2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
8 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
12 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
17 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
18 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
22 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
24 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
26 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
27 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
32 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
36 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
37 (suggested by Michael Adams).
38 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
39 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
40 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
41 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
42 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
44 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
48 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
53 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
54 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
58 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
59 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
60 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
61 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
66 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
67 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
68 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
69 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
70 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
71 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
72 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
73 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
74 talent can do something better?
75 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
76 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
80 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
81 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
82 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
87 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
89 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
90 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
91 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
92 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
93 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
94 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
95 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
96 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
97 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
98 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
99 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
100 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
101 label wasn't hidden / shown.
105 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
106 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
107 allow fine repositioning.
108 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
109 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
110 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
111 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
113 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
114 changing the aspect ratio.
118 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
122 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
126 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
127 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
128 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
132 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
136 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
141 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
142 make sharing icons easier.
143 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
147 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
148 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
152 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
156 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
158 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
162 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
167 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
172 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
173 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
175 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
176 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
177 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
178 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
182 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
183 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
187 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
191 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
193 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
198 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
199 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
201 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
205 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
206 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
208 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
210 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
214 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
215 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
220 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
224 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
225 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
226 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
230 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
231 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
235 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
239 Preserve selection when changing view type.
240 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
244 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
245 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
246 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
250 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
254 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
255 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
256 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
257 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
259 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
260 the information in the tooltips anyway.
264 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
265 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
269 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
274 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
275 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
279 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
283 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
284 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
285 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
286 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
291 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
292 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
293 Always use case-insensitive sort.
297 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
301 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
302 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
306 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
307 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
308 since it didn't include the contents.
309 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
310 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
314 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
318 Style improvements to options window.
322 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
326 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
328 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
330 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
335 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
336 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
337 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
338 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
342 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
346 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
350 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
351 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
355 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
357 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
362 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
366 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
367 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
368 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
373 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
377 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
381 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
385 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
389 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
390 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
391 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
395 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
396 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
400 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
401 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
406 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
410 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
414 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
419 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
420 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
424 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
425 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
430 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
431 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
435 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
436 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
437 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
441 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
445 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
446 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
447 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
448 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
449 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
453 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
454 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
458 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
459 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
463 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
467 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
468 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
469 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
470 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
471 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
472 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
476 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
477 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
478 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
482 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
483 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
488 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
492 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
494 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
496 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
501 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
505 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
509 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
510 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
515 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
519 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
523 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
524 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
525 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
529 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
533 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
538 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
542 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
543 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
544 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
545 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
549 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
553 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
554 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
558 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
559 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
560 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
564 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
568 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
572 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
573 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
574 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
575 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
576 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
577 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
581 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
582 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
586 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
587 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
588 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
592 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
593 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
597 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
601 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
602 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
603 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
604 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
606 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
608 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
612 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
613 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
614 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
618 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
622 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
623 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
628 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
632 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
636 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
637 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
641 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
642 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
643 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
647 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
648 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
652 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
653 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
657 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
658 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
662 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
666 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
667 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
671 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
673 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
675 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
679 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
683 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
684 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
688 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
692 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
696 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
697 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
698 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
699 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
700 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
701 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
705 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
709 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
711 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
712 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
716 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
717 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
721 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
725 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
726 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
727 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
728 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
730 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
732 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
736 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
737 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
741 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
742 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
743 disappeared at the wrong moment.
747 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
748 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
749 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
750 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
751 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
752 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
753 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
757 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
758 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
762 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
766 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
770 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
775 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
779 Options to set iconification layout policy.
780 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
781 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
785 Pinboard background colour option works again.
786 Position iconified windows sensibly.
787 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
791 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
792 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
793 (requested by Ryan Harris).
797 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
798 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
802 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
807 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
808 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
809 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
810 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
811 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
813 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
814 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
818 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
822 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
823 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
824 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
825 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
829 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
830 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
831 Many improvements to the pinboard:
832 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
833 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
834 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
838 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
842 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
843 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
847 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
848 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
849 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
850 restart (Olli Helenius).
854 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
858 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
859 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
860 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
865 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
870 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
871 Small and Large sizes.
875 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
879 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
880 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
884 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
885 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
886 (requested by Gregory Spath).
887 Don't quit while Options window is open.
891 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
892 the window (requested by Ashwin).
893 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
898 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
903 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
904 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
908 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
909 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
914 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
916 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
918 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
922 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
926 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
928 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
930 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
934 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
936 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
937 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
941 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
942 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
946 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
947 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
951 Various speed improvements.
952 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
956 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
957 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
961 Slight speed increase when starting.
965 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
969 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
970 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
971 button is no longer supported.
975 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
979 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
983 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
988 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
989 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
993 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
994 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
995 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
999 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1000 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1001 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1002 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1006 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1007 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1008 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1010 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1015 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1016 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1021 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1025 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1026 and converted to new dialog style.
1030 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1031 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1035 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1036 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1040 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1044 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1046 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1050 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1054 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1055 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1056 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1060 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1061 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1065 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1070 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1074 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1075 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1079 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1080 and Cancel is now Revert.
1081 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1082 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1086 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1090 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1091 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1093 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1094 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1095 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1096 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1100 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1102 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1103 labels display them.
1104 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1107 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1111 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1113 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1117 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1118 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1119 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1123 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1124 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1126 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1128 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1132 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1133 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1137 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1138 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1139 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1140 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1144 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1148 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1149 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1153 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1154 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1159 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1160 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1164 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1165 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1166 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1170 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1171 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1175 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1176 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1177 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1178 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1180 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1185 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1186 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1188 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1190 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1194 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1195 any image (saves time).
1196 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1197 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1198 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1199 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1201 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1202 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1206 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1207 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1209 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1210 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1212 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1217 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1218 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1219 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1220 has stopped accepting STRING.
1224 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1225 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1229 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1234 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1235 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1237 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1238 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1239 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1243 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1244 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1245 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1246 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1247 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1248 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1252 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1253 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1254 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1255 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1256 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1257 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1262 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1263 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1264 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1265 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1270 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1271 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1275 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1276 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1278 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1280 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1281 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1282 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1286 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1287 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1288 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1292 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1293 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1297 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1298 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1302 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1304 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1309 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1310 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1314 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1315 their menus correctly.
1316 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1321 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1322 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1323 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1327 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1328 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1332 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1336 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1339 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1341 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1342 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1343 the toggle menu items from working!
1347 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1349 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1355 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1356 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1360 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1361 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1362 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1363 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1364 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1365 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1369 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1373 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1374 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1378 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1379 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1380 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1384 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1385 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1390 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1392 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1396 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1397 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1398 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1399 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1403 Improved error reporting.
1404 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1408 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1409 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1410 check box and does 'Yes'.
1414 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1415 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1416 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1417 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1422 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1424 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1425 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1427 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1429 Internal changes to options system:
1430 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1431 filer is fully initialised).
1432 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1434 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1436 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1437 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1438 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1439 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1443 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1444 now reclaims the selection.
1445 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1446 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1451 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1452 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1453 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1454 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1455 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1459 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1460 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1462 Code tidying in various places.
1466 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1467 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1472 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1473 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1477 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1478 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1479 edit the file, not the file itself!
1480 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1484 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1485 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1486 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1487 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1488 of the SOAP working draft.
1489 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1490 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1491 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1496 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1497 it was in the displayed area before.
1499 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1502 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1503 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1507 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1508 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1509 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1511 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1512 selection (Andras Mohari).
1516 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1520 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1524 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1525 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1526 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1530 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1534 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1536 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1537 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1538 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1542 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1543 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1548 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1549 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1550 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1554 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1558 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1562 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1563 replaced by a Restart button.
1567 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1568 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1572 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1576 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1580 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1581 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1582 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1586 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1587 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1589 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1590 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1591 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1595 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1596 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1601 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1603 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1604 (requested by Graham Borland).
1605 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1606 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1607 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1611 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1612 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1613 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1614 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1618 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1619 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1620 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1621 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1622 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1623 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1624 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1625 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1626 - Lots of code tidying.
1631 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1632 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1636 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1638 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1640 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1644 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1645 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1649 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1650 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1654 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1655 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1659 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1660 option to access it directly.
1664 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1665 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1666 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1670 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1671 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1672 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1673 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1674 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1675 when the filer is run.
1679 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1680 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1681 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1686 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1690 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1691 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1695 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1697 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1701 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1705 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1706 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1707 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1712 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1713 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1714 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1715 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1716 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1717 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1718 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1722 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1726 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1727 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1731 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1732 of possible actions (Taras).
1733 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1735 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1736 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1740 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1745 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1749 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1752 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1753 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1757 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1758 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1760 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1762 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1763 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1764 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1765 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1769 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1773 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1777 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1781 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1786 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1787 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1788 the first one found.
1789 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1793 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1797 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1798 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1799 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1803 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1804 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1805 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1810 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1811 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1812 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1816 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1818 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1823 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1828 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1832 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1833 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1837 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1839 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1840 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1844 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1848 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1849 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1853 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1854 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1858 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1859 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1861 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1863 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1867 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1871 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1872 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1876 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1880 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1885 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1886 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1890 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1894 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1898 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1900 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1901 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1905 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1906 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1910 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1911 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1912 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1916 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1917 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1921 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1922 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1924 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1926 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1930 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1931 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1932 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1934 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1935 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1937 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1939 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1940 and the default size with no details.
1944 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1945 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1949 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1954 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1959 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1963 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1968 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1969 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1973 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1977 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1978 the button to run it does.
1979 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1980 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1981 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1985 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1986 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1987 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1991 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1995 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1996 and panels into icon.c.
2000 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2001 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2002 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2003 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2007 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2009 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2011 Updated the documentation.
2015 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2016 up if they're too small.
2020 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2022 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2023 (Christopher Arndt).
2024 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2029 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2030 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2034 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2035 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2039 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2040 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2041 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2046 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2051 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2055 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2056 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2061 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2066 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2067 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2071 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2072 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2076 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2080 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2084 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2088 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2089 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2092 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2093 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2098 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2099 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2100 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2101 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2106 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2107 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2109 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2111 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2112 for non-applications.
2116 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2117 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2122 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2126 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2127 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2129 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2133 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2134 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2138 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2139 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2143 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2144 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2148 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2149 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2151 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2152 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2156 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2157 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2159 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2163 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2164 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2167 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2171 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2172 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2176 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2180 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2181 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2184 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2185 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2189 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2193 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2198 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2202 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2203 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2208 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2213 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2217 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2219 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2221 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2222 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2224 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2226 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2227 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2231 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2232 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2233 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2235 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2236 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2240 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2244 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2245 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2249 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2253 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2254 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2256 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2259 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2260 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2261 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2265 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2266 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2271 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2276 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2278 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2281 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2283 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2284 sensible shape itself now.
2286 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2287 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2288 file at all, just a reused inode!
2289 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2290 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2291 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2295 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2299 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2300 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2305 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2306 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2310 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2314 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2315 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2319 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2324 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2328 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2329 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2333 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2334 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2335 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2336 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2337 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2341 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2342 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2343 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2344 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2345 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2349 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2350 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2351 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2355 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2357 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2358 python's portable system.
2359 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2360 set the LANG variable.
2364 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2365 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2367 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2369 Made a few updates to the manual.
2373 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2374 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2376 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2378 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2379 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2383 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2384 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2388 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2389 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2394 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2395 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2396 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2400 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2401 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2405 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2406 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2410 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2411 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2413 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2414 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2415 open... (Denis Manente).
2419 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2423 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2425 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2426 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2427 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2429 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2431 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2433 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2434 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2439 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2440 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2441 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2445 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2446 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2450 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2454 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2458 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2459 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2460 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2464 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2465 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2466 between pinboards...
2468 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2469 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2470 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2474 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2477 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2478 window (Denis Manente).
2480 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2481 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2485 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2486 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2487 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2491 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2494 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2495 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2497 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2502 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2503 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2505 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2509 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2510 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2512 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2514 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2519 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2520 the icon points to as well as its name.
2522 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2523 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2527 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2528 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2529 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2530 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2534 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2538 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2539 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2540 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2544 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2545 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2547 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2548 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2551 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2552 the item after the drag.
2554 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2555 showing where the file really is.
2559 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2560 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2565 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2566 warning is displayed if so.
2568 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2572 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2573 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2574 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2575 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2578 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2579 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2580 works like the panels.
2584 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2585 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2586 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2587 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2588 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2592 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2593 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2594 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2595 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2597 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2602 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2606 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2607 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2610 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2611 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2613 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2616 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2617 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2618 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2619 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2621 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2623 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2624 slightly. Updated the manual.
2626 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2627 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2630 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2631 or bottom panel to make room.
2635 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2640 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2641 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2642 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2643 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2644 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2648 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2650 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2651 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2653 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2657 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2658 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2662 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2666 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2668 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2673 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2674 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2676 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2680 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2681 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2682 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2686 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2687 rewriting the panel system.
2691 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2694 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2695 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2699 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2700 (suggested by James Kermode).
2704 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2705 than as a full path.
2707 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2709 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2710 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2711 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2715 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2716 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2720 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2721 rename something onto another filesystem.
2725 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2727 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2728 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2732 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2736 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2739 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2740 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2742 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2745 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2750 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2751 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2752 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2754 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2755 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2757 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2758 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2763 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2764 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2769 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2770 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2771 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2773 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2774 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2775 of the 'missing image' image.
2779 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2781 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2783 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2788 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2789 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2790 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2791 its name into another program.
2793 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2797 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2799 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2800 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2801 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2803 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2804 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2805 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2808 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2809 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2813 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2814 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2815 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2819 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2820 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2821 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2825 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2826 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2827 and position the icons directly.
2831 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2836 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2837 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2838 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2842 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2846 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2847 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2851 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2856 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2860 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2861 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2862 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2863 some versions of GTK+.
2867 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2872 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2873 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2874 from a sub-sub-menu.
2876 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2877 drawn on a log scale.
2881 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2882 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2883 happy with the UI yet though...
2885 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2886 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2887 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2891 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2892 by Stephen Harrison).
2894 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2896 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2897 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2898 standard types are in Choices.
2899 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2901 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2902 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2903 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2908 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2909 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2910 shell command minibuffer.
2914 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2915 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2916 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2917 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2918 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2920 Default search path for Choices is now:
2921 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2923 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2924 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2925 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2929 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2930 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2934 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2935 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2936 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2941 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2942 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2943 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2946 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2948 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2949 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2950 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2952 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2953 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2957 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2958 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2959 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2960 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2965 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2966 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2967 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2969 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2971 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2972 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2976 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2977 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2978 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2983 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2984 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2987 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2989 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2994 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2999 Added GNU gettext support.
3000 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3004 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3006 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3008 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3013 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3017 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3018 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3020 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3021 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3026 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3027 onto the directory and winks the file.
3031 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3032 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3033 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3035 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3036 instead of random values.
3037 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3039 Applied Bernard's patch:
3040 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3041 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3042 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3043 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3044 it the RISC OS way...
3045 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3046 alignment corrected.
3047 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3052 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3056 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3057 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3061 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3062 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3063 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3064 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3065 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3066 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3067 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3068 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3069 in the file(1) says... box).
3072 Before the Changes file
3073 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3074 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3076 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3077 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3078 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3079 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3080 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD