2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
8 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
12 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
16 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
17 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
22 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
23 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
27 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
28 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
32 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
33 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
37 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
41 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
42 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
43 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
47 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
51 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
52 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
53 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
54 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
58 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
59 enable them from Options=>Tools if you want them. (Stephen Watson)
61 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations. (Stephen Watson)
65 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
69 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
70 bits (Stephen Watson).
74 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
78 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
82 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
83 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
87 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
91 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
92 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
97 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
98 forward them explicitly.
102 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
103 help from Götz Waschk).
107 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
108 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
109 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
113 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
117 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
121 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
125 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
126 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
128 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
130 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
134 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
136 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
138 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
142 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
143 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
144 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
145 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
149 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
153 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
157 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
161 Minor updates to the manual.
162 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
163 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
167 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
168 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
170 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
172 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
173 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
177 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
178 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
179 reduce flickering effect.
183 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
187 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
189 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
193 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
194 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
195 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
196 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
197 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
201 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
202 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
206 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
210 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
215 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
216 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
220 Winking now works in List view.
224 Lasso selections now work in List view.
228 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
229 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
233 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
234 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
236 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
238 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
242 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
246 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
247 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
249 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
253 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
254 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
258 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
260 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
264 Centre the image for iconified windows.
265 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
269 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
271 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
275 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
279 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
280 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
285 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
286 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
288 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
290 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
292 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
296 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
300 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
301 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
305 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
310 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
311 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
315 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
317 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
319 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
320 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
325 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
329 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
330 (suggested by Michael Adams).
331 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
332 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
333 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
334 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
335 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
337 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
341 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
346 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
347 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
351 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
352 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
353 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
354 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
359 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
360 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
361 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
362 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
363 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
364 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
365 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
366 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
367 talent can do something better?
368 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
369 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
373 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
374 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
375 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
380 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
382 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
383 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
384 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
385 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
386 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
387 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
388 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
389 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
390 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
391 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
392 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
393 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
394 label wasn't hidden / shown.
398 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
399 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
400 allow fine repositioning.
401 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
402 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
403 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
404 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
406 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
407 changing the aspect ratio.
411 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
415 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
419 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
420 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
421 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
425 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
429 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
434 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
435 make sharing icons easier.
436 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
440 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
441 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
445 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
449 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
451 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
455 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
460 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
465 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
466 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
468 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
469 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
470 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
471 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
475 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
476 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
480 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
484 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
486 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
491 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
492 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
494 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
498 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
499 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
501 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
503 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
507 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
508 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
513 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
517 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
518 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
519 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
523 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
524 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
528 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
532 Preserve selection when changing view type.
533 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
537 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
538 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
539 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
543 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
547 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
548 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
549 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
550 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
552 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
553 the information in the tooltips anyway.
557 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
558 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
562 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
567 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
568 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
572 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
576 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
577 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
578 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
579 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
584 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
585 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
586 Always use case-insensitive sort.
590 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
594 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
595 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
599 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
600 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
601 since it didn't include the contents.
602 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
603 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
607 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
611 Style improvements to options window.
615 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
619 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
621 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
623 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
628 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
629 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
630 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
631 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
635 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
639 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
643 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
644 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
648 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
650 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
655 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
659 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
660 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
661 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
666 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
670 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
674 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
678 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
682 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
683 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
684 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
688 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
689 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
693 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
694 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
699 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
703 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
707 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
712 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
713 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
717 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
718 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
723 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
724 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
728 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
729 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
730 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
734 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
738 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
739 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
740 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
741 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
742 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
746 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
747 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
751 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
752 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
756 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
760 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
761 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
762 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
763 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
764 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
765 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
769 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
770 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
771 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
775 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
776 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
781 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
785 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
787 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
789 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
794 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
798 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
802 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
803 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
808 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
812 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
816 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
817 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
818 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
822 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
826 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
831 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
835 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
836 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
837 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
838 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
842 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
846 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
847 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
851 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
852 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
853 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
857 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
861 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
865 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
866 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
867 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
868 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
869 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
870 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
874 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
875 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
879 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
880 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
881 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
885 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
886 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
890 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
894 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
895 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
896 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
897 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
899 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
901 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
905 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
906 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
907 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
911 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
915 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
916 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
921 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
925 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
929 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
930 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
934 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
935 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
936 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
940 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
941 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
945 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
946 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
950 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
951 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
955 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
959 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
960 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
964 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
966 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
968 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
972 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
976 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
977 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
981 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
985 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
989 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
990 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
991 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
992 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
993 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
994 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
998 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1002 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1004 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1005 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1009 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1010 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1014 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1018 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1019 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1020 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1021 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1023 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1025 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1029 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1030 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1034 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1035 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1036 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1040 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1041 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1042 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1043 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1044 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1045 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1046 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1050 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1051 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1055 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1059 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1063 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1068 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1072 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1073 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1074 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1078 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1079 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1080 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1084 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1085 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1086 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1090 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1091 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1095 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1100 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1101 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1102 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1103 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1104 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1106 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1107 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1111 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1115 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1116 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1117 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1118 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1122 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1123 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1124 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1125 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1126 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1127 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1131 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1135 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1136 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1140 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1141 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1142 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1143 restart (Olli Helenius).
1147 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1151 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1152 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1153 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1158 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1163 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1164 Small and Large sizes.
1168 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1172 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1173 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1177 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1178 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1179 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1180 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1184 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1185 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1186 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1191 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1196 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1197 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1201 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1202 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1207 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1209 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1211 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1215 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1219 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1221 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1223 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1227 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1229 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1230 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1234 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1235 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1239 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1240 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1244 Various speed improvements.
1245 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1249 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1250 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1254 Slight speed increase when starting.
1258 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1262 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1263 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1264 button is no longer supported.
1268 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1272 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1276 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1281 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1282 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1286 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1287 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1288 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1292 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1293 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1294 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1295 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1299 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1300 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1301 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1303 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1308 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1309 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1314 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1318 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1319 and converted to new dialog style.
1323 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1324 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1328 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1329 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1333 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1337 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1339 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1343 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1347 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1348 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1349 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1353 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1354 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1358 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1363 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1367 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1368 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1372 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1373 and Cancel is now Revert.
1374 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1375 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1379 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1383 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1384 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1386 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1387 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1388 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1389 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1393 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1395 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1396 labels display them.
1397 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1400 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1404 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1406 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1410 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1411 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1412 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1416 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1417 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1419 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1421 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1425 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1426 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1430 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1431 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1432 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1433 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1437 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1441 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1442 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1446 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1447 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1452 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1453 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1457 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1458 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1459 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1463 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1464 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1468 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1469 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1470 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1471 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1473 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1478 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1479 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1481 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1483 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1487 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1488 any image (saves time).
1489 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1490 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1491 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1492 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1494 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1495 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1499 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1500 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1502 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1503 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1505 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1510 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1511 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1512 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1513 has stopped accepting STRING.
1517 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1518 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1522 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1527 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1528 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1530 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1531 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1532 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1536 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1537 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1538 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1539 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1540 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1541 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1545 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1546 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1547 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1548 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1549 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1550 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1555 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1556 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1557 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1558 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1563 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1564 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1568 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1569 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1571 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1573 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1574 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1575 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1579 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1580 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1581 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1585 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1586 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1590 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1591 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1595 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1597 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1602 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1603 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1607 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1608 their menus correctly.
1609 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1614 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1615 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1616 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1620 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1621 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1625 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1629 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1632 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1634 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1635 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1636 the toggle menu items from working!
1640 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1642 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1648 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1649 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1653 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1654 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1655 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1656 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1657 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1658 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1662 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1666 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1667 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1671 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1672 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1673 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1677 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1678 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1683 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1685 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1689 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1690 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1691 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1692 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1696 Improved error reporting.
1697 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1701 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1702 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1703 check box and does 'Yes'.
1707 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1708 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1709 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1710 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1715 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1717 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1718 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1720 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1722 Internal changes to options system:
1723 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1724 filer is fully initialised).
1725 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1727 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1729 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1730 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1731 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1732 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1736 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1737 now reclaims the selection.
1738 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1739 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1744 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1745 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1746 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1747 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1748 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1752 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1753 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1755 Code tidying in various places.
1759 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1760 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1765 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1766 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1770 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1771 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1772 edit the file, not the file itself!
1773 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1777 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1778 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1779 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1780 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1781 of the SOAP working draft.
1782 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1783 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1784 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1789 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1790 it was in the displayed area before.
1792 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1795 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1796 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1800 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1801 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1802 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1804 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1805 selection (Andras Mohari).
1809 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1813 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1817 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1818 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1819 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1823 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1827 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1829 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1830 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1831 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1835 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1836 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1841 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1842 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1843 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1847 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1851 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1855 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1856 replaced by a Restart button.
1860 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1861 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1865 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1869 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1873 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1874 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1875 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1879 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1880 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1882 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1883 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1884 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1888 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1889 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1894 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1896 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1897 (requested by Graham Borland).
1898 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1899 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1900 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1904 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1905 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1906 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1907 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1911 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1912 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1913 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1914 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1915 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1916 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1917 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1918 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1919 - Lots of code tidying.
1924 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1925 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1929 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1931 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1933 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1937 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1938 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1942 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1943 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1947 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1948 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1952 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1953 option to access it directly.
1957 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1958 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1959 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1963 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1964 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1965 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1966 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1967 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1968 when the filer is run.
1972 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1973 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1974 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1979 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1983 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1984 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1988 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1990 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1994 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1998 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1999 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2000 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2005 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2006 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2007 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2008 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2009 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2010 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2011 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2015 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2019 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2020 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2024 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2025 of possible actions (Taras).
2026 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2028 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2029 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2033 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2038 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2042 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2045 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2046 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2050 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2051 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2053 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2055 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2056 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2057 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2058 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2062 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2066 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2070 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2074 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2079 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2080 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2081 the first one found.
2082 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2086 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2090 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2091 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2092 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2096 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2097 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2098 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2103 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2104 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2105 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2109 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2111 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2116 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2121 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2125 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2126 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2130 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2132 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2133 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2137 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2141 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2142 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2146 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2147 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2151 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2152 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2154 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2156 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2160 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2164 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2165 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2169 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2173 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2178 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2179 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2183 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2187 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2191 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2193 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2194 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2198 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2199 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2203 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2204 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2205 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2209 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2210 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2214 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2215 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2217 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2219 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2223 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2224 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2225 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2227 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2228 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2230 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2232 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2233 and the default size with no details.
2237 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2238 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2242 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2247 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2252 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2256 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2261 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2262 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2266 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2270 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2271 the button to run it does.
2272 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2273 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2274 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2278 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2279 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2280 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2284 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2288 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2289 and panels into icon.c.
2293 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2294 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2295 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2296 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2300 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2302 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2304 Updated the documentation.
2308 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2309 up if they're too small.
2313 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2315 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2316 (Christopher Arndt).
2317 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2322 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2323 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2327 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2328 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2332 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2333 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2334 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2339 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2344 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2348 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2349 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2354 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2359 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2360 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2364 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2365 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2369 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2373 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2377 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2381 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2382 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2385 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2386 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2391 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2392 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2393 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2394 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2399 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2400 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2402 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2404 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2405 for non-applications.
2409 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2410 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2415 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2419 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2420 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2422 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2426 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2427 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2431 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2432 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2436 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2437 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2441 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2442 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2444 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2445 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2449 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2450 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2452 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2456 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2457 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2460 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2464 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2465 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2469 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2473 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2474 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2477 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2478 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2482 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2486 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2491 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2495 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2496 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2501 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2506 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2510 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2512 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2514 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2515 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2517 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2519 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2520 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2524 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2525 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2526 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2528 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2529 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2533 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2537 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2538 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2542 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2546 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2547 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2549 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2552 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2553 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2554 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2558 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2559 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2564 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2569 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2571 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2574 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2576 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2577 sensible shape itself now.
2579 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2580 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2581 file at all, just a reused inode!
2582 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2583 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2584 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2588 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2592 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2593 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2598 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2599 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2603 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2607 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2608 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2612 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2617 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2621 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2622 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2626 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2627 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2628 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2629 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2630 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2634 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2635 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2636 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2637 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2638 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2642 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2643 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2644 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2648 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2650 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2651 python's portable system.
2652 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2653 set the LANG variable.
2657 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2658 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2660 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2662 Made a few updates to the manual.
2666 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2667 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2669 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2671 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2672 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2676 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2677 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2681 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2682 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2687 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2688 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2689 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2693 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2694 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2698 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2699 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2703 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2704 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2706 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2707 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2708 open... (Denis Manente).
2712 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2716 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2718 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2719 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2720 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2722 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2724 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2726 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2727 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2732 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2733 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2734 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2738 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2739 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2743 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2747 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2751 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2752 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2753 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2757 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2758 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2759 between pinboards...
2761 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2762 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2763 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2767 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2770 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2771 window (Denis Manente).
2773 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2774 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2778 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2779 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2780 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2784 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2787 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2788 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2790 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2795 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2796 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2798 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2802 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2803 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2805 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2807 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2812 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2813 the icon points to as well as its name.
2815 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2816 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2820 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2821 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2822 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2823 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2827 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2831 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2832 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2833 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2837 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2838 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2840 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2841 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2844 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2845 the item after the drag.
2847 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2848 showing where the file really is.
2852 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2853 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2858 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2859 warning is displayed if so.
2861 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2865 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2866 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2867 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2868 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2871 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2872 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2873 works like the panels.
2877 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2878 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2879 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2880 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2881 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2885 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2886 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2887 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2888 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2890 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2895 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2899 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2900 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2903 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2904 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2906 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2909 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2910 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2911 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2912 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2914 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2916 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2917 slightly. Updated the manual.
2919 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2920 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2923 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2924 or bottom panel to make room.
2928 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2933 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2934 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2935 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2936 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2937 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2941 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2943 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2944 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2946 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2950 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2951 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2955 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2959 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2961 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2966 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2967 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2969 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2973 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2974 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2975 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2979 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2980 rewriting the panel system.
2984 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2987 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2988 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2992 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2993 (suggested by James Kermode).
2997 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2998 than as a full path.
3000 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3002 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3003 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3004 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3008 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3009 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3013 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3014 rename something onto another filesystem.
3018 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3020 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3021 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3025 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3029 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3032 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3033 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3035 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3038 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3043 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3044 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3045 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3047 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3048 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3050 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3051 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3056 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3057 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3062 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3063 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3064 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3066 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3067 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3068 of the 'missing image' image.
3072 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3074 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3076 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3081 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3082 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3083 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3084 its name into another program.
3086 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3090 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3092 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3093 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3094 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3096 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3097 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3098 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3101 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3102 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3106 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3107 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3108 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3112 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3113 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3114 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3118 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3119 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3120 and position the icons directly.
3124 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3129 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3130 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3131 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3135 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3139 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3140 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3144 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3149 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3153 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3154 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3155 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3156 some versions of GTK+.
3160 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3165 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3166 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3167 from a sub-sub-menu.
3169 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3170 drawn on a log scale.
3174 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3175 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3176 happy with the UI yet though...
3178 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3179 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3180 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3184 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3185 by Stephen Harrison).
3187 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3189 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3190 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3191 standard types are in Choices.
3192 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3194 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3195 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3196 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3201 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3202 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3203 shell command minibuffer.
3207 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3208 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3209 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3210 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3211 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3213 Default search path for Choices is now:
3214 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3216 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3217 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3218 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3222 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3223 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3227 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3228 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3229 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3234 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3235 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3236 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3239 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3241 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3242 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3243 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3245 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3246 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3250 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3251 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3252 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3253 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3258 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3259 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3260 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3262 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3264 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3265 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3269 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3270 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3271 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3276 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3277 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3280 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3282 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3287 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3292 Added GNU gettext support.
3293 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3297 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3299 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3301 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3306 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3310 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3311 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3313 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3314 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3319 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3320 onto the directory and winks the file.
3324 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3325 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3326 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3328 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3329 instead of random values.
3330 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3332 Applied Bernard's patch:
3333 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3334 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3335 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3336 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3337 it the RISC OS way...
3338 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3339 alignment corrected.
3340 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3345 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3349 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3350 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3354 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3355 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3356 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3357 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3358 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3359 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3360 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3361 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3362 in the file(1) says... box).
3365 Before the Changes file
3366 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3367 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3369 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3370 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3371 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3372 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3373 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD