089 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3090 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3095 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3096 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3097 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3098 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3103 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3104 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3106 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3108 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3109 for non-applications.
3113 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3114 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3119 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3123 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3124 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3126 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3130 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3131 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3135 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3136 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3140 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3141 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3145 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3146 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3148 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3149 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3153 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3154 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3156 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3160 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3161 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3164 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3168 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3169 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3173 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3177 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3178 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3181 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3182 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3186 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3190 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3195 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3199 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3200 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3205 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3210 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3214 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3216 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3218 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3219 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3221 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3223 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3224 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3228 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3229 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3230 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3232 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3233 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3237 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3241 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3242 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3246 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3250 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3251 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3253 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3256 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3257 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3258 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3262 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3263 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3268 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3273 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3275 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3278 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3280 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3281 sensible shape itself now.
3283 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3284 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3285 file at all, just a reused inode!
3286 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3287 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3288 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3292 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3296 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3297 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3302 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3303 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3307 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3311 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3312 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3316 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3321 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3325 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3326 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3330 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3331 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3332 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3333 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3334 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3338 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3339 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3340 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3341 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3342 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3346 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3347 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3348 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3352 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3354 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3355 python's portable system.
3356 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3357 set the LANG variable.
3361 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3362 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3364 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3366 Made a few updates to the manual.
3370 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3371 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3373 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3375 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3376 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3380 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3381 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3385 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3386 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3391 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3392 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3393 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3397 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3398 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3402 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3403 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3407 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3408 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3410 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3411 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3412 open... (Denis Manente).
3416 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3420 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3422 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3423 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3424 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3426 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3428 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3430 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3431 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3436 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3437 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3438 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3442 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3443 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3447 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3451 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3455 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3456 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3457 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3461 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3462 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3463 between pinboards...
3465 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3466 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3467 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3471 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3474 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3475 window (Denis Manente).
3477 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3478 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3482 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3483 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3484 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3488 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3491 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3492 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3494 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3499 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3500 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3502 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3506 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3507 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3509 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3511 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3516 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3517 the icon points to as well as its name.
3519 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3520 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3524 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3525 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3526 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3527 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3531 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3535 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3536 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3537 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3541 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3542 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3544 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3545 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3548 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3549 the item after the drag.
3551 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3552 showing where the file really is.
3556 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3557 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3562 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3563 warning is displayed if so.
3565 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3569 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3570 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3571 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3572 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3575 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3576 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3577 works like the panels.
3581 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3582 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3583 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3584 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3585 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3589 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3590 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3591 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3592 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3594 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3599 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3603 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3604 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3607 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3608 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3610 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3613 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3614 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3615 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3616 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3618 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3620 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3621 slightly. Updated the manual.
3623 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3624 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3627 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3628 or bottom panel to make room.
3632 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3637 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3638 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3639 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3640 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3641 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3645 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3647 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3648 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3650 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3654 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3655 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3659 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3663 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3665 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3670 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3671 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3673 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3677 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3678 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3679 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3683 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3684 rewriting the panel system.
3688 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3691 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3692 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3696 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3697 (suggested by James Kermode).
3701 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3702 than as a full path.
3704 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3706 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3707 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3708 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3712 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3713 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3717 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3718 rename something onto another filesystem.
3722 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3724 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3725 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3729 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3733 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3736 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3737 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3739 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3742 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3747 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3748 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3749 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3751 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3752 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3754 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3755 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3760 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3761 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3766 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3767 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3768 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3770 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3771 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3772 of the 'missing image' image.
3776 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3778 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3780 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3785 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3786 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3787 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3788 its name into another program.
3790 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3794 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3796 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3797 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3798 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3800 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3801 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3802 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3805 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3806 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3810 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3811 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3812 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3816 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3817 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3818 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3822 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3823 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3824 and position the icons directly.
3828 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3833 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3834 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3835 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3839 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3843 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3844 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3848 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3853 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3857 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3858 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3859 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3860 some versions of GTK+.
3864 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3869 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3870 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3871 from a sub-sub-menu.
3873 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3874 drawn on a log scale.
3878 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3879 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3880 happy with the UI yet though...
3882 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3883 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3884 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3888 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3889 by Stephen Harrison).
3891 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3893 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3894 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3895 standard types are in Choices.
3896 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3898 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3899 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3900 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3905 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3906 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3907 shell command minibuffer.
3911 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3912 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3913 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3914 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3915 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3917 Default search path for Choices is now:
3918 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3920 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3921 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3922 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3926 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3927 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3931 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3932 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3933 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3938 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3939 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3940 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3943 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3945 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3946 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3947 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3949 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3950 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3954 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3955 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3956 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3957 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3962 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3963 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3964 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3966 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3968 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3969 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3973 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3974 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3975 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3980 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3981 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3984 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3986 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3991 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3996 Added GNU gettext support.
3997 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4001 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4003 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4005 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4010 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4014 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4015 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4017 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4018 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4023 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4024 onto the directory and winks the file.
4028 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4029 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4030 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4032 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4033 instead of random values.
4034 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4036 Applied Bernard's patch:
4037 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4038 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4039 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4040 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4041 it the RISC OS way...
4042 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4043 alignment corrected.
4044 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4049 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4053 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4054 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4058 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4059 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4060 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4061 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4062 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4063 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4064 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4065 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4066 in the file(1) says... box).
4069 Before the Changes file
4070 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4071 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4073 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4074 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4075 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4076 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4077 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD