2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
8 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
9 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
10 its name into another program.
12 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
16 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
18 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
19 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
20 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
22 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
23 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
24 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
27 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
28 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
32 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
33 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
34 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
38 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
39 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
40 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
44 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
45 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
46 and position the icons directly.
50 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
55 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
56 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
57 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
61 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
65 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
66 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
70 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
75 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
79 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
80 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
81 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
82 some versions of GTK+.
86 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
91 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
92 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
95 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
100 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
101 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
102 happy with the UI yet though...
104 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
105 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
106 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
110 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
111 by Stephen Harrison).
113 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
115 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
116 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
117 standard types are in Choices.
118 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
120 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
121 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
122 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
127 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
128 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
129 shell command minibuffer.
133 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
134 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
135 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
136 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
137 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
139 Default search path for Choices is now:
140 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
142 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
143 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
144 buffering so all this will get changed then...
148 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
149 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
153 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
154 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
155 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
160 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
161 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
162 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
165 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
167 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
168 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
169 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
171 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
172 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
176 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
177 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
178 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
179 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
184 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
185 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
186 an empty directory caused odd effects.
188 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
190 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
191 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
195 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
196 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
197 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
202 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
203 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
206 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
208 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
213 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
218 Added GNU gettext support.
219 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
223 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
225 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
227 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
232 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
236 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
237 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
239 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
240 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
245 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
246 onto the directory and winks the file.
250 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
251 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
252 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
254 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
255 instead of random values.
256 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
258 Applied Bernard's patch:
259 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
260 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
261 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
262 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
263 it the RISC OS way...
264 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
266 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
271 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
275 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
276 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
280 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
281 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
282 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
283 - Option to only display one window per directory.
284 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
285 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
286 - Errors in options are only reported once.
287 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
288 in the file(1) says... box).