2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
11 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
12 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
14 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
15 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
17 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
22 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
23 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
24 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
25 has stopped accepting STRING.
29 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
30 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
34 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
39 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
40 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
42 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
43 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
44 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
48 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
49 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
50 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
51 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
52 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
53 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
57 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
58 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
59 Allow '~' in globicons file.
60 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
61 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
62 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
67 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
68 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
69 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
70 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
75 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
76 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
80 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
81 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
83 09-Jan-2001 (Release-1.1.11)
85 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
86 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
87 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
91 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
92 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
93 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
97 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
98 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
102 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
103 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
107 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
109 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
114 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
115 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
119 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
120 their menus correctly.
121 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
126 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
127 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
128 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
132 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
133 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
137 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
141 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
144 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
146 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
147 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
148 the toggle menu items from working!
152 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
154 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
160 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
161 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
165 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
166 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
167 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
168 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
169 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
170 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
174 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
178 File groups are now saved (automatically).
179 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
183 Added Version SOAP RPC.
184 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
185 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
189 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
190 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
195 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
197 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
201 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
202 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
203 bar is displayed in the filer window.
204 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
208 Improved error reporting.
209 Improved sizing code when details are on.
213 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
214 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
215 check box and does 'Yes'.
219 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
220 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
221 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
222 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
227 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
229 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
230 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
232 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
234 Internal changes to options system:
235 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
236 filer is fully initialised).
237 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
239 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
241 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
242 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
243 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
244 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
248 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
249 now reclaims the selection.
250 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
251 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
256 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
257 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
258 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
259 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
260 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
264 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
265 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
267 Code tidying in various places.
271 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
272 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
277 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
278 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
282 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
283 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
284 edit the file, not the file itself!
285 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
289 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
290 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
291 (recommended by Jens Finke).
292 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
293 of the SOAP working draft.
294 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
295 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
296 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
301 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
302 it was in the displayed area before.
304 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
307 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
308 winking effect until the window actually appears.
312 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
313 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
314 Kristian A. Rink and others).
316 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
317 selection (Andras Mohari).
321 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
325 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
329 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
330 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
331 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
335 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
339 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
341 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
342 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
343 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
347 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
348 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
353 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
354 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
355 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
359 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
363 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
367 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
368 replaced by a Restart button.
372 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
373 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
377 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
381 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
385 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
386 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
387 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
391 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
392 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
394 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
395 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
396 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
400 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
401 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
406 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
408 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
409 (requested by Graham Borland).
410 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
411 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
412 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
416 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
417 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
418 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
419 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
423 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
424 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
425 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
426 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
427 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
428 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
429 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
430 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
431 - Lots of code tidying.
436 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
437 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
441 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
443 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
445 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
449 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
450 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
454 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
455 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
459 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
460 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
464 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
465 option to access it directly.
469 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
470 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
471 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
475 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
476 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
477 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
478 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
479 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
480 when the filer is run.
484 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
485 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
486 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
491 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
495 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
496 title bar (Stephen Watson).
500 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
502 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
506 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
510 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
511 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
512 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
517 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
518 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
519 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
520 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
521 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
522 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
523 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
527 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
531 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
532 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
536 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
537 of possible actions (Taras).
538 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
540 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
541 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
545 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
550 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
554 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
557 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
558 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
562 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
563 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
565 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
567 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
568 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
569 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
570 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
574 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
578 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
582 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
586 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
591 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
592 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
594 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
598 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
602 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
603 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
604 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
608 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
609 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
610 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
615 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
616 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
617 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
621 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
623 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
628 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
633 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
637 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
638 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
642 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
644 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
645 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
649 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
653 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
654 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
658 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
659 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
663 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
664 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
666 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
668 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
672 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
676 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
677 (requested by Jim Knoble).
681 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
685 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
690 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
691 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
695 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
699 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
703 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
705 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
706 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
710 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
711 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
715 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
716 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
717 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
721 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
722 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
726 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
727 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
729 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
731 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
735 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
736 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
737 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
739 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
740 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
742 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
744 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
745 and the default size with no details.
749 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
750 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
754 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
759 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
764 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
768 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
773 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
774 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
778 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
782 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
783 the button to run it does.
784 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
785 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
786 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
790 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
791 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
792 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
796 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
800 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
801 and panels into icon.c.
805 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
806 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
807 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
808 and Vincent Lefèvre).
812 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
814 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
816 Updated the documentation.
820 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
821 up if they're too small.
825 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
827 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
829 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
834 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
835 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
839 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
840 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
844 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
845 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
846 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
851 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
856 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
860 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
861 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
866 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
871 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
872 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
876 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
877 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
881 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
885 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
889 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
893 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
894 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
897 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
898 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
903 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
904 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
905 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
906 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
911 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
912 held over the item (Denis Manente).
914 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
916 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
917 for non-applications.
921 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
922 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
927 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
931 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
932 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
934 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
938 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
939 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
943 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
944 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
948 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
949 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
953 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
954 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
956 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
957 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
961 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
962 standard output (Stephen Watson).
964 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
968 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
969 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
972 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
976 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
977 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
981 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
985 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
986 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
989 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
990 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
994 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
998 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1003 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1007 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1008 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1013 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1018 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1022 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1024 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1026 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1027 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1029 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1031 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1032 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1036 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1037 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1038 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1040 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1041 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1045 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1049 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1050 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1054 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1058 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1059 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1061 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1064 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1065 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1066 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1070 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1071 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1076 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1081 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1083 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1086 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1088 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1089 sensible shape itself now.
1091 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1092 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1093 file at all, just a reused inode!
1094 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1095 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1096 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1100 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1104 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1105 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1110 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1111 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1115 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1119 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1120 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1124 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1129 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1133 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1134 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1138 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1139 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1140 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1141 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1142 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1146 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1147 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1148 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1149 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1150 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1154 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1155 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1156 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1160 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1162 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1163 python's portable system.
1164 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1165 set the LANG variable.
1169 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1170 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1172 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1174 Made a few updates to the manual.
1178 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1179 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1181 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1183 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1184 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1188 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1189 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1193 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1194 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1199 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1200 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1201 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1205 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1206 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1210 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1211 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1215 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1216 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1218 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1219 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1220 open... (Denis Manente).
1224 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1228 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1230 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1231 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1232 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1234 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1236 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1238 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1239 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1244 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1245 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1246 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1250 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1251 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1255 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1259 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1263 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1264 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1265 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1269 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1270 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1271 between pinboards...
1273 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1274 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1275 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1279 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1282 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1283 window (Denis Manente).
1285 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1286 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1290 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1291 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1292 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1296 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1299 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1300 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1302 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1307 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1308 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1310 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1314 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1315 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1317 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1319 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1324 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1325 the icon points to as well as its name.
1327 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1328 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1332 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1333 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1334 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1335 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1339 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1343 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1344 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1345 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1349 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1350 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1352 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1353 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1356 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1357 the item after the drag.
1359 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1360 showing where the file really is.
1364 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1365 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1370 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1371 warning is displayed if so.
1373 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1377 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1378 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1379 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1380 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1383 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1384 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1385 works like the panels.
1389 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1390 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1391 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1392 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1393 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1397 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1398 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1399 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1400 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1402 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1407 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1411 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1412 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1415 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1416 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1418 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1421 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1422 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1423 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1424 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1426 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1428 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1429 slightly. Updated the manual.
1431 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1432 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1435 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1436 or bottom panel to make room.
1440 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1445 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1446 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1447 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1448 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1449 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1453 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
1455 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
1456 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
1458 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
1462 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
1463 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
1467 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
1471 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
1473 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
1478 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
1479 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
1481 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
1485 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
1486 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
1487 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
1491 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
1492 rewriting the panel system.
1496 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
1499 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
1500 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
1504 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
1505 (suggested by James Kermode).
1509 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
1510 than as a full path.
1512 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
1514 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
1515 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
1516 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
1520 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
1521 mounted/unmounted state changed.
1525 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
1526 rename something onto another filesystem.
1530 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
1532 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
1533 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
1537 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
1541 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
1544 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
1545 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
1547 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
1550 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
1555 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
1556 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
1557 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
1559 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
1560 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
1562 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
1563 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
1568 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
1569 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
1574 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
1575 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
1576 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
1578 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
1579 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
1580 of the 'missing image' image.
1584 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
1586 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
1588 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
1593 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
1594 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
1595 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
1596 its name into another program.
1598 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
1602 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
1604 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
1605 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
1606 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
1608 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
1609 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
1610 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
1613 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
1614 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
1618 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
1619 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
1620 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
1624 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
1625 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
1626 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
1630 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
1631 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
1632 and position the icons directly.
1636 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
1641 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
1642 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
1643 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
1647 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
1651 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
1652 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
1656 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
1661 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
1665 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
1666 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
1667 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
1668 some versions of GTK+.
1672 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
1677 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
1678 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
1679 from a sub-sub-menu.
1681 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
1682 drawn on a log scale.
1686 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
1687 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
1688 happy with the UI yet though...
1690 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
1691 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
1692 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
1696 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
1697 by Stephen Harrison).
1699 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
1701 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
1702 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
1703 standard types are in Choices.
1704 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
1706 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
1707 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
1708 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
1713 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
1714 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
1715 shell command minibuffer.
1719 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
1720 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
1721 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
1722 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
1723 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1725 Default search path for Choices is now:
1726 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
1728 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
1729 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
1730 buffering so all this will get changed then...
1734 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
1735 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
1739 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
1740 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
1741 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
1746 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
1747 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
1748 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
1751 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
1753 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
1754 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
1755 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
1757 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
1758 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
1762 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
1763 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
1764 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
1765 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
1770 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
1771 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
1772 an empty directory caused odd effects.
1774 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
1776 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
1777 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
1781 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
1782 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
1783 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
1788 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
1789 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
1792 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
1794 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
1799 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
1804 Added GNU gettext support.
1805 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
1809 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
1811 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
1813 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
1818 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
1822 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
1823 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
1825 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
1826 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
1831 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
1832 onto the directory and winks the file.
1836 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
1837 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
1838 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
1840 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
1841 instead of random values.
1842 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
1844 Applied Bernard's patch:
1845 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
1846 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
1847 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
1848 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
1849 it the RISC OS way...
1850 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
1851 alignment corrected.
1852 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
1857 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
1861 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
1862 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
1866 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
1867 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
1868 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
1869 - Option to only display one window per directory.
1870 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
1871 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
1872 - Errors in options are only reported once.
1873 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
1874 in the file(1) says... box).
1877 Before the Changes file
1878 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1879 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
1881 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
1882 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
1883 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
1884 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
1885 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD