2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
9 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
13 Centre the image for iconified windows.
14 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
18 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
20 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
24 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
28 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
29 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
34 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
35 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
37 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
39 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
41 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
45 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
49 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
50 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
54 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
59 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
60 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
64 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
66 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
68 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
69 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
74 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
78 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
79 (suggested by Michael Adams).
80 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
81 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
82 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
83 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
84 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
86 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
90 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
95 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
96 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
100 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
101 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
102 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
103 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
108 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
109 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
110 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
111 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
112 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
113 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
114 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
115 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
116 talent can do something better?
117 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
118 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
122 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
123 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
124 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
129 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
131 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
132 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
133 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
134 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
135 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
136 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
137 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
138 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
139 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
140 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
141 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
142 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
143 label wasn't hidden / shown.
147 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
148 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
149 allow fine repositioning.
150 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
151 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
152 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
153 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
155 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
156 changing the aspect ratio.
160 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
164 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
168 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
169 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
170 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
174 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
178 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
183 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
184 make sharing icons easier.
185 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
189 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
190 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
194 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
198 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
200 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
204 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
209 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
214 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
215 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
217 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
218 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
219 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
220 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
224 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
225 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
229 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
233 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
235 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
240 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
241 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
243 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
247 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
248 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
250 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
252 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
256 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
257 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
262 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
266 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
267 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
268 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
272 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
273 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
277 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
281 Preserve selection when changing view type.
282 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
286 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
287 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
288 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
292 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
296 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
297 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
298 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
299 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
301 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
302 the information in the tooltips anyway.
306 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
307 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
311 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
316 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
317 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
321 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
325 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
326 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
327 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
328 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
333 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
334 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
335 Always use case-insensitive sort.
339 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
343 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
344 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
348 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
349 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
350 since it didn't include the contents.
351 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
352 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
356 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
360 Style improvements to options window.
364 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
368 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
370 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
372 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
377 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
378 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
379 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
380 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
384 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
388 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
392 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
393 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
397 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
399 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
404 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
408 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
409 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
410 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
415 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
419 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
423 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
427 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
431 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
432 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
433 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
437 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
438 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
442 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
443 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
448 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
452 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
456 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
461 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
462 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
466 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
467 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
472 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
473 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
477 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
478 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
479 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
483 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
487 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
488 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
489 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
490 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
491 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
495 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
496 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
500 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
501 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
505 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
509 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
510 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
511 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
512 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
513 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
514 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
518 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
519 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
520 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
524 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
525 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
530 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
534 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
536 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
538 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
543 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
547 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
551 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
552 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
557 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
561 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
565 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
566 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
567 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
571 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
575 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
580 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
584 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
585 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
586 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
587 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
591 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
595 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
596 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
600 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
601 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
602 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
606 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
610 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
614 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
615 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
616 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
617 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
618 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
619 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
623 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
624 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
628 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
629 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
630 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
634 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
635 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
639 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
643 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
644 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
645 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
646 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
648 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
650 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
654 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
655 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
656 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
660 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
664 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
665 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
670 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
674 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
678 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
679 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
683 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
684 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
685 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
689 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
690 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
694 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
695 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
699 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
700 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
704 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
708 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
709 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
713 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
715 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
717 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
721 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
725 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
726 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
730 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
734 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
738 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
739 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
740 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
741 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
742 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
743 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
747 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
751 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
753 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
754 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
758 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
759 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
763 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
767 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
768 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
769 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
770 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
772 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
774 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
778 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
779 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
783 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
784 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
785 disappeared at the wrong moment.
789 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
790 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
791 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
792 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
793 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
794 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
795 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
799 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
800 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
804 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
808 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
812 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
817 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
821 Options to set iconification layout policy.
822 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
823 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
827 Pinboard background colour option works again.
828 Position iconified windows sensibly.
829 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
833 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
834 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
835 (requested by Ryan Harris).
839 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
840 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
844 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
849 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
850 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
851 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
852 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
853 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
855 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
856 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
860 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
864 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
865 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
866 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
867 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
871 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
872 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
873 Many improvements to the pinboard:
874 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
875 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
876 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
880 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
884 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
885 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
889 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
890 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
891 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
892 restart (Olli Helenius).
896 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
900 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
901 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
902 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
907 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
912 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
913 Small and Large sizes.
917 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
921 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
922 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
926 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
927 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
928 (requested by Gregory Spath).
929 Don't quit while Options window is open.
933 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
934 the window (requested by Ashwin).
935 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
940 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
945 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
946 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
950 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
951 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
956 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
958 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
960 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
964 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
968 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
970 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
972 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
976 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
978 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
979 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
983 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
984 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
988 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
989 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
993 Various speed improvements.
994 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
998 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
999 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1003 Slight speed increase when starting.
1007 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1011 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1012 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1013 button is no longer supported.
1017 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1021 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1025 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1030 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1031 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1035 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1036 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1037 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1041 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1042 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1043 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1044 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1048 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1049 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1050 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1052 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1057 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1058 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1063 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1067 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1068 and converted to new dialog style.
1072 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1073 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1077 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1078 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1082 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1086 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1088 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1092 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1096 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1097 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1098 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1102 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1103 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1107 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1112 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1116 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1117 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1121 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1122 and Cancel is now Revert.
1123 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1124 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1128 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1132 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1133 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1135 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1136 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1137 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1138 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1142 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1144 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1145 labels display them.
1146 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1149 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1153 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1155 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1159 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1160 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1161 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1165 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1166 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1168 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1170 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1174 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1175 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1179 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1180 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1181 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1182 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1186 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1190 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1191 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1195 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1196 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1201 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1202 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1206 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1207 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1208 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1212 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1213 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1217 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1218 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1219 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1220 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1222 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1227 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1228 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1230 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1232 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1236 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1237 any image (saves time).
1238 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1239 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1240 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1241 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1243 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1244 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1248 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1249 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1251 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1252 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1254 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1259 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1260 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1261 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1262 has stopped accepting STRING.
1266 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1267 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1271 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1276 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1277 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1279 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1280 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1281 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1285 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1286 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1287 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1288 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1289 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1290 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1294 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1295 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1296 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1297 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1298 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1299 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1304 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1305 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1306 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1307 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1312 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1313 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1317 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1318 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1320 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1322 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1323 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1324 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1328 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1329 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1330 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1334 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1335 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1339 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1340 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1344 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1346 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1351 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1352 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1356 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1357 their menus correctly.
1358 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1363 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1364 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1365 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1369 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1370 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1374 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1378 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1381 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1383 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1384 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1385 the toggle menu items from working!
1389 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1391 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1397 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1398 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1402 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1403 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1404 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1405 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1406 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1407 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1411 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1415 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1416 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1420 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1421 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1422 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1426 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1427 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1432 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1434 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1438 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1439 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1440 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1441 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1445 Improved error reporting.
1446 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1450 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1451 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1452 check box and does 'Yes'.
1456 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1457 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1458 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1459 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1464 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1466 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1467 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1469 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1471 Internal changes to options system:
1472 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1473 filer is fully initialised).
1474 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1476 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1478 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1479 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1480 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1481 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1485 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1486 now reclaims the selection.
1487 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1488 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1493 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1494 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1495 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1496 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1497 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1501 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1502 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1504 Code tidying in various places.
1508 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1509 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1514 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1515 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1519 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1520 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1521 edit the file, not the file itself!
1522 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1526 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1527 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1528 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1529 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1530 of the SOAP working draft.
1531 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1532 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1533 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1538 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1539 it was in the displayed area before.
1541 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1544 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1545 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1549 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1550 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1551 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1553 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1554 selection (Andras Mohari).
1558 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1562 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1566 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1567 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1568 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1572 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1576 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1578 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1579 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1580 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1584 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1585 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1590 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1591 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1592 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1596 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1600 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1604 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1605 replaced by a Restart button.
1609 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1610 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1614 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1618 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1622 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1623 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1624 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1628 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1629 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1631 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1632 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1633 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1637 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1638 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1643 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1645 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1646 (requested by Graham Borland).
1647 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1648 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1649 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1653 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1654 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1655 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1656 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1660 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1661 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1662 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1663 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1664 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1665 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1666 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1667 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1668 - Lots of code tidying.
1673 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1674 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1678 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1680 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1682 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1686 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1687 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1691 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1692 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1696 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1697 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1701 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1702 option to access it directly.
1706 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1707 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1708 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1712 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1713 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1714 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1715 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1716 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1717 when the filer is run.
1721 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1722 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1723 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1728 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1732 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1733 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1737 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1739 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1743 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1747 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1748 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1749 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1754 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1755 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1756 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1757 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1758 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1759 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1760 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1764 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1768 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1769 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1773 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1774 of possible actions (Taras).
1775 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1777 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1778 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1782 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1787 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1791 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1794 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1795 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1799 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1800 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1802 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1804 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1805 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1806 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1807 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1811 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1815 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1819 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1823 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1828 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1829 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1830 the first one found.
1831 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1835 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1839 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1840 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1841 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1845 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1846 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1847 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1852 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1853 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1854 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1858 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1860 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1865 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1870 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1874 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1875 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1879 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1881 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1882 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1886 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1890 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1891 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1895 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1896 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1900 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1901 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1903 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1905 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1909 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1913 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1914 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1918 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1922 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1927 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1928 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1932 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1936 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1940 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1942 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1943 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1947 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1948 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1952 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1953 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1954 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1958 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1959 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1963 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1964 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1966 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1968 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1972 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1973 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1974 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1976 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1977 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1979 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1981 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1982 and the default size with no details.
1986 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1987 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1991 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1996 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2001 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2005 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2010 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2011 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2015 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2019 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2020 the button to run it does.
2021 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2022 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2023 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2027 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2028 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2029 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2033 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2037 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2038 and panels into icon.c.
2042 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2043 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2044 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2045 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2049 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2051 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2053 Updated the documentation.
2057 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2058 up if they're too small.
2062 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2064 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2065 (Christopher Arndt).
2066 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2071 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2072 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2076 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2077 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2081 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2082 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2083 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2088 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2093 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2097 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2098 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2103 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2108 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2109 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2113 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2114 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2118 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2122 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2126 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2130 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2131 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2134 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2135 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2140 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2141 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2142 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2143 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2148 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2149 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2151 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2153 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2154 for non-applications.
2158 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2159 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2164 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2168 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2169 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2171 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2175 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2176 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2180 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2181 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2185 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2186 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2190 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2191 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2193 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2194 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2198 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2199 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2201 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2205 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2206 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2209 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2213 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2214 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2218 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2222 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2223 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2226 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2227 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2231 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2235 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2240 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2244 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2245 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2250 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2255 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2259 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2261 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2263 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2264 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2266 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2268 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2269 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2273 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2274 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2275 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2277 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2278 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2282 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2286 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2287 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2291 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2295 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2296 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2298 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2301 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2302 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2303 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2307 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2308 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2313 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2318 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2320 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2323 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2325 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2326 sensible shape itself now.
2328 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2329 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2330 file at all, just a reused inode!
2331 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2332 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2333 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2337 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2341 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2342 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2347 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2348 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2352 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2356 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2357 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2361 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2366 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2370 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2371 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2375 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2376 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2377 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2378 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2379 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2383 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2384 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2385 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2386 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2387 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2391 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2392 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2393 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2397 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2399 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2400 python's portable system.
2401 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2402 set the LANG variable.
2406 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2407 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2409 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2411 Made a few updates to the manual.
2415 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2416 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2418 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2420 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2421 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2425 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2426 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2430 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2431 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2436 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2437 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2438 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2442 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2443 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2447 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2448 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2452 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2453 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2455 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2456 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2457 open... (Denis Manente).
2461 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2465 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2467 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2468 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2469 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2471 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2473 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2475 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2476 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2481 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2482 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2483 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2487 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2488 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2492 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2496 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2500 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2501 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2502 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2506 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2507 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2508 between pinboards...
2510 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2511 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2512 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2516 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2519 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2520 window (Denis Manente).
2522 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2523 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2527 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2528 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2529 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2533 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2536 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2537 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2539 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2544 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2545 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2547 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2551 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2552 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2554 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2556 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2561 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2562 the icon points to as well as its name.
2564 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2565 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2569 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2570 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2571 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2572 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2576 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2580 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2581 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2582 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2586 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2587 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2589 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2590 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2593 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2594 the item after the drag.
2596 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2597 showing where the file really is.
2601 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2602 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2607 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2608 warning is displayed if so.
2610 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2614 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2615 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2616 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2617 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2620 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2621 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2622 works like the panels.
2626 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2627 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2628 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2629 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2630 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2634 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2635 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2636 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2637 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2639 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2644 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2648 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2649 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2652 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2653 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2655 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2658 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2659 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2660 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2661 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2663 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2665 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2666 slightly. Updated the manual.
2668 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2669 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2672 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2673 or bottom panel to make room.
2677 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2682 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2683 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2684 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2685 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2686 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2690 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2692 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2693 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2695 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2699 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2700 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2704 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2708 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2710 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2715 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2716 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2718 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2722 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2723 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2724 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2728 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2729 rewriting the panel system.
2733 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2736 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2737 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2741 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2742 (suggested by James Kermode).
2746 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2747 than as a full path.
2749 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2751 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2752 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2753 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2757 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2758 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2762 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2763 rename something onto another filesystem.
2767 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2769 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2770 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2774 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2778 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2781 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2782 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2784 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2787 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2792 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2793 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2794 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2796 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2797 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2799 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2800 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2805 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2806 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2811 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2812 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2813 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2815 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2816 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2817 of the 'missing image' image.
2821 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2823 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2825 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2830 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2831 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2832 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2833 its name into another program.
2835 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2839 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2841 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2842 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2843 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2845 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2846 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2847 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2850 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2851 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2855 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2856 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2857 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2861 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2862 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2863 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2867 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2868 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2869 and position the icons directly.
2873 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2878 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2879 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2880 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2884 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2888 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2889 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2893 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2898 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2902 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2903 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2904 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2905 some versions of GTK+.
2909 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2914 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2915 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2916 from a sub-sub-menu.
2918 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2919 drawn on a log scale.
2923 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2924 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2925 happy with the UI yet though...
2927 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2928 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2929 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2933 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2934 by Stephen Harrison).
2936 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2938 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2939 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2940 standard types are in Choices.
2941 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2943 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2944 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2945 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2950 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2951 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2952 shell command minibuffer.
2956 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2957 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2958 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2959 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2960 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2962 Default search path for Choices is now:
2963 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2965 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2966 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2967 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2971 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2972 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2976 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2977 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2978 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2983 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2984 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2985 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2988 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2990 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2991 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2992 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2994 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2995 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2999 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3000 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3001 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3002 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3007 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3008 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3009 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3011 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3013 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3014 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3018 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3019 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3020 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3025 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3026 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3029 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3031 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3036 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3041 Added GNU gettext support.
3042 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3046 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3048 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3050 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3055 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3059 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3060 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3062 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3063 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3068 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3069 onto the directory and winks the file.
3073 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3074 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3075 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3077 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3078 instead of random values.
3079 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3081 Applied Bernard's patch:
3082 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3083 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3084 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3085 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3086 it the RISC OS way...
3087 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3088 alignment corrected.
3089 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3094 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3098 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3099 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3103 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3104 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3105 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3106 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3107 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3108 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3109 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3110 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3111 in the file(1) says... box).
3114 Before the Changes file
3115 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3116 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3118 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3119 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3120 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3121 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3122 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD