2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
11 If we can't find libc.so.6 for xattr support, try libc.so in case we only have
12 uClib (Lucas Correia Villa Real).
16 Allow .desktop files to be used as run actions (Thomas Leonard).
20 Bugfix: New detail crashes cleanice theme (reported by Andras Mohari; reported
21 as CleanIce bug #1383457). Try another value...
25 Highlight icons using the theme's preferred colour instead of always using
27 Bugfix: Don't set style detail to "base" when highlighting items in a
28 Collection, as it confuses GTK's lighthouseblue theme engine
33 Bugfix: Changing the display style crashes the filer with GTK >= 2.8.9 because
34 it sends a selection changed event before the view has finished
35 initialising (Thomas Leonard; reported by Tobias Kieslich).
36 Removed some done entries from the TODO file (Stephen Watson).
38 13-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4)
40 Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
44 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
45 Make Path optional in PanelRemove SOAP call, allowing removal of items based
46 only on their label (Jonatan Liljedahl).
47 Bugfix: The install script failed to compile ROX-Filer on Debian systems, due
48 to a bug in recent versions of xterm (Vincent Lefèvre). Added a
50 Bugfix: On 64-bit systems communication between ROX-Filer processes didn't
51 work, because GDK uses sizeof(long) bytes (not always 4 bytes) to store
52 a 32 bit property (Lucas Hazel).
56 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
57 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
58 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
63 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
67 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
68 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
70 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
71 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
72 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
76 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
81 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
85 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
86 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
90 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
94 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
95 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
96 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
100 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
104 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
105 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
109 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
110 manually (Thomas Leonard).
114 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
115 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
116 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
121 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
122 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
126 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
127 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
128 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
129 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
133 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
134 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
135 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
139 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
143 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
147 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
148 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
152 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
153 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
154 reported by Tristan McLeay).
158 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
159 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
161 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
165 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
166 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
167 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
168 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
172 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
173 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
175 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
177 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
182 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
183 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
184 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
185 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
186 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
191 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
196 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
200 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
201 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
203 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
204 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
205 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
206 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
210 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
211 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
212 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
217 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
219 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
224 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
228 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
229 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
233 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
234 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
235 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
239 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
243 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
244 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
245 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
246 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
247 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
251 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
252 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
253 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
255 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
256 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
257 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
258 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
259 though they may be valid UTF-8.
260 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
262 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
263 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
264 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
265 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
266 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
272 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
273 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
275 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
276 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
281 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
282 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
286 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
287 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
292 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
293 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
294 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
295 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
296 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
297 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
299 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
301 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
302 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
303 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
307 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
308 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
312 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
313 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
317 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
318 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
319 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
320 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
324 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
328 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
329 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
333 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
335 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
336 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
337 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
342 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
343 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
344 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
345 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
349 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
351 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
352 function address (Tony Houghton).
356 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
357 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
362 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
366 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
367 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
371 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
372 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
373 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
377 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
381 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
382 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
383 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
384 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
385 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
390 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
395 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
399 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
400 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
404 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
405 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
409 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
413 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
414 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
416 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
420 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
421 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
425 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
426 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
427 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
429 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
431 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
436 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
437 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
441 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
446 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
450 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
451 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
452 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
453 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
455 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
460 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
461 the old one (Stephen Watson).
462 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
463 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
464 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
468 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
473 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
475 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
477 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
478 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
482 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
483 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
485 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
487 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
488 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
489 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
490 reported by Lewis Denizen).
494 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
498 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
499 the binary (Stephen Watson).
503 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
507 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
508 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
509 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
513 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
516 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
518 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
519 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
520 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
521 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
522 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
526 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
530 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
531 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
535 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
539 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
540 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
541 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
543 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
544 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
546 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
547 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
548 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
549 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
553 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
554 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
558 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
559 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
560 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
561 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
566 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
567 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
571 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
572 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
573 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
577 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
578 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
579 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
583 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
587 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
588 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
592 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
593 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
597 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
601 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
602 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
607 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
608 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
612 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
616 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
617 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
618 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
619 when changing to a parent directory.
620 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
624 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
628 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
632 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
634 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
636 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
640 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
642 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
646 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
648 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
652 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
656 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
657 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
658 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
659 reported by Anthony DiSante).
663 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
667 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
671 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
672 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
673 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
674 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
675 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
679 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
680 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
684 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
685 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
690 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
691 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
696 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
697 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
701 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
702 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
706 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
707 (reported by Tony Houghton).
711 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
713 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
714 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
718 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
719 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
723 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
727 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
731 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
735 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
736 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
737 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
741 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
745 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
750 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
754 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
756 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
758 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
762 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
763 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
764 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
766 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
770 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
771 print a warning and then crash.
775 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
776 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
777 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
782 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
786 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
791 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
795 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
799 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
801 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
806 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
807 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
808 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
813 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
814 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
819 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
821 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
822 anyway, and noone had complained).
823 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
824 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
828 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
829 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
830 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
834 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
838 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
839 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
843 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
844 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
845 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
849 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
850 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
851 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
853 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
854 by Simon Templer and others).
858 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
859 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
860 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
864 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
868 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
872 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
873 version number again (Stephen Watson).
877 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
878 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
882 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
886 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
887 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
888 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
889 anyway (Stephen Watson).
893 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
897 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
901 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
903 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
905 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
909 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
910 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
911 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
915 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
916 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
921 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
922 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
923 impossible to change shortcuts.
924 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
925 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
929 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
930 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
935 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
936 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
937 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
941 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
942 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
943 to the functions being missing.
947 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
951 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
955 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
959 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
963 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
964 worries people for no reason.
968 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
972 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
973 files selected (Peter Geer).
977 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
978 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
982 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
986 Added 'Select by Name'.
990 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
994 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
999 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1003 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1005 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
1007 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1008 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1012 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1016 Misc changes for next release.
1020 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
1021 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
1025 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
1026 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
1027 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
1028 Watson, reported on #rox).
1032 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
1033 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
1037 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
1038 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
1042 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
1043 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
1047 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
1048 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1053 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1057 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1059 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1064 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1068 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1069 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1073 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1074 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1078 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1082 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1087 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1088 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1089 for the same reason.
1090 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1091 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1095 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1096 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1100 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1105 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1106 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1110 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1111 support not being detected (igla).
1115 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1119 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1120 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1124 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1128 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1129 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1130 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1131 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1134 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1136 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1137 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1141 New icon for selection ops.
1145 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1149 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1153 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1157 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1158 Added icon theme selector.
1162 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1166 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1170 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1171 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1175 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1176 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1177 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1181 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1182 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1186 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1190 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1191 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1192 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1196 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1200 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1201 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1206 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1207 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1211 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1212 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1216 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1217 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1221 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1225 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1226 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1227 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1231 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1235 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1236 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1237 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1238 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1242 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1243 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1245 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1249 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1253 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1254 bits (Stephen Watson).
1258 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1262 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1266 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1267 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1271 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1275 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1276 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1281 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1282 forward them explicitly.
1286 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1287 help from Götz Waschk).
1291 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1292 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1293 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1297 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1301 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1305 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1309 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1310 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1312 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1314 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1318 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1320 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1322 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1326 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1327 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1328 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1329 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1333 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1337 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1341 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1345 Minor updates to the manual.
1346 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1347 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1351 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1352 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1354 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1356 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1357 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1361 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1362 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1363 reduce flickering effect.
1367 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1371 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1373 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1377 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1378 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1379 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1380 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1381 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1385 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1386 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1390 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1394 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1399 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1400 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1404 Winking now works in List view.
1408 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1412 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1413 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1417 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1418 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1420 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1422 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1426 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1430 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1431 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1433 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1437 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1438 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1442 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1444 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1448 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1449 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1453 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1455 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1459 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1463 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1464 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1469 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1470 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1472 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1474 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1476 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1480 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1484 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1485 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1489 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1494 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1495 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1499 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1501 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1503 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1504 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1509 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1513 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1514 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1515 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1516 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1517 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1518 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1519 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1521 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1525 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1530 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1531 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1535 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1536 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1537 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1538 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1543 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1544 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1545 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1546 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1547 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1548 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1549 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1550 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1551 talent can do something better?
1552 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1553 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1557 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1558 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1559 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1564 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1566 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1567 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1568 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1569 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1570 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1571 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1572 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1573 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1574 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1575 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1576 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1577 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1578 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1582 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1583 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1584 allow fine repositioning.
1585 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1586 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1587 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1588 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1590 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1591 changing the aspect ratio.
1595 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1599 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1603 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1604 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1605 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1609 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1613 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1618 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1619 make sharing icons easier.
1620 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1624 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1625 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1629 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1633 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1635 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1639 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1644 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1649 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1650 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1652 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1653 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1654 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1655 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1659 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1660 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1664 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1668 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1670 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1671 Brian Langenberger).
1675 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1676 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1678 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1682 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1683 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1685 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1687 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1691 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1692 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1697 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1701 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1702 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1703 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1707 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1708 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1712 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1716 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1717 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1721 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1722 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1723 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1727 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1731 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1732 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1733 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1734 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1736 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1737 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1741 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1742 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1746 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1751 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1752 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1756 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1760 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1761 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1762 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1763 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1768 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1769 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1770 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1774 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1778 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1779 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1783 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1784 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1785 since it didn't include the contents.
1786 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1787 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1791 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1795 Style improvements to options window.
1799 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1803 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1805 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1807 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1812 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1813 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1814 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1815 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1819 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1823 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1827 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1828 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1832 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1834 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1839 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1843 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1844 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1845 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1850 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1854 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1858 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1862 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1866 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1867 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1868 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1872 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1873 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1877 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1878 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1883 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1887 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1891 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1896 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1897 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1901 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1902 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1907 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1908 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1912 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1913 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1914 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1918 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1922 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1923 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1924 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1925 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1926 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1930 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1931 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1935 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1936 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1940 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1944 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1945 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1946 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1947 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1948 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1949 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1953 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1954 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1955 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1959 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1960 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1965 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1969 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1971 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1973 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1978 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1982 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1986 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1987 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1992 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1996 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2000 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
2001 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
2002 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2006 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2010 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
2015 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2019 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
2020 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
2021 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
2022 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2026 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
2030 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2031 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
2035 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
2036 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
2037 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
2041 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
2045 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
2049 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2050 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2051 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2052 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2053 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2054 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2058 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2059 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2063 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2064 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2065 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2069 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2070 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2074 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2078 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2079 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2080 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2081 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2083 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2085 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2089 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2090 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2091 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2095 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2099 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2100 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2105 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2109 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2113 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2114 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2118 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2119 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2120 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2124 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2125 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2129 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2130 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2134 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2135 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2139 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2143 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2144 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2148 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2150 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2152 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2156 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2160 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2161 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2165 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2169 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2173 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2174 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2175 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2176 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2177 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2178 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2182 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2186 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2188 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2189 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2193 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2194 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2198 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2202 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2203 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2204 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2205 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2207 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2209 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2213 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2214 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2218 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2219 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2220 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2224 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2225 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2226 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2227 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2228 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2229 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2230 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2234 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2235 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2239 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2243 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2247 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2252 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2256 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2257 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2258 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2262 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2263 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2264 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2268 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2269 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2270 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2274 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2275 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2279 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2284 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2285 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2286 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2287 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2288 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2290 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2291 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2295 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2299 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2300 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2301 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2302 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2306 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2307 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2308 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2309 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2310 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2311 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2315 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2319 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2320 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2324 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2325 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2326 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2327 restart (Olli Helenius).
2331 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2335 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2336 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2337 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2342 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2347 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2348 Small and Large sizes.
2352 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2356 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2357 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2361 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2362 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2363 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2364 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2368 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2369 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2370 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2375 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2380 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2381 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2385 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2386 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2391 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2393 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2395 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2399 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2403 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2405 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2407 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2411 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2413 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2414 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2418 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2419 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2423 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2424 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2428 Various speed improvements.
2429 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2433 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2434 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2438 Slight speed increase when starting.
2442 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2446 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2447 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2448 button is no longer supported.
2452 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2456 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2460 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2465 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2466 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2470 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2471 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2472 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2476 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2477 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2478 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2479 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2483 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2484 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2485 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2487 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2492 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2493 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2498 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2502 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2503 and converted to new dialog style.
2507 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2508 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2512 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2513 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2517 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2521 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2523 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2527 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2531 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2532 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2533 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2537 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2538 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2542 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2547 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2551 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2552 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2556 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2557 and Cancel is now Revert.
2558 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2559 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2563 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2567 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2568 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2570 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2571 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2572 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2573 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2577 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2579 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2580 labels display them.
2581 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2584 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2588 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2590 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2594 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2595 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2596 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2600 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2601 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2603 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2605 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2609 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2610 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2614 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2615 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2616 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2617 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2621 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2625 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2626 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2630 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2631 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2636 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2637 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2641 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2642 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2643 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2647 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2648 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2652 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2653 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2654 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2655 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2657 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2662 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2663 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2665 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2667 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2671 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2672 any image (saves time).
2673 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2674 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2675 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2676 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2678 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2679 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2683 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2684 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2686 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2687 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2689 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2694 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2695 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2696 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2697 has stopped accepting STRING.
2701 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2702 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2706 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2711 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2712 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2714 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2715 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2716 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2720 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2721 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2722 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2723 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2724 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2725 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2729 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2730 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2731 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2732 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2733 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2734 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2739 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2740 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2741 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2742 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2747 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2748 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2752 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2753 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2755 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2757 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2758 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2759 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2763 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2764 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2765 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2769 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2770 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2774 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2775 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2779 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2781 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2786 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2787 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2791 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2792 their menus correctly.
2793 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2798 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2799 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2800 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2804 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2805 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2809 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2813 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2816 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2818 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2819 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2820 the toggle menu items from working!
2824 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2826 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2832 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2833 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2837 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2838 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2839 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2840 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2841 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2842 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2846 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2850 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2851 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2855 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2856 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2857 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2861 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2862 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2867 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2869 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2873 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2874 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2875 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2876 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2880 Improved error reporting.
2881 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2885 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2886 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2887 check box and does 'Yes'.
2891 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2892 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2893 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2894 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2899 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2901 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2902 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2904 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2906 Internal changes to options system:
2907 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2908 filer is fully initialised).
2909 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2911 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2913 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2914 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2915 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2916 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2920 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2921 now reclaims the selection.
2922 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2923 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2928 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2929 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2930 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2931 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2932 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2936 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2937 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2939 Code tidying in various places.
2943 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2944 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2949 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2950 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2954 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2955 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2956 edit the file, not the file itself!
2957 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2961 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2962 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2963 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2964 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2965 of the SOAP working draft.
2966 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2967 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2968 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2973 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2974 it was in the displayed area before.
2976 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2979 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2980 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2984 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2985 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2986 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2988 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2989 selection (Andras Mohari).
2993 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2997 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
3001 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
3002 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
3003 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
3007 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
3011 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
3013 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
3014 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
3015 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
3019 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
3020 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
3025 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
3026 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
3027 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
3031 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
3035 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
3039 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
3040 replaced by a Restart button.
3044 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
3045 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
3049 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3053 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3057 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3058 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3059 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3063 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3064 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3066 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3067 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3068 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3072 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3073 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3078 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3080 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3081 (requested by Graham Borland).
3082 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3083 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3084 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3088 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3089 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3090 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3091 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3095 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3096 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3097 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3098 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3099 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3100 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3101 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3102 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3103 - Lots of code tidying.
3108 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3109 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3113 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3115 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3117 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3121 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3122 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3126 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3127 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3131 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3132 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3136 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3137 option to access it directly.
3141 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3142 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3143 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3147 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3148 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3149 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3150 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3151 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3152 when the filer is run.
3156 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3157 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3158 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3163 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3167 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3168 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3172 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3174 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3178 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3182 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3183 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3184 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3189 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3190 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3191 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3192 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3193 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3194 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3195 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3199 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3203 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3204 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3208 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3209 of possible actions (Taras).
3210 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3212 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3213 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3217 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3222 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3226 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3229 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3230 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3234 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3235 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3237 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3239 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3240 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3241 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3242 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3246 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3250 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3254 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3258 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3263 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3264 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3265 the first one found.
3266 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3270 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3274 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3275 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3276 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3280 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3281 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3282 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3287 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3288 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3289 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3293 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3295 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3300 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3305 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3309 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3310 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3314 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3316 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3317 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3321 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3325 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3326 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3330 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3331 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3335 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3336 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3338 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3340 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3344 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3348 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3349 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3353 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3357 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3362 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3363 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3367 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3371 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3375 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3377 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3378 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3382 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3383 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3387 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3388 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3389 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3393 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3394 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3398 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3399 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3401 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3403 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3407 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3408 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3409 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3411 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3412 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3414 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3416 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3417 and the default size with no details.
3421 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3422 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3426 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3431 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3436 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3440 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3445 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3446 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3450 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3454 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3455 the button to run it does.
3456 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3457 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3458 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3462 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3463 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3464 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3468 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3472 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3473 and panels into icon.c.
3477 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3478 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3479 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3480 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3484 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3486 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3488 Updated the documentation.
3492 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3493 up if they're too small.
3497 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3499 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3500 (Christopher Arndt).
3501 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3506 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3507 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3511 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3512 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3516 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3517 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3518 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3523 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3528 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3532 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3533 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3538 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3543 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3544 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3548 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3549 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3553 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3557 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3561 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3565 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3566 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3569 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3570 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3575 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3576 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3577 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3578 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3583 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3584 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3586 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3588 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3589 for non-applications.
3593 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3594 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3599 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3603 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3604 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3606 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3610 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3611 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3615 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3616 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3620 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3621 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3625 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3626 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3628 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3629 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3633 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3634 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3636 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3640 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3641 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3644 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3648 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3649 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3653 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3657 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3658 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3661 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3662 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3666 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3670 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3675 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3679 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3680 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3685 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3690 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3694 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3696 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3698 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3699 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3701 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3703 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3704 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3708 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3709 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3710 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3712 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3713 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3717 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3721 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3722 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3726 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3730 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3731 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3733 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3736 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3737 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3738 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3742 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3743 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3748 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3753 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3755 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3758 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3760 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3761 sensible shape itself now.
3763 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3764 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3765 file at all, just a reused inode!
3766 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3767 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3768 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3772 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3776 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3777 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3782 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3783 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3787 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3791 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3792 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3796 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3801 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3805 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3806 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3810 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3811 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3812 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3813 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3814 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3818 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3819 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3820 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3821 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3822 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3826 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3827 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3828 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3832 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3834 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3835 python's portable system.
3836 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3837 set the LANG variable.
3841 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3842 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3844 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3846 Made a few updates to the manual.
3850 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3851 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3853 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3855 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3856 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3860 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3861 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3865 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3866 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3871 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3872 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3873 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3877 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3878 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3882 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3883 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3887 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3888 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3890 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3891 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3892 open... (Denis Manente).
3896 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3900 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3902 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3903 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3904 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3906 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3908 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3910 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3911 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3916 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3917 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3918 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3922 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3923 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3927 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3931 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3935 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3936 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3937 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3941 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3942 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3943 between pinboards...
3945 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3946 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3947 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3951 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3954 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3955 window (Denis Manente).
3957 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3958 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3962 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3963 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3964 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3968 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3971 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3972 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3974 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3979 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3980 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3982 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3986 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3987 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3989 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3991 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3996 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3997 the icon points to as well as its name.
3999 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
4000 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
4004 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
4005 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
4006 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
4007 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
4011 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4015 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
4016 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
4017 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
4021 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
4022 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
4024 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
4025 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
4028 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
4029 the item after the drag.
4031 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
4032 showing where the file really is.
4036 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
4037 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
4042 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
4043 warning is displayed if so.
4045 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
4049 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4050 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4051 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4052 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4055 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4056 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4057 works like the panels.
4061 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4062 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4063 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4064 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4065 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4069 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4070 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4071 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4072 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4074 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4079 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4083 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4084 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4087 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4088 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4090 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4093 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4094 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4095 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4096 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4098 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4100 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4101 slightly. Updated the manual.
4103 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4104 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4107 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4108 or bottom panel to make room.
4112 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4117 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4118 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4119 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4120 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4121 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4125 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4127 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4128 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4130 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4134 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4135 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4139 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4143 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4145 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4150 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4151 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4153 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4157 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4158 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4159 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4163 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4164 rewriting the panel system.
4168 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4171 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4172 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4176 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4177 (suggested by James Kermode).
4181 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4182 than as a full path.
4184 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4186 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4187 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4188 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4192 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4193 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4197 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4198 rename something onto another filesystem.
4202 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4204 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4205 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4209 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4213 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4216 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4217 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4219 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4222 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4227 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4228 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4229 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4231 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4232 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4234 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4235 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4240 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4241 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4246 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4247 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4248 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4250 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4251 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4252 of the 'missing image' image.
4256 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4258 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4260 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4265 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4266 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4267 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4268 its name into another program.
4270 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4274 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4276 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4277 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4278 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4280 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4281 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4282 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4285 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4286 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4290 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4291 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4292 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4296 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4297 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4298 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4302 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4303 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4304 and position the icons directly.
4308 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4313 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4314 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4315 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4319 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4323 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4324 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4328 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4333 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4337 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4338 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4339 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4340 some versions of GTK+.
4344 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4349 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4350 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4351 from a sub-sub-menu.
4353 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4354 drawn on a log scale.
4358 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4359 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4360 happy with the UI yet though...
4362 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4363 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4364 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4368 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4369 by Stephen Harrison).
4371 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4373 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4374 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4375 standard types are in Choices.
4376 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4378 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4379 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4380 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4385 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4386 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4387 shell command minibuffer.
4391 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4392 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4393 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4394 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4395 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4397 Default search path for Choices is now:
4398 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4400 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4401 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4402 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4406 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4407 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4411 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4412 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4413 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4418 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4419 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4420 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4423 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4425 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4426 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4427 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4429 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4430 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4434 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4435 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4436 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4437 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4442 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4443 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4444 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4446 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4448 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4449 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4453 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4454 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4455 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4460 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4461 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4464 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4466 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4471 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4476 Added GNU gettext support.
4477 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4481 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4483 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4485 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4490 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4494 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4495 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4497 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4498 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4503 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4504 onto the directory and winks the file.
4508 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4509 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4510 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4512 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4513 instead of random values.
4514 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4516 Applied Bernard's patch:
4517 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4518 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4519 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4520 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4521 it the RISC OS way...
4522 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4523 alignment corrected.
4524 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4529 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4533 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4534 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4538 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4539 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4540 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4541 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4542 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4543 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4544 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4545 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4546 in the file(1) says... box).
4549 Before the Changes file
4550 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4551 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4553 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4554 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4555 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4556 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4557 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD