2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
9 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
10 function address (Tony Houghton).
14 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
15 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
20 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
24 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
25 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
29 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
30 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
31 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
35 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
39 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
40 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
41 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
42 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
43 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
48 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
53 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
57 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
58 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
62 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
63 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
67 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
71 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
72 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
77 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
78 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
82 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
83 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
84 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
86 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
88 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
93 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
94 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
98 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
103 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
107 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
108 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
109 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
110 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
112 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
117 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
118 the old one (Stephen Watson).
119 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
120 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
121 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
125 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
130 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
132 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
134 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
138 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
139 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
141 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
143 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
144 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
145 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
146 reported by Lewis Denizen).
150 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
154 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
155 the binary (Stephen Watson).
159 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
163 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
164 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
165 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
169 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
172 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
174 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
175 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
176 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
177 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
178 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
182 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
186 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
187 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
191 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
195 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
196 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
197 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
199 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
200 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
202 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
203 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
204 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
205 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
209 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
210 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
214 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
215 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
216 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
217 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
222 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
223 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
227 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
228 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
229 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
233 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
234 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
235 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
239 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
243 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
244 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
248 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
249 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
253 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
257 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
258 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
263 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
264 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
268 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
272 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
273 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
274 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
275 when changing to a parent directory.
276 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
280 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
284 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
288 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
290 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
292 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
296 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
298 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
302 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
304 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
308 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
312 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
313 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
314 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
315 reported by Anthony DiSante).
319 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
323 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
327 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
328 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
329 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
330 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
331 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
335 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
336 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
340 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
341 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
346 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
347 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
352 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
353 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
357 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
358 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
362 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
363 (reported by Tony Houghton).
367 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
369 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
370 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
374 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
375 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
379 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
383 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
387 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
391 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
392 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
393 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
397 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
401 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
406 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
410 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
412 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
414 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
418 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
419 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
420 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
422 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
426 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
427 print a warning and then crash.
431 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
432 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
433 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
438 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
442 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
447 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
451 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
455 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
457 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
462 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
463 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
464 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
469 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
470 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
475 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
477 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
478 anyway, and noone had complained).
479 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
480 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
484 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
485 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
486 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
490 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
494 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
495 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
499 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
500 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
501 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
505 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
506 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
507 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
509 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
510 by Simon Templer and others).
514 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
515 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
516 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
520 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
524 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
528 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
529 version number again (Stephen Watson).
533 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
534 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
538 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
542 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
543 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
544 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
545 anyway (Stephen Watson).
549 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
553 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
557 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
559 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
561 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
565 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
566 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
567 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
571 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
572 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
577 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
578 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
579 impossible to change shortcuts.
580 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
581 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
585 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
586 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
591 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
592 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
593 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
597 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
598 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
599 to the functions being missing.
603 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
607 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
611 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
615 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
619 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
620 worries people for no reason.
624 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
628 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
629 files selected (Peter Geer).
633 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
634 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
638 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
642 Added 'Select by Name'.
646 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
650 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
655 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
659 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
661 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
663 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
664 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
668 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
672 Misc changes for next release.
676 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
677 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
681 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
682 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
683 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
684 Watson, reported on #rox).
688 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
689 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
693 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
694 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
698 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
699 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
703 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
704 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
709 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
713 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
715 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
720 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
724 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
725 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
729 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
730 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
734 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
738 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
743 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
744 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
746 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
747 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
751 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
752 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
756 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
761 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
762 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
766 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
767 support not being detected (igla).
771 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
775 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
776 dialog (Stephen Watson).
780 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
784 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
785 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
786 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
787 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
790 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
792 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
793 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
797 New icon for selection ops.
801 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
805 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
809 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
813 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
814 Added icon theme selector.
818 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
822 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
826 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
827 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
831 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
832 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
833 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
837 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
838 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
842 Allow ejecting mounted media.
846 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
847 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
848 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
852 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
856 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
857 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
862 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
863 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
867 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
868 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
872 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
873 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
877 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
881 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
882 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
883 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
887 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
891 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
892 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
893 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
894 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
898 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
899 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
901 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
905 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
909 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
910 bits (Stephen Watson).
914 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
918 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
922 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
923 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
927 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
931 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
932 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
937 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
938 forward them explicitly.
942 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
943 help from Götz Waschk).
947 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
948 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
949 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
953 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
957 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
961 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
965 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
966 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
968 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
970 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
974 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
976 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
978 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
982 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
983 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
984 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
985 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
989 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
993 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
997 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1001 Minor updates to the manual.
1002 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1003 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1007 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1008 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1010 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1012 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1013 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1017 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1018 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1019 reduce flickering effect.
1023 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1027 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1029 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1033 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1034 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1035 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1036 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1037 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1041 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1042 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1046 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1050 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1055 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1056 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1060 Winking now works in List view.
1064 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1068 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1069 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1073 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1074 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1076 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1078 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1082 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1086 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1087 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1089 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1093 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1094 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1098 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1100 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1104 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1105 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1109 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1111 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1115 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1119 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1120 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1125 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1126 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1128 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1130 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1132 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1136 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1140 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1141 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1145 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1150 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1151 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1155 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1157 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1159 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1160 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1165 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1169 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1170 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1171 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1172 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1173 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1174 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1175 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1177 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1181 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1186 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1187 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1191 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1192 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1193 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1194 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1199 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1200 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1201 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1202 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1203 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1204 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1205 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1206 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1207 talent can do something better?
1208 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1209 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1213 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1214 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1215 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1220 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1222 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1223 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1224 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1225 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1226 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1227 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1228 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1229 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1230 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1231 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1232 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1233 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1234 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1238 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1239 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1240 allow fine repositioning.
1241 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1242 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1243 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1244 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1246 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1247 changing the aspect ratio.
1251 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1255 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1259 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1260 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1261 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1265 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1269 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1274 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1275 make sharing icons easier.
1276 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1280 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1281 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1285 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1289 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1291 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1295 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1300 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1305 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1306 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1308 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1309 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1310 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1311 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1315 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1316 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1320 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1324 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1326 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1327 Brian Langenberger).
1331 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1332 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1334 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1338 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1339 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1341 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1343 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1347 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1348 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1353 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1357 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1358 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1359 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1363 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1364 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1368 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1372 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1373 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1377 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1378 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1379 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1383 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1387 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1388 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1389 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1390 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1392 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1393 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1397 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1398 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1402 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1407 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1408 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1412 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1416 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1417 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1418 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1419 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1424 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1425 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1426 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1430 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1434 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1435 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1439 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1440 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1441 since it didn't include the contents.
1442 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1443 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1447 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1451 Style improvements to options window.
1455 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1459 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1461 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1463 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1468 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1469 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1470 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1471 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1475 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1479 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1483 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1484 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1488 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1490 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1495 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1499 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1500 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1501 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1506 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1510 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1514 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1518 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1522 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1523 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1524 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1528 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1529 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1533 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1534 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1539 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1543 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1547 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1552 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1553 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1557 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1558 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1563 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1564 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1568 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1569 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1570 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1574 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1578 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1579 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1580 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1581 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1582 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1586 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1587 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1591 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1592 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1596 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1600 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1601 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1602 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1603 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1604 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1605 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1609 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1610 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1611 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1615 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1616 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1621 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1625 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1627 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1629 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1634 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1638 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1642 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1643 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1648 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1652 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1656 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1657 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1658 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1662 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1666 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1671 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1675 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1676 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1677 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1678 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1682 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1686 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1687 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1691 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1692 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1693 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1697 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1701 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1705 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1706 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1707 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1708 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1709 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1710 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1714 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1715 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1719 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1720 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1721 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1725 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1726 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1730 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1734 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1735 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1736 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1737 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1739 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1741 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1745 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1746 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1747 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1751 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1755 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1756 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1761 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1765 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1769 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1770 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1774 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1775 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1776 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1780 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1781 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1785 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1786 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1790 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1791 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1795 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1799 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1800 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1804 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1806 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1808 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1812 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1816 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1817 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1821 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1825 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1829 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1830 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1831 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1832 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1833 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1834 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1838 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1842 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1844 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1845 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1849 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1850 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1854 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1858 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1859 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1860 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1861 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1863 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1865 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1869 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1870 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1874 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1875 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1876 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1880 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1881 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1882 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1883 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1884 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1885 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1886 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1890 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1891 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1895 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1899 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1903 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1908 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1912 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1913 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1914 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1918 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1919 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1920 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1924 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1925 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1926 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1930 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1931 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1935 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1940 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1941 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1942 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1943 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1944 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1946 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1947 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1951 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1955 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1956 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1957 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1958 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1962 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1963 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1964 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1965 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1966 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1967 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1971 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1975 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1976 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1980 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1981 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1982 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1983 restart (Olli Helenius).
1987 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1991 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1992 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1993 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1998 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2003 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2004 Small and Large sizes.
2008 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2012 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2013 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2017 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2018 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2019 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2020 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2024 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2025 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2026 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2031 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2036 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2037 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2041 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2042 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2047 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2049 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2051 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2055 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2059 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2061 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2063 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2067 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2069 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2070 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2074 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2075 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2079 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2080 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2084 Various speed improvements.
2085 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2089 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2090 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2094 Slight speed increase when starting.
2098 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2102 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2103 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2104 button is no longer supported.
2108 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2112 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2116 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2121 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2122 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2126 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2127 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2128 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2132 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2133 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2134 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2135 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2139 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2140 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2141 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2143 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2148 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2149 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2154 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2158 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2159 and converted to new dialog style.
2163 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2164 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2168 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2169 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2173 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2177 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2179 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2183 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2187 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2188 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2189 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2193 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2194 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2198 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2203 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2207 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2208 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2212 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2213 and Cancel is now Revert.
2214 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2215 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2219 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2223 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2224 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2226 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2227 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2228 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2229 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2233 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2235 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2236 labels display them.
2237 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2240 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2244 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2246 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2250 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2251 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2252 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2256 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2257 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2259 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2261 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2265 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2266 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2270 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2271 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2272 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2273 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2277 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2281 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2282 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2286 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2287 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2292 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2293 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2297 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2298 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2299 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2303 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2304 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2308 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2309 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2310 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2311 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2313 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2318 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2319 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2321 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2323 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2327 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2328 any image (saves time).
2329 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2330 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2331 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2332 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2334 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2335 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2339 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2340 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2342 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2343 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2345 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2350 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2351 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2352 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2353 has stopped accepting STRING.
2357 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2358 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2362 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2367 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2368 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2370 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2371 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2372 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2376 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2377 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2378 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2379 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2380 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2381 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2385 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2386 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2387 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2388 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2389 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2390 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2395 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2396 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2397 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2398 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2403 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2404 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2408 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2409 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2411 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2413 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2414 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2415 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2419 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2420 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2421 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2425 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2426 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2430 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2431 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2435 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2437 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2442 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2443 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2447 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2448 their menus correctly.
2449 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2454 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2455 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2456 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2460 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2461 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2465 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2469 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2472 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2474 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2475 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2476 the toggle menu items from working!
2480 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2482 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2488 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2489 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2493 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2494 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2495 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2496 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2497 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2498 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2502 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2506 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2507 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2511 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2512 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2513 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2517 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2518 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2523 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2525 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2529 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2530 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2531 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2532 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2536 Improved error reporting.
2537 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2541 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2542 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2543 check box and does 'Yes'.
2547 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2548 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2549 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2550 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2555 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2557 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2558 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2560 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2562 Internal changes to options system:
2563 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2564 filer is fully initialised).
2565 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2567 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2569 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2570 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2571 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2572 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2576 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2577 now reclaims the selection.
2578 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2579 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2584 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2585 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2586 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2587 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2588 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2592 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2593 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2595 Code tidying in various places.
2599 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2600 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2605 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2606 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2610 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2611 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2612 edit the file, not the file itself!
2613 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2617 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2618 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2619 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2620 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2621 of the SOAP working draft.
2622 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2623 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2624 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2629 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2630 it was in the displayed area before.
2632 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2635 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2636 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2640 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2641 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2642 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2644 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2645 selection (Andras Mohari).
2649 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2653 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2657 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2658 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2659 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2663 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2667 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2669 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2670 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2671 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2675 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2676 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2681 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2682 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2683 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2687 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2691 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2695 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2696 replaced by a Restart button.
2700 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2701 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2705 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2709 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2713 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2714 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2715 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2719 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2720 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2722 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2723 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2724 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2728 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2729 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2734 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2736 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2737 (requested by Graham Borland).
2738 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2739 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2740 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2744 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2745 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2746 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2747 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2751 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2752 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2753 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2754 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2755 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2756 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2757 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2758 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2759 - Lots of code tidying.
2764 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2765 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2769 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2771 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2773 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2777 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2778 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2782 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2783 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2787 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2788 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2792 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2793 option to access it directly.
2797 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2798 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2799 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2803 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2804 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2805 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2806 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2807 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2808 when the filer is run.
2812 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2813 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2814 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2819 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2823 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2824 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2828 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2830 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2834 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2838 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2839 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2840 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2845 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2846 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2847 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2848 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2849 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2850 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2851 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2855 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2859 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2860 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2864 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2865 of possible actions (Taras).
2866 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2868 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2869 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2873 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2878 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2882 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2885 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2886 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2890 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2891 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2893 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2895 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2896 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2897 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2898 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2902 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2906 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2910 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2914 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2919 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2920 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2921 the first one found.
2922 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2926 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2930 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2931 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2932 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2936 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2937 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2938 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2943 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2944 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2945 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2949 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2951 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2956 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2961 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2965 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2966 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2970 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2972 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2973 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2977 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2981 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2982 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2986 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2987 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2991 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2992 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2994 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2996 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3000 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3004 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3005 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3009 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3013 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3018 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3019 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3023 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3027 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3031 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3033 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3034 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3038 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3039 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3043 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3044 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3045 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3049 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3050 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3054 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3055 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3057 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3059 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3063 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3064 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3065 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3067 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3068 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3070 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3072 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3073 and the default size with no details.
3077 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3078 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3082 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3087 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3092 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3096 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3101 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3102 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3106 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3110 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3111 the button to run it does.
3112 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3113 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3114 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3118 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3119 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3120 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3124 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3128 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3129 and panels into icon.c.
3133 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3134 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3135 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3136 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3140 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3142 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3144 Updated the documentation.
3148 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3149 up if they're too small.
3153 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3155 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3156 (Christopher Arndt).
3157 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3162 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3163 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3167 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3168 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3172 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3173 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3174 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3179 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3184 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3188 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3189 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3194 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3199 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3200 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3204 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3205 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3209 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3213 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3217 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3221 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3222 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3225 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3226 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3231 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3232 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3233 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3234 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3239 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3240 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3242 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3244 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3245 for non-applications.
3249 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3250 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3255 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3259 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3260 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3262 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3266 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3267 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3271 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3272 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3276 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3277 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3281 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3282 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3284 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3285 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3289 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3290 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3292 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3296 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3297 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3300 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3304 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3305 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3309 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3313 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3314 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3317 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3318 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3322 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3326 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3331 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3335 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3336 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3341 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3346 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3350 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3352 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3354 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3355 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3357 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3359 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3360 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3364 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3365 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3366 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3368 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3369 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3373 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3377 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3378 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3382 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3386 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3387 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3389 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3392 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3393 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3394 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3398 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3399 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3404 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3409 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3411 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3414 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3416 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3417 sensible shape itself now.
3419 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3420 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3421 file at all, just a reused inode!
3422 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3423 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3424 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3428 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3432 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3433 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3438 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3439 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3443 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3447 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3448 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3452 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3457 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3461 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3462 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3466 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3467 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3468 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3469 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3470 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3474 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3475 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3476 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3477 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3478 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3482 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3483 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3484 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3488 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3490 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3491 python's portable system.
3492 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3493 set the LANG variable.
3497 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3498 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3500 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3502 Made a few updates to the manual.
3506 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3507 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3509 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3511 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3512 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3516 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3517 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3521 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3522 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3527 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3528 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3529 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3533 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3534 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3538 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3539 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3543 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3544 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3546 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3547 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3548 open... (Denis Manente).
3552 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3556 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3558 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3559 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3560 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3562 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3564 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3566 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3567 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3572 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3573 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3574 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3578 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3579 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3583 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3587 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3591 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3592 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3593 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3597 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3598 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3599 between pinboards...
3601 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3602 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3603 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3607 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3610 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3611 window (Denis Manente).
3613 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3614 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3618 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3619 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3620 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3624 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3627 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3628 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3630 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3635 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3636 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3638 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3642 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3643 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3645 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3647 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3652 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3653 the icon points to as well as its name.
3655 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3656 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3660 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3661 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3662 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3663 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3667 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3671 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3672 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3673 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3677 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3678 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3680 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3681 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3684 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3685 the item after the drag.
3687 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3688 showing where the file really is.
3692 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3693 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3698 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3699 warning is displayed if so.
3701 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3705 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3706 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3707 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3708 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3711 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3712 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3713 works like the panels.
3717 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3718 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3719 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3720 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3721 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3725 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3726 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3727 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3728 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3730 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3735 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3739 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3740 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3743 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3744 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3746 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3749 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3750 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3751 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3752 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3754 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3756 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3757 slightly. Updated the manual.
3759 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3760 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3763 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3764 or bottom panel to make room.
3768 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3773 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3774 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3775 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3776 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3777 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3781 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3783 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3784 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3786 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3790 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3791 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3795 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3799 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3801 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3806 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3807 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3809 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3813 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3814 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3815 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3819 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3820 rewriting the panel system.
3824 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3827 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3828 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3832 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3833 (suggested by James Kermode).
3837 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3838 than as a full path.
3840 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3842 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3843 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3844 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3848 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3849 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3853 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3854 rename something onto another filesystem.
3858 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3860 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3861 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3865 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3869 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3872 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3873 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3875 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3878 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3883 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3884 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3885 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3887 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3888 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3890 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3891 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3896 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3897 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3902 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3903 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3904 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3906 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3907 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3908 of the 'missing image' image.
3912 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3914 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3916 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3921 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3922 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3923 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3924 its name into another program.
3926 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3930 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3932 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3933 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3934 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3936 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3937 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3938 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3941 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3942 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3946 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3947 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3948 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3952 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3953 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3954 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3958 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3959 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3960 and position the icons directly.
3964 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3969 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3970 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3971 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3975 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3979 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3980 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3984 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3989 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3993 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3994 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3995 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3996 some versions of GTK+.
4000 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4005 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4006 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4007 from a sub-sub-menu.
4009 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4010 drawn on a log scale.
4014 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4015 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4016 happy with the UI yet though...
4018 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4019 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4020 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4024 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4025 by Stephen Harrison).
4027 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4029 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4030 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4031 standard types are in Choices.
4032 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4034 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4035 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4036 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4041 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4042 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4043 shell command minibuffer.
4047 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4048 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4049 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4050 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4051 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4053 Default search path for Choices is now:
4054 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4056 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4057 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4058 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4062 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4063 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4067 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4068 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4069 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4074 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4075 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4076 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4079 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4081 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4082 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4083 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4085 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4086 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4090 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4091 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4092 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4093 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4098 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4099 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4100 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4102 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4104 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4105 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4109 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4110 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4111 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4116 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4117 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4120 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4122 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4127 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4132 Added GNU gettext support.
4133 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4137 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4139 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4141 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4146 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4150 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4151 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4153 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4154 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4159 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4160 onto the directory and winks the file.
4164 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4165 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4166 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4168 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4169 instead of random values.
4170 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4172 Applied Bernard's patch:
4173 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4174 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4175 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4176 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4177 it the RISC OS way...
4178 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4179 alignment corrected.
4180 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4185 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4189 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4190 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4194 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4195 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4196 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4197 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4198 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4199 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4200 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4201 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4202 in the file(1) says... box).
4205 Before the Changes file
4206 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4207 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4209 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4210 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4211 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4212 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4213 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD