2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
12 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
16 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
20 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
21 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
26 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
30 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
34 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
35 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
36 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
40 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
44 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
49 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
53 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
54 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
55 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
56 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
60 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
64 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
65 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
69 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
70 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
71 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
75 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
79 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
83 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
84 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
85 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
86 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
87 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
88 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
92 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
93 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
97 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
98 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
99 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
103 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
104 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
108 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
112 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
113 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
114 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
115 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
117 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
119 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
123 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
124 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
125 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
129 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
133 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
134 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
139 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
143 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
147 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
148 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
152 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
153 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
154 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
158 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
159 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
163 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
164 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
168 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
169 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
173 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
177 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
178 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
182 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
184 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
186 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
190 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
194 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
195 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
199 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
203 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
207 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
208 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
209 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
210 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
211 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
212 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
216 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
220 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
222 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
223 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
227 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
228 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
232 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
236 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
237 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
238 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
239 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
241 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
243 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
247 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
248 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
252 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
253 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
254 disappeared at the wrong moment.
258 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
259 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
260 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
261 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
262 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
263 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
264 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
268 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
269 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
273 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
277 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
281 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
286 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
290 Options to set iconification layout policy.
291 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
292 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
296 Pinboard background colour option works again.
297 Position iconified windows sensibly.
298 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
302 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
303 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
304 (requested by Ryan Harris).
308 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
309 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
313 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
318 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
319 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
320 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
321 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
322 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
324 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
325 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
329 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
333 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
334 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
335 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
336 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
340 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
341 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
342 Many improvements to the pinboard:
343 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
344 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
345 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
349 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
353 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
354 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
358 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
359 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
360 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
361 restart (Olli Helenius).
365 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
369 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
370 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
371 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
376 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
381 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
382 Small and Large sizes.
386 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
390 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
391 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
395 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
396 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
397 (requested by Gregory Spath).
398 Don't quit while Options window is open.
402 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
403 the window (requested by Ashwin).
404 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
409 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
414 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
415 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
419 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
420 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
425 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
427 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
429 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
433 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
437 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
439 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
441 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
445 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
447 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
448 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
452 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
453 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
457 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
458 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
462 Various speed improvements.
463 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
467 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
468 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
472 Slight speed increase when starting.
476 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
480 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
481 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
482 button is no longer supported.
486 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
490 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
494 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
499 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
500 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
504 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
505 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
506 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
510 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
511 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
512 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
513 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
517 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
518 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
519 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
521 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
526 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
527 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
532 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
536 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
537 and converted to new dialog style.
541 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
542 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
546 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
547 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
551 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
555 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
557 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
561 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
565 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
566 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
567 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
571 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
572 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
576 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
581 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
585 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
586 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
590 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
591 and Cancel is now Revert.
592 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
593 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
597 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
601 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
602 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
604 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
605 (reported by Serban Udrea).
606 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
607 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
611 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
613 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
615 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
618 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
622 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
624 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
628 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
629 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
630 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
634 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
635 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
637 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
639 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
643 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
644 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
648 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
649 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
650 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
651 (requested by Andras Mohari).
655 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
659 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
660 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
664 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
665 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
670 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
671 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
675 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
676 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
677 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
681 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
682 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
686 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
687 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
688 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
689 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
691 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
696 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
697 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
699 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
701 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
705 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
706 any image (saves time).
707 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
708 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
709 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
710 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
712 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
713 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
717 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
718 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
720 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
721 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
723 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
728 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
729 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
730 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
731 has stopped accepting STRING.
735 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
736 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
740 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
745 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
746 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
748 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
749 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
750 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
754 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
755 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
756 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
757 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
758 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
759 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
763 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
764 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
765 Allow '~' in globicons file.
766 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
767 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
768 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
773 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
774 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
775 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
776 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
781 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
782 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
786 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
787 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
789 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
791 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
792 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
793 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
797 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
798 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
799 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
803 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
804 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
808 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
809 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
813 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
815 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
820 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
821 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
825 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
826 their menus correctly.
827 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
832 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
833 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
834 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
838 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
839 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
843 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
847 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
850 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
852 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
853 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
854 the toggle menu items from working!
858 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
860 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
866 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
867 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
871 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
872 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
873 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
874 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
875 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
876 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
880 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
884 File groups are now saved (automatically).
885 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
889 Added Version SOAP RPC.
890 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
891 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
895 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
896 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
901 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
903 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
907 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
908 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
909 bar is displayed in the filer window.
910 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
914 Improved error reporting.
915 Improved sizing code when details are on.
919 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
920 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
921 check box and does 'Yes'.
925 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
926 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
927 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
928 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
933 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
935 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
936 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
938 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
940 Internal changes to options system:
941 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
942 filer is fully initialised).
943 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
945 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
947 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
948 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
949 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
950 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
954 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
955 now reclaims the selection.
956 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
957 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
962 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
963 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
964 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
965 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
966 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
970 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
971 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
973 Code tidying in various places.
977 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
978 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
983 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
984 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
988 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
989 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
990 edit the file, not the file itself!
991 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
995 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
996 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
997 (recommended by Jens Finke).
998 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
999 of the SOAP working draft.
1000 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1001 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1002 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1007 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1008 it was in the displayed area before.
1010 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1013 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1014 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1018 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1019 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1020 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1022 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1023 selection (Andras Mohari).
1027 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1031 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1035 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1036 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1037 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1041 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1045 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1047 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1048 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1049 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1053 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1054 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1059 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1060 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1061 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1065 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1069 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1073 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1074 replaced by a Restart button.
1078 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1079 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1083 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1087 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1091 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1092 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1093 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1097 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1098 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1100 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1101 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1102 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1106 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1107 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1112 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1114 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1115 (requested by Graham Borland).
1116 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1117 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1118 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1122 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1123 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1124 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1125 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1129 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1130 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1131 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1132 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1133 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1134 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1135 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1136 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1137 - Lots of code tidying.
1142 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1143 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1147 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1149 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1151 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1155 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1156 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1160 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1161 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1165 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1166 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1170 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1171 option to access it directly.
1175 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1176 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1177 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1181 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1182 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1183 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1184 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1185 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1186 when the filer is run.
1190 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1191 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1192 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1197 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1201 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1202 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1206 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1208 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1212 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1216 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1217 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1218 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1223 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1224 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1225 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1226 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1227 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1228 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1229 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1233 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1237 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1238 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1242 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1243 of possible actions (Taras).
1244 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1246 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1247 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1251 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1256 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1260 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1263 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1264 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1268 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1269 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1271 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1273 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1274 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1275 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1276 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1280 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1284 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1288 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1292 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1297 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1298 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1299 the first one found.
1300 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1304 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1308 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1309 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1310 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1314 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1315 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1316 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1321 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1322 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1323 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1327 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1329 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1334 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1339 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1343 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1344 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1348 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1350 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1351 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1355 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1359 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1360 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1364 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1365 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1369 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1370 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1372 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1374 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1378 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1382 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1383 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1387 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1391 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1396 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1397 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1401 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1405 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1409 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1411 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1412 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1416 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1417 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1421 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1422 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1423 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1427 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1428 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1432 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1433 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1435 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1437 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1441 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1442 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1443 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1445 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1446 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1448 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1450 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1451 and the default size with no details.
1455 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1456 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1460 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1465 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1470 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1474 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1479 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1480 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1484 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1488 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1489 the button to run it does.
1490 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1491 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1492 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1496 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1497 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1498 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1502 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1506 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1507 and panels into icon.c.
1511 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1512 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1513 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1514 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1518 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1520 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1522 Updated the documentation.
1526 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1527 up if they're too small.
1531 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1533 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1534 (Christopher Arndt).
1535 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1540 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1541 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1545 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1546 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1550 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1551 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1552 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1557 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1562 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1566 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1567 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1572 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1577 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1578 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1582 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1583 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1587 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1591 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1595 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1599 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1600 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1603 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1604 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1609 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1610 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1611 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1612 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1617 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1618 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1620 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1622 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1623 for non-applications.
1627 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1628 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1633 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1637 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1638 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1640 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1644 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1645 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1649 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1650 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1654 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1655 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1659 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1660 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1662 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1663 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1667 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1668 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1670 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1674 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1675 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1678 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1682 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1683 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1687 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1691 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1692 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1695 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1696 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1700 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1704 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1709 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1713 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1714 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1719 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1724 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1728 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1730 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1732 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1733 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1735 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1737 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1738 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1742 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1743 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1744 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1746 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1747 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1751 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1755 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1756 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1760 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1764 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1765 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1767 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1770 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1771 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1772 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1776 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1777 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1782 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1787 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1789 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1792 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1794 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1795 sensible shape itself now.
1797 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1798 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1799 file at all, just a reused inode!
1800 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1801 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1802 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1806 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1810 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1811 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1816 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1817 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1821 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1825 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1826 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1830 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1835 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1839 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1840 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1844 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1845 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1846 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1847 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1848 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1852 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1853 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1854 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1855 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1856 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1860 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1861 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1862 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1866 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1868 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1869 python's portable system.
1870 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1871 set the LANG variable.
1875 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1876 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1878 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1880 Made a few updates to the manual.
1884 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1885 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1887 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1889 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1890 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1894 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1895 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1899 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1900 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1905 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1906 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1907 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1911 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1912 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1916 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1917 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1921 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1922 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1924 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1925 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1926 open... (Denis Manente).
1930 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1934 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1936 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1937 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1938 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1940 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1942 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1944 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1945 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1950 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1951 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1952 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1956 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1957 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1961 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1965 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1969 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1970 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1971 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1975 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1976 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1977 between pinboards...
1979 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1980 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1981 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1985 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1988 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1989 window (Denis Manente).
1991 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1992 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1996 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1997 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1998 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2002 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2005 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2006 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2008 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2013 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2014 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2016 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2020 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2021 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2023 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2025 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2030 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2031 the icon points to as well as its name.
2033 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2034 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2038 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2039 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2040 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2041 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2045 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2049 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2050 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2051 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2055 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2056 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2058 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2059 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2062 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2063 the item after the drag.
2065 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2066 showing where the file really is.
2070 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2071 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2076 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2077 warning is displayed if so.
2079 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2083 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2084 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2085 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2086 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2089 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2090 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2091 works like the panels.
2095 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2096 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2097 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2098 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2099 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2103 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2104 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2105 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2106 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2108 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2113 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2117 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2118 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2121 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2122 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2124 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2127 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2128 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2129 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2130 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2132 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2134 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2135 slightly. Updated the manual.
2137 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2138 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2141 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2142 or bottom panel to make room.
2146 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2151 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2152 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2153 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2154 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2155 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2159 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2161 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2162 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2164 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2168 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2169 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2173 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2177 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2179 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2184 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2185 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2187 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2191 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2192 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2193 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2197 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2198 rewriting the panel system.
2202 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2205 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2206 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2210 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2211 (suggested by James Kermode).
2215 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2216 than as a full path.
2218 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2220 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2221 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2222 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2226 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2227 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2231 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2232 rename something onto another filesystem.
2236 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2238 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2239 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2243 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2247 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2250 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2251 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2253 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2256 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2261 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2262 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2263 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2265 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2266 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2268 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2269 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2274 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2275 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2280 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2281 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2282 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2284 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2285 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2286 of the 'missing image' image.
2290 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2292 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2294 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2299 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2300 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2301 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2302 its name into another program.
2304 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2308 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2310 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2311 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2312 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2314 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2315 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2316 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2319 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2320 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2324 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2325 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2326 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2330 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2331 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2332 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2336 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2337 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2338 and position the icons directly.
2342 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2347 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2348 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2349 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2353 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2357 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2358 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2362 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2367 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2371 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2372 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2373 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2374 some versions of GTK+.
2378 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2383 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2384 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2385 from a sub-sub-menu.
2387 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2388 drawn on a log scale.
2392 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2393 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2394 happy with the UI yet though...
2396 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2397 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2398 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2402 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2403 by Stephen Harrison).
2405 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2407 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2408 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2409 standard types are in Choices.
2410 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2412 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2413 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2414 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2419 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2420 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2421 shell command minibuffer.
2425 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2426 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2427 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2428 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2429 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2431 Default search path for Choices is now:
2432 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2434 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2435 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2436 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2440 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2441 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2445 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2446 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2447 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2452 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2453 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2454 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2457 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2459 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2460 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2461 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2463 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2464 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2468 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2469 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2470 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2471 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2476 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2477 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2478 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2480 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2482 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2483 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2487 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2488 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2489 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2494 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2495 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2498 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2500 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2505 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2510 Added GNU gettext support.
2511 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2515 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2517 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2519 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2524 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2528 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2529 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2531 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2532 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2537 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2538 onto the directory and winks the file.
2542 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2543 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2544 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2546 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2547 instead of random values.
2548 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2550 Applied Bernard's patch:
2551 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2552 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2553 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2554 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2555 it the RISC OS way...
2556 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2557 alignment corrected.
2558 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2563 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2567 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2568 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2572 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2573 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2574 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2575 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2576 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2577 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2578 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2579 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2580 in the file(1) says... box).
2583 Before the Changes file
2584 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2585 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2587 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2588 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2589 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2590 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2591 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD