2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
9 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
11 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
15 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
16 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
20 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
21 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
22 disappeared at the wrong moment.
26 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
27 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
28 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
29 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
30 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
31 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
32 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
36 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
37 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
41 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
45 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
49 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
54 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
58 Options to set iconification layout policy.
59 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
60 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
64 Pinboard background colour option works again.
65 Position iconified windows sensibly.
66 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
70 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
71 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
72 (requested by Ryan Harris).
76 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
77 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
81 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
86 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
87 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
88 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
89 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
90 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
92 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
93 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
97 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
101 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
102 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
103 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
104 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
108 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
109 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
110 Many improvements to the pinboard:
111 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
112 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
113 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
117 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
121 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
122 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
126 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
127 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
128 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
129 restart (Olli Helenius).
133 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
137 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
138 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
139 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
144 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
149 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
150 Small and Large sizes.
154 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
158 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
159 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
163 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
164 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
165 (requested by Gregory Spath).
166 Don't quit while Options window is open.
170 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
171 the window (requested by Ashwin).
172 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
177 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
182 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
183 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
187 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
188 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
193 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
195 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
197 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
201 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
205 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
207 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
209 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
213 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
215 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
216 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
220 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
221 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
225 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
226 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
230 Various speed improvements.
231 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
235 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
236 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
240 Slight speed increase when starting.
244 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
248 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
249 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
250 button is no longer supported.
254 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
258 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
262 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
267 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
268 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
272 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
273 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
274 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
278 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
279 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
280 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
281 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
285 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
286 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
287 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
289 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
294 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
295 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
300 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
304 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
305 and converted to new dialog style.
309 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
310 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
314 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
315 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
319 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
323 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
325 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
329 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
333 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
334 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
335 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
339 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
340 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
344 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
349 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
353 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
354 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
358 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
359 and Cancel is now Revert.
360 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
361 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
365 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
369 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
370 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
372 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
373 (reported by Serban Udrea).
374 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
375 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
379 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
381 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
383 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
386 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
390 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
392 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
396 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
397 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
398 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
402 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
403 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
405 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
407 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
411 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
412 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
416 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
417 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
418 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
419 (requested by Andras Mohari).
423 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
427 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
428 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
432 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
433 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
438 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
439 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
443 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
444 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
445 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
449 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
450 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
454 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
455 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
456 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
457 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
459 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
464 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
465 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
467 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
469 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
473 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
474 any image (saves time).
475 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
476 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
477 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
478 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
480 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
481 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
485 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
486 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
488 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
489 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
491 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
496 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
497 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
498 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
499 has stopped accepting STRING.
503 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
504 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
508 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
513 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
514 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
516 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
517 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
518 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
522 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
523 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
524 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
525 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
526 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
527 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
531 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
532 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
533 Allow '~' in globicons file.
534 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
535 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
536 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
541 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
542 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
543 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
544 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
549 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
550 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
554 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
555 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
557 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
559 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
560 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
561 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
565 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
566 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
567 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
571 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
572 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
576 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
577 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
581 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
583 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
588 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
589 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
593 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
594 their menus correctly.
595 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
600 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
601 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
602 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
606 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
607 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
611 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
615 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
618 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
620 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
621 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
622 the toggle menu items from working!
626 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
628 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
634 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
635 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
639 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
640 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
641 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
642 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
643 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
644 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
648 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
652 File groups are now saved (automatically).
653 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
657 Added Version SOAP RPC.
658 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
659 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
663 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
664 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
669 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
671 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
675 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
676 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
677 bar is displayed in the filer window.
678 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
682 Improved error reporting.
683 Improved sizing code when details are on.
687 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
688 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
689 check box and does 'Yes'.
693 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
694 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
695 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
696 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
701 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
703 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
704 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
706 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
708 Internal changes to options system:
709 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
710 filer is fully initialised).
711 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
713 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
715 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
716 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
717 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
718 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
722 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
723 now reclaims the selection.
724 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
725 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
730 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
731 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
732 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
733 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
734 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
738 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
739 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
741 Code tidying in various places.
745 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
746 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
751 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
752 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
756 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
757 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
758 edit the file, not the file itself!
759 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
763 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
764 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
765 (recommended by Jens Finke).
766 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
767 of the SOAP working draft.
768 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
769 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
770 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
775 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
776 it was in the displayed area before.
778 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
781 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
782 winking effect until the window actually appears.
786 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
787 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
788 Kristian A. Rink and others).
790 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
791 selection (Andras Mohari).
795 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
799 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
803 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
804 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
805 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
809 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
813 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
815 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
816 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
817 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
821 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
822 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
827 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
828 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
829 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
833 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
837 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
841 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
842 replaced by a Restart button.
846 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
847 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
851 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
855 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
859 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
860 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
861 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
865 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
866 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
868 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
869 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
870 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
874 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
875 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
880 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
882 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
883 (requested by Graham Borland).
884 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
885 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
886 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
890 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
891 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
892 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
893 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
897 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
898 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
899 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
900 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
901 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
902 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
903 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
904 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
905 - Lots of code tidying.
910 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
911 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
915 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
917 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
919 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
923 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
924 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
928 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
929 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
933 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
934 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
938 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
939 option to access it directly.
943 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
944 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
945 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
949 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
950 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
951 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
952 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
953 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
954 when the filer is run.
958 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
959 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
960 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
965 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
969 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
970 title bar (Stephen Watson).
974 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
976 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
980 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
984 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
985 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
986 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
991 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
992 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
993 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
994 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
995 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
996 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
997 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1001 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1005 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1006 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1010 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1011 of possible actions (Taras).
1012 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1014 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1015 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1019 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1024 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1028 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1031 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1032 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1036 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1037 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1039 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1041 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1042 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1043 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1044 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1048 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1052 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1056 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1060 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1065 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1066 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1067 the first one found.
1068 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1072 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1076 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1077 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1078 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1082 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1083 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1084 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1089 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1090 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1091 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1095 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1097 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1102 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1107 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1111 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1112 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1116 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1118 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1119 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1123 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1127 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1128 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1132 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1133 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1137 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1138 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1140 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1142 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1146 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1150 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1151 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1155 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1159 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1164 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1165 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1169 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1173 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1177 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1179 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1180 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1184 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1185 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1189 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1190 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1191 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1195 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1196 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1200 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1201 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1203 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1205 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1209 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1210 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1211 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1213 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1214 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1216 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1218 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1219 and the default size with no details.
1223 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1224 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1228 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1233 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1238 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1242 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1247 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1248 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1252 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1256 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1257 the button to run it does.
1258 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1259 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1260 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1264 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1265 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1266 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1270 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1274 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1275 and panels into icon.c.
1279 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1280 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1281 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1282 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1286 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1288 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1290 Updated the documentation.
1294 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1295 up if they're too small.
1299 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1301 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1302 (Christopher Arndt).
1303 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1308 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1309 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1313 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1314 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1318 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1319 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1320 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1325 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1330 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1334 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1335 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1340 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1345 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1346 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1350 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1351 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1355 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1359 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1363 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1367 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1368 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1371 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1372 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1377 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1378 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1379 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1380 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1385 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1386 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1388 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1390 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1391 for non-applications.
1395 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1396 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1401 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1405 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1406 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1408 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1412 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1413 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1417 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1418 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1422 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1423 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1427 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1428 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1430 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1431 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1435 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1436 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1438 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1442 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1443 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1446 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1450 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1451 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1455 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1459 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1460 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1463 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1464 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1468 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1472 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1477 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1481 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1482 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1487 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1492 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1496 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1498 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1500 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1501 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1503 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1505 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1506 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1510 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1511 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1512 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1514 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1515 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1519 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1523 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1524 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1528 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1532 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1533 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1535 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1538 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1539 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1540 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1544 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1545 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1550 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1555 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1557 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1560 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1562 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1563 sensible shape itself now.
1565 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1566 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1567 file at all, just a reused inode!
1568 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1569 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1570 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1574 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1578 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1579 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1584 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1585 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1589 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1593 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1594 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1598 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1603 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1607 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1608 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1612 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1613 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1614 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1615 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1616 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1620 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1621 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1622 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1623 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1624 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1628 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1629 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1630 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1634 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1636 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1637 python's portable system.
1638 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1639 set the LANG variable.
1643 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1644 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1646 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1648 Made a few updates to the manual.
1652 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1653 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1655 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1657 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1658 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1662 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1663 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1667 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1668 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1673 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1674 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1675 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1679 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1680 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1684 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1685 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1689 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1690 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1692 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1693 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1694 open... (Denis Manente).
1698 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1702 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1704 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1705 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1706 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1708 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1710 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1712 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1713 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1718 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1719 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1720 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1724 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1725 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1729 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1733 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1737 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1738 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1739 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1743 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1744 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1745 between pinboards...
1747 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1748 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1749 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1753 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1756 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1757 window (Denis Manente).
1759 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1760 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1764 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1765 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1766 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1770 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1773 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1774 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1776 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1781 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1782 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1784 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1788 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1789 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1791 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1793 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1798 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1799 the icon points to as well as its name.
1801 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1802 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1806 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1807 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1808 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1809 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1813 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1817 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1818 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1819 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1823 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1824 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1826 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1827 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1830 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1831 the item after the drag.
1833 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1834 showing where the file really is.
1838 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1839 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1844 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1845 warning is displayed if so.
1847 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1851 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1852 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1853 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1854 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1857 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1858 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1859 works like the panels.
1863 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1864 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1865 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1866 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1867 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1871 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1872 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1873 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1874 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1876 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1881 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1885 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1886 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1889 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1890 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1892 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1895 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1896 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1897 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1898 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1900 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1902 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1903 slightly. Updated the manual.
1905 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1906 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1909 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1910 or bottom panel to make room.
1914 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1919 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1920 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1921 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1922 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1923 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1927 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
1929 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
1930 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
1932 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
1936 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
1937 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
1941 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
1945 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
1947 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
1952 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
1953 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
1955 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
1959 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
1960 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
1961 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
1965 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
1966 rewriting the panel system.
1970 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
1973 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
1974 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
1978 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
1979 (suggested by James Kermode).
1983 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
1984 than as a full path.
1986 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
1988 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
1989 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
1990 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
1994 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
1995 mounted/unmounted state changed.
1999 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2000 rename something onto another filesystem.
2004 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2006 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2007 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2011 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2015 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2018 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2019 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2021 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2024 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2029 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2030 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2031 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2033 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2034 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2036 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2037 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2042 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2043 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2048 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2049 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2050 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2052 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2053 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2054 of the 'missing image' image.
2058 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2060 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2062 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2067 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2068 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2069 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2070 its name into another program.
2072 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2076 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2078 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2079 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2080 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2082 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2083 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2084 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2087 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2088 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2092 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2093 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2094 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2098 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2099 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2100 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2104 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2105 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2106 and position the icons directly.
2110 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2115 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2116 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2117 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2121 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2125 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2126 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2130 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2135 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2139 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2140 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2141 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2142 some versions of GTK+.
2146 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2151 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2152 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2153 from a sub-sub-menu.
2155 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2156 drawn on a log scale.
2160 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2161 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2162 happy with the UI yet though...
2164 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2165 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2166 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2170 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2171 by Stephen Harrison).
2173 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2175 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2176 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2177 standard types are in Choices.
2178 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2180 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2181 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2182 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2187 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2188 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2189 shell command minibuffer.
2193 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2194 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2195 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2196 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2197 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2199 Default search path for Choices is now:
2200 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2202 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2203 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2204 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2208 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2209 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2213 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2214 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2215 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2220 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2221 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2222 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2225 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2227 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2228 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2229 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2231 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2232 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2236 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2237 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2238 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2239 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2244 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2245 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2246 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2248 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2250 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2251 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2255 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2256 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2257 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2262 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2263 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2266 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2268 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2273 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2278 Added GNU gettext support.
2279 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2283 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2285 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2287 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2292 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2296 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2297 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2299 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2300 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2305 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2306 onto the directory and winks the file.
2310 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2311 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2312 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2314 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2315 instead of random values.
2316 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2318 Applied Bernard's patch:
2319 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2320 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2321 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2322 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2323 it the RISC OS way...
2324 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2325 alignment corrected.
2326 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2331 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2335 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2336 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2340 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2341 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2342 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2343 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2344 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2345 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2346 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2347 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2348 in the file(1) says... box).
2351 Before the Changes file
2352 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2353 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2355 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2356 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2357 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2358 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2359 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD