2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
8 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
9 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
11 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
13 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
17 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
18 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
22 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
23 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
24 disappeared at the wrong moment.
28 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
29 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
30 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
31 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
32 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
33 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
34 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
38 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
39 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
43 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
47 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
51 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
56 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
60 Options to set iconification layout policy.
61 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
62 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
66 Pinboard background colour option works again.
67 Position iconified windows sensibly.
68 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
72 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
73 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
74 (requested by Ryan Harris).
78 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
79 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
83 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
88 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
89 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
90 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
91 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
92 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
94 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
95 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
99 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
103 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
104 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
105 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
106 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
110 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
111 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
112 Many improvements to the pinboard:
113 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
114 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
115 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
119 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
123 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
124 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
128 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
129 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
130 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
131 restart (Olli Helenius).
135 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
139 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
140 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
141 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
146 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
151 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
152 Small and Large sizes.
156 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
160 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
161 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
165 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
166 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
167 (requested by Gregory Spath).
168 Don't quit while Options window is open.
172 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
173 the window (requested by Ashwin).
174 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
179 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
184 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
185 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
189 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
190 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
195 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
197 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
199 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
203 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
207 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
209 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
211 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
215 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
217 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
218 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
222 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
223 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
227 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
228 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
232 Various speed improvements.
233 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
237 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
238 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
242 Slight speed increase when starting.
246 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
250 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
251 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
252 button is no longer supported.
256 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
260 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
264 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
269 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
270 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
274 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
275 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
276 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
280 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
281 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
282 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
283 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
287 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
288 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
289 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
291 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
296 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
297 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
302 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
306 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
307 and converted to new dialog style.
311 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
312 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
316 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
317 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
321 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
325 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
327 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
331 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
335 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
336 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
337 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
341 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
342 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
346 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
351 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
355 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
356 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
360 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
361 and Cancel is now Revert.
362 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
363 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
367 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
371 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
372 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
374 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
375 (reported by Serban Udrea).
376 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
377 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
381 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
383 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
385 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
388 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
392 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
394 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
398 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
399 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
400 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
404 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
405 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
407 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
409 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
413 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
414 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
418 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
419 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
420 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
421 (requested by Andras Mohari).
425 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
429 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
430 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
434 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
435 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
440 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
441 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
445 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
446 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
447 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
451 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
452 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
456 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
457 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
458 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
459 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
461 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
466 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
467 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
469 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
471 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
475 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
476 any image (saves time).
477 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
478 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
479 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
480 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
482 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
483 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
487 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
488 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
490 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
491 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
493 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
498 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
499 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
500 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
501 has stopped accepting STRING.
505 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
506 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
510 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
515 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
516 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
518 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
519 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
520 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
524 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
525 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
526 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
527 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
528 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
529 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
533 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
534 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
535 Allow '~' in globicons file.
536 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
537 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
538 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
543 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
544 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
545 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
546 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
551 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
552 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
556 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
557 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
559 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
561 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
562 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
563 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
567 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
568 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
569 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
573 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
574 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
578 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
579 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
583 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
585 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
590 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
591 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
595 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
596 their menus correctly.
597 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
602 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
603 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
604 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
608 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
609 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
613 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
617 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
620 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
622 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
623 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
624 the toggle menu items from working!
628 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
630 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
636 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
637 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
641 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
642 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
643 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
644 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
645 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
646 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
650 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
654 File groups are now saved (automatically).
655 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
659 Added Version SOAP RPC.
660 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
661 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
665 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
666 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
671 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
673 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
677 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
678 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
679 bar is displayed in the filer window.
680 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
684 Improved error reporting.
685 Improved sizing code when details are on.
689 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
690 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
691 check box and does 'Yes'.
695 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
696 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
697 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
698 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
703 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
705 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
706 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
708 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
710 Internal changes to options system:
711 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
712 filer is fully initialised).
713 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
715 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
717 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
718 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
719 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
720 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
724 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
725 now reclaims the selection.
726 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
727 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
732 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
733 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
734 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
735 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
736 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
740 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
741 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
743 Code tidying in various places.
747 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
748 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
753 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
754 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
758 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
759 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
760 edit the file, not the file itself!
761 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
765 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
766 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
767 (recommended by Jens Finke).
768 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
769 of the SOAP working draft.
770 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
771 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
772 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
777 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
778 it was in the displayed area before.
780 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
783 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
784 winking effect until the window actually appears.
788 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
789 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
790 Kristian A. Rink and others).
792 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
793 selection (Andras Mohari).
797 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
801 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
805 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
806 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
807 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
811 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
815 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
817 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
818 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
819 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
823 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
824 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
829 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
830 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
831 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
835 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
839 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
843 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
844 replaced by a Restart button.
848 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
849 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
853 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
857 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
861 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
862 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
863 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
867 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
868 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
870 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
871 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
872 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
876 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
877 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
882 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
884 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
885 (requested by Graham Borland).
886 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
887 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
888 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
892 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
893 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
894 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
895 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
899 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
900 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
901 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
902 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
903 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
904 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
905 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
906 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
907 - Lots of code tidying.
912 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
913 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
917 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
919 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
921 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
925 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
926 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
930 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
931 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
935 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
936 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
940 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
941 option to access it directly.
945 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
946 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
947 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
951 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
952 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
953 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
954 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
955 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
956 when the filer is run.
960 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
961 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
962 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
967 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
971 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
972 title bar (Stephen Watson).
976 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
978 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
982 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
986 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
987 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
988 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
993 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
994 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
995 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
996 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
997 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
998 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
999 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1003 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1007 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1008 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1012 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1013 of possible actions (Taras).
1014 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1016 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1017 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1021 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1026 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1030 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1033 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1034 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1038 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1039 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1041 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1043 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1044 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1045 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1046 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1050 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1054 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1058 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1062 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1067 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1068 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1069 the first one found.
1070 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1074 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1078 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1079 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1080 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1084 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1085 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1086 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1091 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1092 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1093 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1097 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1099 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1104 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1109 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1113 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1114 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1118 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1120 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1121 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1125 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1129 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1130 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1134 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1135 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1139 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1140 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1142 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1144 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1148 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1152 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1153 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1157 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1161 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1166 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1167 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1171 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1175 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1179 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1181 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1182 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1186 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1187 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1191 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1192 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1193 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1197 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1198 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1202 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1203 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1205 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1207 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1211 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1212 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1213 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1215 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1216 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1218 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1220 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1221 and the default size with no details.
1225 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1226 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1230 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1235 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1240 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1244 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1249 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1250 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1254 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1258 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1259 the button to run it does.
1260 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1261 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1262 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1266 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1267 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1268 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1272 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1276 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1277 and panels into icon.c.
1281 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1282 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1283 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1284 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1288 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1290 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1292 Updated the documentation.
1296 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1297 up if they're too small.
1301 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1303 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1304 (Christopher Arndt).
1305 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1310 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1311 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1315 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1316 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1320 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1321 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1322 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1327 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1332 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1336 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1337 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1342 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1347 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1348 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1352 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1353 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1357 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1361 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1365 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1369 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1370 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1373 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1374 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1379 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1380 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1381 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1382 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1387 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1388 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1390 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1392 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1393 for non-applications.
1397 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1398 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1403 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1407 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1408 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1410 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1414 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1415 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1419 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1420 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1424 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1425 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1429 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1430 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1432 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1433 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1437 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1438 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1440 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1444 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1445 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1448 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1452 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1453 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1457 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1461 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1462 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1465 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1466 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1470 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1474 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1479 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1483 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1484 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1489 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1494 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1498 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1500 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1502 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1503 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1505 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1507 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1508 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1512 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1513 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1514 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1516 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1517 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1521 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1525 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1526 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1530 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1534 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1535 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1537 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1540 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1541 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1542 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1546 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1547 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1552 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1557 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1559 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1562 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1564 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1565 sensible shape itself now.
1567 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1568 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1569 file at all, just a reused inode!
1570 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1571 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1572 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1576 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1580 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1581 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1586 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1587 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1591 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1595 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1596 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1600 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1605 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1609 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1610 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1614 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1615 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1616 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1617 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1618 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1622 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1623 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1624 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1625 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1626 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1630 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1631 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1632 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1636 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1638 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1639 python's portable system.
1640 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1641 set the LANG variable.
1645 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1646 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1648 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1650 Made a few updates to the manual.
1654 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1655 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1657 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1659 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1660 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1664 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1665 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1669 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1670 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1675 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1676 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1677 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1681 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1682 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1686 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1687 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1691 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1692 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1694 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1695 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1696 open... (Denis Manente).
1700 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1704 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1706 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1707 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1708 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1710 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1712 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1714 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1715 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1720 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1721 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1722 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1726 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1727 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1731 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1735 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1739 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1740 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1741 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1745 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1746 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1747 between pinboards...
1749 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1750 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1751 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1755 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1758 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1759 window (Denis Manente).
1761 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1762 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1766 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1767 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1768 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1772 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1775 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1776 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1778 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1783 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1784 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1786 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1790 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1791 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1793 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1795 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1800 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1801 the icon points to as well as its name.
1803 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1804 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1808 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1809 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1810 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1811 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1815 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1819 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1820 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1821 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1825 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1826 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1828 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1829 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1832 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1833 the item after the drag.
1835 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1836 showing where the file really is.
1840 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1841 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1846 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1847 warning is displayed if so.
1849 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1853 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1854 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1855 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1856 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1859 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1860 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1861 works like the panels.
1865 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1866 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1867 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1868 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1869 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1873 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1874 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1875 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1876 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1878 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1883 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1887 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1888 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1891 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1892 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1894 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1897 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1898 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1899 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1900 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1902 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1904 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1905 slightly. Updated the manual.
1907 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1908 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1911 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1912 or bottom panel to make room.
1916 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1921 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1922 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1923 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1924 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1925 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1929 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
1931 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
1932 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
1934 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
1938 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
1939 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
1943 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
1947 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
1949 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
1954 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
1955 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
1957 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
1961 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
1962 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
1963 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
1967 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
1968 rewriting the panel system.
1972 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
1975 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
1976 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
1980 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
1981 (suggested by James Kermode).
1985 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
1986 than as a full path.
1988 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
1990 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
1991 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
1992 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
1996 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
1997 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2001 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2002 rename something onto another filesystem.
2006 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2008 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2009 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2013 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2017 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2020 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2021 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2023 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2026 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2031 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2032 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2033 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2035 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2036 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2038 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2039 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2044 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2045 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2050 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2051 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2052 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2054 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2055 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2056 of the 'missing image' image.
2060 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2062 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2064 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2069 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2070 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2071 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2072 its name into another program.
2074 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2078 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2080 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2081 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2082 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2084 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2085 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2086 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2089 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2090 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2094 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2095 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2096 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2100 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2101 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2102 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2106 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2107 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2108 and position the icons directly.
2112 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2117 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2118 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2119 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2123 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2127 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2128 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2132 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2137 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2141 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2142 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2143 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2144 some versions of GTK+.
2148 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2153 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2154 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2155 from a sub-sub-menu.
2157 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2158 drawn on a log scale.
2162 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2163 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2164 happy with the UI yet though...
2166 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2167 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2168 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2172 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2173 by Stephen Harrison).
2175 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2177 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2178 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2179 standard types are in Choices.
2180 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2182 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2183 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2184 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2189 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2190 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2191 shell command minibuffer.
2195 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2196 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2197 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2198 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2199 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2201 Default search path for Choices is now:
2202 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2204 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2205 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2206 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2210 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2211 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2215 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2216 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2217 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2222 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2223 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2224 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2227 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2229 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2230 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2231 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2233 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2234 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2238 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2239 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2240 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2241 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2246 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2247 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2248 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2250 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2252 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2253 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2257 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2258 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2259 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2264 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2265 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2268 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2270 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2275 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2280 Added GNU gettext support.
2281 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2285 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2287 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2289 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2294 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2298 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2299 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2301 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2302 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2307 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2308 onto the directory and winks the file.
2312 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2313 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2314 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2316 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2317 instead of random values.
2318 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2320 Applied Bernard's patch:
2321 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2322 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2323 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2324 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2325 it the RISC OS way...
2326 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2327 alignment corrected.
2328 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2333 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2337 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2338 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2342 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2343 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2344 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2345 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2346 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2347 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2348 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2349 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2350 in the file(1) says... box).
2353 Before the Changes file
2354 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2355 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2357 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2358 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2359 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2360 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2361 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD