2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
8 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
9 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
14 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
16 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
21 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
25 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
26 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
30 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
31 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
32 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
36 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
40 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
41 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
42 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
43 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
44 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
48 Added icon for messages (Thomas Leonard).
49 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
50 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
52 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
53 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
54 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
55 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
56 though they may be valid UTF-8.
57 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
59 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
60 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
61 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
62 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
63 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
69 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
70 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
72 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
73 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
78 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
79 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
83 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
84 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
89 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
90 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
91 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
92 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
93 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
94 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
96 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
98 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
99 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
100 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
104 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
105 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
109 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
110 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
114 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
115 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
116 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
117 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
121 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
125 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
126 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
130 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
132 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
133 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
134 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
139 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
140 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
141 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
142 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
146 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
148 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
149 function address (Tony Houghton).
153 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
154 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
159 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
163 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
164 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
168 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
169 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
170 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
174 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
178 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
179 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
180 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
181 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
182 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
187 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
192 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
196 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
197 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
201 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
202 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
206 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
210 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
211 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
216 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
217 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
221 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
222 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
223 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
225 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
227 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
232 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
233 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
237 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
242 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
246 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
247 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
248 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
249 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
251 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
256 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
257 the old one (Stephen Watson).
258 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
259 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
260 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
264 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
269 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
271 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
273 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
274 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
278 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
279 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
281 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
283 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
284 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
285 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
286 reported by Lewis Denizen).
290 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
294 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
295 the binary (Stephen Watson).
299 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
303 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
304 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
305 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
309 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
312 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
314 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
315 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
316 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
317 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
318 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
322 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
326 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
327 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
331 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
335 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
336 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
337 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
339 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
340 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
342 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
343 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
344 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
345 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
349 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
350 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
354 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
355 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
356 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
357 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
362 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
363 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
367 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
368 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
369 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
373 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
374 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
375 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
379 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
383 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
384 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
388 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
389 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
393 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
397 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
398 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
403 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
404 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
408 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
412 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
413 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
414 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
415 when changing to a parent directory.
416 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
420 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
424 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
428 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
430 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
432 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
436 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
438 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
442 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
444 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
448 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
452 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
453 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
454 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
455 reported by Anthony DiSante).
459 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
463 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
467 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
468 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
469 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
470 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
471 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
475 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
476 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
480 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
481 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
486 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
487 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
492 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
493 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
497 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
498 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
502 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
503 (reported by Tony Houghton).
507 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
509 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
510 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
514 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
515 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
519 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
523 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
527 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
531 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
532 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
533 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
537 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
541 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
546 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
550 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
552 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
554 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
558 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
559 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
560 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
562 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
566 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
567 print a warning and then crash.
571 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
572 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
573 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
578 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
582 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
587 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
591 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
595 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
597 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
602 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
603 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
604 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
609 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
610 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
615 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
617 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
618 anyway, and noone had complained).
619 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
620 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
624 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
625 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
626 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
630 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
634 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
635 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
639 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
640 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
641 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
645 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
646 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
647 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
649 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
650 by Simon Templer and others).
654 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
655 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
656 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
660 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
664 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
668 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
669 version number again (Stephen Watson).
673 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
674 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
678 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
682 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
683 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
684 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
685 anyway (Stephen Watson).
689 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
693 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
697 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
699 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
701 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
705 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
706 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
707 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
711 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
712 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
717 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
718 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
719 impossible to change shortcuts.
720 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
721 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
725 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
726 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
731 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
732 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
733 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
737 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
738 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
739 to the functions being missing.
743 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
747 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
751 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
755 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
759 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
760 worries people for no reason.
764 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
768 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
769 files selected (Peter Geer).
773 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
774 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
778 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
782 Added 'Select by Name'.
786 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
790 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
795 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
799 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
801 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
803 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
804 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
808 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
812 Misc changes for next release.
816 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
817 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
821 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
822 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
823 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
824 Watson, reported on #rox).
828 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
829 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
833 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
834 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
838 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
839 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
843 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
844 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
849 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
853 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
855 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
860 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
864 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
865 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
869 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
870 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
874 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
878 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
883 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
884 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
886 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
887 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
891 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
892 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
896 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
901 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
902 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
906 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
907 support not being detected (igla).
911 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
915 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
916 dialog (Stephen Watson).
920 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
924 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
925 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
926 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
927 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
930 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
932 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
933 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
937 New icon for selection ops.
941 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
945 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
949 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
953 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
954 Added icon theme selector.
958 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
962 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
966 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
967 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
971 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
972 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
973 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
977 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
978 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
982 Allow ejecting mounted media.
986 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
987 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
988 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
992 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
996 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
997 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1002 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1003 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1007 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1008 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1012 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1013 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1017 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1021 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1022 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1023 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1027 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1031 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1032 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1033 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1034 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1038 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1039 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1041 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1045 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1049 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1050 bits (Stephen Watson).
1054 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1058 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1062 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1063 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1067 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1071 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1072 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1077 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1078 forward them explicitly.
1082 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1083 help from Götz Waschk).
1087 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1088 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1089 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1093 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1097 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1101 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1105 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1106 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1108 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1110 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1114 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1116 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1118 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1122 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1123 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1124 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1125 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1129 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1133 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1137 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1141 Minor updates to the manual.
1142 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1143 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1147 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1148 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1150 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1152 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1153 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1157 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1158 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1159 reduce flickering effect.
1163 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1167 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1169 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1173 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1174 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1175 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1176 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1177 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1181 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1182 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1186 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1190 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1195 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1196 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1200 Winking now works in List view.
1204 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1208 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1209 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1213 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1214 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1216 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1218 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1222 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1226 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1227 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1229 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1233 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1234 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1238 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1240 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1244 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1245 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1249 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1251 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1255 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1259 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1260 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1265 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1266 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1268 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1270 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1272 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1276 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1280 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1281 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1285 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1290 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1291 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1295 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1297 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1299 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1300 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1305 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1309 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1310 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1311 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1312 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1313 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1314 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1315 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1317 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1321 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1326 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1327 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1331 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1332 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1333 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1334 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1339 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1340 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1341 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1342 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1343 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1344 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1345 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1346 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1347 talent can do something better?
1348 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1349 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1353 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1354 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1355 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1360 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1362 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1363 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1364 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1365 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1366 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1367 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1368 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1369 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1370 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1371 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1372 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1373 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1374 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1378 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1379 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1380 allow fine repositioning.
1381 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1382 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1383 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1384 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1386 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1387 changing the aspect ratio.
1391 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1395 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1399 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1400 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1401 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1405 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1409 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1414 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1415 make sharing icons easier.
1416 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1420 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1421 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1425 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1429 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1431 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1435 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1440 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1445 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1446 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1448 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1449 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1450 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1451 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1455 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1456 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1460 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1464 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1466 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1467 Brian Langenberger).
1471 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1472 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1474 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1478 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1479 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1481 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1483 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1487 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1488 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1493 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1497 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1498 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1499 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1503 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1504 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1508 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1512 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1513 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1517 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1518 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1519 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1523 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1527 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1528 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1529 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1530 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1532 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1533 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1537 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1538 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1542 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1547 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1548 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1552 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1556 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1557 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1558 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1559 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1564 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1565 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1566 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1570 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1574 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1575 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1579 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1580 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1581 since it didn't include the contents.
1582 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1583 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1587 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1591 Style improvements to options window.
1595 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1599 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1601 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1603 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1608 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1609 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1610 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1611 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1615 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1619 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1623 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1624 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1628 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1630 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1635 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1639 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1640 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1641 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1646 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1650 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1654 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1658 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1662 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1663 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1664 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1668 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1669 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1673 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1674 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1679 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1683 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1687 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1692 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1693 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1697 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1698 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1703 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1704 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1708 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1709 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1710 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1714 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1718 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1719 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1720 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1721 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1722 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1726 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1727 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1731 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1732 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1736 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1740 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1741 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1742 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1743 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1744 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1745 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1749 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1750 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1751 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1755 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1756 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1761 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1765 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1767 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1769 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1774 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1778 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1782 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1783 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1788 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1792 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1796 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1797 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1798 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1802 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1806 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1811 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1815 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1816 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1817 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1818 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1822 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1826 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1827 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1831 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1832 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1833 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1837 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1841 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1845 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1846 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1847 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1848 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1849 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1850 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1854 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1855 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1859 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1860 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1861 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1865 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1866 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1870 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1874 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1875 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1876 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1877 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1879 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1881 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1885 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1886 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1887 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1891 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1895 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1896 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1901 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1905 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1909 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1910 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1914 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1915 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1916 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1920 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1921 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1925 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1926 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1930 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1931 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1935 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1939 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1940 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1944 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1946 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1948 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1952 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1956 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1957 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1961 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1965 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1969 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1970 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1971 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1972 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1973 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1974 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1978 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1982 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1984 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1985 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1989 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1990 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1994 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1998 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1999 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2000 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2001 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2003 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2005 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2009 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2010 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2014 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2015 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2016 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2020 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2021 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2022 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2023 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2024 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2025 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2026 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2030 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2031 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2035 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2039 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2043 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2048 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2052 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2053 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2054 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2058 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2059 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2060 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2064 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2065 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2066 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2070 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2071 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2075 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2080 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2081 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2082 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2083 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2084 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2086 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2087 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2091 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2095 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2096 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2097 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2098 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2102 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2103 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2104 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2105 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2106 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2107 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2111 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2115 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2116 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2120 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2121 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2122 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2123 restart (Olli Helenius).
2127 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2131 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2132 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2133 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2138 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2143 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2144 Small and Large sizes.
2148 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2152 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2153 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2157 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2158 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2159 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2160 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2164 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2165 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2166 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2171 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2176 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2177 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2181 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2182 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2187 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2189 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2191 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2195 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2199 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2201 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2203 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2207 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2209 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2210 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2214 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2215 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2219 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2220 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2224 Various speed improvements.
2225 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2229 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2230 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2234 Slight speed increase when starting.
2238 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2242 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2243 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2244 button is no longer supported.
2248 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2252 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2256 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2261 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2262 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2266 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2267 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2268 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2272 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2273 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2274 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2275 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2279 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2280 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2281 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2283 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2288 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2289 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2294 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2298 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2299 and converted to new dialog style.
2303 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2304 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2308 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2309 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2313 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2317 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2319 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2323 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2327 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2328 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2329 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2333 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2334 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2338 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2343 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2347 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2348 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2352 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2353 and Cancel is now Revert.
2354 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2355 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2359 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2363 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2364 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2366 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2367 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2368 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2369 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2373 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2375 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2376 labels display them.
2377 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2380 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2384 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2386 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2390 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2391 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2392 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2396 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2397 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2399 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2401 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2405 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2406 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2410 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2411 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2412 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2413 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2417 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2421 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2422 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2426 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2427 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2432 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2433 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2437 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2438 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2439 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2443 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2444 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2448 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2449 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2450 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2451 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2453 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2458 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2459 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2461 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2463 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2467 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2468 any image (saves time).
2469 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2470 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2471 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2472 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2474 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2475 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2479 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2480 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2482 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2483 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2485 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2490 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2491 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2492 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2493 has stopped accepting STRING.
2497 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2498 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2502 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2507 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2508 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2510 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2511 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2512 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2516 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2517 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2518 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2519 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2520 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2521 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2525 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2526 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2527 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2528 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2529 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2530 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2535 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2536 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2537 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2538 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2543 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2544 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2548 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2549 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2551 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2553 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2554 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2555 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2559 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2560 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2561 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2565 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2566 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2570 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2571 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2575 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2577 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2582 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2583 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2587 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2588 their menus correctly.
2589 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2594 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2595 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2596 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2600 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2601 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2605 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2609 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2612 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2614 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2615 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2616 the toggle menu items from working!
2620 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2622 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2628 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2629 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2633 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2634 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2635 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2636 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2637 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2638 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2642 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2646 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2647 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2651 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2652 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2653 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2657 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2658 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2663 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2665 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2669 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2670 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2671 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2672 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2676 Improved error reporting.
2677 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2681 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2682 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2683 check box and does 'Yes'.
2687 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2688 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2689 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2690 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2695 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2697 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2698 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2700 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2702 Internal changes to options system:
2703 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2704 filer is fully initialised).
2705 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2707 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2709 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2710 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2711 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2712 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2716 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2717 now reclaims the selection.
2718 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2719 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2724 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2725 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2726 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2727 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2728 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2732 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2733 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2735 Code tidying in various places.
2739 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2740 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2745 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2746 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2750 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2751 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2752 edit the file, not the file itself!
2753 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2757 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2758 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2759 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2760 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2761 of the SOAP working draft.
2762 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2763 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2764 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2769 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2770 it was in the displayed area before.
2772 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2775 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2776 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2780 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2781 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2782 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2784 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2785 selection (Andras Mohari).
2789 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2793 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2797 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2798 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2799 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2803 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2807 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2809 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2810 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2811 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2815 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2816 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2821 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2822 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2823 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2827 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2831 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2835 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2836 replaced by a Restart button.
2840 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2841 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2845 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2849 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2853 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2854 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2855 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2859 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2860 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2862 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2863 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2864 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2868 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2869 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2874 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2876 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2877 (requested by Graham Borland).
2878 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2879 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2880 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2884 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2885 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2886 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2887 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2891 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2892 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2893 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2894 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2895 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2896 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2897 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2898 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2899 - Lots of code tidying.
2904 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2905 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2909 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2911 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2913 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2917 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2918 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2922 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2923 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2927 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2928 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2932 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2933 option to access it directly.
2937 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2938 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2939 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2943 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2944 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2945 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2946 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2947 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2948 when the filer is run.
2952 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2953 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2954 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2959 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2963 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2964 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2968 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2970 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2974 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2978 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2979 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2980 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2985 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2986 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2987 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2988 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2989 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2990 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2991 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2995 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2999 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3000 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3004 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3005 of possible actions (Taras).
3006 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3008 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3009 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3013 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3018 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3022 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3025 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3026 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3030 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3031 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3033 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3035 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3036 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3037 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3038 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3042 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3046 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3050 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3054 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3059 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3060 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3061 the first one found.
3062 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3066 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3070 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3071 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3072 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3076 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3077 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3078 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3083 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3084 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3085 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3089 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3091 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3096 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3101 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3105 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3106 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3110 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3112 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3113 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3117 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3121 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3122 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3126 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3127 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3131 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3132 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3134 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3136 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3140 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3144 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3145 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3149 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3153 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3158 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3159 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3163 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3167 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3171 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3173 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3174 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3178 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3179 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3183 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3184 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3185 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3189 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3190 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3194 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3195 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3197 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3199 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3203 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3204 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3205 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3207 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3208 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3210 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3212 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3213 and the default size with no details.
3217 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3218 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3222 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3227 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3232 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3236 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3241 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3242 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3246 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3250 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3251 the button to run it does.
3252 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3253 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3254 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3258 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3259 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3260 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3264 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3268 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3269 and panels into icon.c.
3273 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3274 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3275 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3276 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3280 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3282 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3284 Updated the documentation.
3288 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3289 up if they're too small.
3293 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3295 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3296 (Christopher Arndt).
3297 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3302 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3303 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3307 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3308 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3312 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3313 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3314 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3319 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3324 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3328 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3329 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3334 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3339 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3340 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3344 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3345 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3349 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3353 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3357 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3361 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3362 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3365 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3366 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3371 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3372 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3373 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3374 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3379 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3380 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3382 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3384 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3385 for non-applications.
3389 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3390 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3395 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3399 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3400 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3402 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3406 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3407 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3411 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3412 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3416 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3417 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3421 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3422 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3424 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3425 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3429 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3430 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3432 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3436 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3437 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3440 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3444 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3445 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3449 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3453 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3454 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3457 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3458 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3462 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3466 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3471 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3475 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3476 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3481 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3486 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3490 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3492 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3494 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3495 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3497 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3499 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3500 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3504 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3505 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3506 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3508 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3509 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3513 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3517 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3518 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3522 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3526 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3527 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3529 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3532 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3533 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3534 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3538 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3539 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3544 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3549 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3551 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3554 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3556 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3557 sensible shape itself now.
3559 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3560 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3561 file at all, just a reused inode!
3562 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3563 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3564 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3568 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3572 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3573 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3578 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3579 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3583 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3587 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3588 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3592 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3597 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3601 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3602 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3606 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3607 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3608 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3609 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3610 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3614 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3615 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3616 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3617 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3618 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3622 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3623 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3624 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3628 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3630 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3631 python's portable system.
3632 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3633 set the LANG variable.
3637 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3638 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3640 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3642 Made a few updates to the manual.
3646 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3647 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3649 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3651 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3652 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3656 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3657 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3661 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3662 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3667 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3668 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3669 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3673 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3674 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3678 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3679 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3683 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3684 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3686 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3687 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3688 open... (Denis Manente).
3692 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3696 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3698 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3699 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3700 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3702 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3704 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3706 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3707 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3712 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3713 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3714 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3718 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3719 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3723 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3727 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3731 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3732 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3733 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3737 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3738 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3739 between pinboards...
3741 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3742 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3743 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3747 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3750 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3751 window (Denis Manente).
3753 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3754 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3758 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3759 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3760 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3764 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3767 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3768 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3770 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3775 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3776 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3778 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3782 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3783 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3785 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3787 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3792 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3793 the icon points to as well as its name.
3795 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3796 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3800 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3801 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3802 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3803 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3807 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3811 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3812 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3813 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3817 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3818 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3820 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3821 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3824 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3825 the item after the drag.
3827 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3828 showing where the file really is.
3832 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3833 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3838 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3839 warning is displayed if so.
3841 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3845 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3846 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3847 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3848 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3851 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3852 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3853 works like the panels.
3857 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3858 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3859 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3860 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3861 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3865 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3866 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3867 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3868 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3870 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3875 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3879 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3880 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3883 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3884 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3886 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3889 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3890 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3891 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3892 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3894 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3896 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3897 slightly. Updated the manual.
3899 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3900 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3903 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3904 or bottom panel to make room.
3908 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3913 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3914 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3915 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3916 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3917 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3921 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3923 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3924 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3926 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3930 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3931 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3935 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3939 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3941 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3946 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3947 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3949 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3953 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3954 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3955 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3959 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3960 rewriting the panel system.
3964 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3967 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3968 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3972 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3973 (suggested by James Kermode).
3977 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3978 than as a full path.
3980 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3982 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3983 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3984 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3988 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3989 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3993 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3994 rename something onto another filesystem.
3998 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4000 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4001 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4005 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4009 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4012 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4013 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4015 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4018 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4023 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4024 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4025 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4027 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4028 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4030 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4031 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4036 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4037 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4042 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4043 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4044 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4046 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4047 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4048 of the 'missing image' image.
4052 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4054 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4056 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4061 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4062 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4063 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4064 its name into another program.
4066 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4070 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4072 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4073 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4074 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4076 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4077 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4078 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4081 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4082 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4086 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4087 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4088 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4092 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4093 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4094 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4098 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4099 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4100 and position the icons directly.
4104 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4109 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4110 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4111 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4115 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4119 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4120 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4124 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4129 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4133 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4134 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4135 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4136 some versions of GTK+.
4140 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4145 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4146 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4147 from a sub-sub-menu.
4149 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4150 drawn on a log scale.
4154 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4155 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4156 happy with the UI yet though...
4158 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4159 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4160 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4164 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4165 by Stephen Harrison).
4167 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4169 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4170 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4171 standard types are in Choices.
4172 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4174 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4175 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4176 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4181 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4182 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4183 shell command minibuffer.
4187 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4188 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4189 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4190 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4191 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4193 Default search path for Choices is now:
4194 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4196 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4197 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4198 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4202 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4203 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4207 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4208 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4209 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4214 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4215 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4216 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4219 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4221 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4222 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4223 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4225 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4226 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4230 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4231 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4232 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4233 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4238 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4239 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4240 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4242 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4244 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4245 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4249 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4250 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4251 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4256 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4257 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4260 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4262 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4267 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4272 Added GNU gettext support.
4273 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4277 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4279 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4281 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4286 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4290 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4291 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4293 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4294 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4299 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4300 onto the directory and winks the file.
4304 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4305 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4306 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4308 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4309 instead of random values.
4310 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4312 Applied Bernard's patch:
4313 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4314 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4315 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4316 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4317 it the RISC OS way...
4318 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4319 alignment corrected.
4320 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4325 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4329 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4330 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4334 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4335 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4336 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4337 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4338 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4339 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4340 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4341 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4342 in the file(1) says... box).
4345 Before the Changes file
4346 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4347 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4349 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4350 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4351 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4352 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4353 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD