2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
8 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
12 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
13 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
18 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
19 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
20 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
21 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
22 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
23 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
25 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
27 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
28 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
29 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
33 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
34 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
38 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
39 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
43 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
44 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
45 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
46 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
50 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
54 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
55 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
59 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
61 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
62 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
63 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
68 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
69 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
70 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
71 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
75 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
77 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
78 function address (Tony Houghton).
82 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
83 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
88 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
92 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
93 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
97 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
98 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
99 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
103 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
107 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
108 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
109 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
110 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
111 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
116 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
121 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
125 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
126 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
130 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
131 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
135 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
139 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
140 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
145 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
146 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
150 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
151 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
152 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
154 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
156 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
161 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
162 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
166 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
171 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
175 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
176 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
177 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
178 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
180 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
185 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
186 the old one (Stephen Watson).
187 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
188 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
189 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
193 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
198 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
200 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
202 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
206 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
207 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
209 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
211 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
212 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
213 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
214 reported by Lewis Denizen).
218 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
222 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
223 the binary (Stephen Watson).
227 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
231 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
232 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
233 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
237 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
240 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
242 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
243 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
244 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
245 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
246 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
250 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
254 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
255 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
259 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
263 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
264 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
265 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
267 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
268 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
270 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
271 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
272 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
273 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
277 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
278 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
282 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
283 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
284 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
285 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
290 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
291 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
295 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
296 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
297 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
301 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
302 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
303 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
307 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
311 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
312 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
316 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
317 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
321 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
325 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
326 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
331 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
332 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
336 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
340 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
341 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
342 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
343 when changing to a parent directory.
344 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
348 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
352 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
356 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
358 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
360 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
364 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
366 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
370 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
372 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
376 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
380 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
381 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
382 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
383 reported by Anthony DiSante).
387 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
391 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
395 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
396 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
397 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
398 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
399 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
403 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
404 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
408 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
409 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
414 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
415 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
420 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
421 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
425 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
426 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
430 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
431 (reported by Tony Houghton).
435 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
437 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
438 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
442 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
443 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
447 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
451 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
455 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
459 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
460 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
461 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
465 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
469 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
474 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
478 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
480 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
482 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
486 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
487 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
488 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
490 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
494 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
495 print a warning and then crash.
499 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
500 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
501 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
506 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
510 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
515 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
519 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
523 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
525 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
530 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
531 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
532 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
537 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
538 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
543 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
545 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
546 anyway, and noone had complained).
547 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
548 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
552 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
553 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
554 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
558 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
562 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
563 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
567 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
568 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
569 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
573 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
574 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
575 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
577 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
578 by Simon Templer and others).
582 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
583 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
584 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
588 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
592 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
596 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
597 version number again (Stephen Watson).
601 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
602 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
606 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
610 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
611 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
612 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
613 anyway (Stephen Watson).
617 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
621 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
625 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
627 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
629 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
633 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
634 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
635 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
639 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
640 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
645 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
646 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
647 impossible to change shortcuts.
648 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
649 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
653 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
654 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
659 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
660 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
661 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
665 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
666 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
667 to the functions being missing.
671 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
675 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
679 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
683 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
687 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
688 worries people for no reason.
692 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
696 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
697 files selected (Peter Geer).
701 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
702 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
706 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
710 Added 'Select by Name'.
714 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
718 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
723 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
727 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
729 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
731 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
732 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
736 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
740 Misc changes for next release.
744 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
745 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
749 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
750 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
751 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
752 Watson, reported on #rox).
756 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
757 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
761 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
762 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
766 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
767 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
771 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
772 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
777 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
781 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
783 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
788 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
792 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
793 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
797 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
798 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
802 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
806 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
811 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
812 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
814 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
815 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
819 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
820 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
824 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
829 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
830 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
834 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
835 support not being detected (igla).
839 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
843 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
844 dialog (Stephen Watson).
848 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
852 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
853 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
854 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
855 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
858 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
860 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
861 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
865 New icon for selection ops.
869 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
873 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
877 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
881 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
882 Added icon theme selector.
886 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
890 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
894 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
895 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
899 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
900 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
901 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
905 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
906 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
910 Allow ejecting mounted media.
914 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
915 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
916 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
920 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
924 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
925 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
930 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
931 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
935 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
936 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
940 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
941 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
945 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
949 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
950 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
951 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
955 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
959 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
960 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
961 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
962 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
966 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
967 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
969 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
973 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
977 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
978 bits (Stephen Watson).
982 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
986 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
990 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
991 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
995 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
999 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1000 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1005 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1006 forward them explicitly.
1010 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1011 help from Götz Waschk).
1015 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1016 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1017 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1021 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1025 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1029 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1033 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1034 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1036 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1038 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1042 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1044 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1046 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1050 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1051 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1052 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1053 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1057 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1061 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1065 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1069 Minor updates to the manual.
1070 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1071 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1075 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1076 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1078 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1080 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1081 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1085 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1086 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1087 reduce flickering effect.
1091 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1095 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1097 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1101 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1102 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1103 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1104 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1105 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1109 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1110 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1114 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1118 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1123 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1124 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1128 Winking now works in List view.
1132 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1136 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1137 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1141 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1142 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1144 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1146 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1150 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1154 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1155 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1157 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1161 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1162 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1166 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1168 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1172 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1173 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1177 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1179 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1183 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1187 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1188 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1193 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1194 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1196 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1198 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1200 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1204 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1208 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1209 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1213 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1218 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1219 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1223 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1225 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1227 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1228 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1233 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1237 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1238 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1239 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1240 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1241 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1242 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1243 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1245 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1249 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1254 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1255 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1259 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1260 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1261 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1262 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1267 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1268 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1269 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1270 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1271 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1272 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1273 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1274 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1275 talent can do something better?
1276 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1277 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1281 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1282 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1283 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1288 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1290 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1291 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1292 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1293 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1294 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1295 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1296 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1297 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1298 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1299 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1300 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1301 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1302 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1306 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1307 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1308 allow fine repositioning.
1309 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1310 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1311 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1312 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1314 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1315 changing the aspect ratio.
1319 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1323 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1327 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1328 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1329 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1333 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1337 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1342 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1343 make sharing icons easier.
1344 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1348 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1349 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1353 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1357 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1359 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1363 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1368 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1373 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1374 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1376 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1377 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1378 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1379 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1383 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1384 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1388 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1392 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1394 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1395 Brian Langenberger).
1399 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1400 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1402 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1406 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1407 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1409 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1411 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1415 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1416 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1421 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1425 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1426 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1427 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1431 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1432 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1436 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1440 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1441 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1445 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1446 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1447 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1451 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1455 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1456 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1457 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1458 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1460 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1461 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1465 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1466 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1470 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1475 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1476 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1480 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1484 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1485 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1486 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1487 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1492 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1493 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1494 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1498 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1502 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1503 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1507 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1508 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1509 since it didn't include the contents.
1510 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1511 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1515 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1519 Style improvements to options window.
1523 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1527 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1529 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1531 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1536 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1537 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1538 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1539 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1543 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1547 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1551 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1552 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1556 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1558 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1563 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1567 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1568 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1569 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1574 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1578 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1582 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1586 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1590 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1591 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1592 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1596 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1597 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1601 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1602 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1607 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1611 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1615 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1620 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1621 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1625 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1626 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1631 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1632 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1636 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1637 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1638 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1642 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1646 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1647 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1648 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1649 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1650 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1654 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1655 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1659 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1660 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1664 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1668 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1669 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1670 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1671 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1672 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1673 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1677 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1678 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1679 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1683 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1684 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1689 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1693 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1695 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1697 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1702 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1706 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1710 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1711 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1716 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1720 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1724 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1725 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1726 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1730 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1734 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1739 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1743 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1744 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1745 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1746 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1750 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1754 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1755 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1759 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1760 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1761 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1765 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1769 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1773 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1774 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1775 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1776 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1777 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1778 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1782 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1783 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1787 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1788 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1789 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1793 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1794 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1798 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1802 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1803 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1804 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1805 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1807 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1809 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1813 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1814 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1815 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1819 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1823 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1824 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1829 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1833 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1837 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1838 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1842 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1843 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1844 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1848 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1849 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1853 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1854 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1858 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1859 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1863 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1867 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1868 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1872 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1874 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1876 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1880 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1884 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1885 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1889 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1893 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1897 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1898 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1899 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1900 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1901 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1902 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1906 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1910 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1912 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1913 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1917 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1918 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1922 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1926 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1927 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1928 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1929 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1931 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1933 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1937 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1938 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1942 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1943 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1944 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1948 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1949 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1950 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1951 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1952 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1953 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1954 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1958 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1959 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1963 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1967 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1971 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1976 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1980 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1981 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1982 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1986 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1987 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1988 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1992 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1993 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1994 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1998 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1999 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2003 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2008 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2009 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2010 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2011 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2012 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2014 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2015 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2019 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2023 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2024 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2025 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2026 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2030 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2031 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2032 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2033 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2034 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2035 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2039 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2043 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2044 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2048 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2049 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2050 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2051 restart (Olli Helenius).
2055 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2059 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2060 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2061 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2066 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2071 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2072 Small and Large sizes.
2076 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2080 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2081 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2085 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2086 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2087 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2088 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2092 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2093 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2094 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2099 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2104 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2105 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2109 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2110 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2115 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2117 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2119 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2123 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2127 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2129 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2131 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2135 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2137 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2138 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2142 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2143 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2147 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2148 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2152 Various speed improvements.
2153 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2157 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2158 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2162 Slight speed increase when starting.
2166 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2170 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2171 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2172 button is no longer supported.
2176 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2180 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2184 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2189 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2190 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2194 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2195 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2196 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2200 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2201 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2202 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2203 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2207 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2208 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2209 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2211 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2216 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2217 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2222 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2226 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2227 and converted to new dialog style.
2231 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2232 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2236 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2237 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2241 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2245 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2247 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2251 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2255 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2256 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2257 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2261 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2262 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2266 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2271 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2275 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2276 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2280 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2281 and Cancel is now Revert.
2282 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2283 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2287 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2291 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2292 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2294 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2295 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2296 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2297 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2301 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2303 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2304 labels display them.
2305 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2308 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2312 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2314 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2318 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2319 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2320 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2324 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2325 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2327 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2329 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2333 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2334 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2338 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2339 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2340 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2341 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2345 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2349 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2350 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2354 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2355 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2360 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2361 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2365 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2366 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2367 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2371 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2372 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2376 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2377 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2378 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2379 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2381 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2386 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2387 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2389 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2391 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2395 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2396 any image (saves time).
2397 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2398 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2399 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2400 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2402 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2403 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2407 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2408 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2410 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2411 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2413 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2418 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2419 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2420 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2421 has stopped accepting STRING.
2425 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2426 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2430 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2435 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2436 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2438 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2439 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2440 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2444 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2445 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2446 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2447 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2448 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2449 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2453 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2454 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2455 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2456 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2457 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2458 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2463 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2464 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2465 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2466 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2471 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2472 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2476 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2477 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2479 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2481 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2482 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2483 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2487 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2488 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2489 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2493 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2494 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2498 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2499 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2503 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2505 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2510 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2511 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2515 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2516 their menus correctly.
2517 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2522 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2523 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2524 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2528 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2529 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2533 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2537 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2540 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2542 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2543 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2544 the toggle menu items from working!
2548 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2550 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2556 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2557 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2561 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2562 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2563 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2564 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2565 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2566 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2570 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2574 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2575 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2579 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2580 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2581 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2585 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2586 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2591 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2593 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2597 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2598 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2599 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2600 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2604 Improved error reporting.
2605 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2609 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2610 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2611 check box and does 'Yes'.
2615 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2616 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2617 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2618 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2623 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2625 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2626 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2628 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2630 Internal changes to options system:
2631 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2632 filer is fully initialised).
2633 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2635 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2637 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2638 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2639 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2640 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2644 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2645 now reclaims the selection.
2646 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2647 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2652 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2653 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2654 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2655 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2656 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2660 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2661 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2663 Code tidying in various places.
2667 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2668 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2673 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2674 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2678 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2679 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2680 edit the file, not the file itself!
2681 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2685 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2686 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2687 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2688 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2689 of the SOAP working draft.
2690 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2691 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2692 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2697 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2698 it was in the displayed area before.
2700 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2703 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2704 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2708 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2709 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2710 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2712 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2713 selection (Andras Mohari).
2717 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2721 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2725 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2726 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2727 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2731 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2735 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2737 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2738 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2739 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2743 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2744 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2749 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2750 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2751 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2755 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2759 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2763 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2764 replaced by a Restart button.
2768 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2769 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2773 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2777 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2781 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2782 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2783 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2787 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2788 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2790 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2791 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2792 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2796 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2797 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2802 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2804 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2805 (requested by Graham Borland).
2806 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2807 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2808 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2812 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2813 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2814 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2815 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2819 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2820 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2821 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2822 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2823 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2824 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2825 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2826 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2827 - Lots of code tidying.
2832 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2833 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2837 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2839 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2841 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2845 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2846 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2850 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2851 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2855 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2856 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2860 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2861 option to access it directly.
2865 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2866 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2867 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2871 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2872 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2873 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2874 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2875 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2876 when the filer is run.
2880 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2881 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2882 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2887 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2891 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2892 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2896 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2898 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2902 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2906 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2907 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2908 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2913 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2914 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2915 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2916 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2917 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2918 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2919 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2923 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2927 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2928 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2932 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2933 of possible actions (Taras).
2934 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2936 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2937 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2941 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2946 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2950 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2953 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2954 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2958 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2959 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2961 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2963 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2964 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2965 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2966 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2970 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2974 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2978 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2982 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2987 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2988 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2989 the first one found.
2990 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2994 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2998 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2999 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3000 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3004 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3005 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3006 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3011 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3012 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3013 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3017 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3019 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3024 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3029 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3033 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3034 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3038 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3040 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3041 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3045 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3049 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3050 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3054 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3055 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3059 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3060 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3062 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3064 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3068 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3072 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3073 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3077 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3081 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3086 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3087 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3091 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3095 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3099 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3101 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3102 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3106 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3107 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3111 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3112 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3113 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3117 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3118 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3122 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3123 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3125 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3127 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3131 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3132 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3133 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3135 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3136 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3138 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3140 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3141 and the default size with no details.
3145 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3146 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3150 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3155 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3160 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3164 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3169 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3170 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3174 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3178 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3179 the button to run it does.
3180 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3181 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3182 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3186 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3187 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3188 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3192 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3196 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3197 and panels into icon.c.
3201 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3202 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3203 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3204 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3208 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3210 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3212 Updated the documentation.
3216 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3217 up if they're too small.
3221 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3223 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3224 (Christopher Arndt).
3225 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3230 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3231 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3235 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3236 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3240 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3241 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3242 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3247 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3252 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3256 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3257 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3262 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3267 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3268 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3272 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3273 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3277 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3281 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3285 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3289 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3290 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3293 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3294 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3299 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3300 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3301 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3302 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3307 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3308 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3310 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3312 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3313 for non-applications.
3317 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3318 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3323 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3327 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3328 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3330 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3334 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3335 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3339 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3340 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3344 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3345 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3349 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3350 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3352 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3353 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3357 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3358 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3360 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3364 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3365 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3368 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3372 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3373 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3377 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3381 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3382 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3385 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3386 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3390 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3394 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3399 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3403 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3404 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3409 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3414 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3418 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3420 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3422 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3423 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3425 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3427 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3428 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3432 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3433 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3434 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3436 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3437 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3441 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3445 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3446 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3450 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3454 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3455 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3457 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3460 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3461 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3462 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3466 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3467 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3472 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3477 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3479 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3482 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3484 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3485 sensible shape itself now.
3487 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3488 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3489 file at all, just a reused inode!
3490 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3491 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3492 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3496 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3500 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3501 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3506 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3507 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3511 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3515 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3516 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3520 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3525 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3529 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3530 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3534 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3535 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3536 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3537 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3538 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3542 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3543 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3544 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3545 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3546 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3550 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3551 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3552 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3556 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3558 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3559 python's portable system.
3560 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3561 set the LANG variable.
3565 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3566 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3568 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3570 Made a few updates to the manual.
3574 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3575 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3577 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3579 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3580 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3584 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3585 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3589 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3590 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3595 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3596 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3597 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3601 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3602 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3606 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3607 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3611 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3612 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3614 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3615 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3616 open... (Denis Manente).
3620 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3624 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3626 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3627 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3628 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3630 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3632 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3634 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3635 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3640 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3641 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3642 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3646 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3647 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3651 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3655 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3659 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3660 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3661 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3665 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3666 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3667 between pinboards...
3669 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3670 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3671 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3675 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3678 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3679 window (Denis Manente).
3681 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3682 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3686 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3687 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3688 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3692 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3695 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3696 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3698 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3703 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3704 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3706 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3710 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3711 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3713 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3715 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3720 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3721 the icon points to as well as its name.
3723 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3724 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3728 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3729 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3730 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3731 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3735 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3739 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3740 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3741 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3745 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3746 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3748 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3749 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3752 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3753 the item after the drag.
3755 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3756 showing where the file really is.
3760 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3761 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3766 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3767 warning is displayed if so.
3769 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3773 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3774 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3775 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3776 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3779 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3780 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3781 works like the panels.
3785 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3786 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3787 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3788 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3789 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3793 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3794 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3795 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3796 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3798 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3803 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3807 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3808 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3811 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3812 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3814 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3817 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3818 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3819 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3820 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3822 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3824 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3825 slightly. Updated the manual.
3827 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3828 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3831 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3832 or bottom panel to make room.
3836 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3841 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3842 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3843 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3844 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3845 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3849 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3851 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3852 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3854 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3858 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3859 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3863 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3867 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3869 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3874 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3875 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3877 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3881 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3882 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3883 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3887 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3888 rewriting the panel system.
3892 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3895 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3896 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3900 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3901 (suggested by James Kermode).
3905 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3906 than as a full path.
3908 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3910 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3911 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3912 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3916 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3917 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3921 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3922 rename something onto another filesystem.
3926 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3928 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3929 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3933 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3937 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3940 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3941 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3943 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3946 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3951 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3952 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3953 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3955 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3956 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3958 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3959 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3964 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3965 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3970 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3971 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3972 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3974 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3975 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3976 of the 'missing image' image.
3980 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3982 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3984 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3989 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3990 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3991 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3992 its name into another program.
3994 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3998 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4000 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4001 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4002 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4004 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4005 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4006 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4009 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4010 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4014 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4015 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4016 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4020 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4021 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4022 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4026 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4027 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4028 and position the icons directly.
4032 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4037 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4038 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4039 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4043 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4047 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4048 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4052 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4057 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4061 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4062 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4063 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4064 some versions of GTK+.
4068 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4073 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4074 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4075 from a sub-sub-menu.
4077 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4078 drawn on a log scale.
4082 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4083 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4084 happy with the UI yet though...
4086 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4087 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4088 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4092 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4093 by Stephen Harrison).
4095 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4097 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4098 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4099 standard types are in Choices.
4100 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4102 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4103 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4104 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4109 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4110 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4111 shell command minibuffer.
4115 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4116 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4117 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4118 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4119 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4121 Default search path for Choices is now:
4122 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4124 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4125 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4126 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4130 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4131 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4135 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4136 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4137 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4142 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4143 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4144 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4147 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4149 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4150 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4151 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4153 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4154 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4158 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4159 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4160 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4161 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4166 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4167 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4168 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4170 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4172 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4173 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4177 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4178 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4179 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4184 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4185 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4188 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4190 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4195 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4200 Added GNU gettext support.
4201 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4205 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4207 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4209 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4214 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4218 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4219 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4221 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4222 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4227 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4228 onto the directory and winks the file.
4232 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4233 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4234 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4236 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4237 instead of random values.
4238 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4240 Applied Bernard's patch:
4241 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4242 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4243 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4244 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4245 it the RISC OS way...
4246 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4247 alignment corrected.
4248 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4253 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4257 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4258 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4262 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4263 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4264 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4265 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4266 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4267 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4268 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4269 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4270 in the file(1) says... box).
4273 Before the Changes file
4274 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4275 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4277 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4278 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4279 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4280 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4281 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD