2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
8 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
9 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
10 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
14 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
18 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
19 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
23 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
25 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
26 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
27 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
32 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
33 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
34 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
35 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
39 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
41 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
42 function address (Tony Houghton).
46 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
47 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
52 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
56 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
57 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
61 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
62 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
63 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
67 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
71 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
72 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
73 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
74 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
75 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
80 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
85 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
89 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
90 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
94 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
95 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
99 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
103 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
104 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
109 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
110 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
114 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
115 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
116 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
118 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
120 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
125 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
126 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
130 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
135 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
139 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
140 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
141 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
142 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
144 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
149 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
150 the old one (Stephen Watson).
151 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
152 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
153 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
157 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
162 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
164 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
166 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
170 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
171 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
173 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
175 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
176 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
177 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
178 reported by Lewis Denizen).
182 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
186 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
187 the binary (Stephen Watson).
191 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
195 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
196 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
197 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
201 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
204 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
206 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
207 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
208 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
209 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
210 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
214 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
218 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
219 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
223 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
227 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
228 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
229 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
231 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
232 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
234 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
235 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
236 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
237 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
241 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
242 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
246 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
247 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
248 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
249 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
254 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
255 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
259 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
260 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
261 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
265 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
266 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
267 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
271 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
275 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
276 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
280 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
281 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
285 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
289 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
290 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
295 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
296 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
300 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
304 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
305 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
306 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
307 when changing to a parent directory.
308 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
312 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
316 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
320 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
322 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
324 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
328 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
330 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
334 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
336 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
340 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
344 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
345 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
346 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
347 reported by Anthony DiSante).
351 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
355 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
359 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
360 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
361 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
362 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
363 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
367 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
368 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
372 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
373 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
378 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
379 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
384 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
385 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
389 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
390 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
394 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
395 (reported by Tony Houghton).
399 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
401 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
402 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
406 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
407 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
411 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
415 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
419 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
423 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
424 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
425 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
429 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
433 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
438 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
442 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
444 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
446 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
450 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
451 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
452 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
454 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
458 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
459 print a warning and then crash.
463 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
464 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
465 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
470 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
474 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
479 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
483 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
487 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
489 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
494 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
495 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
496 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
501 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
502 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
507 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
509 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
510 anyway, and noone had complained).
511 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
512 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
516 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
517 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
518 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
522 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
526 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
527 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
531 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
532 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
533 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
537 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
538 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
539 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
541 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
542 by Simon Templer and others).
546 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
547 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
548 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
552 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
556 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
560 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
561 version number again (Stephen Watson).
565 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
566 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
570 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
574 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
575 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
576 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
577 anyway (Stephen Watson).
581 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
585 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
589 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
591 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
593 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
597 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
598 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
599 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
603 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
604 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
609 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
610 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
611 impossible to change shortcuts.
612 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
613 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
617 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
618 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
623 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
624 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
625 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
629 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
630 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
631 to the functions being missing.
635 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
639 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
643 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
647 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
651 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
652 worries people for no reason.
656 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
660 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
661 files selected (Peter Geer).
665 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
666 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
670 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
674 Added 'Select by Name'.
678 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
682 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
687 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
691 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
693 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
695 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
696 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
700 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
704 Misc changes for next release.
708 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
709 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
713 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
714 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
715 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
716 Watson, reported on #rox).
720 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
721 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
725 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
726 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
730 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
731 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
735 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
736 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
741 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
745 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
747 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
752 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
756 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
757 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
761 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
762 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
766 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
770 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
775 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
776 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
778 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
779 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
783 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
784 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
788 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
793 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
794 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
798 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
799 support not being detected (igla).
803 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
807 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
808 dialog (Stephen Watson).
812 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
816 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
817 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
818 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
819 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
822 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
824 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
825 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
829 New icon for selection ops.
833 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
837 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
841 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
845 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
846 Added icon theme selector.
850 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
854 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
858 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
859 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
863 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
864 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
865 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
869 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
870 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
874 Allow ejecting mounted media.
878 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
879 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
880 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
884 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
888 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
889 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
894 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
895 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
899 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
900 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
904 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
905 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
909 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
913 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
914 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
915 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
919 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
923 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
924 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
925 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
926 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
930 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
931 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
933 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
937 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
941 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
942 bits (Stephen Watson).
946 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
950 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
954 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
955 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
959 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
963 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
964 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
969 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
970 forward them explicitly.
974 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
975 help from Götz Waschk).
979 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
980 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
981 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
985 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
989 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
993 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
997 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
998 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1000 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1002 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1006 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1008 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1010 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1014 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1015 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1016 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1017 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1021 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1025 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1029 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1033 Minor updates to the manual.
1034 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1035 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1039 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1040 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1042 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1044 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1045 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1049 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1050 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1051 reduce flickering effect.
1055 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1059 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1061 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1065 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1066 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1067 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1068 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1069 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1073 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1074 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1078 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1082 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1087 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1088 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1092 Winking now works in List view.
1096 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1100 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1101 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1105 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1106 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1108 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1110 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1114 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1118 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1119 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1121 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1125 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1126 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1130 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1132 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1136 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1137 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1141 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1143 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1147 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1151 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1152 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1157 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1158 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1160 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1162 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1164 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1168 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1172 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1173 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1177 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1182 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1183 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1187 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1189 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1191 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1192 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1197 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1201 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1202 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1203 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1204 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1205 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1206 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1207 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1209 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1213 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1218 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1219 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1223 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1224 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1225 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1226 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1231 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1232 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1233 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1234 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1235 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1236 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1237 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1238 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1239 talent can do something better?
1240 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1241 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1245 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1246 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1247 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1252 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1254 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1255 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1256 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1257 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1258 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1259 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1260 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1261 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1262 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1263 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1264 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1265 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1266 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1270 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1271 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1272 allow fine repositioning.
1273 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1274 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1275 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1276 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1278 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1279 changing the aspect ratio.
1283 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1287 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1291 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1292 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1293 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1297 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1301 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1306 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1307 make sharing icons easier.
1308 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1312 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1313 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1317 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1321 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1323 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1327 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1332 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1337 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1338 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1340 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1341 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1342 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1343 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1347 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1348 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1352 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1356 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1358 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1359 Brian Langenberger).
1363 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1364 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1366 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1370 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1371 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1373 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1375 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1379 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1380 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1385 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1389 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1390 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1391 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1395 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1396 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1400 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1404 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1405 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1409 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1410 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1411 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1415 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1419 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1420 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1421 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1422 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1424 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1425 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1429 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1430 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1434 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1439 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1440 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1444 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1448 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1449 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1450 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1451 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1456 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1457 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1458 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1462 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1466 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1467 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1471 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1472 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1473 since it didn't include the contents.
1474 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1475 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1479 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1483 Style improvements to options window.
1487 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1491 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1493 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1495 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1500 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1501 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1502 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1503 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1507 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1511 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1515 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1516 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1520 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1522 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1527 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1531 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1532 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1533 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1538 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1542 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1546 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1550 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1554 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1555 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1556 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1560 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1561 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1565 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1566 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1571 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1575 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1579 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1584 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1585 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1589 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1590 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1595 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1596 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1600 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1601 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1602 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1606 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1610 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1611 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1612 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1613 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1614 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1618 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1619 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1623 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1624 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1628 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1632 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1633 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1634 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1635 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1636 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1637 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1641 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1642 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1643 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1647 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1648 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1653 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1657 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1659 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1661 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1666 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1670 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1674 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1675 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1680 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1684 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1688 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1689 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1690 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1694 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1698 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1703 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1707 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1708 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1709 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1710 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1714 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1718 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1719 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1723 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1724 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1725 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1729 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1733 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1737 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1738 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1739 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1740 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1741 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1742 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1746 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1747 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1751 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1752 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1753 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1757 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1758 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1762 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1766 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1767 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1768 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1769 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1771 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1773 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1777 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1778 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1779 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1783 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1787 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1788 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1793 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1797 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1801 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1802 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1806 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1807 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1808 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1812 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1813 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1817 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1818 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1822 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1823 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1827 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1831 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1832 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1836 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1838 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1840 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1844 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1848 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1849 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1853 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1857 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1861 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1862 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1863 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1864 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1865 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1866 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1870 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1874 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1876 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1877 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1881 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1882 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1886 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1890 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1891 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1892 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1893 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1895 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1897 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1901 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1902 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1906 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1907 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1908 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1912 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1913 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1914 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1915 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1916 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1917 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1918 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1922 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1923 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1927 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1931 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1935 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1940 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1944 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1945 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1946 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1950 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1951 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1952 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1956 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1957 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1958 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1962 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1963 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1967 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1972 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1973 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1974 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1975 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1976 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1978 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1979 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1983 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1987 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1988 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1989 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1990 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1994 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1995 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1996 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1997 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1998 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1999 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2003 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2007 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2008 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2012 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2013 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2014 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2015 restart (Olli Helenius).
2019 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2023 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2024 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2025 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2030 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2035 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2036 Small and Large sizes.
2040 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2044 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2045 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2049 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2050 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2051 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2052 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2056 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2057 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2058 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2063 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2068 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2069 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2073 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2074 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2079 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2081 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2083 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2087 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2091 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2093 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2095 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2099 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2101 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2102 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2106 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2107 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2111 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2112 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2116 Various speed improvements.
2117 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2121 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2122 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2126 Slight speed increase when starting.
2130 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2134 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2135 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2136 button is no longer supported.
2140 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2144 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2148 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2153 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2154 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2158 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2159 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2160 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2164 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2165 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2166 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2167 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2171 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2172 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2173 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2175 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2180 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2181 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2186 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2190 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2191 and converted to new dialog style.
2195 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2196 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2200 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2201 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2205 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2209 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2211 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2215 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2219 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2220 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2221 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2225 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2226 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2230 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2235 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2239 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2240 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2244 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2245 and Cancel is now Revert.
2246 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2247 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2251 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2255 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2256 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2258 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2259 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2260 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2261 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2265 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2267 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2268 labels display them.
2269 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2272 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2276 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2278 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2282 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2283 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2284 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2288 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2289 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2291 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2293 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2297 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2298 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2302 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2303 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2304 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2305 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2309 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2313 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2314 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2318 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2319 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2324 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2325 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2329 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2330 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2331 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2335 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2336 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2340 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2341 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2342 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2343 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2345 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2350 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2351 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2353 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2355 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2359 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2360 any image (saves time).
2361 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2362 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2363 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2364 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2366 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2367 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2371 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2372 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2374 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2375 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2377 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2382 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2383 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2384 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2385 has stopped accepting STRING.
2389 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2390 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2394 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2399 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2400 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2402 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2403 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2404 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2408 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2409 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2410 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2411 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2412 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2413 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2417 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2418 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2419 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2420 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2421 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2422 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2427 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2428 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2429 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2430 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2435 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2436 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2440 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2441 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2443 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2445 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2446 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2447 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2451 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2452 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2453 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2457 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2458 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2462 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2463 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2467 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2469 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2474 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2475 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2479 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2480 their menus correctly.
2481 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2486 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2487 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2488 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2492 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2493 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2497 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2501 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2504 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2506 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2507 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2508 the toggle menu items from working!
2512 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2514 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2520 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2521 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2525 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2526 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2527 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2528 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2529 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2530 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2534 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2538 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2539 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2543 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2544 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2545 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2549 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2550 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2555 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2557 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2561 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2562 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2563 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2564 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2568 Improved error reporting.
2569 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2573 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2574 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2575 check box and does 'Yes'.
2579 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2580 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2581 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2582 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2587 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2589 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2590 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2592 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2594 Internal changes to options system:
2595 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2596 filer is fully initialised).
2597 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2599 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2601 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2602 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2603 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2604 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2608 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2609 now reclaims the selection.
2610 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2611 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2616 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2617 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2618 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2619 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2620 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2624 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2625 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2627 Code tidying in various places.
2631 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2632 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2637 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2638 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2642 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2643 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2644 edit the file, not the file itself!
2645 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2649 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2650 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2651 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2652 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2653 of the SOAP working draft.
2654 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2655 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2656 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2661 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2662 it was in the displayed area before.
2664 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2667 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2668 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2672 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2673 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2674 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2676 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2677 selection (Andras Mohari).
2681 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2685 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2689 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2690 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2691 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2695 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2699 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2701 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2702 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2703 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2707 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2708 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2713 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2714 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2715 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2719 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2723 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2727 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2728 replaced by a Restart button.
2732 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2733 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2737 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2741 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2745 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2746 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2747 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2751 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2752 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2754 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2755 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2756 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2760 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2761 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2766 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2768 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2769 (requested by Graham Borland).
2770 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2771 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2772 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2776 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2777 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2778 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2779 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2783 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2784 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2785 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2786 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2787 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2788 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2789 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2790 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2791 - Lots of code tidying.
2796 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2797 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2801 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2803 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2805 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2809 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2810 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2814 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2815 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2819 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2820 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2824 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2825 option to access it directly.
2829 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2830 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2831 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2835 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2836 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2837 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2838 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2839 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2840 when the filer is run.
2844 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2845 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2846 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2851 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2855 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2856 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2860 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2862 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2866 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2870 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2871 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2872 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2877 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2878 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2879 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2880 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2881 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2882 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2883 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2887 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2891 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2892 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2896 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2897 of possible actions (Taras).
2898 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2900 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2901 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2905 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2910 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2914 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2917 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2918 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2922 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2923 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2925 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2927 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2928 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2929 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2930 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2934 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2938 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2942 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2946 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2951 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2952 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2953 the first one found.
2954 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2958 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2962 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2963 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2964 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2968 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2969 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2970 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2975 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2976 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2977 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2981 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2983 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2988 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2993 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2997 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2998 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3002 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3004 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3005 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3009 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3013 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3014 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3018 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3019 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3023 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3024 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3026 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3028 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3032 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3036 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3037 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3041 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3045 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3050 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3051 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3055 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3059 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3063 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3065 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3066 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3070 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3071 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3075 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3076 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3077 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3081 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3082 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3086 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3087 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3089 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3091 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3095 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3096 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3097 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3099 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3100 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3102 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3104 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3105 and the default size with no details.
3109 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3110 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3114 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3119 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3124 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3128 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3133 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3134 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3138 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3142 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3143 the button to run it does.
3144 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3145 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3146 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3150 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3151 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3152 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3156 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3160 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3161 and panels into icon.c.
3165 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3166 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3167 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3168 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3172 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3174 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3176 Updated the documentation.
3180 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3181 up if they're too small.
3185 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3187 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3188 (Christopher Arndt).
3189 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3194 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3195 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3199 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3200 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3204 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3205 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3206 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3211 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3216 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3220 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3221 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3226 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3231 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3232 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3236 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3237 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3241 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3245 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3249 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3253 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3254 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3257 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3258 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3263 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3264 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3265 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3266 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3271 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3272 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3274 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3276 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3277 for non-applications.
3281 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3282 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3287 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3291 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3292 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3294 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3298 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3299 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3303 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3304 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3308 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3309 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3313 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3314 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3316 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3317 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3321 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3322 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3324 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3328 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3329 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3332 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3336 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3337 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3341 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3345 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3346 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3349 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3350 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3354 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3358 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3363 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3367 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3368 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3373 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3378 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3382 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3384 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3386 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3387 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3389 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3391 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3392 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3396 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3397 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3398 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3400 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3401 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3405 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3409 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3410 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3414 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3418 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3419 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3421 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3424 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3425 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3426 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3430 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3431 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3436 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3441 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3443 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3446 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3448 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3449 sensible shape itself now.
3451 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3452 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3453 file at all, just a reused inode!
3454 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3455 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3456 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3460 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3464 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3465 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3470 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3471 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3475 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3479 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3480 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3484 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3489 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3493 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3494 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3498 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3499 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3500 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3501 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3502 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3506 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3507 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3508 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3509 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3510 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3514 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3515 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3516 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3520 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3522 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3523 python's portable system.
3524 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3525 set the LANG variable.
3529 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3530 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3532 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3534 Made a few updates to the manual.
3538 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3539 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3541 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3543 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3544 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3548 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3549 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3553 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3554 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3559 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3560 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3561 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3565 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3566 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3570 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3571 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3575 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3576 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3578 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3579 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3580 open... (Denis Manente).
3584 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3588 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3590 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3591 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3592 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3594 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3596 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3598 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3599 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3604 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3605 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3606 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3610 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3611 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3615 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3619 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3623 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3624 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3625 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3629 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3630 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3631 between pinboards...
3633 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3634 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3635 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3639 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3642 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3643 window (Denis Manente).
3645 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3646 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3650 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3651 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3652 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3656 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3659 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3660 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3662 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3667 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3668 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3670 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3674 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3675 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3677 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3679 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3684 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3685 the icon points to as well as its name.
3687 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3688 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3692 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3693 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3694 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3695 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3699 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3703 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3704 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3705 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3709 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3710 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3712 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3713 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3716 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3717 the item after the drag.
3719 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3720 showing where the file really is.
3724 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3725 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3730 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3731 warning is displayed if so.
3733 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3737 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3738 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3739 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3740 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3743 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3744 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3745 works like the panels.
3749 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3750 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3751 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3752 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3753 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3757 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3758 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3759 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3760 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3762 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3767 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3771 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3772 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3775 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3776 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3778 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3781 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3782 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3783 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3784 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3786 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3788 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3789 slightly. Updated the manual.
3791 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3792 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3795 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3796 or bottom panel to make room.
3800 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3805 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3806 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3807 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3808 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3809 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3813 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3815 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3816 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3818 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3822 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3823 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3827 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3831 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3833 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3838 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3839 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3841 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3845 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3846 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3847 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3851 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3852 rewriting the panel system.
3856 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3859 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3860 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3864 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3865 (suggested by James Kermode).
3869 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3870 than as a full path.
3872 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3874 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3875 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3876 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3880 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3881 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3885 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3886 rename something onto another filesystem.
3890 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3892 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3893 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3897 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3901 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3904 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3905 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3907 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3910 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3915 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3916 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3917 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3919 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3920 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3922 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3923 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3928 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3929 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3934 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3935 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3936 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3938 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3939 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3940 of the 'missing image' image.
3944 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3946 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3948 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3953 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3954 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3955 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3956 its name into another program.
3958 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3962 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3964 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3965 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3966 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3968 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3969 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3970 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3973 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3974 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3978 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3979 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3980 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3984 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3985 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3986 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3990 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3991 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3992 and position the icons directly.
3996 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4001 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4002 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4003 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4007 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4011 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4012 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4016 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4021 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4025 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4026 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4027 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4028 some versions of GTK+.
4032 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4037 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4038 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4039 from a sub-sub-menu.
4041 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4042 drawn on a log scale.
4046 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4047 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4048 happy with the UI yet though...
4050 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4051 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4052 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4056 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4057 by Stephen Harrison).
4059 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4061 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4062 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4063 standard types are in Choices.
4064 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4066 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4067 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4068 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4073 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4074 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4075 shell command minibuffer.
4079 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4080 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4081 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4082 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4083 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4085 Default search path for Choices is now:
4086 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4088 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4089 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4090 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4094 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4095 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4099 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4100 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4101 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4106 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4107 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4108 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4111 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4113 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4114 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4115 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4117 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4118 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4122 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4123 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4124 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4125 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4130 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4131 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4132 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4134 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4136 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4137 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4141 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4142 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4143 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4148 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4149 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4152 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4154 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4159 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4164 Added GNU gettext support.
4165 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4169 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4171 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4173 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4178 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4182 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4183 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4185 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4186 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4191 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4192 onto the directory and winks the file.
4196 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4197 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4198 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4200 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4201 instead of random values.
4202 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4204 Applied Bernard's patch:
4205 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4206 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4207 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4208 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4209 it the RISC OS way...
4210 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4211 alignment corrected.
4212 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4217 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4221 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4222 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4226 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4227 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4228 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4229 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4230 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4231 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4232 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4233 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4234 in the file(1) says... box).
4237 Before the Changes file
4238 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4239 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4241 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4242 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4243 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4244 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4245 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD