2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
8 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
9 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
13 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
17 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
21 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
22 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
26 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
27 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
28 reported by Tristan McLeay).
32 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
33 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
35 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
39 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
40 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
41 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
42 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
46 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
47 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
49 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
51 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
56 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
57 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
58 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
59 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
60 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
65 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
70 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
74 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
75 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
77 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
78 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
79 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
80 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
84 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
85 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
86 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
91 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
93 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
98 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
102 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
103 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
107 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
108 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
109 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
113 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
117 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
118 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
119 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
120 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
121 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
125 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
126 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
127 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
129 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
130 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
131 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
132 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
133 though they may be valid UTF-8.
134 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
136 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
137 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
138 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
139 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
140 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
146 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
147 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
149 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
150 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
155 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
156 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
160 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
161 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
166 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
167 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
168 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
169 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
170 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
171 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
173 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
175 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
176 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
177 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
181 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
182 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
186 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
187 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
191 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
192 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
193 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
194 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
198 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
202 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
203 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
207 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
209 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
210 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
211 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
216 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
217 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
218 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
219 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
223 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
225 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
226 function address (Tony Houghton).
230 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
231 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
236 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
240 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
241 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
245 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
246 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
247 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
251 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
255 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
256 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
257 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
258 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
259 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
264 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
269 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
273 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
274 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
278 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
279 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
283 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
287 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
288 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
290 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
294 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
295 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
299 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
300 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
301 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
303 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
305 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
310 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
311 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
315 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
320 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
324 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
325 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
326 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
327 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
329 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
334 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
335 the old one (Stephen Watson).
336 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
337 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
338 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
342 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
347 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
349 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
351 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
352 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
356 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
357 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
359 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
361 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
362 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
363 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
364 reported by Lewis Denizen).
368 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
372 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
373 the binary (Stephen Watson).
377 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
381 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
382 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
383 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
387 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
390 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
392 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
393 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
394 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
395 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
396 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
400 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
404 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
405 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
409 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
413 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
414 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
415 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
417 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
418 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
420 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
421 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
422 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
423 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
427 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
428 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
432 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
433 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
434 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
435 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
440 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
441 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
445 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
446 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
447 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
451 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
452 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
453 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
457 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
461 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
462 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
466 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
467 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
471 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
475 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
476 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
481 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
482 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
486 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
490 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
491 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
492 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
493 when changing to a parent directory.
494 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
498 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
502 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
506 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
508 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
510 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
514 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
516 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
520 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
522 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
526 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
530 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
531 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
532 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
533 reported by Anthony DiSante).
537 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
541 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
545 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
546 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
547 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
548 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
549 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
553 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
554 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
558 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
559 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
564 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
565 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
570 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
571 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
575 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
576 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
580 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
581 (reported by Tony Houghton).
585 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
587 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
588 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
592 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
593 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
597 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
601 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
605 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
609 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
610 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
611 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
615 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
619 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
624 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
628 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
630 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
632 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
636 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
637 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
638 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
640 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
644 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
645 print a warning and then crash.
649 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
650 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
651 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
656 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
660 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
665 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
669 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
673 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
675 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
680 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
681 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
682 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
687 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
688 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
693 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
695 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
696 anyway, and noone had complained).
697 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
698 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
702 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
703 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
704 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
708 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
712 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
713 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
717 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
718 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
719 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
723 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
724 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
725 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
727 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
728 by Simon Templer and others).
732 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
733 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
734 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
738 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
742 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
746 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
747 version number again (Stephen Watson).
751 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
752 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
756 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
760 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
761 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
762 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
763 anyway (Stephen Watson).
767 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
771 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
775 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
777 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
779 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
783 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
784 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
785 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
789 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
790 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
795 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
796 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
797 impossible to change shortcuts.
798 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
799 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
803 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
804 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
809 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
810 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
811 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
815 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
816 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
817 to the functions being missing.
821 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
825 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
829 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
833 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
837 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
838 worries people for no reason.
842 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
846 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
847 files selected (Peter Geer).
851 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
852 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
856 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
860 Added 'Select by Name'.
864 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
868 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
873 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
877 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
879 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
881 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
882 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
886 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
890 Misc changes for next release.
894 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
895 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
899 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
900 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
901 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
902 Watson, reported on #rox).
906 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
907 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
911 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
912 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
916 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
917 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
921 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
922 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
927 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
931 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
933 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
938 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
942 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
943 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
947 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
948 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
952 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
956 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
961 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
962 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
964 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
965 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
969 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
970 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
974 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
979 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
980 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
984 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
985 support not being detected (igla).
989 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
993 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
994 dialog (Stephen Watson).
998 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1002 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1003 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1004 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1005 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1008 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1010 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1011 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1015 New icon for selection ops.
1019 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1023 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1027 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1031 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1032 Added icon theme selector.
1036 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1040 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1044 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1045 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1049 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1050 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1051 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1055 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1056 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1060 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1064 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1065 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1066 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1070 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1074 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1075 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1080 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1081 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1085 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1086 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1090 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1091 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1095 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1099 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1100 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1101 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1105 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1109 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1110 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1111 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1112 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1116 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1117 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1119 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1123 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1127 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1128 bits (Stephen Watson).
1132 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1136 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1140 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1141 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1145 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1149 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1150 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1155 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1156 forward them explicitly.
1160 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1161 help from Götz Waschk).
1165 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1166 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1167 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1171 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1175 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1179 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1183 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1184 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1186 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1188 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1192 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1194 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1196 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1200 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1201 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1202 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1203 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1207 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1211 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1215 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1219 Minor updates to the manual.
1220 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1221 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1225 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1226 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1228 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1230 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1231 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1235 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1236 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1237 reduce flickering effect.
1241 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1245 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1247 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1251 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1252 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1253 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1254 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1255 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1259 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1260 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1264 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1268 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1273 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1274 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1278 Winking now works in List view.
1282 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1286 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1287 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1291 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1292 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1294 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1296 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1300 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1304 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1305 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1307 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1311 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1312 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1316 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1318 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1322 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1323 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1327 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1329 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1333 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1337 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1338 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1343 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1344 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1346 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1348 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1350 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1354 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1358 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1359 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1363 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1368 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1369 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1373 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1375 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1377 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1378 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1383 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1387 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1388 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1389 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1390 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1391 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1392 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1393 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1395 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1399 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1404 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1405 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1409 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1410 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1411 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1412 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1417 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1418 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1419 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1420 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1421 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1422 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1423 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1424 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1425 talent can do something better?
1426 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1427 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1431 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1432 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1433 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1438 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1440 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1441 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1442 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1443 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1444 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1445 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1446 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1447 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1448 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1449 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1450 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1451 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1452 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1456 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1457 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1458 allow fine repositioning.
1459 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1460 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1461 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1462 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1464 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1465 changing the aspect ratio.
1469 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1473 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1477 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1478 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1479 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1483 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1487 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1492 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1493 make sharing icons easier.
1494 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1498 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1499 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1503 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1507 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1509 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1513 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1518 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1523 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1524 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1526 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1527 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1528 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1529 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1533 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1534 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1538 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1542 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1544 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1545 Brian Langenberger).
1549 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1550 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1552 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1556 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1557 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1559 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1561 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1565 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1566 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1571 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1575 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1576 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1577 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1581 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1582 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1586 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1590 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1591 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1595 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1596 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1597 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1601 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1605 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1606 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1607 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1608 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1610 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1611 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1615 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1616 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1620 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1625 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1626 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1630 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1634 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1635 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1636 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1637 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1642 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1643 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1644 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1648 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1652 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1653 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1657 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1658 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1659 since it didn't include the contents.
1660 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1661 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1665 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1669 Style improvements to options window.
1673 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1677 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1679 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1681 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1686 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1687 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1688 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1689 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1693 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1697 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1701 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1702 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1706 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1708 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1713 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1717 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1718 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1719 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1724 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1728 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1732 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1736 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1740 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1741 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1742 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1746 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1747 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1751 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1752 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1757 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1761 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1765 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1770 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1771 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1775 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1776 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1781 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1782 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1786 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1787 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1788 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1792 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1796 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1797 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1798 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1799 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1800 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1804 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1805 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1809 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1810 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1814 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1818 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1819 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1820 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1821 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1822 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1823 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1827 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1828 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1829 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1833 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1834 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1839 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1843 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1845 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1847 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1852 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1856 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1860 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1861 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1866 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1870 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1874 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1875 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1876 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1880 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1884 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1889 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1893 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1894 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1895 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1896 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1900 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1904 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1905 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1909 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1910 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1911 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1915 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1919 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1923 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1924 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1925 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1926 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1927 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1928 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1932 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1933 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1937 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1938 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1939 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1943 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1944 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1948 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1952 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1953 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1954 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1955 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1957 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1959 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1963 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1964 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1965 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1969 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1973 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1974 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1979 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1983 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1987 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1988 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1992 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1993 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1994 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1998 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1999 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2003 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2004 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2008 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2009 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2013 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2017 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2018 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2022 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2024 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2026 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2030 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2034 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2035 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2039 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2043 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2047 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2048 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2049 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2050 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2051 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2052 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2056 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2060 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2062 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2063 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2067 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2068 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2072 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2076 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2077 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2078 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2079 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2081 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2083 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2087 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2088 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2092 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2093 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2094 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2098 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2099 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2100 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2101 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2102 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2103 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2104 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2108 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2109 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2113 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2117 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2121 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2126 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2130 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2131 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2132 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2136 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2137 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2138 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2142 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2143 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2144 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2148 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2149 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2153 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2158 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2159 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2160 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2161 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2162 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2164 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2165 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2169 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2173 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2174 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2175 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2176 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2180 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2181 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2182 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2183 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2184 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2185 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2189 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2193 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2194 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2198 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2199 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2200 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2201 restart (Olli Helenius).
2205 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2209 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2210 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2211 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2216 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2221 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2222 Small and Large sizes.
2226 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2230 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2231 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2235 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2236 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2237 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2238 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2242 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2243 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2244 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2249 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2254 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2255 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2259 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2260 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2265 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2267 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2269 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2273 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2277 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2279 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2281 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2285 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2287 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2288 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2292 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2293 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2297 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2298 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2302 Various speed improvements.
2303 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2307 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2308 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2312 Slight speed increase when starting.
2316 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2320 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2321 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2322 button is no longer supported.
2326 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2330 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2334 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2339 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2340 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2344 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2345 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2346 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2350 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2351 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2352 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2353 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2357 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2358 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2359 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2361 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2366 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2367 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2372 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2376 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2377 and converted to new dialog style.
2381 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2382 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2386 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2387 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2391 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2395 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2397 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2401 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2405 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2406 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2407 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2411 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2412 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2416 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2421 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2425 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2426 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2430 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2431 and Cancel is now Revert.
2432 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2433 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2437 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2441 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2442 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2444 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2445 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2446 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2447 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2451 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2453 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2454 labels display them.
2455 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2458 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2462 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2464 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2468 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2469 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2470 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2474 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2475 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2477 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2479 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2483 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2484 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2488 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2489 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2490 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2491 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2495 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2499 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2500 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2504 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2505 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2510 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2511 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2515 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2516 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2517 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2521 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2522 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2526 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2527 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2528 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2529 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2531 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2536 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2537 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2539 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2541 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2545 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2546 any image (saves time).
2547 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2548 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2549 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2550 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2552 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2553 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2557 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2558 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2560 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2561 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2563 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2568 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2569 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2570 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2571 has stopped accepting STRING.
2575 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2576 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2580 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2585 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2586 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2588 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2589 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2590 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2594 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2595 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2596 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2597 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2598 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2599 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2603 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2604 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2605 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2606 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2607 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2608 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2613 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2614 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2615 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2616 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2621 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2622 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2626 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2627 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2629 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2631 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2632 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2633 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2637 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2638 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2639 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2643 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2644 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2648 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2649 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2653 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2655 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2660 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2661 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2665 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2666 their menus correctly.
2667 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2672 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2673 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2674 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2678 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2679 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2683 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2687 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2690 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2692 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2693 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2694 the toggle menu items from working!
2698 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2700 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2706 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2707 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2711 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2712 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2713 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2714 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2715 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2716 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2720 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2724 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2725 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2729 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2730 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2731 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2735 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2736 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2741 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2743 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2747 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2748 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2749 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2750 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2754 Improved error reporting.
2755 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2759 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2760 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2761 check box and does 'Yes'.
2765 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2766 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2767 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2768 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2773 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2775 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2776 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2778 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2780 Internal changes to options system:
2781 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2782 filer is fully initialised).
2783 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2785 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2787 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2788 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2789 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2790 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2794 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2795 now reclaims the selection.
2796 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2797 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2802 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2803 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2804 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2805 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2806 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2810 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2811 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2813 Code tidying in various places.
2817 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2818 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2823 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2824 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2828 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2829 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2830 edit the file, not the file itself!
2831 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2835 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2836 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2837 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2838 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2839 of the SOAP working draft.
2840 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2841 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2842 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2847 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2848 it was in the displayed area before.
2850 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2853 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2854 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2858 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2859 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2860 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2862 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2863 selection (Andras Mohari).
2867 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2871 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2875 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2876 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2877 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2881 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2885 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2887 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2888 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2889 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2893 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2894 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2899 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2900 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2901 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2905 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2909 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2913 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2914 replaced by a Restart button.
2918 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2919 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2923 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2927 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2931 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2932 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2933 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2937 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2938 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2940 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2941 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2942 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2946 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2947 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2952 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2954 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2955 (requested by Graham Borland).
2956 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2957 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2958 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2962 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2963 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2964 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2965 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2969 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2970 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2971 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2972 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2973 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2974 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2975 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2976 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2977 - Lots of code tidying.
2982 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2983 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2987 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2989 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2991 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2995 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2996 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3000 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3001 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3005 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3006 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3010 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3011 option to access it directly.
3015 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3016 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3017 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3021 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3022 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3023 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3024 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3025 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3026 when the filer is run.
3030 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3031 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3032 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3037 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3041 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3042 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3046 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3048 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3052 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3056 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3057 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3058 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3063 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3064 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3065 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3066 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3067 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3068 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3069 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3073 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3077 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3078 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3082 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3083 of possible actions (Taras).
3084 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3086 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3087 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3091 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3096 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3100 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3103 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3104 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3108 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3109 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3111 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3113 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3114 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3115 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3116 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3120 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3124 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3128 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3132 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3137 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3138 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3139 the first one found.
3140 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3144 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3148 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3149 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3150 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3154 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3155 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3156 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3161 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3162 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3163 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3167 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3169 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3174 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3179 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3183 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3184 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3188 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3190 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3191 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3195 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3199 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3200 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3204 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3205 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3209 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3210 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3212 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3214 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3218 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3222 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3223 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3227 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3231 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3236 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3237 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3241 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3245 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3249 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3251 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3252 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3256 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3257 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3261 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3262 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3263 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3267 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3268 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3272 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3273 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3275 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3277 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3281 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3282 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3283 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3285 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3286 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3288 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3290 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3291 and the default size with no details.
3295 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3296 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3300 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3305 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3310 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3314 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3319 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3320 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3324 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3328 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3329 the button to run it does.
3330 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3331 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3332 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3336 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3337 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3338 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3342 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3346 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3347 and panels into icon.c.
3351 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3352 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3353 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3354 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3358 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3360 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3362 Updated the documentation.
3366 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3367 up if they're too small.
3371 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3373 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3374 (Christopher Arndt).
3375 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3380 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3381 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3385 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3386 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3390 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3391 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3392 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3397 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3402 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3406 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3407 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3412 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3417 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3418 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3422 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3423 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3427 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3431 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3435 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3439 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3440 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3443 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3444 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3449 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3450 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3451 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3452 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3457 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3458 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3460 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3462 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3463 for non-applications.
3467 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3468 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3473 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3477 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3478 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3480 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3484 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3485 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3489 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3490 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3494 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3495 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3499 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3500 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3502 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3503 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3507 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3508 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3510 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3514 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3515 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3518 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3522 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3523 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3527 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3531 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3532 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3535 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3536 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3540 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3544 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3549 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3553 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3554 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3559 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3564 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3568 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3570 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3572 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3573 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3575 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3577 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3578 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3582 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3583 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3584 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3586 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3587 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3591 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3595 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3596 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3600 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3604 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3605 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3607 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3610 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3611 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3612 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3616 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3617 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3622 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3627 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3629 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3632 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3634 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3635 sensible shape itself now.
3637 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3638 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3639 file at all, just a reused inode!
3640 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3641 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3642 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3646 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3650 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3651 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3656 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3657 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3661 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3665 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3666 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3670 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3675 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3679 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3680 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3684 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3685 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3686 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3687 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3688 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3692 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3693 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3694 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3695 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3696 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3700 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3701 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3702 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3706 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3708 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3709 python's portable system.
3710 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3711 set the LANG variable.
3715 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3716 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3718 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3720 Made a few updates to the manual.
3724 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3725 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3727 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3729 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3730 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3734 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3735 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3739 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3740 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3745 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3746 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3747 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3751 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3752 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3756 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3757 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3761 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3762 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3764 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3765 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3766 open... (Denis Manente).
3770 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3774 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3776 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3777 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3778 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3780 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3782 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3784 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3785 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3790 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3791 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3792 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3796 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3797 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3801 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3805 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3809 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3810 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3811 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3815 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3816 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3817 between pinboards...
3819 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3820 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3821 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3825 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3828 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3829 window (Denis Manente).
3831 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3832 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3836 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3837 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3838 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3842 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3845 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3846 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3848 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3853 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3854 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3856 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3860 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3861 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3863 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3865 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3870 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3871 the icon points to as well as its name.
3873 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3874 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3878 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3879 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3880 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3881 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3885 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3889 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3890 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3891 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3895 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3896 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3898 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3899 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3902 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3903 the item after the drag.
3905 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3906 showing where the file really is.
3910 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3911 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3916 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3917 warning is displayed if so.
3919 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3923 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3924 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3925 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3926 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3929 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3930 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3931 works like the panels.
3935 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3936 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3937 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3938 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3939 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3943 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3944 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3945 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3946 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3948 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3953 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3957 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3958 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3961 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3962 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3964 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3967 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3968 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3969 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3970 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3972 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3974 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3975 slightly. Updated the manual.
3977 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3978 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3981 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3982 or bottom panel to make room.
3986 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3991 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3992 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3993 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3994 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3995 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3999 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4001 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4002 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4004 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4008 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4009 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4013 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4017 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4019 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4024 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4025 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4027 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4031 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4032 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4033 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4037 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4038 rewriting the panel system.
4042 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4045 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4046 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4050 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4051 (suggested by James Kermode).
4055 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4056 than as a full path.
4058 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4060 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4061 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4062 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4066 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4067 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4071 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4072 rename something onto another filesystem.
4076 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4078 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4079 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4083 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4087 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4090 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4091 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4093 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4096 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4101 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4102 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4103 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4105 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4106 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4108 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4109 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4114 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4115 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4120 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4121 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4122 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4124 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4125 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4126 of the 'missing image' image.
4130 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4132 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4134 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4139 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4140 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4141 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4142 its name into another program.
4144 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4148 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4150 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4151 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4152 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4154 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4155 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4156 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4159 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4160 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4164 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4165 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4166 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4170 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4171 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4172 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4176 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4177 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4178 and position the icons directly.
4182 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4187 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4188 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4189 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4193 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4197 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4198 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4202 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4207 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4211 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4212 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4213 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4214 some versions of GTK+.
4218 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4223 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4224 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4225 from a sub-sub-menu.
4227 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4228 drawn on a log scale.
4232 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4233 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4234 happy with the UI yet though...
4236 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4237 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4238 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4242 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4243 by Stephen Harrison).
4245 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4247 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4248 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4249 standard types are in Choices.
4250 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4252 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4253 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4254 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4259 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4260 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4261 shell command minibuffer.
4265 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4266 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4267 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4268 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4269 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4271 Default search path for Choices is now:
4272 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4274 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4275 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4276 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4280 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4281 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4285 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4286 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4287 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4292 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4293 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4294 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4297 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4299 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4300 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4301 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4303 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4304 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4308 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4309 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4310 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4311 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4316 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4317 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4318 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4320 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4322 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4323 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4327 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4328 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4329 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4334 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4335 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4338 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4340 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4345 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4350 Added GNU gettext support.
4351 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4355 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4357 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4359 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4364 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4368 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4369 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4371 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4372 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4377 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4378 onto the directory and winks the file.
4382 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4383 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4384 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4386 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4387 instead of random values.
4388 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4390 Applied Bernard's patch:
4391 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4392 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4393 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4394 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4395 it the RISC OS way...
4396 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4397 alignment corrected.
4398 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4403 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4407 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4408 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4412 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4413 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4414 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4415 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4416 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4417 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4418 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4419 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4420 in the file(1) says... box).
4423 Before the Changes file
4424 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4425 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4427 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4428 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4429 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4430 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4431 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD