2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
8 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
12 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
13 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
15 09-Jan-2001 (Release-1.1.11)
17 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
18 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
19 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
23 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
24 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
25 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
29 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
30 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
34 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
35 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
39 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
41 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
46 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
47 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
51 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
52 their menus correctly.
53 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
58 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
59 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
60 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
64 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
65 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
69 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
73 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
76 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
78 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
79 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
80 the toggle menu items from working!
84 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
86 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
92 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
93 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
97 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
98 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
99 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
100 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
101 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
102 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
106 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
110 File groups are now saved (automatically).
111 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
115 Added Version SOAP RPC.
116 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
117 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
121 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
122 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
127 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
129 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
133 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
134 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
135 bar is displayed in the filer window.
136 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
140 Improved error reporting.
141 Improved sizing code when details are on.
145 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
146 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
147 check box and does 'Yes'.
151 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
152 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
153 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
154 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
159 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
161 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
162 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
164 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
166 Internal changes to options system:
167 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
168 filer is fully initialised).
169 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
171 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
173 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
174 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
175 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
176 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
180 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
181 now reclaims the selection.
182 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
183 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
188 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
189 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
190 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
191 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
192 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
196 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
197 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
199 Code tidying in various places.
203 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
204 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
209 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
210 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
214 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
215 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
216 edit the file, not the file itself!
217 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
221 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
222 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
223 (recommended by Jens Finke).
224 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
225 of the SOAP working draft.
226 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
227 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
228 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
233 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
234 it was in the displayed area before.
236 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
239 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
240 winking effect until the window actually appears.
244 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
245 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
246 Kristian A. Rink and others).
248 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
249 selection (Andras Mohari).
253 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
257 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
261 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
262 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
263 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
267 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
271 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
273 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
274 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
275 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
279 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
280 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
285 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
286 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
287 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
291 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
295 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
299 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
300 replaced by a Restart button.
304 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
305 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
309 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
313 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
317 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
318 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
319 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
323 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
324 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
326 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
327 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
328 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
332 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
333 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
338 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
340 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
341 (requested by Graham Borland).
342 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
343 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
344 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
348 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
349 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
350 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
351 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
355 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
356 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
357 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
358 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
359 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
360 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
361 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
362 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
363 - Lots of code tidying.
368 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
369 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
373 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
375 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
377 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
381 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
382 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
386 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
387 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
391 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
392 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
396 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
397 option to access it directly.
401 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
402 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
403 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
407 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
408 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
409 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
410 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
411 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
412 when the filer is run.
416 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
417 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
418 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
423 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
427 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
428 title bar (Stephen Watson).
432 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
434 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
438 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
442 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
443 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
444 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
449 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
450 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
451 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
452 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
453 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
454 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
455 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
459 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
463 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
464 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
468 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
469 of possible actions (Taras).
470 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
472 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
473 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
477 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
482 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
486 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
489 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
490 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
494 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
495 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
497 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
499 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
500 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
501 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
502 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
506 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
510 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
514 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
518 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
523 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
524 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
526 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
530 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
534 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
535 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
536 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
540 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
541 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
542 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
547 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
548 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
549 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
553 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
555 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
560 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
565 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
569 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
570 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
574 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
576 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
577 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
581 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
585 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
586 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
590 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
591 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
595 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
596 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
598 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
600 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
604 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
608 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
609 (requested by Jim Knoble).
613 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
617 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
622 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
623 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
627 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
631 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
635 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
637 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
638 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
642 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
643 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
647 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
648 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
649 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
653 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
654 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
658 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
659 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
661 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
663 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
667 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
668 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
669 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
671 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
672 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
674 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
676 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
677 and the default size with no details.
681 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
682 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
686 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
691 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
696 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
700 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
705 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
706 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
710 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
714 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
715 the button to run it does.
716 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
717 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
718 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
722 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
723 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
724 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
728 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
732 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
733 and panels into icon.c.
737 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
738 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
739 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
740 and Vincent Lefèvre).
744 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
746 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
748 Updated the documentation.
752 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
753 up if they're too small.
757 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
759 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
761 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
766 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
767 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
771 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
772 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
776 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
777 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
778 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
783 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
788 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
792 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
793 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
798 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
803 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
804 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
808 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
809 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
813 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
817 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
821 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
825 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
826 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
829 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
830 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
835 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
836 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
837 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
838 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
843 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
844 held over the item (Denis Manente).
846 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
848 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
849 for non-applications.
853 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
854 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
859 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
863 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
864 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
866 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
870 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
871 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
875 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
876 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
880 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
881 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
885 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
886 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
888 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
889 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
893 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
894 standard output (Stephen Watson).
896 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
900 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
901 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
904 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
908 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
909 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
913 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
917 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
918 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
921 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
922 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
926 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
930 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
935 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
939 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
940 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
945 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
950 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
954 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
956 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
958 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
959 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
961 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
963 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
964 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
968 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
969 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
970 were used (Diego Zamboni).
972 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
973 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
977 Many internal changes to the Options system.
981 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
982 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
986 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
990 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
991 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
993 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
996 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
997 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
998 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1002 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1003 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1008 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1013 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1015 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1018 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1020 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1021 sensible shape itself now.
1023 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1024 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1025 file at all, just a reused inode!
1026 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1027 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1028 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1032 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1036 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1037 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1042 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1043 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1047 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1051 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1052 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1056 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1061 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1065 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1066 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1070 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1071 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1072 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1073 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1074 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1078 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1079 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1080 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1081 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1082 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1086 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1087 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1088 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1092 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1094 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1095 python's portable system.
1096 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1097 set the LANG variable.
1101 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1102 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1104 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1106 Made a few updates to the manual.
1110 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1111 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1113 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1115 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1116 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1120 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1121 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1125 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1126 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1131 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1132 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1133 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1137 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1138 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1142 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1143 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1147 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1148 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1150 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1151 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1152 open... (Denis Manente).
1156 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1160 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1162 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1163 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1164 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1166 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1168 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1170 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1171 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1176 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1177 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1178 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1182 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1183 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1187 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1191 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1195 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1196 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1197 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1201 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1202 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1203 between pinboards...
1205 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1206 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1207 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1211 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1214 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1215 window (Denis Manente).
1217 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1218 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1222 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1223 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1224 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1228 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1231 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1232 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1234 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1239 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1240 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1242 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1246 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1247 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1249 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1251 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1256 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1257 the icon points to as well as its name.
1259 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1260 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1264 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1265 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1266 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1267 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1271 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1275 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1276 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1277 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1281 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1282 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1284 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1285 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1288 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1289 the item after the drag.
1291 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1292 showing where the file really is.
1296 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1297 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1302 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1303 warning is displayed if so.
1305 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1309 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1310 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1311 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1312 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1315 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1316 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1317 works like the panels.
1321 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1322 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1323 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1324 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1325 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1329 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1330 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1331 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1332 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1334 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1339 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1343 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1344 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1347 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1348 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1350 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1353 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1354 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1355 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1356 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1358 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1360 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1361 slightly. Updated the manual.
1363 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1364 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1367 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1368 or bottom panel to make room.
1372 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1377 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1378 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1379 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1380 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1381 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1385 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
1387 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
1388 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
1390 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
1394 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
1395 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
1399 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
1403 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
1405 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
1410 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
1411 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
1413 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
1417 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
1418 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
1419 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
1423 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
1424 rewriting the panel system.
1428 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
1431 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
1432 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
1436 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
1437 (suggested by James Kermode).
1441 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
1442 than as a full path.
1444 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
1446 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
1447 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
1448 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
1452 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
1453 mounted/unmounted state changed.
1457 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
1458 rename something onto another filesystem.
1462 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
1464 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
1465 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
1469 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
1473 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
1476 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
1477 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
1479 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
1482 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
1487 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
1488 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
1489 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
1491 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
1492 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
1494 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
1495 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
1500 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
1501 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
1506 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
1507 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
1508 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
1510 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
1511 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
1512 of the 'missing image' image.
1516 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
1518 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
1520 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
1525 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
1526 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
1527 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
1528 its name into another program.
1530 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
1534 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
1536 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
1537 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
1538 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
1540 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
1541 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
1542 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
1545 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
1546 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
1550 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
1551 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
1552 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
1556 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
1557 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
1558 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
1562 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
1563 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
1564 and position the icons directly.
1568 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
1573 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
1574 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
1575 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
1579 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
1583 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
1584 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
1588 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
1593 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
1597 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
1598 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
1599 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
1600 some versions of GTK+.
1604 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
1609 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
1610 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
1611 from a sub-sub-menu.
1613 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
1614 drawn on a log scale.
1618 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
1619 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
1620 happy with the UI yet though...
1622 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
1623 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
1624 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
1628 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
1629 by Stephen Harrison).
1631 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
1633 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
1634 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
1635 standard types are in Choices.
1636 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
1638 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
1639 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
1640 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
1645 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
1646 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
1647 shell command minibuffer.
1651 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
1652 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
1653 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
1654 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
1655 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1657 Default search path for Choices is now:
1658 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
1660 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
1661 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
1662 buffering so all this will get changed then...
1666 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
1667 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
1671 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
1672 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
1673 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
1678 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
1679 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
1680 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
1683 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
1685 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
1686 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
1687 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
1689 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
1690 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
1694 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
1695 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
1696 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
1697 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
1702 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
1703 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
1704 an empty directory caused odd effects.
1706 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
1708 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
1709 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
1713 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
1714 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
1715 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
1720 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
1721 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
1724 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
1726 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
1731 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
1736 Added GNU gettext support.
1737 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
1741 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
1743 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
1745 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
1750 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
1754 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
1755 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
1757 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
1758 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
1763 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
1764 onto the directory and winks the file.
1768 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
1769 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
1770 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
1772 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
1773 instead of random values.
1774 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
1776 Applied Bernard's patch:
1777 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
1778 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
1779 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
1780 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
1781 it the RISC OS way...
1782 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
1783 alignment corrected.
1784 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
1789 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
1793 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
1794 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
1798 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
1799 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
1800 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
1801 - Option to only display one window per directory.
1802 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
1803 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
1804 - Errors in options are only reported once.
1805 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
1806 in the file(1) says... box).
1809 Before the Changes file
1810 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1811 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
1813 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
1814 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
1815 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
1816 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
1817 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD