2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
8 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
12 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
13 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
14 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
15 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
19 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
23 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
24 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
28 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
30 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
31 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
32 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
37 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
38 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
39 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
40 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
44 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
46 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
47 function address (Tony Houghton).
51 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
52 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
57 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
61 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
62 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
66 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
67 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
68 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
72 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
76 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
77 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
78 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
79 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
80 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
85 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
90 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
94 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
95 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
99 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
100 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
104 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
108 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
109 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
114 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
115 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
119 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
120 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
121 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
123 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
125 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
130 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
131 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
135 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
140 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
144 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
145 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
146 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
147 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
149 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
154 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
155 the old one (Stephen Watson).
156 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
157 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
158 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
162 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
167 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
169 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
171 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
175 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
176 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
178 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
180 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
181 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
182 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
183 reported by Lewis Denizen).
187 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
191 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
192 the binary (Stephen Watson).
196 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
200 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
201 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
202 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
206 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
209 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
211 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
212 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
213 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
214 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
215 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
219 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
223 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
224 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
228 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
232 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
233 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
234 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
236 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
237 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
239 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
240 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
241 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
242 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
246 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
247 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
251 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
252 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
253 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
254 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
259 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
260 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
264 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
265 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
266 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
270 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
271 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
272 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
276 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
280 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
281 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
285 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
286 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
290 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
294 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
295 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
300 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
301 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
305 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
309 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
310 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
311 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
312 when changing to a parent directory.
313 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
317 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
321 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
325 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
327 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
329 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
333 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
335 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
339 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
341 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
345 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
349 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
350 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
351 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
352 reported by Anthony DiSante).
356 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
360 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
364 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
365 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
366 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
367 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
368 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
372 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
373 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
377 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
378 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
383 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
384 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
389 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
390 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
394 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
395 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
399 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
400 (reported by Tony Houghton).
404 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
406 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
407 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
411 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
412 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
416 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
420 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
424 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
428 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
429 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
430 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
434 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
438 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
443 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
447 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
449 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
451 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
455 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
456 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
457 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
459 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
463 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
464 print a warning and then crash.
468 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
469 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
470 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
475 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
479 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
484 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
488 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
492 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
494 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
499 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
500 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
501 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
506 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
507 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
512 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
514 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
515 anyway, and noone had complained).
516 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
517 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
521 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
522 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
523 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
527 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
531 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
532 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
536 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
537 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
538 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
542 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
543 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
544 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
546 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
547 by Simon Templer and others).
551 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
552 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
553 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
557 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
561 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
565 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
566 version number again (Stephen Watson).
570 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
571 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
575 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
579 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
580 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
581 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
582 anyway (Stephen Watson).
586 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
590 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
594 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
596 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
598 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
602 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
603 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
604 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
608 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
609 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
614 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
615 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
616 impossible to change shortcuts.
617 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
618 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
622 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
623 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
628 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
629 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
630 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
634 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
635 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
636 to the functions being missing.
640 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
644 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
648 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
652 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
656 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
657 worries people for no reason.
661 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
665 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
666 files selected (Peter Geer).
670 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
671 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
675 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
679 Added 'Select by Name'.
683 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
687 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
692 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
696 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
698 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
700 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
701 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
705 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
709 Misc changes for next release.
713 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
714 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
718 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
719 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
720 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
721 Watson, reported on #rox).
725 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
726 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
730 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
731 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
735 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
736 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
740 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
741 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
746 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
750 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
752 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
757 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
761 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
762 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
766 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
767 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
771 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
775 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
780 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
781 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
783 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
784 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
788 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
789 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
793 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
798 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
799 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
803 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
804 support not being detected (igla).
808 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
812 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
813 dialog (Stephen Watson).
817 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
821 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
822 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
823 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
824 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
827 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
829 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
830 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
834 New icon for selection ops.
838 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
842 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
846 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
850 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
851 Added icon theme selector.
855 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
859 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
863 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
864 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
868 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
869 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
870 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
874 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
875 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
879 Allow ejecting mounted media.
883 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
884 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
885 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
889 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
893 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
894 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
899 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
900 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
904 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
905 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
909 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
910 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
914 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
918 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
919 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
920 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
924 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
928 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
929 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
930 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
931 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
935 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
936 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
938 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
942 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
946 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
947 bits (Stephen Watson).
951 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
955 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
959 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
960 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
964 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
968 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
969 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
974 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
975 forward them explicitly.
979 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
980 help from Götz Waschk).
984 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
985 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
986 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
990 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
994 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
998 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1002 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1003 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1005 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1007 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1011 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1013 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1015 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1019 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1020 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1021 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1022 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1026 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1030 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1034 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1038 Minor updates to the manual.
1039 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1040 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1044 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1045 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1047 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1049 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1050 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1054 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1055 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1056 reduce flickering effect.
1060 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1064 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1066 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1070 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1071 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1072 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1073 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1074 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1078 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1079 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1083 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1087 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1092 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1093 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1097 Winking now works in List view.
1101 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1105 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1106 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1110 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1111 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1113 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1115 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1119 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1123 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1124 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1126 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1130 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1131 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1135 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1137 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1141 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1142 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1146 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1148 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1152 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1156 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1157 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1162 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1163 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1165 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1167 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1169 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1173 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1177 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1178 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1182 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1187 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1188 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1192 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1194 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1196 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1197 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1202 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1206 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1207 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1208 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1209 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1210 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1211 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1212 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1214 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1218 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1223 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1224 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1228 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1229 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1230 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1231 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1236 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1237 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1238 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1239 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1240 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1241 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1242 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1243 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1244 talent can do something better?
1245 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1246 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1250 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1251 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1252 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1257 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1259 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1260 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1261 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1262 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1263 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1264 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1265 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1266 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1267 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1268 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1269 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1270 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1271 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1275 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1276 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1277 allow fine repositioning.
1278 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1279 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1280 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1281 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1283 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1284 changing the aspect ratio.
1288 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1292 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1296 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1297 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1298 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1302 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1306 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1311 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1312 make sharing icons easier.
1313 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1317 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1318 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1322 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1326 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1328 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1332 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1337 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1342 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1343 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1345 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1346 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1347 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1348 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1352 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1353 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1357 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1361 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1363 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1364 Brian Langenberger).
1368 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1369 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1371 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1375 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1376 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1378 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1380 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1384 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1385 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1390 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1394 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1395 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1396 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1400 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1401 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1405 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1409 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1410 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1414 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1415 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1416 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1420 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1424 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1425 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1426 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1427 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1429 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1430 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1434 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1435 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1439 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1444 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1445 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1449 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1453 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1454 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1455 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1456 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1461 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1462 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1463 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1467 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1471 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1472 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1476 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1477 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1478 since it didn't include the contents.
1479 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1480 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1484 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1488 Style improvements to options window.
1492 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1496 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1498 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1500 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1505 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1506 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1507 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1508 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1512 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1516 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1520 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1521 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1525 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1527 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1532 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1536 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1537 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1538 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1543 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1547 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1551 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1555 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1559 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1560 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1561 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1565 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1566 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1570 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1571 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1576 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1580 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1584 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1589 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1590 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1594 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1595 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1600 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1601 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1605 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1606 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1607 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1611 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1615 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1616 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1617 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1618 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1619 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1623 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1624 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1628 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1629 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1633 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1637 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1638 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1639 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1640 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1641 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1642 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1646 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1647 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1648 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1652 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1653 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1658 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1662 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1664 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1666 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1671 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1675 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1679 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1680 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1685 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1689 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1693 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1694 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1695 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1699 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1703 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1708 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1712 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1713 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1714 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1715 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1719 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1723 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1724 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1728 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1729 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1730 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1734 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1738 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1742 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1743 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1744 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1745 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1746 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1747 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1751 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1752 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1756 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1757 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1758 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1762 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1763 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1767 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1771 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1772 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1773 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1774 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1776 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1778 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1782 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1783 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1784 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1788 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1792 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1793 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1798 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1802 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1806 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1807 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1811 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1812 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1813 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1817 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1818 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1822 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1823 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1827 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1828 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1832 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1836 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1837 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1841 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1843 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1845 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1849 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1853 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1854 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1858 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1862 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1866 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1867 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1868 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1869 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1870 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1871 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1875 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1879 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1881 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1882 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1886 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1887 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1891 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1895 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1896 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1897 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1898 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1900 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1902 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1906 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1907 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1911 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1912 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1913 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1917 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1918 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1919 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1920 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1921 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1922 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1923 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1927 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1928 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1932 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1936 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1940 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1945 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1949 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1950 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1951 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1955 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1956 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1957 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1961 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1962 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1963 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1967 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1968 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1972 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1977 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1978 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1979 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1980 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1981 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1983 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1984 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1988 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1992 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1993 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1994 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1995 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1999 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2000 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2001 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2002 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2003 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2004 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2008 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2012 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2013 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2017 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2018 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2019 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2020 restart (Olli Helenius).
2024 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2028 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2029 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2030 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2035 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2040 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2041 Small and Large sizes.
2045 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2049 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2050 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2054 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2055 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2056 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2057 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2061 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2062 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2063 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2068 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2073 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2074 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2078 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2079 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2084 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2086 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2088 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2092 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2096 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2098 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2100 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2104 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2106 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2107 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2111 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2112 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2116 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2117 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2121 Various speed improvements.
2122 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2126 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2127 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2131 Slight speed increase when starting.
2135 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2139 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2140 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2141 button is no longer supported.
2145 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2149 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2153 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2158 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2159 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2163 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2164 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2165 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2169 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2170 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2171 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2172 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2176 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2177 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2178 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2180 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2185 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2186 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2191 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2195 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2196 and converted to new dialog style.
2200 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2201 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2205 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2206 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2210 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2214 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2216 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2220 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2224 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2225 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2226 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2230 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2231 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2235 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2240 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2244 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2245 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2249 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2250 and Cancel is now Revert.
2251 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2252 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2256 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2260 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2261 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2263 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2264 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2265 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2266 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2270 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2272 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2273 labels display them.
2274 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2277 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2281 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2283 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2287 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2288 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2289 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2293 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2294 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2296 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2298 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2302 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2303 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2307 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2308 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2309 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2310 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2314 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2318 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2319 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2323 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2324 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2329 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2330 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2334 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2335 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2336 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2340 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2341 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2345 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2346 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2347 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2348 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2350 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2355 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2356 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2358 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2360 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2364 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2365 any image (saves time).
2366 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2367 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2368 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2369 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2371 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2372 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2376 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2377 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2379 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2380 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2382 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2387 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2388 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2389 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2390 has stopped accepting STRING.
2394 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2395 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2399 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2404 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2405 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2407 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2408 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2409 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2413 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2414 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2415 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2416 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2417 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2418 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2422 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2423 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2424 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2425 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2426 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2427 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2432 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2433 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2434 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2435 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2440 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2441 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2445 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2446 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2448 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2450 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2451 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2452 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2456 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2457 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2458 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2462 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2463 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2467 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2468 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2472 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2474 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2479 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2480 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2484 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2485 their menus correctly.
2486 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2491 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2492 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2493 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2497 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2498 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2502 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2506 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2509 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2511 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2512 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2513 the toggle menu items from working!
2517 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2519 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2525 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2526 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2530 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2531 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2532 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2533 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2534 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2535 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2539 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2543 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2544 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2548 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2549 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2550 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2554 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2555 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2560 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2562 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2566 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2567 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2568 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2569 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2573 Improved error reporting.
2574 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2578 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2579 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2580 check box and does 'Yes'.
2584 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2585 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2586 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2587 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2592 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2594 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2595 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2597 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2599 Internal changes to options system:
2600 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2601 filer is fully initialised).
2602 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2604 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2606 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2607 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2608 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2609 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2613 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2614 now reclaims the selection.
2615 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2616 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2621 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2622 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2623 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2624 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2625 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2629 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2630 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2632 Code tidying in various places.
2636 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2637 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2642 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2643 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2647 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2648 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2649 edit the file, not the file itself!
2650 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2654 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2655 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2656 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2657 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2658 of the SOAP working draft.
2659 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2660 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2661 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2666 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2667 it was in the displayed area before.
2669 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2672 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2673 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2677 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2678 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2679 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2681 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2682 selection (Andras Mohari).
2686 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2690 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2694 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2695 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2696 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2700 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2704 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2706 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2707 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2708 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2712 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2713 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2718 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2719 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2720 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2724 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2728 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2732 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2733 replaced by a Restart button.
2737 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2738 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2742 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2746 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2750 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2751 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2752 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2756 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2757 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2759 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2760 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2761 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2765 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2766 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2771 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2773 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2774 (requested by Graham Borland).
2775 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2776 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2777 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2781 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2782 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2783 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2784 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2788 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2789 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2790 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2791 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2792 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2793 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2794 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2795 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2796 - Lots of code tidying.
2801 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2802 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2806 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2808 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2810 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2814 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2815 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2819 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2820 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2824 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2825 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2829 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2830 option to access it directly.
2834 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2835 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2836 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2840 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2841 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2842 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2843 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2844 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2845 when the filer is run.
2849 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2850 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2851 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2856 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2860 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2861 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2865 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2867 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2871 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2875 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2876 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2877 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2882 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2883 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2884 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2885 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2886 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2887 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2888 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2892 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2896 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2897 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2901 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2902 of possible actions (Taras).
2903 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2905 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2906 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2910 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2915 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2919 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2922 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2923 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2927 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2928 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2930 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2932 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2933 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2934 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2935 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2939 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2943 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2947 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2951 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2956 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2957 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2958 the first one found.
2959 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2963 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2967 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2968 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2969 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2973 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2974 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2975 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2980 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2981 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2982 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2986 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2988 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2993 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2998 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3002 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3003 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3007 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3009 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3010 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3014 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3018 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3019 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3023 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3024 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3028 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3029 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3031 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3033 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3037 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3041 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3042 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3046 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3050 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3055 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3056 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3060 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3064 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3068 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3070 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3071 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3075 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3076 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3080 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3081 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3082 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3086 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3087 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3091 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3092 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3094 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3096 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3100 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3101 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3102 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3104 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3105 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3107 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3109 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3110 and the default size with no details.
3114 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3115 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3119 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3124 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3129 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3133 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3138 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3139 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3143 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3147 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3148 the button to run it does.
3149 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3150 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3151 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3155 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3156 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3157 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3161 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3165 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3166 and panels into icon.c.
3170 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3171 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3172 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3173 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3177 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3179 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3181 Updated the documentation.
3185 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3186 up if they're too small.
3190 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3192 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3193 (Christopher Arndt).
3194 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3199 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3200 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3204 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3205 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3209 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3210 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3211 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3216 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3221 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3225 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3226 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3231 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3236 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3237 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3241 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3242 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3246 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3250 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3254 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3258 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3259 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3262 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3263 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3268 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3269 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3270 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3271 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3276 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3277 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3279 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3281 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3282 for non-applications.
3286 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3287 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3292 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3296 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3297 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3299 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3303 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3304 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3308 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3309 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3313 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3314 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3318 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3319 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3321 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3322 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3326 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3327 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3329 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3333 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3334 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3337 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3341 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3342 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3346 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3350 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3351 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3354 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3355 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3359 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3363 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3368 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3372 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3373 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3378 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3383 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3387 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3389 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3391 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3392 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3394 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3396 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3397 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3401 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3402 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3403 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3405 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3406 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3410 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3414 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3415 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3419 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3423 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3424 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3426 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3429 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3430 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3431 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3435 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3436 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3441 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3446 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3448 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3451 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3453 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3454 sensible shape itself now.
3456 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3457 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3458 file at all, just a reused inode!
3459 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3460 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3461 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3465 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3469 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3470 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3475 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3476 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3480 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3484 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3485 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3489 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3494 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3498 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3499 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3503 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3504 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3505 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3506 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3507 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3511 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3512 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3513 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3514 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3515 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3519 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3520 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3521 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3525 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3527 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3528 python's portable system.
3529 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3530 set the LANG variable.
3534 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3535 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3537 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3539 Made a few updates to the manual.
3543 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3544 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3546 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3548 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3549 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3553 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3554 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3558 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3559 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3564 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3565 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3566 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3570 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3571 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3575 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3576 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3580 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3581 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3583 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3584 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3585 open... (Denis Manente).
3589 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3593 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3595 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3596 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3597 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3599 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3601 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3603 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3604 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3609 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3610 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3611 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3615 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3616 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3620 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3624 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3628 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3629 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3630 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3634 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3635 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3636 between pinboards...
3638 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3639 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3640 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3644 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3647 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3648 window (Denis Manente).
3650 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3651 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3655 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3656 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3657 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3661 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3664 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3665 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3667 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3672 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3673 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3675 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3679 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3680 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3682 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3684 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3689 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3690 the icon points to as well as its name.
3692 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3693 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3697 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3698 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3699 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3700 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3704 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3708 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3709 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3710 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3714 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3715 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3717 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3718 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3721 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3722 the item after the drag.
3724 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3725 showing where the file really is.
3729 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3730 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3735 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3736 warning is displayed if so.
3738 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3742 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3743 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3744 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3745 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3748 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3749 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3750 works like the panels.
3754 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3755 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3756 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3757 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3758 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3762 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3763 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3764 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3765 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3767 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3772 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3776 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3777 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3780 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3781 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3783 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3786 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3787 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3788 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3789 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3791 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3793 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3794 slightly. Updated the manual.
3796 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3797 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3800 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3801 or bottom panel to make room.
3805 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3810 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3811 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3812 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3813 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3814 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3818 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3820 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3821 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3823 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3827 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3828 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3832 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3836 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3838 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3843 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3844 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3846 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3850 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3851 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3852 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3856 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3857 rewriting the panel system.
3861 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3864 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3865 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3869 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3870 (suggested by James Kermode).
3874 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3875 than as a full path.
3877 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3879 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3880 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3881 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3885 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3886 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3890 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3891 rename something onto another filesystem.
3895 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3897 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3898 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3902 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3906 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3909 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3910 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3912 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3915 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3920 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3921 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3922 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3924 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3925 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3927 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3928 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3933 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3934 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3939 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3940 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3941 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3943 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3944 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3945 of the 'missing image' image.
3949 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3951 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3953 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3958 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3959 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3960 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3961 its name into another program.
3963 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3967 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3969 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3970 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3971 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3973 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3974 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3975 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3978 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3979 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3983 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3984 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3985 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3989 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3990 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3991 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3995 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3996 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3997 and position the icons directly.
4001 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4006 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4007 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4008 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4012 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4016 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4017 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4021 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4026 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4030 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4031 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4032 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4033 some versions of GTK+.
4037 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4042 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4043 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4044 from a sub-sub-menu.
4046 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4047 drawn on a log scale.
4051 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4052 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4053 happy with the UI yet though...
4055 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4056 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4057 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4061 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4062 by Stephen Harrison).
4064 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4066 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4067 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4068 standard types are in Choices.
4069 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4071 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4072 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4073 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4078 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4079 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4080 shell command minibuffer.
4084 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4085 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4086 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4087 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4088 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4090 Default search path for Choices is now:
4091 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4093 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4094 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4095 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4099 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4100 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4104 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4105 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4106 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4111 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4112 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4113 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4116 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4118 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4119 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4120 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4122 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4123 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4127 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4128 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4129 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4130 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4135 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4136 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4137 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4139 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4141 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4142 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4146 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4147 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4148 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4153 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4154 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4157 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4159 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4164 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4169 Added GNU gettext support.
4170 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4174 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4176 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4178 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4183 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4187 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4188 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4190 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4191 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4196 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4197 onto the directory and winks the file.
4201 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4202 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4203 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4205 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4206 instead of random values.
4207 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4209 Applied Bernard's patch:
4210 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4211 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4212 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4213 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4214 it the RISC OS way...
4215 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4216 alignment corrected.
4217 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4222 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4226 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4227 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4231 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4232 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4233 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4234 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4235 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4236 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4237 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4238 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4239 in the file(1) says... box).
4242 Before the Changes file
4243 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4244 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4246 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4247 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4248 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4249 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4250 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD