2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
8 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
9 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
13 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
14 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
19 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
23 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
25 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
27 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
32 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
36 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
40 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
41 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
46 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
50 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
54 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
55 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
56 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
60 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
64 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
69 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
73 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
74 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
75 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
76 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
80 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
84 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
85 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
89 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
90 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
91 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
95 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
99 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
103 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
104 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
105 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
106 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
107 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
108 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
112 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
113 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
117 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
118 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
119 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
123 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
124 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
128 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
132 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
133 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
134 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
135 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
137 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
139 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
143 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
144 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
145 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
149 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
153 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
154 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
159 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
163 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
167 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
168 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
172 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
173 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
174 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
178 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
179 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
183 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
184 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
188 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
189 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
193 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
197 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
198 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
202 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
204 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
206 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
210 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
214 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
215 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
219 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
223 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
227 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
228 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
229 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
230 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
231 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
232 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
236 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
240 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
242 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
243 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
247 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
248 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
252 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
256 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
257 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
258 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
259 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
261 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
263 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
267 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
268 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
272 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
273 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
274 disappeared at the wrong moment.
278 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
279 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
280 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
281 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
282 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
283 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
284 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
288 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
289 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
293 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
297 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
301 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
306 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
310 Options to set iconification layout policy.
311 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
312 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
316 Pinboard background colour option works again.
317 Position iconified windows sensibly.
318 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
322 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
323 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
324 (requested by Ryan Harris).
328 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
329 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
333 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
338 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
339 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
340 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
341 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
342 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
344 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
345 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
349 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
353 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
354 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
355 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
356 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
360 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
361 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
362 Many improvements to the pinboard:
363 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
364 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
365 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
369 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
373 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
374 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
378 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
379 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
380 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
381 restart (Olli Helenius).
385 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
389 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
390 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
391 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
396 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
401 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
402 Small and Large sizes.
406 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
410 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
411 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
415 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
416 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
417 (requested by Gregory Spath).
418 Don't quit while Options window is open.
422 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
423 the window (requested by Ashwin).
424 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
429 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
434 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
435 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
439 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
440 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
445 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
447 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
449 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
453 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
457 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
459 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
461 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
465 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
467 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
468 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
472 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
473 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
477 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
478 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
482 Various speed improvements.
483 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
487 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
488 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
492 Slight speed increase when starting.
496 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
500 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
501 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
502 button is no longer supported.
506 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
510 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
514 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
519 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
520 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
524 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
525 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
526 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
530 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
531 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
532 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
533 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
537 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
538 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
539 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
541 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
546 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
547 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
552 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
556 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
557 and converted to new dialog style.
561 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
562 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
566 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
567 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
571 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
575 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
577 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
581 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
585 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
586 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
587 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
591 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
592 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
596 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
601 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
605 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
606 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
610 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
611 and Cancel is now Revert.
612 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
613 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
617 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
621 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
622 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
624 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
625 (reported by Serban Udrea).
626 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
627 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
631 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
633 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
635 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
638 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
642 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
644 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
648 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
649 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
650 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
654 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
655 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
657 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
659 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
663 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
664 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
668 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
669 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
670 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
671 (requested by Andras Mohari).
675 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
679 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
680 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
684 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
685 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
690 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
691 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
695 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
696 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
697 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
701 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
702 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
706 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
707 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
708 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
709 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
711 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
716 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
717 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
719 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
721 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
725 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
726 any image (saves time).
727 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
728 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
729 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
730 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
732 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
733 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
737 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
738 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
740 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
741 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
743 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
748 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
749 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
750 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
751 has stopped accepting STRING.
755 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
756 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
760 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
765 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
766 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
768 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
769 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
770 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
774 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
775 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
776 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
777 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
778 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
779 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
783 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
784 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
785 Allow '~' in globicons file.
786 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
787 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
788 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
793 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
794 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
795 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
796 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
801 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
802 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
806 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
807 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
809 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
811 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
812 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
813 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
817 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
818 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
819 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
823 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
824 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
828 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
829 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
833 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
835 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
840 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
841 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
845 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
846 their menus correctly.
847 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
852 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
853 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
854 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
858 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
859 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
863 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
867 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
870 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
872 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
873 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
874 the toggle menu items from working!
878 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
880 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
886 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
887 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
891 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
892 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
893 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
894 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
895 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
896 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
900 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
904 File groups are now saved (automatically).
905 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
909 Added Version SOAP RPC.
910 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
911 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
915 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
916 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
921 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
923 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
927 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
928 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
929 bar is displayed in the filer window.
930 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
934 Improved error reporting.
935 Improved sizing code when details are on.
939 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
940 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
941 check box and does 'Yes'.
945 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
946 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
947 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
948 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
953 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
955 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
956 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
958 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
960 Internal changes to options system:
961 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
962 filer is fully initialised).
963 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
965 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
967 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
968 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
969 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
970 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
974 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
975 now reclaims the selection.
976 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
977 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
982 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
983 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
984 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
985 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
986 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
990 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
991 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
993 Code tidying in various places.
997 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
998 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1003 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1004 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1008 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1009 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1010 edit the file, not the file itself!
1011 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1015 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1016 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1017 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1018 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1019 of the SOAP working draft.
1020 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1021 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1022 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1027 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1028 it was in the displayed area before.
1030 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1033 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1034 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1038 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1039 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1040 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1042 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1043 selection (Andras Mohari).
1047 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1051 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1055 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1056 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1057 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1061 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1065 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1067 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1068 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1069 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1073 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1074 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1079 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1080 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1081 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1085 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1089 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1093 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1094 replaced by a Restart button.
1098 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1099 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1103 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1107 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1111 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1112 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1113 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1117 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1118 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1120 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1121 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1122 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1126 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1127 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1132 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1134 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1135 (requested by Graham Borland).
1136 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1137 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1138 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1142 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1143 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1144 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1145 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1149 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1150 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1151 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1152 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1153 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1154 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1155 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1156 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1157 - Lots of code tidying.
1162 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1163 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1167 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1169 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1171 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1175 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1176 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1180 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1181 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1185 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1186 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1190 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1191 option to access it directly.
1195 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1196 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1197 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1201 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1202 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1203 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1204 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1205 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1206 when the filer is run.
1210 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1211 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1212 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1217 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1221 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1222 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1226 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1228 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1232 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1236 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1237 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1238 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1243 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1244 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1245 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1246 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1247 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1248 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1249 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1253 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1257 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1258 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1262 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1263 of possible actions (Taras).
1264 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1266 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1267 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1271 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1276 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1280 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1283 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1284 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1288 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1289 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1291 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1293 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1294 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1295 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1296 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1300 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1304 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1308 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1312 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1317 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1318 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1319 the first one found.
1320 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1324 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1328 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1329 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1330 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1334 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1335 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1336 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1341 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1342 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1343 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1347 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1349 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1354 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1359 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1363 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1364 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1368 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1370 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1371 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1375 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1379 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1380 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1384 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1385 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1389 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1390 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1392 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1394 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1398 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1402 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1403 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1407 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1411 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1416 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1417 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1421 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1425 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1429 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1431 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1432 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1436 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1437 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1441 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1442 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1443 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1447 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1448 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1452 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1453 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1455 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1457 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1461 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1462 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1463 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1465 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1466 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1468 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1470 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1471 and the default size with no details.
1475 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1476 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1480 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1485 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1490 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1494 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1499 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1500 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1504 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1508 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1509 the button to run it does.
1510 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1511 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1512 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1516 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1517 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1518 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1522 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1526 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1527 and panels into icon.c.
1531 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1532 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1533 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1534 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1538 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1540 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1542 Updated the documentation.
1546 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1547 up if they're too small.
1551 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1553 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1554 (Christopher Arndt).
1555 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1560 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1561 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1565 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1566 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1570 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1571 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1572 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1577 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1582 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1586 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1587 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1592 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1597 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1598 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1602 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1603 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1607 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1611 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1615 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1619 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1620 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1623 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1624 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1629 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1630 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1631 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1632 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1637 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1638 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1640 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1642 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1643 for non-applications.
1647 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1648 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1653 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1657 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1658 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1660 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1664 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1665 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1669 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1670 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1674 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1675 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1679 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1680 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1682 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1683 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1687 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1688 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1690 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1694 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1695 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1698 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1702 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1703 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1707 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1711 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1712 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1715 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1716 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1720 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1724 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1729 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1733 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1734 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1739 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1744 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1748 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1750 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1752 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1753 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1755 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1757 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1758 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1762 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1763 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1764 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1766 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1767 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1771 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1775 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1776 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1780 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1784 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1785 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1787 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1790 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1791 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1792 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1796 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1797 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1802 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1807 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1809 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1812 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1814 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1815 sensible shape itself now.
1817 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1818 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1819 file at all, just a reused inode!
1820 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1821 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1822 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1826 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1830 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1831 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1836 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1837 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1841 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1845 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1846 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1850 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1855 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1859 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1860 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1864 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1865 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1866 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1867 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1868 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1872 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1873 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1874 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1875 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1876 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1880 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1881 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1882 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1886 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1888 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1889 python's portable system.
1890 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1891 set the LANG variable.
1895 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1896 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1898 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1900 Made a few updates to the manual.
1904 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1905 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1907 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1909 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1910 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1914 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1915 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1919 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1920 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1925 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1926 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1927 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1931 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1932 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1936 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1937 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1941 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1942 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1944 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1945 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1946 open... (Denis Manente).
1950 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1954 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1956 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1957 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1958 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1960 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1962 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1964 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1965 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1970 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1971 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1972 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1976 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1977 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1981 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1985 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1989 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1990 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1991 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1995 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1996 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1997 between pinboards...
1999 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2000 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2001 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2005 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2008 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2009 window (Denis Manente).
2011 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2012 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2016 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2017 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2018 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2022 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2025 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2026 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2028 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2033 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2034 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2036 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2040 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2041 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2043 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2045 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2050 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2051 the icon points to as well as its name.
2053 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2054 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2058 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2059 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2060 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2061 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2065 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2069 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2070 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2071 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2075 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2076 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2078 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2079 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2082 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2083 the item after the drag.
2085 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2086 showing where the file really is.
2090 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2091 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2096 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2097 warning is displayed if so.
2099 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2103 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2104 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2105 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2106 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2109 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2110 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2111 works like the panels.
2115 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2116 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2117 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2118 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2119 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2123 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2124 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2125 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2126 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2128 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2133 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2137 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2138 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2141 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2142 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2144 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2147 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2148 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2149 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2150 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2152 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2154 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2155 slightly. Updated the manual.
2157 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2158 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2161 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2162 or bottom panel to make room.
2166 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2171 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2172 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2173 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2174 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2175 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2179 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2181 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2182 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2184 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2188 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2189 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2193 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2197 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2199 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2204 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2205 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2207 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2211 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2212 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2213 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2217 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2218 rewriting the panel system.
2222 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2225 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2226 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2230 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2231 (suggested by James Kermode).
2235 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2236 than as a full path.
2238 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2240 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2241 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2242 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2246 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2247 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2251 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2252 rename something onto another filesystem.
2256 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2258 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2259 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2263 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2267 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2270 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2271 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2273 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2276 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2281 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2282 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2283 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2285 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2286 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2288 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2289 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2294 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2295 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2300 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2301 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2302 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2304 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2305 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2306 of the 'missing image' image.
2310 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2312 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2314 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2319 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2320 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2321 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2322 its name into another program.
2324 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2328 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2330 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2331 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2332 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2334 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2335 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2336 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2339 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2340 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2344 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2345 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2346 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2350 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2351 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2352 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2356 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2357 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2358 and position the icons directly.
2362 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2367 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2368 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2369 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2373 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2377 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2378 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2382 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2387 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2391 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2392 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2393 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2394 some versions of GTK+.
2398 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2403 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2404 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2405 from a sub-sub-menu.
2407 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2408 drawn on a log scale.
2412 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2413 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2414 happy with the UI yet though...
2416 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2417 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2418 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2422 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2423 by Stephen Harrison).
2425 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2427 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2428 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2429 standard types are in Choices.
2430 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2432 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2433 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2434 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2439 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2440 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2441 shell command minibuffer.
2445 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2446 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2447 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2448 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2449 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2451 Default search path for Choices is now:
2452 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2454 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2455 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2456 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2460 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2461 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2465 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2466 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2467 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2472 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2473 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2474 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2477 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2479 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2480 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2481 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2483 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2484 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2488 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2489 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2490 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2491 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2496 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2497 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2498 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2500 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2502 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2503 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2507 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2508 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2509 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2514 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2515 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2518 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2520 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2525 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2530 Added GNU gettext support.
2531 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2535 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2537 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2539 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2544 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2548 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2549 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2551 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2552 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2557 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2558 onto the directory and winks the file.
2562 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2563 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2564 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2566 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2567 instead of random values.
2568 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2570 Applied Bernard's patch:
2571 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2572 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2573 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2574 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2575 it the RISC OS way...
2576 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2577 alignment corrected.
2578 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2583 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2587 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2588 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2592 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2593 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2594 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2595 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2596 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2597 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2598 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2599 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2600 in the file(1) says... box).
2603 Before the Changes file
2604 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2605 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2607 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2608 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2609 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2610 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2611 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD