2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
5 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
7 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
8 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
12 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
16 Misc changes for next release.
20 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
21 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
25 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
26 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
27 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
28 Watson, reported on #rox).
32 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
33 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
37 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
38 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
42 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
43 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
47 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
48 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
53 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
57 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (Arnaud Calvo).
58 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
63 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
67 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
68 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
72 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
73 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
77 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
81 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
86 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
87 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
89 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
90 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
94 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
95 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
99 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
104 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
109 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
110 support not being detected (igla).
114 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
118 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
119 dialog (Stephen Watson).
123 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
127 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
128 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
129 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
130 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
133 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
135 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
136 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
140 New icon for selection ops.
144 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
148 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
152 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
156 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
157 Added icon theme selector.
161 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
165 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
169 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
170 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
174 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
175 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
176 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
180 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
181 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
185 Allow ejecting mounted media.
189 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
190 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
191 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
195 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
199 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
200 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
205 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
206 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
210 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
211 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
215 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
216 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
220 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
224 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
225 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
226 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
230 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
234 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
235 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
236 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
237 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
241 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
242 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
244 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
248 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
252 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
253 bits (Stephen Watson).
257 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
261 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
265 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
266 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
270 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
274 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
275 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
280 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
281 forward them explicitly.
285 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
286 help from Götz Waschk).
290 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
291 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
292 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
296 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
300 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
304 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
308 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
309 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
311 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
313 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
317 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
319 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
321 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
325 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
326 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
327 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
328 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
332 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
336 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
340 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
344 Minor updates to the manual.
345 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
346 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
350 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
351 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
353 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
355 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
356 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
360 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
361 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
362 reduce flickering effect.
366 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
370 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
372 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
376 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
377 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
378 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
379 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
380 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
384 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
385 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
389 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
393 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
398 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
399 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
403 Winking now works in List view.
407 Lasso selections now work in List view.
411 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
412 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
416 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
417 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
419 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
421 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
425 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
429 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
430 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
432 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
436 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
437 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
441 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
443 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
447 Centre the image for iconified windows.
448 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
452 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
454 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
458 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
462 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
463 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
468 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
469 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
471 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
473 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
475 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
479 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
483 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
484 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
488 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
493 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
494 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
498 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
500 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
502 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
503 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
508 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
512 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
513 (suggested by Michael Adams).
514 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
515 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
516 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
517 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
518 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
520 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
524 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
529 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
530 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
534 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
535 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
536 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
537 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
542 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
543 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
544 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
545 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
546 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
547 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
548 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
549 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
550 talent can do something better?
551 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
552 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
556 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
557 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
558 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
563 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
565 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
566 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
567 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
568 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
569 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
570 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
571 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
572 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
573 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
574 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
575 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
576 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
577 label wasn't hidden / shown.
581 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
582 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
583 allow fine repositioning.
584 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
585 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
586 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
587 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
589 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
590 changing the aspect ratio.
594 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
598 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
602 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
603 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
604 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
608 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
612 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
617 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
618 make sharing icons easier.
619 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
623 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
624 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
628 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
632 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
634 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
638 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
643 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
648 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
649 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
651 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
652 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
653 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
654 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
658 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
659 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
663 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
667 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
669 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
674 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
675 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
677 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
681 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
682 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
684 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
686 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
690 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
691 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
696 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
700 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
701 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
702 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
706 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
707 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
711 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
715 Preserve selection when changing view type.
716 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
720 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
721 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
722 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
726 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
730 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
731 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
732 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
733 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
735 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
736 the information in the tooltips anyway.
740 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
741 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
745 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
750 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
751 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
755 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
759 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
760 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
761 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
762 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
767 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
768 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
769 Always use case-insensitive sort.
773 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
777 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
778 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
782 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
783 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
784 since it didn't include the contents.
785 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
786 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
790 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
794 Style improvements to options window.
798 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
802 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
804 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
806 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
811 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
812 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
813 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
814 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
818 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
822 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
826 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
827 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
831 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
833 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
838 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
842 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
843 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
844 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
849 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
853 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
857 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
861 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
865 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
866 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
867 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
871 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
872 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
876 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
877 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
882 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
886 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
890 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
895 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
896 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
900 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
901 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
906 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
907 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
911 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
912 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
913 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
917 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
921 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
922 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
923 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
924 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
925 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
929 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
930 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
934 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
935 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
939 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
943 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
944 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
945 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
946 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
947 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
948 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
952 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
953 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
954 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
958 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
959 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
964 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
968 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
970 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
972 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
977 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
981 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
985 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
986 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
991 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
995 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
999 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1000 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1001 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1005 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1009 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1014 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1018 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1019 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1020 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1021 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1025 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1029 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1030 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1034 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1035 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1036 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1040 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1044 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1048 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1049 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1050 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1051 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1052 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1053 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1057 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1058 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1062 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1063 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1064 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1068 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1069 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1073 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1077 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1078 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1079 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1080 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1082 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1084 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1088 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1089 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1090 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1094 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1098 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1099 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1104 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1108 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1112 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1113 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1117 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1118 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1119 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1123 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1124 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1128 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1129 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1133 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1134 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1138 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1142 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1143 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1147 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1149 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1151 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1155 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1159 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1160 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1164 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1168 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1172 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1173 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1174 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1175 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1176 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1177 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1181 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1185 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1187 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1188 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1192 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1193 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1197 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1201 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1202 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1203 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1204 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1206 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1208 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1212 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1213 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1217 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1218 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1219 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1223 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1224 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1225 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1226 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1227 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1228 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1229 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1233 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1234 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1238 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1242 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1246 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1251 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1255 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1256 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1257 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1261 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1262 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1263 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1267 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1268 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1269 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1273 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1274 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1278 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1283 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1284 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1285 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1286 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1287 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1289 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1290 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1294 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1298 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1299 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1300 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1301 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1305 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1306 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1307 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1308 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1309 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1310 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1314 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1318 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1319 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1323 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1324 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1325 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1326 restart (Olli Helenius).
1330 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1334 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1335 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1336 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1341 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1346 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1347 Small and Large sizes.
1351 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1355 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1356 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1360 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1361 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1362 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1363 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1367 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1368 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1369 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1374 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1379 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1380 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1384 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1385 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1390 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1392 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1394 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1398 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1402 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1404 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1406 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1410 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1412 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1413 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1417 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1418 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1422 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1423 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1427 Various speed improvements.
1428 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1432 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1433 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1437 Slight speed increase when starting.
1441 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1445 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1446 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1447 button is no longer supported.
1451 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1455 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1459 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1464 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1465 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1469 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1470 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1471 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1475 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1476 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1477 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1478 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1482 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1483 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1484 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1486 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1491 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1492 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1497 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1501 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1502 and converted to new dialog style.
1506 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1507 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1511 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1512 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1516 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1520 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1522 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1526 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1530 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1531 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1532 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1536 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1537 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1541 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1546 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1550 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1551 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1555 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1556 and Cancel is now Revert.
1557 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1558 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1562 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1566 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1567 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1569 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1570 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1571 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1572 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1576 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1578 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1579 labels display them.
1580 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1583 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1587 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1589 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1593 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1594 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1595 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1599 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1600 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1602 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1604 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1608 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1609 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1613 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1614 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1615 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1616 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1620 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1624 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1625 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1629 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1630 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1635 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1636 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1640 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1641 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1642 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1646 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1647 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1651 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1652 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1653 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1654 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1656 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1661 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1662 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1664 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1666 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1670 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1671 any image (saves time).
1672 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1673 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1674 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1675 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1677 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1678 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1682 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1683 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1685 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1686 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1688 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1693 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1694 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1695 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1696 has stopped accepting STRING.
1700 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1701 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1705 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1710 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1711 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1713 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1714 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1715 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1719 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1720 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1721 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1722 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1723 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1724 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1728 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1729 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1730 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1731 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1732 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1733 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1738 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1739 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1740 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1741 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1746 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1747 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1751 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1752 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1754 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1756 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1757 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1758 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1762 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1763 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1764 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1768 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1769 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1773 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1774 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1778 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1780 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1785 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1786 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1790 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1791 their menus correctly.
1792 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1797 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1798 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1799 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1803 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1804 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1808 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1812 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1815 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1817 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1818 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1819 the toggle menu items from working!
1823 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1825 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1831 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1832 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1836 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1837 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1838 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1839 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1840 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1841 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1845 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1849 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1850 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1854 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1855 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1856 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1860 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1861 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1866 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1868 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1872 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1873 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1874 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1875 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1879 Improved error reporting.
1880 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1884 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1885 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1886 check box and does 'Yes'.
1890 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1891 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1892 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1893 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1898 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1900 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1901 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1903 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1905 Internal changes to options system:
1906 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1907 filer is fully initialised).
1908 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1910 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1912 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1913 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1914 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1915 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1919 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1920 now reclaims the selection.
1921 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1922 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1927 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1928 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1929 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1930 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1931 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1935 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1936 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1938 Code tidying in various places.
1942 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1943 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1948 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1949 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1953 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1954 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1955 edit the file, not the file itself!
1956 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1960 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1961 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1962 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1963 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1964 of the SOAP working draft.
1965 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1966 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1967 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1972 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1973 it was in the displayed area before.
1975 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1978 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1979 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1983 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1984 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1985 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1987 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1988 selection (Andras Mohari).
1992 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1996 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2000 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2001 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2002 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2006 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2010 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2012 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2013 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2014 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2018 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2019 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2024 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2025 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2026 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2030 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2034 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2038 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2039 replaced by a Restart button.
2043 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2044 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2048 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2052 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2056 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2057 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2058 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2062 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2063 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2065 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2066 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2067 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2071 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2072 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2077 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2079 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2080 (requested by Graham Borland).
2081 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2082 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2083 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2087 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2088 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2089 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2090 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2094 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2095 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2096 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2097 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2098 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2099 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2100 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2101 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2102 - Lots of code tidying.
2107 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2108 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2112 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2114 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2116 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2120 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2121 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2125 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2126 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2130 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2131 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2135 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2136 option to access it directly.
2140 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2141 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2142 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2146 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2147 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2148 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2149 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2150 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2151 when the filer is run.
2155 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2156 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2157 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2162 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2166 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2167 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2171 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2173 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2177 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2181 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2182 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2183 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2188 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2189 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2190 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2191 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2192 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2193 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2194 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2198 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2202 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2203 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2207 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2208 of possible actions (Taras).
2209 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2211 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2212 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2216 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2221 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2225 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2228 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2229 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2233 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2234 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2236 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2238 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2239 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2240 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2241 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2245 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2249 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2253 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2257 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2262 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2263 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2264 the first one found.
2265 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2269 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2273 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2274 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2275 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2279 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2280 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2281 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2286 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2287 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2288 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2292 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2294 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2299 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2304 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2308 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2309 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2313 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2315 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2316 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2320 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2324 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2325 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2329 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2330 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2334 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2335 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2337 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2339 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2343 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2347 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2348 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2352 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2356 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2361 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2362 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2366 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2370 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2374 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2376 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2377 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2381 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2382 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2386 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2387 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2388 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2392 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2393 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2397 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2398 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2400 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2402 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2406 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2407 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2408 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2410 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2411 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2413 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2415 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2416 and the default size with no details.
2420 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2421 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2425 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2430 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2435 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2439 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2444 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2445 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2449 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2453 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2454 the button to run it does.
2455 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2456 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2457 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2461 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2462 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2463 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2467 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2471 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2472 and panels into icon.c.
2476 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2477 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2478 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2479 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2483 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2485 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2487 Updated the documentation.
2491 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2492 up if they're too small.
2496 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2498 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2499 (Christopher Arndt).
2500 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2505 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2506 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2510 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2511 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2515 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2516 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2517 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2522 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2527 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2531 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2532 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2537 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2542 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2543 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2547 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2548 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2552 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2556 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2560 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2564 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2565 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2568 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2569 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2574 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2575 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2576 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2577 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2582 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2583 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2585 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2587 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2588 for non-applications.
2592 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2593 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2598 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2602 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2603 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2605 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2609 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2610 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2614 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2615 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2619 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2620 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2624 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2625 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2627 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2628 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2632 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2633 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2635 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2639 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2640 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2643 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2647 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2648 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2652 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2656 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2657 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2660 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2661 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2665 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2669 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2674 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2678 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2679 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2684 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2689 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2693 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2695 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2697 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2698 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2700 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2702 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2703 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2707 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2708 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2709 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2711 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2712 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2716 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2720 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2721 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2725 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2729 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2730 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2732 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2735 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2736 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2737 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2741 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2742 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2747 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2752 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2754 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2757 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2759 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2760 sensible shape itself now.
2762 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2763 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2764 file at all, just a reused inode!
2765 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2766 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2767 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2771 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2775 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2776 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2781 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2782 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2786 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2790 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2791 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2795 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2800 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2804 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2805 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2809 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2810 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2811 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2812 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2813 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2817 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2818 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2819 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2820 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2821 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2825 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2826 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2827 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2831 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2833 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2834 python's portable system.
2835 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2836 set the LANG variable.
2840 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2841 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2843 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2845 Made a few updates to the manual.
2849 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2850 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2852 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2854 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2855 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2859 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2860 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2864 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2865 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2870 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2871 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2872 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2876 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2877 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2881 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2882 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2886 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2887 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2889 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2890 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2891 open... (Denis Manente).
2895 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2899 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2901 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2902 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2903 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2905 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2907 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2909 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2910 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2915 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2916 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2917 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2921 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2922 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2926 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2930 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2934 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2935 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2936 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2940 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2941 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2942 between pinboards...
2944 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2945 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2946 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2950 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2953 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2954 window (Denis Manente).
2956 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2957 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2961 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2962 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2963 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2967 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2970 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2971 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2973 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2978 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2979 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2981 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2985 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2986 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2988 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2990 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2995 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2996 the icon points to as well as its name.
2998 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2999 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3003 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3004 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3005 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3006 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3010 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3014 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3015 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3016 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3020 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3021 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3023 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3024 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3027 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3028 the item after the drag.
3030 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3031 showing where the file really is.
3035 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3036 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3041 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3042 warning is displayed if so.
3044 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3048 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3049 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3050 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3051 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3054 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3055 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3056 works like the panels.
3060 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3061 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3062 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3063 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3064 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3068 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3069 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3070 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3071 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3073 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3078 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3082 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3083 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3086 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3087 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3089 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3092 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3093 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3094 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3095 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3097 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3099 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3100 slightly. Updated the manual.
3102 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3103 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3106 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3107 or bottom panel to make room.
3111 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3116 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3117 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3118 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3119 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3120 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3124 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3126 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3127 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3129 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3133 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3134 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3138 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3142 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3144 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3149 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3150 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3152 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3156 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3157 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3158 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3162 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3163 rewriting the panel system.
3167 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3170 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3171 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3175 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3176 (suggested by James Kermode).
3180 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3181 than as a full path.
3183 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3185 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3186 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3187 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3191 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3192 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3196 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3197 rename something onto another filesystem.
3201 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3203 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3204 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3208 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3212 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3215 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3216 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3218 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3221 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3226 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3227 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3228 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3230 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3231 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3233 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3234 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3239 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3240 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3245 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3246 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3247 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3249 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3250 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3251 of the 'missing image' image.
3255 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3257 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3259 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3264 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3265 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3266 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3267 its name into another program.
3269 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3273 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3275 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3276 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3277 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3279 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3280 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3281 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3284 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3285 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3289 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3290 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3291 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3295 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3296 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3297 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3301 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3302 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3303 and position the icons directly.
3307 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3312 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3313 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3314 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3318 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3322 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3323 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3327 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3332 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3336 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3337 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3338 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3339 some versions of GTK+.
3343 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3348 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3349 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3350 from a sub-sub-menu.
3352 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3353 drawn on a log scale.
3357 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3358 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3359 happy with the UI yet though...
3361 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3362 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3363 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3367 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3368 by Stephen Harrison).
3370 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3372 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3373 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3374 standard types are in Choices.
3375 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3377 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3378 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3379 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3384 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3385 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3386 shell command minibuffer.
3390 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3391 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3392 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3393 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3394 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3396 Default search path for Choices is now:
3397 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3399 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3400 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3401 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3405 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3406 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3410 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3411 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3412 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3417 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3418 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3419 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3422 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3424 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3425 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3426 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3428 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3429 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3433 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3434 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3435 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3436 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3441 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3442 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3443 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3445 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3447 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3448 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3452 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3453 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3454 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3459 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3460 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3463 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3465 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3470 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3475 Added GNU gettext support.
3476 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3480 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3482 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3484 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3489 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3493 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3494 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3496 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3497 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3502 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3503 onto the directory and winks the file.
3507 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3508 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3509 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3511 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3512 instead of random values.
3513 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3515 Applied Bernard's patch:
3516 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3517 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3518 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3519 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3520 it the RISC OS way...
3521 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3522 alignment corrected.
3523 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3528 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3532 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3533 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3537 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3538 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3539 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3540 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3541 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3542 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3543 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3544 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3545 in the file(1) says... box).
3548 Before the Changes file
3549 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3550 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3552 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3553 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3554 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3555 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3556 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD