2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
8 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
12 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
14 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
16 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
20 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
24 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
25 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
29 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
33 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
37 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
38 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
39 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
40 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
41 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
42 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
46 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
50 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
52 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
53 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
57 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
58 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
62 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
66 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
67 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
68 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
69 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
71 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
73 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
77 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
78 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
82 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
83 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
84 disappeared at the wrong moment.
88 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
89 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
90 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
91 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
92 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
93 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
94 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
98 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
99 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
103 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
107 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
111 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
116 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
120 Options to set iconification layout policy.
121 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
122 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
126 Pinboard background colour option works again.
127 Position iconified windows sensibly.
128 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
132 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
133 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
134 (requested by Ryan Harris).
138 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
139 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
143 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
148 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
149 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
150 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
151 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
152 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
154 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
155 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
159 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
163 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
164 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
165 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
166 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
170 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
171 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
172 Many improvements to the pinboard:
173 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
174 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
175 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
179 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
183 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
184 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
188 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
189 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
190 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
191 restart (Olli Helenius).
195 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
199 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
200 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
201 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
206 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
211 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
212 Small and Large sizes.
216 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
220 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
221 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
225 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
226 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
227 (requested by Gregory Spath).
228 Don't quit while Options window is open.
232 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
233 the window (requested by Ashwin).
234 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
239 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
244 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
245 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
249 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
250 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
255 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
257 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
259 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
263 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
267 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
269 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
271 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
275 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
277 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
278 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
282 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
283 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
287 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
288 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
292 Various speed improvements.
293 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
297 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
298 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
302 Slight speed increase when starting.
306 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
310 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
311 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
312 button is no longer supported.
316 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
320 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
324 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
329 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
330 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
334 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
335 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
336 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
340 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
341 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
342 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
343 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
347 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
348 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
349 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
351 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
356 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
357 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
362 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
366 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
367 and converted to new dialog style.
371 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
372 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
376 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
377 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
381 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
385 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
387 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
391 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
395 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
396 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
397 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
401 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
402 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
406 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
411 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
415 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
416 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
420 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
421 and Cancel is now Revert.
422 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
423 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
427 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
431 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
432 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
434 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
435 (reported by Serban Udrea).
436 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
437 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
441 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
443 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
445 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
448 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
452 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
454 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
458 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
459 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
460 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
464 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
465 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
467 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
469 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
473 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
474 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
478 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
479 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
480 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
481 (requested by Andras Mohari).
485 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
489 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
490 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
494 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
495 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
500 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
501 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
505 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
506 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
507 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
511 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
512 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
516 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
517 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
518 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
519 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
521 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
526 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
527 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
529 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
531 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
535 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
536 any image (saves time).
537 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
538 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
539 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
540 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
542 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
543 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
547 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
548 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
550 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
551 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
553 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
558 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
559 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
560 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
561 has stopped accepting STRING.
565 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
566 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
570 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
575 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
576 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
578 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
579 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
580 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
584 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
585 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
586 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
587 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
588 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
589 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
593 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
594 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
595 Allow '~' in globicons file.
596 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
597 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
598 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
603 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
604 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
605 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
606 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
611 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
612 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
616 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
617 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
619 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
621 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
622 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
623 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
627 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
628 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
629 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
633 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
634 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
638 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
639 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
643 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
645 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
650 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
651 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
655 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
656 their menus correctly.
657 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
662 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
663 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
664 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
668 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
669 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
673 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
677 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
680 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
682 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
683 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
684 the toggle menu items from working!
688 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
690 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
696 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
697 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
701 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
702 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
703 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
704 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
705 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
706 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
710 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
714 File groups are now saved (automatically).
715 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
719 Added Version SOAP RPC.
720 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
721 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
725 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
726 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
731 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
733 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
737 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
738 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
739 bar is displayed in the filer window.
740 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
744 Improved error reporting.
745 Improved sizing code when details are on.
749 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
750 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
751 check box and does 'Yes'.
755 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
756 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
757 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
758 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
763 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
765 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
766 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
768 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
770 Internal changes to options system:
771 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
772 filer is fully initialised).
773 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
775 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
777 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
778 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
779 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
780 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
784 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
785 now reclaims the selection.
786 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
787 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
792 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
793 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
794 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
795 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
796 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
800 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
801 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
803 Code tidying in various places.
807 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
808 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
813 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
814 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
818 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
819 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
820 edit the file, not the file itself!
821 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
825 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
826 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
827 (recommended by Jens Finke).
828 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
829 of the SOAP working draft.
830 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
831 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
832 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
837 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
838 it was in the displayed area before.
840 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
843 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
844 winking effect until the window actually appears.
848 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
849 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
850 Kristian A. Rink and others).
852 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
853 selection (Andras Mohari).
857 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
861 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
865 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
866 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
867 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
871 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
875 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
877 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
878 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
879 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
883 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
884 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
889 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
890 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
891 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
895 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
899 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
903 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
904 replaced by a Restart button.
908 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
909 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
913 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
917 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
921 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
922 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
923 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
927 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
928 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
930 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
931 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
932 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
936 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
937 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
942 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
944 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
945 (requested by Graham Borland).
946 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
947 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
948 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
952 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
953 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
954 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
955 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
959 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
960 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
961 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
962 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
963 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
964 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
965 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
966 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
967 - Lots of code tidying.
972 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
973 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
977 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
979 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
981 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
985 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
986 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
990 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
991 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
995 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
996 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1000 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1001 option to access it directly.
1005 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1006 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1007 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1011 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1012 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1013 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1014 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1015 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1016 when the filer is run.
1020 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1021 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1022 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1027 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1031 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1032 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1036 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1038 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1042 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1046 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1047 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1048 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1053 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1054 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1055 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1056 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1057 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1058 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1059 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1063 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1067 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1068 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1072 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1073 of possible actions (Taras).
1074 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1076 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1077 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1081 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1086 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1090 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1093 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1094 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1098 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1099 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1101 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1103 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1104 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1105 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1106 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1110 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1114 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1118 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1122 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1127 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1128 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1129 the first one found.
1130 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1134 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1138 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1139 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1140 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1144 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1145 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1146 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1151 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1152 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1153 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1157 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1159 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1164 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1169 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1173 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1174 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1178 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1180 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1181 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1185 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1189 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1190 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1194 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1195 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1199 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1200 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1202 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1204 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1208 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1212 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1213 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1217 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1221 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1226 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1227 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1231 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1235 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1239 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1241 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1242 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1246 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1247 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1251 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1252 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1253 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1257 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1258 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1262 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1263 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1265 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1267 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1271 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1272 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1273 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1275 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1276 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1278 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1280 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1281 and the default size with no details.
1285 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1286 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1290 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1295 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1300 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1304 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1309 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1310 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1314 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1318 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1319 the button to run it does.
1320 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1321 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1322 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1326 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1327 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1328 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1332 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1336 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1337 and panels into icon.c.
1341 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1342 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1343 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1344 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1348 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1350 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1352 Updated the documentation.
1356 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1357 up if they're too small.
1361 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1363 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1364 (Christopher Arndt).
1365 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1370 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1371 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1375 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1376 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1380 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1381 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1382 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1387 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1392 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1396 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1397 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1402 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1407 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1408 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1412 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1413 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1417 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1421 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1425 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1429 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1430 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1433 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1434 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1439 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1440 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1441 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1442 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1447 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1448 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1450 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1452 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1453 for non-applications.
1457 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1458 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1463 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1467 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1468 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1470 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1474 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1475 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1479 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1480 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1484 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1485 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1489 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1490 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1492 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1493 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1497 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1498 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1500 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1504 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1505 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1508 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1512 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1513 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1517 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1521 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1522 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1525 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1526 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1530 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1534 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1539 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1543 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1544 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1549 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1554 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1558 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1560 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1562 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1563 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1565 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1567 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1568 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1572 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1573 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1574 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1576 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1577 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1581 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1585 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1586 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1590 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1594 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1595 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1597 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1600 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1601 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1602 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1606 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1607 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1612 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1617 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1619 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1622 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1624 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1625 sensible shape itself now.
1627 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1628 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1629 file at all, just a reused inode!
1630 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1631 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1632 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1636 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1640 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1641 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1646 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1647 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1651 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1655 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1656 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1660 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1665 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1669 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1670 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1674 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1675 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1676 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1677 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1678 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1682 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1683 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1684 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1685 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1686 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1690 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1691 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1692 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1696 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1698 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1699 python's portable system.
1700 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1701 set the LANG variable.
1705 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1706 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1708 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1710 Made a few updates to the manual.
1714 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1715 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1717 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1719 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1720 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1724 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1725 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1729 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1730 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1735 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1736 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1737 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1741 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1742 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1746 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1747 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1751 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1752 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1754 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1755 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1756 open... (Denis Manente).
1760 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1764 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1766 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1767 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1768 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1770 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1772 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1774 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1775 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1780 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1781 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1782 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1786 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1787 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1791 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1795 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1799 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1800 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1801 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1805 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1806 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1807 between pinboards...
1809 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1810 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1811 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1815 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1818 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1819 window (Denis Manente).
1821 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1822 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1826 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1827 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1828 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1832 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1835 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1836 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1838 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1843 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1844 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1846 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1850 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1851 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1853 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1855 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1860 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1861 the icon points to as well as its name.
1863 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1864 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1868 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1869 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1870 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1871 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1875 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1879 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1880 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1881 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1885 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1886 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1888 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1889 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1892 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1893 the item after the drag.
1895 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1896 showing where the file really is.
1900 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1901 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1906 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1907 warning is displayed if so.
1909 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1913 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1914 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1915 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1916 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1919 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1920 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1921 works like the panels.
1925 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1926 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1927 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1928 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1929 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1933 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1934 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1935 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1936 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1938 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1943 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1947 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1948 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1951 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1952 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1954 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1957 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1958 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1959 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1960 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1962 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1964 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1965 slightly. Updated the manual.
1967 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1968 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1971 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1972 or bottom panel to make room.
1976 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1981 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1982 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1983 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1984 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1985 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1989 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
1991 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
1992 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
1994 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
1998 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
1999 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2003 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2007 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2009 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2014 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2015 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2017 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2021 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2022 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2023 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2027 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2028 rewriting the panel system.
2032 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2035 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2036 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2040 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2041 (suggested by James Kermode).
2045 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2046 than as a full path.
2048 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2050 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2051 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2052 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2056 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2057 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2061 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2062 rename something onto another filesystem.
2066 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2068 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2069 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2073 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2077 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2080 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2081 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2083 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2086 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2091 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2092 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2093 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2095 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2096 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2098 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2099 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2104 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2105 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2110 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2111 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2112 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2114 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2115 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2116 of the 'missing image' image.
2120 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2122 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2124 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2129 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2130 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2131 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2132 its name into another program.
2134 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2138 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2140 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2141 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2142 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2144 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2145 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2146 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2149 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2150 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2154 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2155 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2156 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2160 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2161 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2162 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2166 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2167 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2168 and position the icons directly.
2172 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2177 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2178 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2179 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2183 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2187 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2188 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2192 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2197 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2201 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2202 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2203 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2204 some versions of GTK+.
2208 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2213 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2214 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2215 from a sub-sub-menu.
2217 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2218 drawn on a log scale.
2222 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2223 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2224 happy with the UI yet though...
2226 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2227 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2228 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2232 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2233 by Stephen Harrison).
2235 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2237 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2238 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2239 standard types are in Choices.
2240 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2242 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2243 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2244 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2249 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2250 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2251 shell command minibuffer.
2255 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2256 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2257 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2258 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2259 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2261 Default search path for Choices is now:
2262 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2264 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2265 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2266 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2270 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2271 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2275 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2276 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2277 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2282 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2283 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2284 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2287 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2289 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2290 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2291 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2293 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2294 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2298 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2299 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2300 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2301 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2306 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2307 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2308 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2310 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2312 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2313 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2317 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2318 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2319 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2324 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2325 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2328 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2330 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2335 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2340 Added GNU gettext support.
2341 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2345 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2347 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2349 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2354 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2358 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2359 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2361 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2362 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2367 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2368 onto the directory and winks the file.
2372 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2373 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2374 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2376 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2377 instead of random values.
2378 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2380 Applied Bernard's patch:
2381 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2382 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2383 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2384 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2385 it the RISC OS way...
2386 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2387 alignment corrected.
2388 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2393 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2397 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2398 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2402 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2403 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2404 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2405 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2406 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2407 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2408 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2409 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2410 in the file(1) says... box).
2413 Before the Changes file
2414 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2415 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2417 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2418 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2419 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2420 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2421 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD