2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier OPhinney).
11 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
15 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
19 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
20 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
22 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
24 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
28 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
30 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
32 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
36 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
37 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
38 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
39 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
43 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
47 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
51 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
55 Minor updates to the manual.
56 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
57 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
61 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
62 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
64 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
66 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
67 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
71 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
72 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
73 reduce flickering effect.
77 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
81 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
83 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
87 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
88 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
89 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
90 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
91 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
95 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
96 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
100 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
104 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
109 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
110 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
114 Winking now works in List view.
118 Lasso selections now work in List view.
122 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
123 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
127 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
128 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
130 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
132 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
136 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
140 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
141 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
143 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
147 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
148 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
152 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
154 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
158 Centre the image for iconified windows.
159 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
163 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
165 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
169 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
173 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
174 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
179 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
180 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
182 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
184 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
186 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
190 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
194 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
195 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
199 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
204 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
205 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
209 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
211 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
213 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
214 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
219 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
223 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
224 (suggested by Michael Adams).
225 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
226 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
227 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
228 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
229 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
231 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
235 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
240 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
241 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
245 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
246 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
247 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
248 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
253 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
254 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
255 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
256 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
257 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
258 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
259 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
260 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
261 talent can do something better?
262 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
263 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
267 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
268 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
269 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
274 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
276 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
277 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
278 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
279 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
280 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
281 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
282 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
283 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
284 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
285 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
286 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
287 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
288 label wasn't hidden / shown.
292 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
293 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
294 allow fine repositioning.
295 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
296 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
297 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
298 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
300 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
301 changing the aspect ratio.
305 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
309 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
313 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
314 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
315 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
319 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
323 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
328 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
329 make sharing icons easier.
330 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
334 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
335 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
339 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
343 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
345 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
349 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
354 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
359 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
360 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
362 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
363 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
364 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
365 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
369 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
370 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
374 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
378 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
380 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
385 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
386 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
388 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
392 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
393 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
395 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
397 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
401 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
402 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
407 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
411 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
412 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
413 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
417 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
418 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
422 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
426 Preserve selection when changing view type.
427 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
431 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
432 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
433 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
437 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
441 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
442 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
443 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
444 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
446 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
447 the information in the tooltips anyway.
451 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
452 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
456 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
461 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
462 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
466 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
470 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
471 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
472 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
473 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
478 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
479 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
480 Always use case-insensitive sort.
484 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
488 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
489 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
493 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
494 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
495 since it didn't include the contents.
496 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
497 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
501 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
505 Style improvements to options window.
509 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
513 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
515 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
517 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
522 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
523 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
524 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
525 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
529 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
533 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
537 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
538 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
542 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
544 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
549 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
553 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
554 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
555 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
560 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
564 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
568 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
572 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
576 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
577 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
578 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
582 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
583 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
587 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
588 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
593 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
597 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
601 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
606 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
607 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
611 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
612 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
617 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
618 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
622 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
623 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
624 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
628 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
632 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
633 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
634 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
635 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
636 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
640 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
641 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
645 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
646 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
650 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
654 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
655 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
656 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
657 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
658 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
659 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
663 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
664 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
665 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
669 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
670 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
675 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
679 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
681 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
683 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
688 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
692 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
696 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
697 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
702 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
706 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
710 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
711 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
712 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
716 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
720 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
725 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
729 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
730 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
731 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
732 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
736 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
740 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
741 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
745 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
746 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
747 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
751 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
755 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
759 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
760 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
761 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
762 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
763 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
764 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
768 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
769 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
773 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
774 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
775 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
779 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
780 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
784 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
788 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
789 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
790 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
791 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
793 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
795 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
799 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
800 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
801 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
805 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
809 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
810 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
815 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
819 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
823 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
824 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
828 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
829 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
830 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
834 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
835 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
839 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
840 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
844 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
845 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
849 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
853 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
854 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
858 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
860 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
862 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
866 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
870 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
871 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
875 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
879 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
883 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
884 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
885 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
886 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
887 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
888 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
892 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
896 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
898 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
899 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
903 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
904 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
908 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
912 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
913 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
914 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
915 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
917 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
919 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
923 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
924 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
928 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
929 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
930 disappeared at the wrong moment.
934 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
935 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
936 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
937 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
938 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
939 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
940 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
944 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
945 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
949 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
953 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
957 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
962 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
966 Options to set iconification layout policy.
967 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
968 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
972 Pinboard background colour option works again.
973 Position iconified windows sensibly.
974 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
978 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
979 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
980 (requested by Ryan Harris).
984 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
985 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
989 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
994 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
995 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
996 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
997 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
998 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1000 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1001 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1005 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1009 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1010 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1011 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1012 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1016 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1017 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1018 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1019 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1020 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1021 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1025 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1029 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1030 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1034 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1035 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1036 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1037 restart (Olli Helenius).
1041 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1045 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1046 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1047 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1052 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1057 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1058 Small and Large sizes.
1062 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1066 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1067 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1071 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1072 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1073 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1074 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1078 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1079 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1080 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1085 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1090 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1091 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1095 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1096 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1101 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1103 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1105 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1109 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1113 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1115 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1117 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1121 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1123 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1124 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1128 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1129 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1133 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1134 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1138 Various speed improvements.
1139 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1143 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1144 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1148 Slight speed increase when starting.
1152 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1156 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1157 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1158 button is no longer supported.
1162 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1166 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1170 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1175 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1176 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1180 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1181 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1182 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1186 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1187 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1188 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1189 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1193 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1194 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1195 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1197 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1202 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1203 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1208 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1212 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1213 and converted to new dialog style.
1217 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1218 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1222 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1223 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1227 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1231 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1233 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1237 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1241 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1242 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1243 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1247 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1248 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1252 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1257 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1261 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1262 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1266 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1267 and Cancel is now Revert.
1268 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1269 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1273 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1277 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1278 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1280 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1281 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1282 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1283 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1287 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1289 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1290 labels display them.
1291 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1294 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1298 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1300 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1304 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1305 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1306 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1310 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1311 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1313 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1315 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1319 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1320 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1324 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1325 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1326 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1327 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1331 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1335 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1336 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1340 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1341 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1346 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1347 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1351 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1352 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1353 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1357 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1358 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1362 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1363 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1364 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1365 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1367 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1372 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1373 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1375 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1377 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1381 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1382 any image (saves time).
1383 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1384 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1385 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1386 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1388 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1389 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1393 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1394 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1396 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1397 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1399 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1404 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1405 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1406 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1407 has stopped accepting STRING.
1411 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1412 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1416 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1421 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1422 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1424 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1425 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1426 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1430 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1431 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1432 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1433 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1434 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1435 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1439 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1440 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1441 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1442 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1443 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1444 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1449 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1450 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1451 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1452 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1457 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1458 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1462 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1463 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1465 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1467 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1468 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1469 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1473 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1474 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1475 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1479 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1480 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1484 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1485 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1489 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1491 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1496 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1497 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1501 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1502 their menus correctly.
1503 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1508 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1509 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1510 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1514 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1515 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1519 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1523 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1526 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1528 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1529 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1530 the toggle menu items from working!
1534 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1536 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1542 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1543 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1547 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1548 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1549 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1550 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1551 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1552 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1556 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1560 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1561 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1565 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1566 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1567 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1571 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1572 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1577 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1579 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1583 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1584 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1585 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1586 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1590 Improved error reporting.
1591 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1595 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1596 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1597 check box and does 'Yes'.
1601 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1602 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1603 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1604 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1609 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1611 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1612 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1614 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1616 Internal changes to options system:
1617 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1618 filer is fully initialised).
1619 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1621 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1623 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1624 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1625 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1626 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1630 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1631 now reclaims the selection.
1632 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1633 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1638 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1639 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1640 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1641 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1642 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1646 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1647 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1649 Code tidying in various places.
1653 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1654 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1659 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1660 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1664 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1665 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1666 edit the file, not the file itself!
1667 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1671 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1672 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1673 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1674 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1675 of the SOAP working draft.
1676 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1677 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1678 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1683 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1684 it was in the displayed area before.
1686 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1689 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1690 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1694 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1695 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1696 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1698 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1699 selection (Andras Mohari).
1703 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1707 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1711 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1712 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1713 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1717 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1721 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1723 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1724 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1725 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1729 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1730 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1735 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1736 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1737 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1741 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1745 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1749 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1750 replaced by a Restart button.
1754 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1755 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1759 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1763 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1767 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1768 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1769 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1773 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1774 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1776 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1777 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1778 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1782 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1783 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1788 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1790 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1791 (requested by Graham Borland).
1792 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1793 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1794 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1798 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1799 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1800 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1801 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1805 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1806 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1807 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1808 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1809 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1810 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1811 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1812 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1813 - Lots of code tidying.
1818 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1819 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1823 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1825 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1827 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1831 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1832 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1836 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1837 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1841 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1842 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1846 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1847 option to access it directly.
1851 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1852 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1853 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1857 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1858 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1859 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1860 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1861 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1862 when the filer is run.
1866 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1867 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1868 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1873 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1877 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1878 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1882 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1884 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1888 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1892 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1893 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1894 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1899 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1900 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1901 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1902 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1903 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1904 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1905 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1909 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1913 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1914 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1918 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1919 of possible actions (Taras).
1920 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1922 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1923 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1927 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1932 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1936 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1939 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1940 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1944 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1945 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1947 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1949 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1950 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1951 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1952 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1956 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1960 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1964 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1968 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1973 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1974 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1975 the first one found.
1976 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1980 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1984 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1985 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1986 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1990 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1991 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1992 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1997 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1998 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1999 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2003 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2005 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2010 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2015 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2019 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2020 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2024 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2026 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2027 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2031 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2035 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2036 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2040 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2041 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2045 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2046 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2048 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2050 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2054 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2058 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2059 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2063 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2067 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2072 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2073 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2077 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2081 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2085 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2087 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2088 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2092 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2093 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2097 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2098 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2099 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2103 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2104 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2108 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2109 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2111 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2113 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2117 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2118 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2119 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2121 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2122 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2124 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2126 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2127 and the default size with no details.
2131 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2132 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2136 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2141 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2146 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2150 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2155 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2156 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2160 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2164 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2165 the button to run it does.
2166 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2167 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2168 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2172 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2173 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2174 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2178 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2182 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2183 and panels into icon.c.
2187 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2188 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2189 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2190 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2194 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2196 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2198 Updated the documentation.
2202 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2203 up if they're too small.
2207 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2209 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2210 (Christopher Arndt).
2211 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2216 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2217 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2221 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2222 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2226 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2227 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2228 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2233 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2238 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2242 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2243 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2248 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2253 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2254 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2258 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2259 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2263 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2267 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2271 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2275 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2276 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2279 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2280 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2285 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2286 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2287 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2288 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2293 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2294 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2296 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2298 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2299 for non-applications.
2303 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2304 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2309 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2313 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2314 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2316 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2320 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2321 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2325 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2326 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2330 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2331 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2335 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2336 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2338 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2339 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2343 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2344 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2346 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2350 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2351 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2354 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2358 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2359 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2363 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2367 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2368 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2371 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2372 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2376 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2380 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2385 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2389 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2390 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2395 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2400 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2404 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2406 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2408 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2409 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2411 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2413 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2414 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2418 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2419 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2420 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2422 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2423 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2427 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2431 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2432 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2436 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2440 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2441 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2443 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2446 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2447 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2448 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2452 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2453 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2458 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2463 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2465 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2468 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2470 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2471 sensible shape itself now.
2473 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2474 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2475 file at all, just a reused inode!
2476 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2477 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2478 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2482 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2486 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2487 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2492 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2493 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2497 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2501 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2502 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2506 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2511 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2515 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2516 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2520 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2521 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2522 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2523 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2524 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2528 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2529 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2530 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2531 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2532 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2536 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2537 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2538 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2542 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2544 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2545 python's portable system.
2546 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2547 set the LANG variable.
2551 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2552 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2554 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2556 Made a few updates to the manual.
2560 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2561 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2563 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2565 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2566 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2570 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2571 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2575 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2576 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2581 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2582 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2583 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2587 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2588 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2592 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2593 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2597 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2598 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2600 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2601 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2602 open... (Denis Manente).
2606 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2610 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2612 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2613 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2614 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2616 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2618 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2620 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2621 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2626 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2627 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2628 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2632 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2633 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2637 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2641 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2645 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2646 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2647 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2651 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2652 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2653 between pinboards...
2655 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2656 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2657 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2661 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2664 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2665 window (Denis Manente).
2667 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2668 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2672 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2673 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2674 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2678 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2681 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2682 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2684 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2689 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2690 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2692 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2696 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2697 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2699 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2701 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2706 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2707 the icon points to as well as its name.
2709 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2710 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2714 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2715 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2716 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2717 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2721 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2725 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2726 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2727 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2731 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2732 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2734 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2735 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2738 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2739 the item after the drag.
2741 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2742 showing where the file really is.
2746 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2747 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2752 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2753 warning is displayed if so.
2755 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2759 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2760 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2761 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2762 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2765 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2766 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2767 works like the panels.
2771 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2772 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2773 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2774 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2775 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2779 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2780 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2781 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2782 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2784 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2789 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2793 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2794 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2797 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2798 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2800 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2803 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2804 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2805 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2806 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2808 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2810 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2811 slightly. Updated the manual.
2813 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2814 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2817 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2818 or bottom panel to make room.
2822 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2827 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2828 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2829 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2830 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2831 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2835 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2837 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2838 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2840 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2844 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2845 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2849 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2853 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2855 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2860 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2861 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2863 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2867 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2868 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2869 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2873 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2874 rewriting the panel system.
2878 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2881 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2882 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2886 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2887 (suggested by James Kermode).
2891 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2892 than as a full path.
2894 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2896 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2897 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2898 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2902 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2903 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2907 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2908 rename something onto another filesystem.
2912 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2914 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2915 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2919 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2923 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2926 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2927 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2929 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2932 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2937 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2938 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2939 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2941 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2942 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2944 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2945 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2950 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2951 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2956 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2957 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2958 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2960 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2961 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2962 of the 'missing image' image.
2966 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2968 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2970 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2975 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2976 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2977 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2978 its name into another program.
2980 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2984 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2986 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2987 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2988 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2990 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2991 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2992 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2995 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2996 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3000 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3001 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3002 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3006 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3007 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3008 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3012 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3013 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3014 and position the icons directly.
3018 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3023 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3024 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3025 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3029 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3033 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3034 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3038 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3043 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3047 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3048 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3049 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3050 some versions of GTK+.
3054 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3059 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3060 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3061 from a sub-sub-menu.
3063 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3064 drawn on a log scale.
3068 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3069 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3070 happy with the UI yet though...
3072 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3073 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3074 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3078 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3079 by Stephen Harrison).
3081 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3083 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3084 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3085 standard types are in Choices.
3086 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3088 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3089 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3090 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3095 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3096 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3097 shell command minibuffer.
3101 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3102 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3103 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3104 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3105 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3107 Default search path for Choices is now:
3108 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3110 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3111 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3112 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3116 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3117 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3121 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3122 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3123 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3128 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3129 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3130 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3133 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3135 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3136 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3137 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3139 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3140 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3144 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3145 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3146 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3147 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3152 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3153 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3154 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3156 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3158 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3159 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3163 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3164 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3165 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3170 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3171 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3174 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3176 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3181 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3186 Added GNU gettext support.
3187 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3191 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3193 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3195 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3200 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3204 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3205 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3207 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3208 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3213 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3214 onto the directory and winks the file.
3218 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3219 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3220 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3222 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3223 instead of random values.
3224 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3226 Applied Bernard's patch:
3227 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3228 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3229 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3230 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3231 it the RISC OS way...
3232 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3233 alignment corrected.
3234 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3239 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3243 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3244 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3248 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3249 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3250 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3251 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3252 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3253 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3254 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3255 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3256 in the file(1) says... box).
3259 Before the Changes file
3260 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3261 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3263 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3264 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3265 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3266 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3267 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD