2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
5 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
7 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
8 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
13 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
17 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
18 (suggested by Michael Adams).
19 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
20 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
21 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
22 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
23 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
25 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
29 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
34 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
35 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
39 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
40 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
41 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
42 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
47 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
48 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
49 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
50 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
51 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
52 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
53 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
54 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
55 talent can do something better?
56 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
57 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
61 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
62 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
63 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
68 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
70 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
71 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
72 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
73 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
74 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
75 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
76 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
77 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
78 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
79 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
80 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
81 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
82 label wasn't hidden / shown.
86 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
87 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
88 allow fine repositioning.
89 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
90 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
91 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
92 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
94 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
95 changing the aspect ratio.
99 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
103 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
107 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
108 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
109 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
113 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
117 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
122 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
123 make sharing icons easier.
124 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
128 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
129 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
133 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
137 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
139 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
143 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
148 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
153 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
154 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
156 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
157 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
158 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
159 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
163 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
164 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
168 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
172 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
174 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
179 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
180 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
182 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
186 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
187 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
189 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
191 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
195 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
196 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
201 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
205 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
206 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
207 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
211 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
212 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
216 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
220 Preserve selection when changing view type.
221 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
225 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
226 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
227 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
231 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
235 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
236 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
237 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
238 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
240 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
241 the information in the tooltips anyway.
245 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
246 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
250 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
255 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
256 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
260 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
264 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
265 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
266 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
267 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
272 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
273 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
274 Always use case-insensitive sort.
278 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
282 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
283 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
287 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
288 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
289 since it didn't include the contents.
290 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
291 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
295 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
299 Style improvements to options window.
303 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
307 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
309 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
311 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
316 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
317 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
318 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
319 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
323 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
327 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
331 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
332 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
336 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
338 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
343 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
347 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
348 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
349 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
354 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
358 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
362 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
366 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
370 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
371 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
372 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
376 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
377 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
381 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
382 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
387 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
391 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
395 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
400 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
401 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
405 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
406 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
411 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
412 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
416 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
417 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
418 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
422 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
426 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
427 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
428 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
429 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
430 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
434 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
435 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
439 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
440 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
444 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
448 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
449 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
450 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
451 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
452 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
453 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
457 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
458 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
459 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
463 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
464 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
469 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
473 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
475 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
477 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
482 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
486 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
490 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
491 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
496 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
500 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
504 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
505 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
506 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
510 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
514 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
519 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
523 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
524 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
525 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
526 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
530 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
534 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
535 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
539 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
540 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
541 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
545 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
549 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
553 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
554 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
555 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
556 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
557 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
558 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
562 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
563 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
567 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
568 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
569 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
573 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
574 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
578 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
582 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
583 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
584 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
585 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
587 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
589 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
593 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
594 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
595 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
599 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
603 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
604 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
609 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
613 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
617 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
618 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
622 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
623 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
624 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
628 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
629 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
633 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
634 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
638 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
639 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
643 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
647 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
648 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
652 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
654 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
656 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
660 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
664 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
665 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
669 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
673 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
677 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
678 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
679 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
680 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
681 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
682 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
686 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
690 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
692 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
693 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
697 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
698 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
702 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
706 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
707 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
708 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
709 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
711 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
713 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
717 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
718 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
722 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
723 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
724 disappeared at the wrong moment.
728 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
729 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
730 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
731 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
732 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
733 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
734 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
738 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
739 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
743 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
747 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
751 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
756 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
760 Options to set iconification layout policy.
761 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
762 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
766 Pinboard background colour option works again.
767 Position iconified windows sensibly.
768 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
772 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
773 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
774 (requested by Ryan Harris).
778 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
779 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
783 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
788 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
789 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
790 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
791 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
792 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
794 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
795 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
799 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
803 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
804 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
805 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
806 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
810 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
811 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
812 Many improvements to the pinboard:
813 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
814 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
815 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
819 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
823 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
824 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
828 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
829 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
830 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
831 restart (Olli Helenius).
835 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
839 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
840 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
841 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
846 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
851 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
852 Small and Large sizes.
856 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
860 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
861 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
865 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
866 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
867 (requested by Gregory Spath).
868 Don't quit while Options window is open.
872 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
873 the window (requested by Ashwin).
874 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
879 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
884 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
885 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
889 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
890 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
895 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
897 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
899 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
903 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
907 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
909 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
911 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
915 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
917 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
918 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
922 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
923 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
927 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
928 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
932 Various speed improvements.
933 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
937 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
938 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
942 Slight speed increase when starting.
946 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
950 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
951 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
952 button is no longer supported.
956 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
960 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
964 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
969 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
970 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
974 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
975 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
976 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
980 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
981 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
982 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
983 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
987 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
988 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
989 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
991 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
996 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
997 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1002 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1006 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1007 and converted to new dialog style.
1011 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1012 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1016 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1017 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1021 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1025 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1027 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1031 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1035 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1036 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1037 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1041 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1042 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1046 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1051 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1055 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1056 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1060 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1061 and Cancel is now Revert.
1062 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1063 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1067 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1071 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1072 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1074 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1075 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1076 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1077 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1081 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1083 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1084 labels display them.
1085 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1088 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1092 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1094 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1098 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1099 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1100 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1104 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1105 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1107 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1109 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1113 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1114 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1118 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1119 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1120 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1121 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1125 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1129 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1130 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1134 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1135 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1140 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1141 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1145 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1146 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1147 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1151 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1152 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1156 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1157 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1158 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1159 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1161 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1166 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1167 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1169 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1171 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1175 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1176 any image (saves time).
1177 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1178 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1179 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1180 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1182 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1183 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1187 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1188 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1190 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1191 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1193 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1198 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1199 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1200 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1201 has stopped accepting STRING.
1205 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1206 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1210 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1215 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1216 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1218 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1219 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1220 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1224 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1225 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1226 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1227 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1228 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1229 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1233 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1234 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1235 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1236 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1237 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1238 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1243 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1244 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1245 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1246 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1251 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1252 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1256 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1257 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1259 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1261 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1262 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1263 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1267 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1268 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1269 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1273 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1274 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1278 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1279 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1283 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1285 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1290 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1291 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1295 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1296 their menus correctly.
1297 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1302 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1303 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1304 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1308 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1309 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1313 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1317 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1320 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1322 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1323 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1324 the toggle menu items from working!
1328 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1330 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1336 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1337 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1341 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1342 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1343 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1344 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1345 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1346 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1350 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1354 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1355 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1359 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1360 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1361 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1365 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1366 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1371 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1373 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1377 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1378 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1379 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1380 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1384 Improved error reporting.
1385 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1389 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1390 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1391 check box and does 'Yes'.
1395 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1396 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1397 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1398 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1403 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1405 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1406 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1408 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1410 Internal changes to options system:
1411 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1412 filer is fully initialised).
1413 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1415 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1417 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1418 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1419 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1420 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1424 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1425 now reclaims the selection.
1426 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1427 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1432 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1433 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1434 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1435 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1436 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1440 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1441 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1443 Code tidying in various places.
1447 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1448 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1453 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1454 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1458 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1459 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1460 edit the file, not the file itself!
1461 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1465 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1466 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1467 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1468 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1469 of the SOAP working draft.
1470 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1471 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1472 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1477 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1478 it was in the displayed area before.
1480 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1483 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1484 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1488 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1489 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1490 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1492 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1493 selection (Andras Mohari).
1497 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1501 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1505 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1506 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1507 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1511 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1515 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1517 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1518 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1519 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1523 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1524 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1529 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1530 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1531 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1535 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1539 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1543 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1544 replaced by a Restart button.
1548 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1549 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1553 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1557 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1561 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1562 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1563 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1567 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1568 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1570 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1571 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1572 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1576 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1577 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1582 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1584 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1585 (requested by Graham Borland).
1586 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1587 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1588 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1592 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1593 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1594 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1595 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1599 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1600 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1601 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1602 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1603 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1604 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1605 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1606 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1607 - Lots of code tidying.
1612 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1613 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1617 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1619 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1621 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1625 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1626 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1630 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1631 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1635 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1636 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1640 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1641 option to access it directly.
1645 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1646 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1647 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1651 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1652 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1653 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1654 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1655 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1656 when the filer is run.
1660 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1661 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1662 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1667 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1671 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1672 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1676 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1678 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1682 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1686 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1687 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1688 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1693 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1694 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1695 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1696 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1697 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1698 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1699 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1703 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1707 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1708 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1712 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1713 of possible actions (Taras).
1714 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1716 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1717 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1721 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1726 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1730 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1733 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1734 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1738 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1739 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1741 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1743 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1744 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1745 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1746 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1750 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1754 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1758 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1762 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1767 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1768 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1769 the first one found.
1770 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1774 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1778 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1779 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1780 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1784 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1785 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1786 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1791 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1792 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1793 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1797 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1799 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1804 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1809 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1813 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1814 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1818 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1820 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1821 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1825 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1829 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1830 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1834 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1835 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1839 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1840 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1842 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1844 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1848 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1852 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1853 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1857 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1861 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1866 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1867 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1871 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1875 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1879 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1881 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1882 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1886 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1887 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1891 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1892 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1893 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1897 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1898 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1902 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1903 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1905 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1907 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1911 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1912 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1913 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1915 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1916 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1918 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1920 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1921 and the default size with no details.
1925 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1926 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1930 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1935 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1940 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1944 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1949 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1950 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1954 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1958 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1959 the button to run it does.
1960 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1961 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1962 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1966 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1967 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1968 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1972 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1976 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1977 and panels into icon.c.
1981 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1982 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1983 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1984 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1988 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1990 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1992 Updated the documentation.
1996 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1997 up if they're too small.
2001 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2003 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2004 (Christopher Arndt).
2005 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2010 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2011 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2015 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2016 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2020 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2021 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2022 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2027 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2032 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2036 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2037 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2042 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2047 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2048 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2052 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2053 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2057 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2061 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2065 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2069 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2070 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2073 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2074 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2079 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2080 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2081 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2082 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2087 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2088 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2090 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2092 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2093 for non-applications.
2097 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2098 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2103 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2107 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2108 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2110 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2114 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2115 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2119 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2120 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2124 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2125 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2129 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2130 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2132 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2133 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2137 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2138 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2140 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2144 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2145 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2148 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2152 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2153 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2157 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2161 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2162 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2165 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2166 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2170 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2174 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2179 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2183 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2184 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2189 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2194 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2198 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2200 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2202 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2203 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2205 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2207 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2208 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2212 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2213 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2214 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2216 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2217 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2221 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2225 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2226 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2230 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2234 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2235 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2237 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2240 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2241 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2242 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2246 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2247 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2252 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2257 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2259 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2262 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2264 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2265 sensible shape itself now.
2267 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2268 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2269 file at all, just a reused inode!
2270 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2271 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2272 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2276 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2280 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2281 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2286 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2287 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2291 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2295 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2296 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2300 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2305 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2309 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2310 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2314 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2315 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2316 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2317 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2318 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2322 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2323 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2324 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2325 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2326 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2330 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2331 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2332 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2336 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2338 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2339 python's portable system.
2340 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2341 set the LANG variable.
2345 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2346 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2348 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2350 Made a few updates to the manual.
2354 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2355 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2357 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2359 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2360 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2364 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2365 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2369 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2370 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2375 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2376 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2377 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2381 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2382 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2386 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2387 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2391 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2392 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2394 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2395 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2396 open... (Denis Manente).
2400 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2404 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2406 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2407 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2408 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2410 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2412 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2414 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2415 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2420 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2421 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2422 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2426 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2427 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2431 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2435 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2439 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2440 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2441 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2445 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2446 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2447 between pinboards...
2449 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2450 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2451 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2455 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2458 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2459 window (Denis Manente).
2461 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2462 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2466 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2467 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2468 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2472 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2475 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2476 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2478 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2483 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2484 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2486 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2490 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2491 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2493 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2495 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2500 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2501 the icon points to as well as its name.
2503 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2504 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2508 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2509 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2510 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2511 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2515 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2519 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2520 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2521 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2525 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2526 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2528 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2529 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2532 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2533 the item after the drag.
2535 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2536 showing where the file really is.
2540 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2541 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2546 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2547 warning is displayed if so.
2549 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2553 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2554 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2555 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2556 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2559 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2560 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2561 works like the panels.
2565 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2566 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2567 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2568 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2569 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2573 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2574 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2575 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2576 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2578 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2583 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2587 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2588 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2591 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2592 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2594 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2597 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2598 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2599 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2600 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2602 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2604 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2605 slightly. Updated the manual.
2607 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2608 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2611 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2612 or bottom panel to make room.
2616 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2621 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2622 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2623 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2624 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2625 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2629 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2631 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2632 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2634 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2638 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2639 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2643 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2647 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2649 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2654 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2655 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2657 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2661 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2662 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2663 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2667 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2668 rewriting the panel system.
2672 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2675 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2676 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2680 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2681 (suggested by James Kermode).
2685 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2686 than as a full path.
2688 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2690 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2691 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2692 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2696 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2697 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2701 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2702 rename something onto another filesystem.
2706 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2708 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2709 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2713 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2717 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2720 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2721 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2723 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2726 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2731 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2732 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2733 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2735 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2736 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2738 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2739 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2744 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2745 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2750 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2751 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2752 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2754 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2755 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2756 of the 'missing image' image.
2760 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2762 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2764 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2769 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2770 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2771 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2772 its name into another program.
2774 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2778 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2780 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2781 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2782 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2784 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2785 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2786 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2789 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2790 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2794 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2795 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2796 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2800 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2801 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2802 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2806 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2807 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2808 and position the icons directly.
2812 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2817 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2818 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2819 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2823 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2827 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2828 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2832 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2837 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2841 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2842 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2843 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2844 some versions of GTK+.
2848 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2853 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2854 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2855 from a sub-sub-menu.
2857 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2858 drawn on a log scale.
2862 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2863 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2864 happy with the UI yet though...
2866 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2867 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2868 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2872 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2873 by Stephen Harrison).
2875 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2877 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2878 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2879 standard types are in Choices.
2880 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2882 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2883 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2884 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2889 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2890 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2891 shell command minibuffer.
2895 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2896 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2897 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2898 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2899 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2901 Default search path for Choices is now:
2902 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2904 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2905 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2906 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2910 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2911 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2915 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2916 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2917 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2922 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2923 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2924 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2927 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2929 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2930 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2931 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2933 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2934 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2938 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2939 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2940 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2941 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2946 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2947 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2948 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2950 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2952 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2953 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2957 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2958 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2959 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2964 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2965 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2968 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2970 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2975 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2980 Added GNU gettext support.
2981 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2985 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2987 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2989 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2994 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2998 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2999 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3001 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3002 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3007 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3008 onto the directory and winks the file.
3012 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3013 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3014 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3016 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3017 instead of random values.
3018 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3020 Applied Bernard's patch:
3021 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3022 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3023 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3024 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3025 it the RISC OS way...
3026 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3027 alignment corrected.
3028 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3033 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3037 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3038 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3042 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3043 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3044 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3045 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3046 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3047 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3048 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3049 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3050 in the file(1) says... box).
3053 Before the Changes file
3054 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3055 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3057 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3058 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3059 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3060 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3061 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD