2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
8 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
9 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
13 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
17 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
22 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
26 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
27 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
28 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
29 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
33 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
37 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
38 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
42 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
43 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
44 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
48 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
52 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
56 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
57 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
58 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
59 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
60 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
61 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
65 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
66 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
70 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
71 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
72 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
76 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
77 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
81 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
85 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
86 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
87 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
88 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
90 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
92 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
96 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
97 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
98 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
102 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
106 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
107 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
112 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
116 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
120 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
121 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
125 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
126 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
127 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
131 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
132 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
136 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
137 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
141 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
142 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
146 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
150 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
151 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
155 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
157 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
159 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
163 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
167 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
168 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
172 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
176 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
180 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
181 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
182 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
183 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
184 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
185 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
189 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
193 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
195 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
196 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
200 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
201 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
205 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
209 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
210 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
211 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
212 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
214 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
216 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
220 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
221 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
225 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
226 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
227 disappeared at the wrong moment.
231 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
232 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
233 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
234 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
235 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
236 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
237 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
241 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
242 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
246 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
250 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
254 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
259 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
263 Options to set iconification layout policy.
264 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
265 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
269 Pinboard background colour option works again.
270 Position iconified windows sensibly.
271 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
275 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
276 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
277 (requested by Ryan Harris).
281 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
282 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
286 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
291 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
292 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
293 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
294 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
295 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
297 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
298 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
302 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
306 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
307 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
308 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
309 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
313 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
314 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
315 Many improvements to the pinboard:
316 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
317 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
318 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
322 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
326 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
327 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
331 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
332 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
333 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
334 restart (Olli Helenius).
338 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
342 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
343 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
344 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
349 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
354 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
355 Small and Large sizes.
359 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
363 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
364 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
368 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
369 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
370 (requested by Gregory Spath).
371 Don't quit while Options window is open.
375 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
376 the window (requested by Ashwin).
377 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
382 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
387 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
388 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
392 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
393 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
398 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
400 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
402 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
406 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
410 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
412 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
414 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
418 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
420 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
421 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
425 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
426 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
430 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
431 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
435 Various speed improvements.
436 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
440 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
441 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
445 Slight speed increase when starting.
449 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
453 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
454 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
455 button is no longer supported.
459 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
463 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
467 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
472 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
473 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
477 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
478 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
479 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
483 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
484 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
485 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
486 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
490 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
491 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
492 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
494 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
499 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
500 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
505 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
509 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
510 and converted to new dialog style.
514 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
515 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
519 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
520 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
524 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
528 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
530 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
534 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
538 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
539 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
540 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
544 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
545 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
549 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
554 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
558 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
559 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
563 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
564 and Cancel is now Revert.
565 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
566 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
570 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
574 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
575 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
577 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
578 (reported by Serban Udrea).
579 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
580 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
584 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
586 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
588 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
591 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
595 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
597 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
601 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
602 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
603 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
607 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
608 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
610 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
612 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
616 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
617 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
621 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
622 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
623 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
624 (requested by Andras Mohari).
628 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
632 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
633 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
637 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
638 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
643 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
644 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
648 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
649 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
650 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
654 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
655 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
659 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
660 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
661 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
662 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
664 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
669 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
670 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
672 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
674 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
678 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
679 any image (saves time).
680 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
681 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
682 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
683 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
685 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
686 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
690 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
691 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
693 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
694 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
696 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
701 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
702 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
703 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
704 has stopped accepting STRING.
708 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
709 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
713 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
718 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
719 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
721 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
722 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
723 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
727 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
728 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
729 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
730 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
731 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
732 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
736 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
737 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
738 Allow '~' in globicons file.
739 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
740 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
741 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
746 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
747 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
748 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
749 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
754 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
755 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
759 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
760 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
762 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
764 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
765 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
766 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
770 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
771 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
772 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
776 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
777 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
781 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
782 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
786 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
788 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
793 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
794 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
798 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
799 their menus correctly.
800 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
805 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
806 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
807 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
811 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
812 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
816 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
820 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
823 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
825 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
826 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
827 the toggle menu items from working!
831 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
833 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
839 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
840 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
844 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
845 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
846 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
847 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
848 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
849 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
853 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
857 File groups are now saved (automatically).
858 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
862 Added Version SOAP RPC.
863 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
864 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
868 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
869 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
874 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
876 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
880 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
881 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
882 bar is displayed in the filer window.
883 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
887 Improved error reporting.
888 Improved sizing code when details are on.
892 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
893 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
894 check box and does 'Yes'.
898 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
899 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
900 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
901 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
906 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
908 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
909 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
911 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
913 Internal changes to options system:
914 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
915 filer is fully initialised).
916 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
918 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
920 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
921 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
922 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
923 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
927 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
928 now reclaims the selection.
929 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
930 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
935 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
936 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
937 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
938 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
939 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
943 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
944 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
946 Code tidying in various places.
950 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
951 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
956 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
957 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
961 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
962 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
963 edit the file, not the file itself!
964 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
968 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
969 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
970 (recommended by Jens Finke).
971 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
972 of the SOAP working draft.
973 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
974 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
975 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
980 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
981 it was in the displayed area before.
983 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
986 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
987 winking effect until the window actually appears.
991 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
992 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
993 Kristian A. Rink and others).
995 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
996 selection (Andras Mohari).
1000 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1004 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1008 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1009 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1010 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1014 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1018 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1020 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1021 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1022 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1026 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1027 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1032 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1033 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1034 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1038 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1042 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1046 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1047 replaced by a Restart button.
1051 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1052 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1056 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1060 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1064 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1065 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1066 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1070 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1071 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1073 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1074 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1075 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1079 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1080 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1085 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1087 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1088 (requested by Graham Borland).
1089 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1090 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1091 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1095 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1096 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1097 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1098 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1102 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1103 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1104 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1105 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1106 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1107 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1108 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1109 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1110 - Lots of code tidying.
1115 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1116 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1120 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1122 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1124 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1128 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1129 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1133 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1134 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1138 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1139 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1143 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1144 option to access it directly.
1148 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1149 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1150 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1154 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1155 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1156 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1157 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1158 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1159 when the filer is run.
1163 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1164 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1165 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1170 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1174 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1175 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1179 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1181 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1185 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1189 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1190 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1191 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1196 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1197 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1198 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1199 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1200 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1201 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1202 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1206 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1210 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1211 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1215 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1216 of possible actions (Taras).
1217 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1219 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1220 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1224 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1229 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1233 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1236 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1237 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1241 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1242 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1244 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1246 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1247 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1248 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1249 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1253 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1257 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1261 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1265 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1270 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1271 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1272 the first one found.
1273 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1277 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1281 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1282 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1283 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1287 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1288 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1289 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1294 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1295 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1296 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1300 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1302 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1307 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1312 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1316 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1317 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1321 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1323 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1324 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1328 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1332 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1333 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1337 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1338 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1342 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1343 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1345 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1347 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1351 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1355 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1356 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1360 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1364 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1369 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1370 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1374 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1378 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1382 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1384 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1385 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1389 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1390 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1394 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1395 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1396 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1400 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1401 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1405 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1406 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1408 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1410 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1414 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1415 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1416 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1418 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1419 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1421 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1423 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1424 and the default size with no details.
1428 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1429 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1433 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1438 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1443 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1447 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1452 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1453 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1457 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1461 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1462 the button to run it does.
1463 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1464 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1465 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1469 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1470 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1471 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1475 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1479 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1480 and panels into icon.c.
1484 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1485 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1486 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1487 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1491 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1493 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1495 Updated the documentation.
1499 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1500 up if they're too small.
1504 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1506 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1507 (Christopher Arndt).
1508 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1513 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1514 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1518 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1519 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1523 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1524 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1525 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1530 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1535 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1539 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1540 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1545 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1550 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1551 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1555 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1556 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1560 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1564 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1568 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1572 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1573 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1576 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1577 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1582 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1583 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1584 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1585 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1590 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1591 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1593 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1595 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1596 for non-applications.
1600 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1601 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1606 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1610 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1611 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1613 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1617 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1618 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1622 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1623 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1627 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1628 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1632 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1633 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1635 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1636 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1640 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1641 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1643 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1647 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1648 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1651 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1655 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1656 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1660 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1664 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1665 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1668 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1669 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1673 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1677 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1682 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1686 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1687 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1692 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1697 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1701 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1703 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1705 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1706 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1708 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1710 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1711 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1715 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1716 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1717 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1719 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1720 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1724 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1728 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1729 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1733 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1737 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1738 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1740 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1743 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1744 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1745 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1749 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1750 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1755 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1760 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1762 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1765 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1767 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1768 sensible shape itself now.
1770 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1771 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1772 file at all, just a reused inode!
1773 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1774 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1775 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1779 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1783 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1784 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1789 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1790 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1794 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1798 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1799 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1803 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1808 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1812 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1813 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1817 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1818 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1819 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1820 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1821 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1825 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1826 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1827 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1828 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1829 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1833 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1834 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1835 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1839 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1841 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1842 python's portable system.
1843 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1844 set the LANG variable.
1848 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1849 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1851 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1853 Made a few updates to the manual.
1857 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1858 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1860 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1862 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1863 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1867 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1868 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1872 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1873 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1878 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1879 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1880 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1884 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1885 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1889 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1890 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1894 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1895 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1897 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1898 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1899 open... (Denis Manente).
1903 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1907 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1909 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1910 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1911 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1913 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1915 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1917 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1918 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1923 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1924 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1925 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1929 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1930 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1934 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1938 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1942 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1943 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1944 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1948 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1949 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1950 between pinboards...
1952 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1953 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1954 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1958 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1961 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1962 window (Denis Manente).
1964 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1965 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1969 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1970 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1971 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1975 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1978 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1979 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1981 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1986 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1987 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1989 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1993 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1994 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1996 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1998 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2003 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2004 the icon points to as well as its name.
2006 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2007 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2011 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2012 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2013 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2014 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2018 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2022 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2023 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2024 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2028 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2029 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2031 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2032 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2035 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2036 the item after the drag.
2038 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2039 showing where the file really is.
2043 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2044 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2049 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2050 warning is displayed if so.
2052 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2056 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2057 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2058 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2059 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2062 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2063 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2064 works like the panels.
2068 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2069 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2070 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2071 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2072 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2076 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2077 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2078 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2079 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2081 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2086 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2090 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2091 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2094 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2095 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2097 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2100 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2101 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2102 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2103 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2105 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2107 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2108 slightly. Updated the manual.
2110 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2111 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2114 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2115 or bottom panel to make room.
2119 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2124 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2125 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2126 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2127 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2128 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2132 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2134 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2135 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2137 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2141 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2142 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2146 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2150 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2152 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2157 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2158 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2160 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2164 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2165 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2166 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2170 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2171 rewriting the panel system.
2175 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2178 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2179 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2183 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2184 (suggested by James Kermode).
2188 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2189 than as a full path.
2191 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2193 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2194 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2195 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2199 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2200 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2204 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2205 rename something onto another filesystem.
2209 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2211 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2212 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2216 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2220 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2223 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2224 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2226 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2229 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2234 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2235 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2236 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2238 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2239 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2241 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2242 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2247 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2248 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2253 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2254 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2255 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2257 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2258 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2259 of the 'missing image' image.
2263 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2265 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2267 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2272 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2273 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2274 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2275 its name into another program.
2277 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2281 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2283 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2284 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2285 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2287 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2288 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2289 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2292 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2293 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2297 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2298 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2299 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2303 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2304 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2305 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2309 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2310 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2311 and position the icons directly.
2315 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2320 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2321 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2322 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2326 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2330 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2331 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2335 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2340 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2344 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2345 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2346 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2347 some versions of GTK+.
2351 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2356 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2357 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2358 from a sub-sub-menu.
2360 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2361 drawn on a log scale.
2365 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2366 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2367 happy with the UI yet though...
2369 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2370 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2371 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2375 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2376 by Stephen Harrison).
2378 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2380 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2381 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2382 standard types are in Choices.
2383 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2385 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2386 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2387 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2392 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2393 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2394 shell command minibuffer.
2398 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2399 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2400 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2401 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2402 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2404 Default search path for Choices is now:
2405 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2407 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2408 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2409 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2413 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2414 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2418 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2419 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2420 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2425 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2426 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2427 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2430 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2432 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2433 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2434 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2436 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2437 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2441 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2442 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2443 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2444 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2449 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2450 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2451 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2453 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2455 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2456 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2460 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2461 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2462 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2467 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2468 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2471 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2473 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2478 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2483 Added GNU gettext support.
2484 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2488 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2490 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2492 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2497 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2501 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2502 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2504 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2505 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2510 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2511 onto the directory and winks the file.
2515 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2516 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2517 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2519 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2520 instead of random values.
2521 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2523 Applied Bernard's patch:
2524 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2525 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2526 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2527 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2528 it the RISC OS way...
2529 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2530 alignment corrected.
2531 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2536 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2540 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2541 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2545 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2546 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2547 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2548 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2549 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2550 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2551 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2552 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2553 in the file(1) says... box).
2556 Before the Changes file
2557 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2558 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2560 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2561 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2562 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2563 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2564 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD