2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
8 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
9 (requested by Ryan Harris).
13 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
14 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
18 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
23 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
24 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
25 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
26 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
27 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
29 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
30 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
34 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
38 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
39 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
40 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
41 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
45 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
46 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
47 Many improvements to the pinboard:
48 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
49 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
50 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
54 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
58 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
59 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
63 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
64 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
65 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
66 restart (Olli Helenius).
70 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
74 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
75 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
76 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
81 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
86 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
87 Small and Large sizes.
91 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
95 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
96 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
100 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
101 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
102 (requested by Gregory Spath).
103 Don't quit while Options window is open.
107 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
108 the window (requested by Ashwin).
109 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
114 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
119 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
120 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
124 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
125 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
130 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
132 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
134 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
138 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
142 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
144 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
146 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
150 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
152 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
153 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
157 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
158 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
162 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
163 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
167 Various speed improvements.
168 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
172 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
173 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
177 Slight speed increase when starting.
181 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
185 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
186 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
187 button is no longer supported.
191 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
195 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
199 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
204 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
205 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
209 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
210 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
211 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
215 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
216 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
217 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
218 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
222 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
223 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
224 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
226 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
231 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
232 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
237 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
241 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
242 and converted to new dialog style.
246 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
247 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
251 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
252 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
256 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
260 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
262 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
266 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
270 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
271 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
272 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
276 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
277 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
281 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
286 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
290 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
291 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
295 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
296 and Cancel is now Revert.
297 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
298 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
302 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
306 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
307 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
309 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
310 (reported by Serban Udrea).
311 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
312 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
316 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
318 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
320 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
323 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
327 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
329 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
333 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
334 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
335 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
339 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
340 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
342 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
344 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
348 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
349 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
353 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
354 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
355 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
356 (requested by Andras Mohari).
360 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
364 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
365 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
369 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
370 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
375 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
376 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
380 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
381 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
382 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
386 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
387 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
391 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
392 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
393 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
394 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
396 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
401 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
402 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
404 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
406 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
410 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
411 any image (saves time).
412 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
413 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
414 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
415 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
417 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
418 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
422 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
423 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
425 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
426 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
428 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
433 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
434 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
435 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
436 has stopped accepting STRING.
440 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
441 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
445 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
450 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
451 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
453 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
454 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
455 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
459 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
460 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
461 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
462 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
463 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
464 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
468 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
469 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
470 Allow '~' in globicons file.
471 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
472 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
473 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
478 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
479 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
480 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
481 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
486 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
487 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
491 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
492 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
494 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
496 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
497 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
498 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
502 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
503 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
504 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
508 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
509 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
513 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
514 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
518 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
520 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
525 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
526 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
530 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
531 their menus correctly.
532 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
537 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
538 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
539 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
543 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
544 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
548 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
552 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
555 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
557 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
558 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
559 the toggle menu items from working!
563 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
565 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
571 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
572 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
576 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
577 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
578 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
579 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
580 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
581 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
585 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
589 File groups are now saved (automatically).
590 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
594 Added Version SOAP RPC.
595 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
596 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
600 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
601 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
606 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
608 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
612 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
613 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
614 bar is displayed in the filer window.
615 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
619 Improved error reporting.
620 Improved sizing code when details are on.
624 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
625 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
626 check box and does 'Yes'.
630 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
631 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
632 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
633 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
638 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
640 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
641 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
643 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
645 Internal changes to options system:
646 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
647 filer is fully initialised).
648 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
650 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
652 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
653 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
654 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
655 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
659 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
660 now reclaims the selection.
661 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
662 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
667 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
668 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
669 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
670 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
671 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
675 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
676 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
678 Code tidying in various places.
682 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
683 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
688 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
689 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
693 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
694 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
695 edit the file, not the file itself!
696 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
700 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
701 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
702 (recommended by Jens Finke).
703 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
704 of the SOAP working draft.
705 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
706 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
707 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
712 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
713 it was in the displayed area before.
715 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
718 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
719 winking effect until the window actually appears.
723 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
724 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
725 Kristian A. Rink and others).
727 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
728 selection (Andras Mohari).
732 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
736 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
740 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
741 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
742 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
746 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
750 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
752 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
753 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
754 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
758 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
759 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
764 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
765 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
766 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
770 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
774 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
778 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
779 replaced by a Restart button.
783 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
784 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
788 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
792 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
796 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
797 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
798 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
802 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
803 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
805 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
806 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
807 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
811 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
812 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
817 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
819 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
820 (requested by Graham Borland).
821 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
822 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
823 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
827 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
828 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
829 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
830 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
834 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
835 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
836 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
837 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
838 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
839 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
840 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
841 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
842 - Lots of code tidying.
847 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
848 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
852 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
854 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
856 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
860 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
861 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
865 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
866 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
870 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
871 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
875 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
876 option to access it directly.
880 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
881 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
882 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
886 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
887 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
888 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
889 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
890 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
891 when the filer is run.
895 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
896 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
897 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
902 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
906 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
907 title bar (Stephen Watson).
911 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
913 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
917 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
921 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
922 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
923 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
928 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
929 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
930 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
931 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
932 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
933 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
934 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
938 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
942 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
943 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
947 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
948 of possible actions (Taras).
949 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
951 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
952 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
956 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
961 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
965 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
968 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
969 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
973 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
974 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
976 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
978 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
979 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
980 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
981 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
985 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
989 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
993 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
997 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1002 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1003 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1004 the first one found.
1005 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1009 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1013 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1014 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1015 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1019 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1020 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1021 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1026 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1027 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1028 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1032 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1034 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1039 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1044 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1048 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1049 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1053 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1055 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1056 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1060 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1064 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1065 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1069 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1070 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1074 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1075 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1077 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1079 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1083 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1087 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1088 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1092 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1096 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1101 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1102 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1106 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1110 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1114 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1116 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1117 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1121 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1122 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1126 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1127 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1128 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1132 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1133 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1137 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1138 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1140 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1142 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1146 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1147 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1148 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1150 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1151 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1153 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1155 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1156 and the default size with no details.
1160 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1161 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1165 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1170 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1175 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1179 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1184 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1185 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1189 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1193 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1194 the button to run it does.
1195 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1196 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1197 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1201 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1202 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1203 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1207 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1211 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1212 and panels into icon.c.
1216 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1217 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1218 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1219 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1223 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1225 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1227 Updated the documentation.
1231 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1232 up if they're too small.
1236 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1238 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1239 (Christopher Arndt).
1240 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1245 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1246 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1250 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1251 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1255 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1256 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1257 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1262 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1267 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1271 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1272 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1277 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1282 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1283 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1287 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1288 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1292 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1296 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1300 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1304 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1305 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1308 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1309 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1314 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1315 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1316 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1317 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1322 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1323 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1325 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1327 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1328 for non-applications.
1332 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1333 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1338 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1342 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1343 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1345 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1349 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1350 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1354 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1355 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1359 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1360 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1364 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1365 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1367 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1368 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1372 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1373 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1375 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1379 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1380 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1383 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1387 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1388 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1392 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1396 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1397 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1400 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1401 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1405 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1409 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1414 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1418 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1419 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1424 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1429 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1433 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1435 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1437 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1438 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1440 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1442 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1443 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1447 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1448 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1449 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1451 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1452 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1456 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1460 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1461 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1465 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1469 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1470 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1472 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1475 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1476 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1477 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1481 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1482 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1487 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1492 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1494 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1497 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1499 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1500 sensible shape itself now.
1502 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1503 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1504 file at all, just a reused inode!
1505 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1506 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1507 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1511 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1515 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1516 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1521 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1522 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1526 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1530 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1531 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1535 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1540 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1544 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1545 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1549 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1550 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1551 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1552 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1553 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1557 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1558 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1559 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1560 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1561 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1565 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1566 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1567 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1571 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1573 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1574 python's portable system.
1575 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1576 set the LANG variable.
1580 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1581 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1583 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1585 Made a few updates to the manual.
1589 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1590 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1592 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1594 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1595 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1599 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1600 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1604 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1605 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1610 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1611 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1612 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1616 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1617 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1621 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1622 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1626 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1627 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1629 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1630 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1631 open... (Denis Manente).
1635 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1639 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1641 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1642 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1643 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1645 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1647 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1649 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1650 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1655 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1656 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1657 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1661 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1662 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1666 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1670 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1674 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1675 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1676 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1680 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1681 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1682 between pinboards...
1684 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1685 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1686 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1690 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1693 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1694 window (Denis Manente).
1696 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1697 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1701 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1702 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1703 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1707 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1710 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1711 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1713 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1718 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1719 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1721 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1725 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1726 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1728 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1730 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1735 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1736 the icon points to as well as its name.
1738 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1739 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1743 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1744 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1745 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1746 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1750 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1754 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1755 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1756 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1760 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1761 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1763 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1764 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1767 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1768 the item after the drag.
1770 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1771 showing where the file really is.
1775 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1776 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1781 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1782 warning is displayed if so.
1784 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1788 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1789 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1790 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1791 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1794 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1795 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1796 works like the panels.
1800 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1801 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1802 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1803 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1804 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1808 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1809 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1810 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1811 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1813 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1818 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1822 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1823 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1826 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1827 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1829 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1832 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1833 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1834 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1835 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1837 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1839 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1840 slightly. Updated the manual.
1842 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1843 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1846 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1847 or bottom panel to make room.
1851 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1856 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1857 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1858 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1859 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1860 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1864 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
1866 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
1867 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
1869 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
1873 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
1874 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
1878 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
1882 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
1884 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
1889 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
1890 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
1892 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
1896 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
1897 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
1898 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
1902 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
1903 rewriting the panel system.
1907 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
1910 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
1911 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
1915 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
1916 (suggested by James Kermode).
1920 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
1921 than as a full path.
1923 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
1925 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
1926 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
1927 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
1931 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
1932 mounted/unmounted state changed.
1936 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
1937 rename something onto another filesystem.
1941 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
1943 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
1944 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
1948 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
1952 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
1955 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
1956 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
1958 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
1961 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
1966 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
1967 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
1968 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
1970 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
1971 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
1973 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
1974 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
1979 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
1980 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
1985 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
1986 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
1987 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
1989 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
1990 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
1991 of the 'missing image' image.
1995 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
1997 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
1999 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2004 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2005 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2006 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2007 its name into another program.
2009 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2013 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2015 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2016 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2017 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2019 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2020 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2021 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2024 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2025 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2029 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2030 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2031 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2035 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2036 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2037 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2041 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2042 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2043 and position the icons directly.
2047 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2052 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2053 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2054 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2058 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2062 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2063 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2067 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2072 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2076 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2077 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2078 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2079 some versions of GTK+.
2083 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2088 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2089 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2090 from a sub-sub-menu.
2092 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2093 drawn on a log scale.
2097 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2098 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2099 happy with the UI yet though...
2101 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2102 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2103 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2107 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2108 by Stephen Harrison).
2110 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2112 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2113 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2114 standard types are in Choices.
2115 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2117 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2118 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2119 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2124 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2125 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2126 shell command minibuffer.
2130 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2131 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2132 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2133 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2134 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2136 Default search path for Choices is now:
2137 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2139 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2140 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2141 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2145 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2146 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2150 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2151 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2152 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2157 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2158 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2159 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2162 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2164 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2165 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2166 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2168 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2169 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2173 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2174 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2175 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2176 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2181 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2182 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2183 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2185 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2187 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2188 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2192 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2193 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2194 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2199 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2200 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2203 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2205 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2210 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2215 Added GNU gettext support.
2216 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2220 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2222 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2224 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2229 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2233 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2234 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2236 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2237 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2242 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2243 onto the directory and winks the file.
2247 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2248 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2249 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2251 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2252 instead of random values.
2253 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2255 Applied Bernard's patch:
2256 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2257 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2258 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2259 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2260 it the RISC OS way...
2261 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2262 alignment corrected.
2263 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2268 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2272 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2273 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2277 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2278 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2279 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2280 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2281 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2282 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2283 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2284 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2285 in the file(1) says... box).
2288 Before the Changes file
2289 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2290 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2292 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2293 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2294 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2295 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2296 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD