2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
8 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
9 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
10 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
14 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
18 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
19 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
23 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
24 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
25 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
29 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
33 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
37 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
38 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
39 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
40 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
41 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
42 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
46 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
47 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
51 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
52 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
53 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
57 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
58 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
62 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
66 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
67 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
68 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
69 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
71 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
73 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
77 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
78 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
79 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
83 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
87 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
88 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
93 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
97 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
101 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
102 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
106 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
107 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
108 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
112 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
113 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
117 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
118 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
122 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
123 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
127 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
131 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
132 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
136 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
138 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
140 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
144 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
148 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
149 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
153 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
157 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
161 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
162 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
163 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
164 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
165 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
166 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
170 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
174 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
176 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
177 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
181 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
182 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
186 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
190 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
191 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
192 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
193 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
195 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
197 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
201 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
202 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
206 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
207 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
208 disappeared at the wrong moment.
212 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
213 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
214 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
215 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
216 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
217 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
218 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
222 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
223 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
227 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
231 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
235 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
240 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
244 Options to set iconification layout policy.
245 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
246 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
250 Pinboard background colour option works again.
251 Position iconified windows sensibly.
252 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
256 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
257 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
258 (requested by Ryan Harris).
262 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
263 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
267 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
272 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
273 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
274 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
275 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
276 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
278 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
279 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
283 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
287 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
288 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
289 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
290 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
294 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
295 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
296 Many improvements to the pinboard:
297 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
298 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
299 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
303 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
307 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
308 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
312 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
313 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
314 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
315 restart (Olli Helenius).
319 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
323 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
324 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
325 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
330 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
335 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
336 Small and Large sizes.
340 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
344 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
345 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
349 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
350 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
351 (requested by Gregory Spath).
352 Don't quit while Options window is open.
356 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
357 the window (requested by Ashwin).
358 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
363 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
368 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
369 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
373 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
374 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
379 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
381 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
383 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
387 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
391 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
393 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
395 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
399 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
401 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
402 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
406 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
407 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
411 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
412 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
416 Various speed improvements.
417 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
421 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
422 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
426 Slight speed increase when starting.
430 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
434 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
435 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
436 button is no longer supported.
440 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
444 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
448 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
453 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
454 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
458 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
459 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
460 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
464 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
465 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
466 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
467 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
471 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
472 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
473 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
475 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
480 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
481 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
486 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
490 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
491 and converted to new dialog style.
495 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
496 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
500 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
501 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
505 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
509 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
511 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
515 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
519 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
520 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
521 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
525 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
526 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
530 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
535 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
539 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
540 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
544 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
545 and Cancel is now Revert.
546 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
547 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
551 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
555 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
556 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
558 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
559 (reported by Serban Udrea).
560 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
561 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
565 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
567 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
569 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
572 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
576 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
578 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
582 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
583 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
584 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
588 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
589 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
591 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
593 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
597 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
598 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
602 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
603 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
604 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
605 (requested by Andras Mohari).
609 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
613 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
614 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
618 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
619 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
624 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
625 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
629 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
630 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
631 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
635 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
636 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
640 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
641 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
642 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
643 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
645 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
650 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
651 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
653 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
655 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
659 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
660 any image (saves time).
661 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
662 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
663 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
664 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
666 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
667 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
671 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
672 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
674 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
675 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
677 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
682 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
683 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
684 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
685 has stopped accepting STRING.
689 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
690 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
694 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
699 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
700 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
702 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
703 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
704 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
708 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
709 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
710 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
711 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
712 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
713 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
717 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
718 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
719 Allow '~' in globicons file.
720 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
721 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
722 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
727 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
728 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
729 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
730 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
735 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
736 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
740 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
741 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
743 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
745 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
746 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
747 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
751 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
752 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
753 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
757 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
758 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
762 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
763 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
767 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
769 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
774 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
775 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
779 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
780 their menus correctly.
781 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
786 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
787 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
788 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
792 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
793 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
797 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
801 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
804 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
806 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
807 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
808 the toggle menu items from working!
812 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
814 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
820 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
821 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
825 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
826 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
827 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
828 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
829 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
830 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
834 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
838 File groups are now saved (automatically).
839 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
843 Added Version SOAP RPC.
844 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
845 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
849 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
850 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
855 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
857 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
861 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
862 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
863 bar is displayed in the filer window.
864 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
868 Improved error reporting.
869 Improved sizing code when details are on.
873 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
874 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
875 check box and does 'Yes'.
879 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
880 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
881 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
882 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
887 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
889 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
890 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
892 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
894 Internal changes to options system:
895 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
896 filer is fully initialised).
897 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
899 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
901 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
902 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
903 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
904 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
908 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
909 now reclaims the selection.
910 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
911 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
916 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
917 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
918 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
919 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
920 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
924 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
925 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
927 Code tidying in various places.
931 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
932 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
937 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
938 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
942 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
943 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
944 edit the file, not the file itself!
945 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
949 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
950 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
951 (recommended by Jens Finke).
952 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
953 of the SOAP working draft.
954 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
955 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
956 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
961 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
962 it was in the displayed area before.
964 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
967 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
968 winking effect until the window actually appears.
972 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
973 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
974 Kristian A. Rink and others).
976 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
977 selection (Andras Mohari).
981 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
985 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
989 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
990 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
991 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
995 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
999 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1001 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1002 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1003 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1007 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1008 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1013 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1014 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1015 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1019 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1023 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1027 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1028 replaced by a Restart button.
1032 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1033 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1037 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1041 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1045 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1046 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1047 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1051 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1052 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1054 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1055 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1056 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1060 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1061 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1066 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1068 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1069 (requested by Graham Borland).
1070 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1071 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1072 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1076 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1077 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1078 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1079 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1083 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1084 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1085 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1086 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1087 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1088 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1089 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1090 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1091 - Lots of code tidying.
1096 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1097 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1101 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1103 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1105 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1109 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1110 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1114 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1115 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1119 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1120 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1124 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1125 option to access it directly.
1129 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1130 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1131 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1135 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1136 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1137 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1138 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1139 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1140 when the filer is run.
1144 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1145 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1146 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1151 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1155 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1156 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1160 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1162 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1166 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1170 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1171 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1172 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1177 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1178 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1179 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1180 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1181 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1182 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1183 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1187 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1191 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1192 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1196 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1197 of possible actions (Taras).
1198 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1200 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1201 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1205 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1210 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1214 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1217 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1218 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1222 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1223 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1225 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1227 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1228 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1229 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1230 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1234 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1238 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1242 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1246 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1251 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1252 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1253 the first one found.
1254 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1258 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1262 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1263 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1264 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1268 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1269 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1270 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1275 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1276 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1277 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1281 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1283 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1288 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1293 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1297 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1298 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1302 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1304 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1305 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1309 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1313 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1314 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1318 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1319 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1323 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1324 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1326 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1328 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1332 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1336 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1337 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1341 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1345 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1350 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1351 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1355 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1359 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1363 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1365 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1366 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1370 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1371 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1375 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1376 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1377 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1381 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1382 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1386 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1387 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1389 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1391 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1395 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1396 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1397 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1399 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1400 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1402 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1404 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1405 and the default size with no details.
1409 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1410 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1414 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1419 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1424 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1428 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1433 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1434 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1438 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1442 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1443 the button to run it does.
1444 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1445 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1446 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1450 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1451 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1452 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1456 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1460 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1461 and panels into icon.c.
1465 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1466 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1467 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1468 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1472 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1474 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1476 Updated the documentation.
1480 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1481 up if they're too small.
1485 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1487 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1488 (Christopher Arndt).
1489 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1494 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1495 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1499 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1500 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1504 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1505 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1506 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1511 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1516 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1520 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1521 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1526 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1531 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1532 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1536 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1537 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1541 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1545 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1549 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1553 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1554 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1557 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1558 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1563 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1564 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1565 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1566 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1571 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1572 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1574 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1576 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1577 for non-applications.
1581 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1582 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1587 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1591 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1592 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1594 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1598 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1599 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1603 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1604 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1608 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1609 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1613 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1614 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1616 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1617 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1621 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1622 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1624 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1628 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1629 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1632 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1636 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1637 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1641 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1645 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1646 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1649 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1650 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1654 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1658 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1663 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1667 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1668 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1673 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1678 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1682 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1684 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1686 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1687 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1689 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1691 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1692 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1696 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1697 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1698 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1700 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1701 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1705 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1709 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1710 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1714 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1718 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1719 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1721 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1724 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1725 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1726 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1730 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1731 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1736 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1741 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1743 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1746 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1748 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1749 sensible shape itself now.
1751 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1752 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1753 file at all, just a reused inode!
1754 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1755 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1756 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1760 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1764 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1765 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1770 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1771 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1775 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1779 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1780 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1784 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1789 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1793 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1794 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1798 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1799 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1800 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1801 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1802 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1806 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1807 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1808 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1809 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1810 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1814 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1815 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1816 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1820 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1822 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1823 python's portable system.
1824 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1825 set the LANG variable.
1829 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1830 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1832 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1834 Made a few updates to the manual.
1838 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1839 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1841 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1843 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1844 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1848 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1849 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1853 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1854 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1859 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1860 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1861 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1865 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1866 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1870 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1871 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1875 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1876 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1878 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1879 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1880 open... (Denis Manente).
1884 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1888 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1890 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1891 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1892 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1894 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1896 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1898 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1899 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1904 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1905 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1906 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1910 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1911 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1915 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1919 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1923 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1924 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1925 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1929 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1930 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1931 between pinboards...
1933 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1934 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1935 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1939 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1942 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1943 window (Denis Manente).
1945 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1946 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1950 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1951 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1952 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1956 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1959 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1960 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1962 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1967 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1968 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1970 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1974 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1975 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1977 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1979 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1984 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1985 the icon points to as well as its name.
1987 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1988 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1992 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1993 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1994 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1995 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1999 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2003 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2004 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2005 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2009 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2010 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2012 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2013 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2016 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2017 the item after the drag.
2019 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2020 showing where the file really is.
2024 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2025 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2030 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2031 warning is displayed if so.
2033 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2037 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2038 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2039 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2040 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2043 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2044 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2045 works like the panels.
2049 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2050 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2051 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2052 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2053 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2057 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2058 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2059 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2060 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2062 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2067 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2071 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2072 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2075 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2076 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2078 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2081 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2082 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2083 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2084 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2086 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2088 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2089 slightly. Updated the manual.
2091 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2092 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2095 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2096 or bottom panel to make room.
2100 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2105 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2106 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2107 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2108 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2109 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2113 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2115 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2116 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2118 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2122 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2123 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2127 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2131 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2133 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2138 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2139 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2141 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2145 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2146 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2147 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2151 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2152 rewriting the panel system.
2156 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2159 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2160 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2164 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2165 (suggested by James Kermode).
2169 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2170 than as a full path.
2172 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2174 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2175 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2176 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2180 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2181 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2185 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2186 rename something onto another filesystem.
2190 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2192 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2193 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2197 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2201 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2204 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2205 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2207 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2210 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2215 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2216 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2217 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2219 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2220 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2222 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2223 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2228 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2229 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2234 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2235 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2236 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2238 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2239 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2240 of the 'missing image' image.
2244 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2246 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2248 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2253 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2254 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2255 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2256 its name into another program.
2258 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2262 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2264 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2265 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2266 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2268 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2269 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2270 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2273 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2274 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2278 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2279 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2280 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2284 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2285 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2286 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2290 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2291 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2292 and position the icons directly.
2296 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2301 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2302 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2303 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2307 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2311 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2312 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2316 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2321 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2325 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2326 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2327 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2328 some versions of GTK+.
2332 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2337 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2338 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2339 from a sub-sub-menu.
2341 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2342 drawn on a log scale.
2346 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2347 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2348 happy with the UI yet though...
2350 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2351 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2352 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2356 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2357 by Stephen Harrison).
2359 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2361 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2362 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2363 standard types are in Choices.
2364 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2366 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2367 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2368 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2373 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2374 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2375 shell command minibuffer.
2379 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2380 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2381 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2382 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2383 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2385 Default search path for Choices is now:
2386 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2388 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2389 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2390 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2394 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2395 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2399 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2400 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2401 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2406 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2407 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2408 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2411 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2413 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2414 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2415 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2417 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2418 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2422 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2423 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2424 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2425 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2430 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2431 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2432 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2434 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2436 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2437 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2441 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2442 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2443 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2448 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2449 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2452 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2454 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2459 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2464 Added GNU gettext support.
2465 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2469 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2471 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2473 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2478 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2482 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2483 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2485 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2486 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2491 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2492 onto the directory and winks the file.
2496 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2497 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2498 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2500 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2501 instead of random values.
2502 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2504 Applied Bernard's patch:
2505 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2506 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2507 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2508 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2509 it the RISC OS way...
2510 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2511 alignment corrected.
2512 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2517 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2521 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2522 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2526 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2527 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2528 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2529 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2530 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2531 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2532 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2533 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2534 in the file(1) says... box).
2537 Before the Changes file
2538 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2539 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2541 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2542 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2543 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2544 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2545 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD