2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
8 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
13 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
14 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
19 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
20 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
24 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
25 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
29 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
30 (reported by Tony Houghton).
34 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
36 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
37 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
41 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
42 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
46 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
50 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
54 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
58 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
59 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
60 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
64 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
68 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
73 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
77 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
79 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
81 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
85 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
86 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
87 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
89 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
93 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
94 print a warning and then crash.
98 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
99 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
100 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
105 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
109 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
114 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
118 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
122 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
124 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
129 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
130 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
131 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
136 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
137 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
142 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
144 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
145 anyway, and noone had complained).
146 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
147 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
151 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
152 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
153 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
157 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
161 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
162 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
166 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
167 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
168 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
172 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
173 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
174 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
176 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
177 by Simon Templer and others).
181 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
182 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
183 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
187 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
191 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
195 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
196 version number again (Stephen Watson).
200 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
201 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
205 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
209 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
210 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
211 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
212 anyway (Stephen Watson).
216 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
220 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
224 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
226 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
228 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
232 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
233 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
234 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
238 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
239 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
244 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
245 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
246 impossible to change shortcuts.
247 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
248 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
252 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
253 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
258 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
259 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
260 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
264 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
265 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
266 to the functions being missing.
270 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
274 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
278 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
282 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
286 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
287 worries people for no reason.
291 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
295 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
296 files selected (Peter Geer).
300 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
301 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
305 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
309 Added 'Select by Name'.
313 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
317 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
322 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
326 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
328 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
330 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
331 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
335 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
339 Misc changes for next release.
343 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
344 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
348 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
349 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
350 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
351 Watson, reported on #rox).
355 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
356 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
360 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
361 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
365 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
366 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
370 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
371 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
376 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
380 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
382 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
387 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
391 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
392 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
396 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
397 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
401 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
405 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
410 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
411 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
413 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
414 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
418 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
419 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
423 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
428 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
429 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
433 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
434 support not being detected (igla).
438 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
442 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
443 dialog (Stephen Watson).
447 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
451 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
452 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
453 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
454 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
457 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
459 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
460 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
464 New icon for selection ops.
468 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
472 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
476 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
480 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
481 Added icon theme selector.
485 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
489 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
493 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
494 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
498 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
499 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
500 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
504 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
505 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
509 Allow ejecting mounted media.
513 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
514 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
515 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
519 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
523 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
524 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
529 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
530 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
534 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
535 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
539 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
540 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
544 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
548 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
549 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
550 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
554 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
558 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
559 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
560 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
561 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
565 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
566 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
568 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
572 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
576 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
577 bits (Stephen Watson).
581 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
585 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
589 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
590 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
594 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
598 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
599 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
604 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
605 forward them explicitly.
609 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
610 help from Götz Waschk).
614 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
615 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
616 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
620 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
624 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
628 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
632 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
633 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
635 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
637 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
641 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
643 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
645 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
649 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
650 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
651 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
652 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
656 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
660 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
664 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
668 Minor updates to the manual.
669 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
670 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
674 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
675 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
677 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
679 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
680 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
684 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
685 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
686 reduce flickering effect.
690 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
694 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
696 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
700 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
701 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
702 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
703 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
704 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
708 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
709 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
713 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
717 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
722 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
723 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
727 Winking now works in List view.
731 Lasso selections now work in List view.
735 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
736 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
740 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
741 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
743 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
745 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
749 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
753 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
754 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
756 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
760 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
761 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
765 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
767 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
771 Centre the image for iconified windows.
772 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
776 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
778 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
782 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
786 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
787 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
792 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
793 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
795 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
797 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
799 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
803 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
807 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
808 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
812 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
817 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
818 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
822 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
824 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
826 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
827 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
832 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
836 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
837 (suggested by Michael Adams).
838 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
839 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
840 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
841 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
842 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
844 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
848 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
853 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
854 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
858 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
859 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
860 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
861 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
866 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
867 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
868 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
869 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
870 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
871 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
872 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
873 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
874 talent can do something better?
875 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
876 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
880 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
881 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
882 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
887 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
889 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
890 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
891 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
892 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
893 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
894 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
895 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
896 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
897 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
898 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
899 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
900 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
901 label wasn't hidden / shown.
905 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
906 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
907 allow fine repositioning.
908 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
909 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
910 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
911 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
913 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
914 changing the aspect ratio.
918 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
922 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
926 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
927 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
928 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
932 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
936 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
941 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
942 make sharing icons easier.
943 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
947 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
948 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
952 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
956 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
958 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
962 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
967 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
972 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
973 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
975 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
976 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
977 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
978 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
982 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
983 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
987 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
991 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
993 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
998 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
999 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1001 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1005 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1006 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1008 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1010 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1014 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1015 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1020 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1024 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1025 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1026 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1030 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1031 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1035 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1039 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1040 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1044 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1045 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1046 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1050 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1054 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1055 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1056 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1057 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1059 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1060 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1064 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1065 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1069 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1074 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1075 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1079 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1083 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1084 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1085 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1086 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1091 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1092 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1093 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1097 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1101 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1102 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1106 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1107 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1108 since it didn't include the contents.
1109 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1110 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1114 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1118 Style improvements to options window.
1122 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1126 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1128 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1130 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1135 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1136 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1137 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1138 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1142 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1146 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1150 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1151 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1155 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1157 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1162 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1166 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1167 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1168 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1173 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1177 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1181 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1185 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1189 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1190 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1191 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1195 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1196 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1200 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1201 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1206 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1210 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1214 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1219 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1220 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1224 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1225 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1230 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1231 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1235 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1236 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1237 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1241 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1245 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1246 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1247 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1248 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1249 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1253 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1254 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1258 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1259 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1263 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1267 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1268 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1269 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1270 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1271 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1272 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1276 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1277 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1278 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1282 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1283 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1288 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1292 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1294 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1296 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1301 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1305 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1309 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1310 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1315 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1319 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1323 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1324 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1325 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1329 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1333 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1338 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1342 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1343 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1344 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1345 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1349 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1353 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1354 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1358 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1359 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1360 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1364 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1368 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1372 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1373 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1374 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1375 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1376 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1377 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1381 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1382 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1386 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1387 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1388 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1392 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1393 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1397 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1401 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1402 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1403 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1404 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1406 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1408 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1412 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1413 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1414 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1418 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1422 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1423 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1428 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1432 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1436 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1437 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1441 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1442 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1443 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1447 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1448 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1452 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1453 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1457 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1458 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1462 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1466 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1467 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1471 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1473 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1475 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1479 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1483 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1484 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1488 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1492 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1496 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1497 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1498 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1499 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1500 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1501 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1505 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1509 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1511 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1512 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1516 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1517 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1521 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1525 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1526 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1527 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1528 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1530 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1532 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1536 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1537 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1541 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1542 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1543 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1547 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1548 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1549 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1550 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1551 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1552 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1553 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1557 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1558 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1562 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1566 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1570 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1575 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1579 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1580 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1581 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1585 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1586 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1587 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1591 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1592 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1593 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1597 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1598 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1602 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1607 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1608 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1609 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1610 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1611 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1613 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1614 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1618 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1622 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1623 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1624 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1625 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1629 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1630 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1631 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1632 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1633 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1634 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1638 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1642 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1643 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1647 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1648 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1649 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1650 restart (Olli Helenius).
1654 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1658 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1659 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1660 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1665 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1670 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1671 Small and Large sizes.
1675 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1679 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1680 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1684 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1685 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1686 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1687 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1691 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1692 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1693 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1698 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1703 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1704 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1708 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1709 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1714 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1716 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1718 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1722 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1726 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1728 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1730 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1734 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1736 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1737 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1741 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1742 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1746 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1747 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1751 Various speed improvements.
1752 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1756 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1757 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1761 Slight speed increase when starting.
1765 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1769 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1770 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1771 button is no longer supported.
1775 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1779 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1783 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1788 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1789 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1793 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1794 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1795 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1799 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1800 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1801 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1802 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1806 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1807 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1808 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1810 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1815 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1816 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1821 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1825 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1826 and converted to new dialog style.
1830 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1831 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1835 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1836 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1840 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1844 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1846 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1850 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1854 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1855 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1856 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1860 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1861 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1865 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1870 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1874 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1875 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1879 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1880 and Cancel is now Revert.
1881 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1882 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1886 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1890 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1891 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1893 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1894 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1895 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1896 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1900 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1902 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1903 labels display them.
1904 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1907 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1911 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1913 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1917 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1918 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1919 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1923 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1924 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1926 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1928 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1932 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1933 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1937 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1938 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1939 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1940 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1944 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1948 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1949 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1953 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1954 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1959 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1960 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1964 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1965 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1966 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1970 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1971 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1975 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1976 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1977 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1978 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1980 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1985 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1986 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1988 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1990 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1994 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1995 any image (saves time).
1996 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1997 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1998 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1999 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2001 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2002 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2006 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2007 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2009 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2010 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2012 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2017 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2018 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2019 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2020 has stopped accepting STRING.
2024 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2025 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2029 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2034 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2035 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2037 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2038 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2039 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2043 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2044 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2045 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2046 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2047 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2048 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2052 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2053 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2054 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2055 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2056 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2057 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2062 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2063 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2064 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2065 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2070 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2071 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2075 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2076 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2078 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2080 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2081 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2082 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2086 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2087 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2088 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2092 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2093 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2097 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2098 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2102 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2104 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2109 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2110 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2114 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2115 their menus correctly.
2116 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2121 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2122 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2123 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2127 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2128 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2132 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2136 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2139 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2141 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2142 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2143 the toggle menu items from working!
2147 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2149 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2155 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2156 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2160 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2161 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2162 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2163 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2164 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2165 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2169 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2173 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2174 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2178 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2179 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2180 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2184 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2185 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2190 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2192 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2196 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2197 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2198 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2199 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2203 Improved error reporting.
2204 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2208 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2209 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2210 check box and does 'Yes'.
2214 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2215 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2216 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2217 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2222 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2224 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2225 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2227 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2229 Internal changes to options system:
2230 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2231 filer is fully initialised).
2232 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2234 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2236 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2237 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2238 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2239 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2243 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2244 now reclaims the selection.
2245 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2246 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2251 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2252 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2253 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2254 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2255 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2259 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2260 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2262 Code tidying in various places.
2266 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2267 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2272 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2273 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2277 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2278 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2279 edit the file, not the file itself!
2280 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2284 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2285 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2286 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2287 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2288 of the SOAP working draft.
2289 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2290 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2291 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2296 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2297 it was in the displayed area before.
2299 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2302 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2303 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2307 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2308 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2309 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2311 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2312 selection (Andras Mohari).
2316 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2320 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2324 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2325 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2326 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2330 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2334 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2336 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2337 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2338 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2342 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2343 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2348 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2349 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2350 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2354 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2358 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2362 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2363 replaced by a Restart button.
2367 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2368 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2372 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2376 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2380 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2381 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2382 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2386 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2387 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2389 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2390 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2391 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2395 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2396 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2401 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2403 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2404 (requested by Graham Borland).
2405 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2406 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2407 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2411 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2412 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2413 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2414 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2418 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2419 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2420 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2421 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2422 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2423 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2424 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2425 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2426 - Lots of code tidying.
2431 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2432 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2436 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2438 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2440 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2444 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2445 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2449 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2450 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2454 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2455 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2459 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2460 option to access it directly.
2464 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2465 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2466 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2470 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2471 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2472 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2473 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2474 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2475 when the filer is run.
2479 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2480 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2481 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2486 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2490 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2491 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2495 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2497 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2501 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2505 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2506 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2507 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2512 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2513 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2514 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2515 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2516 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2517 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2518 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2522 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2526 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2527 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2531 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2532 of possible actions (Taras).
2533 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2535 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2536 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2540 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2545 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2549 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2552 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2553 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2557 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2558 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2560 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2562 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2563 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2564 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2565 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2569 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2573 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2577 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2581 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2586 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2587 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2588 the first one found.
2589 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2593 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2597 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2598 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2599 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2603 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2604 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2605 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2610 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2611 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2612 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2616 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2618 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2623 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2628 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2632 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2633 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2637 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2639 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2640 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2644 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2648 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2649 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2653 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2654 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2658 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2659 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2661 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2663 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2667 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2671 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2672 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2676 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2680 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2685 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2686 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2690 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2694 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2698 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2700 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2701 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2705 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2706 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2710 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2711 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2712 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2716 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2717 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2721 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2722 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2724 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2726 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2730 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2731 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2732 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2734 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2735 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2737 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2739 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2740 and the default size with no details.
2744 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2745 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2749 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2754 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2759 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2763 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2768 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2769 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2773 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2777 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2778 the button to run it does.
2779 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2780 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2781 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2785 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2786 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2787 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2791 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2795 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2796 and panels into icon.c.
2800 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2801 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2802 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2803 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2807 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2809 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2811 Updated the documentation.
2815 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2816 up if they're too small.
2820 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2822 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2823 (Christopher Arndt).
2824 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2829 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2830 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2834 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2835 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2839 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2840 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2841 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2846 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2851 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2855 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2856 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2861 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2866 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2867 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2871 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2872 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2876 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2880 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2884 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2888 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2889 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2892 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2893 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2898 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2899 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2900 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2901 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2906 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2907 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2909 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2911 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2912 for non-applications.
2916 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2917 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2922 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2926 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2927 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2929 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2933 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2934 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2938 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2939 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2943 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2944 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2948 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2949 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2951 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2952 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2956 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2957 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2959 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2963 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2964 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2967 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2971 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2972 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2976 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2980 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2981 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2984 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2985 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2989 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2993 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2998 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3002 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3003 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3008 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3013 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3017 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3019 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3021 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3022 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3024 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3026 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3027 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3031 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3032 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3033 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3035 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3036 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3040 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3044 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3045 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3049 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3053 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3054 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3056 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3059 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3060 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3061 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3065 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3066 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3071 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3076 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3078 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3081 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3083 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3084 sensible shape itself now.
3086 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3087 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3088 file at all, just a reused inode!
3089 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3090 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3091 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3095 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3099 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3100 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3105 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3106 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3110 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3114 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3115 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3119 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3124 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3128 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3129 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3133 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3134 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3135 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3136 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3137 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3141 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3142 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3143 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3144 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3145 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3149 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3150 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3151 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3155 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3157 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3158 python's portable system.
3159 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3160 set the LANG variable.
3164 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3165 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3167 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3169 Made a few updates to the manual.
3173 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3174 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3176 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3178 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3179 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3183 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3184 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3188 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3189 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3194 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3195 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3196 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3200 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3201 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3205 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3206 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3210 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3211 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3213 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3214 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3215 open... (Denis Manente).
3219 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3223 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3225 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3226 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3227 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3229 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3231 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3233 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3234 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3239 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3240 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3241 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3245 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3246 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3250 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3254 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3258 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3259 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3260 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3264 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3265 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3266 between pinboards...
3268 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3269 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3270 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3274 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3277 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3278 window (Denis Manente).
3280 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3281 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3285 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3286 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3287 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3291 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3294 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3295 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3297 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3302 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3303 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3305 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3309 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3310 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3312 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3314 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3319 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3320 the icon points to as well as its name.
3322 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3323 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3327 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3328 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3329 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3330 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3334 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3338 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3339 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3340 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3344 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3345 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3347 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3348 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3351 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3352 the item after the drag.
3354 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3355 showing where the file really is.
3359 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3360 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3365 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3366 warning is displayed if so.
3368 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3372 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3373 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3374 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3375 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3378 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3379 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3380 works like the panels.
3384 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3385 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3386 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3387 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3388 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3392 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3393 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3394 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3395 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3397 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3402 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3406 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3407 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3410 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3411 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3413 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3416 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3417 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3418 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3419 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3421 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3423 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3424 slightly. Updated the manual.
3426 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3427 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3430 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3431 or bottom panel to make room.
3435 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3440 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3441 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3442 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3443 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3444 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3448 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3450 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3451 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3453 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3457 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3458 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3462 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3466 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3468 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3473 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3474 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3476 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3480 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3481 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3482 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3486 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3487 rewriting the panel system.
3491 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3494 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3495 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3499 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3500 (suggested by James Kermode).
3504 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3505 than as a full path.
3507 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3509 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3510 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3511 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3515 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3516 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3520 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3521 rename something onto another filesystem.
3525 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3527 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3528 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3532 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3536 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3539 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3540 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3542 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3545 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3550 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3551 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3552 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3554 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3555 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3557 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3558 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3563 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3564 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3569 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3570 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3571 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3573 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3574 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3575 of the 'missing image' image.
3579 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3581 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3583 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3588 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3589 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3590 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3591 its name into another program.
3593 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3597 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3599 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3600 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3601 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3603 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3604 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3605 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3608 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3609 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3613 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3614 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3615 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3619 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3620 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3621 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3625 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3626 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3627 and position the icons directly.
3631 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3636 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3637 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3638 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3642 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3646 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3647 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3651 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3656 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3660 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3661 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3662 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3663 some versions of GTK+.
3667 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3672 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3673 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3674 from a sub-sub-menu.
3676 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3677 drawn on a log scale.
3681 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3682 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3683 happy with the UI yet though...
3685 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3686 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3687 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3691 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3692 by Stephen Harrison).
3694 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3696 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3697 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3698 standard types are in Choices.
3699 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3701 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3702 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3703 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3708 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3709 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3710 shell command minibuffer.
3714 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3715 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3716 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3717 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3718 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3720 Default search path for Choices is now:
3721 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3723 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3724 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3725 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3729 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3730 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3734 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3735 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3736 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3741 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3742 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3743 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3746 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3748 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3749 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3750 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3752 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3753 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3757 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3758 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3759 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3760 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3765 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3766 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3767 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3769 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3771 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3772 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3776 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3777 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3778 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3783 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3784 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3787 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3789 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3794 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3799 Added GNU gettext support.
3800 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3804 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3806 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3808 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3813 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3817 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3818 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3820 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3821 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3826 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3827 onto the directory and winks the file.
3831 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3832 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3833 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3835 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3836 instead of random values.
3837 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3839 Applied Bernard's patch:
3840 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3841 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3842 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3843 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3844 it the RISC OS way...
3845 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3846 alignment corrected.
3847 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3852 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3856 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3857 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3861 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3862 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3863 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3864 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3865 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3866 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3867 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3868 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3869 in the file(1) says... box).
3872 Before the Changes file
3873 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3874 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3876 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3877 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3878 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3879 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3880 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD