2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
11 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
15 Various speed improvements.
16 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
20 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
21 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
25 Slight speed increase when starting.
29 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
33 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
34 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
35 button is no longer supported.
39 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
43 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
47 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
52 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
53 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
57 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
58 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
59 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
63 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
64 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
65 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
66 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
70 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
71 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
72 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
74 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
79 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
80 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
85 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
89 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
90 and converted to new dialog style.
94 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
95 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
99 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
100 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
104 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
108 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
110 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
114 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
118 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
119 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
120 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
124 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
125 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
129 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
134 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
138 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
139 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
143 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
144 and Cancel is now Revert.
145 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
146 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
150 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
154 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
155 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
157 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
158 (reported by Serban Udrea).
159 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
160 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
164 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
166 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
168 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
171 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
175 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
177 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
181 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
182 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
183 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
187 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
188 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
190 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
192 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
196 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
197 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
201 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
202 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
203 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
204 (requested by Andras Mohari).
208 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
212 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
213 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
217 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
218 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
223 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
224 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
228 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
229 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
230 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
234 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
235 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
239 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
240 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
241 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
242 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
244 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
249 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
250 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
252 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
254 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
258 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
259 any image (saves time).
260 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
261 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
262 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
263 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
265 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
266 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
270 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
271 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
273 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
274 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
276 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
281 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
282 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
283 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
284 has stopped accepting STRING.
288 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
289 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
293 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
298 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
299 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
301 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
302 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
303 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
307 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
308 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
309 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
310 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
311 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
312 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
316 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
317 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
318 Allow '~' in globicons file.
319 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
320 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
321 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
326 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
327 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
328 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
329 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
334 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
335 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
339 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
340 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
342 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
344 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
345 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
346 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
350 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
351 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
352 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
356 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
357 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
361 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
362 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
366 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
368 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
373 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
374 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
378 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
379 their menus correctly.
380 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
385 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
386 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
387 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
391 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
392 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
396 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
400 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
403 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
405 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
406 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
407 the toggle menu items from working!
411 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
413 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
419 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
420 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
424 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
425 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
426 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
427 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
428 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
429 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
433 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
437 File groups are now saved (automatically).
438 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
442 Added Version SOAP RPC.
443 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
444 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
448 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
449 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
454 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
456 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
460 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
461 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
462 bar is displayed in the filer window.
463 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
467 Improved error reporting.
468 Improved sizing code when details are on.
472 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
473 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
474 check box and does 'Yes'.
478 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
479 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
480 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
481 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
486 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
488 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
489 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
491 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
493 Internal changes to options system:
494 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
495 filer is fully initialised).
496 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
498 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
500 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
501 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
502 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
503 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
507 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
508 now reclaims the selection.
509 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
510 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
515 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
516 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
517 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
518 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
519 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
523 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
524 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
526 Code tidying in various places.
530 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
531 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
536 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
537 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
541 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
542 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
543 edit the file, not the file itself!
544 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
548 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
549 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
550 (recommended by Jens Finke).
551 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
552 of the SOAP working draft.
553 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
554 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
555 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
560 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
561 it was in the displayed area before.
563 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
566 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
567 winking effect until the window actually appears.
571 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
572 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
573 Kristian A. Rink and others).
575 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
576 selection (Andras Mohari).
580 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
584 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
588 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
589 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
590 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
594 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
598 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
600 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
601 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
602 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
606 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
607 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
612 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
613 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
614 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
618 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
622 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
626 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
627 replaced by a Restart button.
631 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
632 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
636 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
640 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
644 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
645 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
646 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
650 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
651 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
653 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
654 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
655 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
659 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
660 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
665 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
667 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
668 (requested by Graham Borland).
669 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
670 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
671 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
675 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
676 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
677 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
678 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
682 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
683 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
684 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
685 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
686 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
687 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
688 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
689 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
690 - Lots of code tidying.
695 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
696 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
700 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
702 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
704 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
708 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
709 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
713 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
714 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
718 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
719 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
723 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
724 option to access it directly.
728 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
729 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
730 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
734 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
735 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
736 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
737 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
738 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
739 when the filer is run.
743 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
744 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
745 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
750 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
754 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
755 title bar (Stephen Watson).
759 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
761 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
765 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
769 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
770 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
771 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
776 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
777 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
778 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
779 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
780 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
781 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
782 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
786 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
790 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
791 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
795 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
796 of possible actions (Taras).
797 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
799 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
800 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
804 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
809 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
813 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
816 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
817 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
821 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
822 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
824 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
826 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
827 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
828 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
829 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
833 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
837 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
841 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
845 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
850 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
851 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
853 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
857 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
861 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
862 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
863 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
867 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
868 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
869 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
874 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
875 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
876 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
880 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
882 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
887 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
892 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
896 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
897 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
901 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
903 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
904 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
908 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
912 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
913 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
917 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
918 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
922 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
923 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
925 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
927 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
931 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
935 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
936 (requested by Jim Knoble).
940 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
944 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
949 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
950 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
954 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
958 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
962 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
964 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
965 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
969 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
970 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
974 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
975 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
976 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
980 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
981 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
985 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
986 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
988 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
990 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
994 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
995 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
996 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
998 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
999 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1001 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1003 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1004 and the default size with no details.
1008 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1009 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1013 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1018 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1023 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1027 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1032 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1033 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1037 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1041 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1042 the button to run it does.
1043 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1044 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1045 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1049 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1050 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1051 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1055 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1059 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1060 and panels into icon.c.
1064 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1065 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1066 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1067 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1071 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1073 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1075 Updated the documentation.
1079 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1080 up if they're too small.
1084 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1086 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1087 (Christopher Arndt).
1088 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1093 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1094 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1098 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1099 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1103 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1104 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1105 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1110 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1115 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1119 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1120 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1125 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1130 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1131 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1135 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1136 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1140 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1144 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1148 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1152 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1153 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1156 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1157 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1162 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1163 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1164 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1165 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1170 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1171 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1173 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1175 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1176 for non-applications.
1180 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1181 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1186 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1190 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1191 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1193 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1197 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1198 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1202 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1203 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1207 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1208 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1212 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1213 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1215 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1216 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1220 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1221 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1223 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1227 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1228 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1231 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1235 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1236 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1240 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1244 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1245 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1248 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1249 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1253 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1257 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1262 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1266 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1267 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1272 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1277 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1281 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1283 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1285 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1286 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1288 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1290 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1291 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1295 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1296 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1297 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1299 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1300 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1304 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1308 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1309 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1313 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1317 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1318 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1320 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1323 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1324 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1325 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1329 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1330 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1335 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1340 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1342 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1345 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1347 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1348 sensible shape itself now.
1350 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1351 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1352 file at all, just a reused inode!
1353 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1354 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1355 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1359 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1363 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1364 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1369 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1370 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1374 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1378 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1379 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1383 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1388 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1392 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1393 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1397 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1398 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1399 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1400 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1401 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1405 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1406 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1407 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1408 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1409 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1413 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1414 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1415 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1419 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1421 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1422 python's portable system.
1423 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1424 set the LANG variable.
1428 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1429 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1431 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1433 Made a few updates to the manual.
1437 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1438 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1440 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1442 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1443 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1447 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1448 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1452 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1453 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1458 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1459 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1460 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1464 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1465 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1469 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1470 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1474 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1475 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1477 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1478 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1479 open... (Denis Manente).
1483 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1487 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1489 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1490 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1491 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1493 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1495 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1497 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1498 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1503 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1504 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1505 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1509 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1510 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1514 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1518 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1522 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1523 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1524 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1528 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1529 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1530 between pinboards...
1532 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1533 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1534 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1538 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1541 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1542 window (Denis Manente).
1544 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1545 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1549 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1550 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1551 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1555 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1558 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1559 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1561 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1566 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1567 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1569 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1573 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1574 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1576 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1578 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1583 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1584 the icon points to as well as its name.
1586 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1587 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1591 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1592 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1593 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1594 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1598 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1602 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1603 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1604 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1608 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1609 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1611 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1612 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1615 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1616 the item after the drag.
1618 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1619 showing where the file really is.
1623 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1624 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1629 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1630 warning is displayed if so.
1632 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1636 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1637 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1638 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1639 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1642 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1643 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1644 works like the panels.
1648 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1649 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1650 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1651 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1652 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1656 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1657 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1658 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1659 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1661 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1666 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1670 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1671 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1674 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1675 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1677 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1680 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1681 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1682 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1683 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1685 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1687 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1688 slightly. Updated the manual.
1690 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1691 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1694 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1695 or bottom panel to make room.
1699 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1704 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1705 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1706 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1707 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1708 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1712 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
1714 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
1715 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
1717 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
1721 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
1722 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
1726 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
1730 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
1732 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
1737 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
1738 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
1740 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
1744 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
1745 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
1746 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
1750 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
1751 rewriting the panel system.
1755 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
1758 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
1759 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
1763 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
1764 (suggested by James Kermode).
1768 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
1769 than as a full path.
1771 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
1773 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
1774 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
1775 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
1779 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
1780 mounted/unmounted state changed.
1784 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
1785 rename something onto another filesystem.
1789 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
1791 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
1792 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
1796 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
1800 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
1803 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
1804 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
1806 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
1809 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
1814 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
1815 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
1816 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
1818 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
1819 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
1821 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
1822 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
1827 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
1828 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
1833 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
1834 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
1835 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
1837 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
1838 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
1839 of the 'missing image' image.
1843 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
1845 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
1847 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
1852 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
1853 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
1854 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
1855 its name into another program.
1857 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
1861 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
1863 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
1864 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
1865 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
1867 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
1868 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
1869 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
1872 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
1873 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
1877 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
1878 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
1879 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
1883 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
1884 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
1885 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
1889 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
1890 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
1891 and position the icons directly.
1895 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
1900 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
1901 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
1902 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
1906 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
1910 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
1911 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
1915 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
1920 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
1924 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
1925 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
1926 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
1927 some versions of GTK+.
1931 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
1936 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
1937 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
1938 from a sub-sub-menu.
1940 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
1941 drawn on a log scale.
1945 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
1946 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
1947 happy with the UI yet though...
1949 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
1950 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
1951 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
1955 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
1956 by Stephen Harrison).
1958 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
1960 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
1961 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
1962 standard types are in Choices.
1963 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
1965 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
1966 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
1967 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
1972 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
1973 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
1974 shell command minibuffer.
1978 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
1979 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
1980 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
1981 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
1982 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1984 Default search path for Choices is now:
1985 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
1987 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
1988 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
1989 buffering so all this will get changed then...
1993 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
1994 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
1998 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
1999 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2000 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2005 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2006 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2007 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2010 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2012 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2013 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2014 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2016 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2017 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2021 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2022 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2023 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2024 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2029 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2030 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2031 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2033 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2035 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2036 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2040 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2041 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2042 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2047 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2048 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2051 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2053 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2058 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2063 Added GNU gettext support.
2064 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2068 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2070 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2072 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2077 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2081 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2082 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2084 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2085 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2090 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2091 onto the directory and winks the file.
2095 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2096 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2097 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2099 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2100 instead of random values.
2101 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2103 Applied Bernard's patch:
2104 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2105 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2106 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2107 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2108 it the RISC OS way...
2109 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2110 alignment corrected.
2111 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2116 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2120 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2121 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2125 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2126 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2127 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2128 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2129 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2130 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2131 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2132 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2133 in the file(1) says... box).
2136 Before the Changes file
2137 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2138 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2140 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2141 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2142 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2143 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2144 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD