2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
8 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
12 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
13 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
14 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
15 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
19 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
20 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
21 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
25 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
29 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
33 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
34 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
38 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
39 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
40 reported by Tristan McLeay).
44 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
45 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
47 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
51 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
52 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
53 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
54 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
58 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
59 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
61 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
63 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
68 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
69 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
70 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
71 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
72 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
77 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
82 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
86 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
87 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
89 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
90 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
91 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
92 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
96 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
97 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
98 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
103 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
105 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
110 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
114 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
115 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
119 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
120 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
121 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
125 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
129 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
130 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
131 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
132 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
133 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
137 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
138 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
139 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
141 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
142 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
143 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
144 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
145 though they may be valid UTF-8.
146 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
148 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
149 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
150 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
151 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
152 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
158 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
159 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
161 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
162 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
167 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
168 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
172 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
173 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
178 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
179 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
180 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
181 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
182 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
183 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
185 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
187 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
188 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
189 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
193 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
194 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
198 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
199 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
203 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
204 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
205 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
206 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
210 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
214 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
215 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
219 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
221 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
222 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
223 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
228 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
229 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
230 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
231 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
235 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
237 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
238 function address (Tony Houghton).
242 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
243 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
248 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
252 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
253 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
257 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
258 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
259 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
263 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
267 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
268 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
269 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
270 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
271 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
276 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
281 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
285 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
286 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
290 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
291 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
295 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
299 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
300 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
302 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
306 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
307 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
311 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
312 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
313 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
315 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
317 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
322 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
323 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
327 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
332 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
336 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
337 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
338 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
339 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
341 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
346 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
347 the old one (Stephen Watson).
348 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
349 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
350 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
354 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
359 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
361 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
363 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
364 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
368 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
369 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
371 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
373 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
374 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
375 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
376 reported by Lewis Denizen).
380 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
384 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
385 the binary (Stephen Watson).
389 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
393 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
394 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
395 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
399 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
402 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
404 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
405 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
406 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
407 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
408 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
412 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
416 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
417 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
421 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
425 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
426 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
427 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
429 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
430 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
432 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
433 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
434 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
435 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
439 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
440 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
444 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
445 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
446 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
447 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
452 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
453 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
457 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
458 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
459 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
463 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
464 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
465 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
469 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
473 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
474 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
478 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
479 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
483 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
487 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
488 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
493 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
494 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
498 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
502 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
503 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
504 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
505 when changing to a parent directory.
506 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
510 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
514 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
518 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
520 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
522 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
526 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
528 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
532 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
534 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
538 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
542 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
543 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
544 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
545 reported by Anthony DiSante).
549 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
553 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
557 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
558 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
559 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
560 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
561 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
565 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
566 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
570 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
571 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
576 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
577 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
582 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
583 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
587 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
588 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
592 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
593 (reported by Tony Houghton).
597 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
599 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
600 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
604 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
605 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
609 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
613 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
617 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
621 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
622 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
623 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
627 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
631 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
636 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
640 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
642 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
644 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
648 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
649 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
650 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
652 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
656 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
657 print a warning and then crash.
661 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
662 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
663 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
668 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
672 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
677 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
681 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
685 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
687 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
692 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
693 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
694 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
699 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
700 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
705 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
707 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
708 anyway, and noone had complained).
709 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
710 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
714 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
715 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
716 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
720 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
724 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
725 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
729 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
730 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
731 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
735 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
736 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
737 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
739 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
740 by Simon Templer and others).
744 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
745 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
746 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
750 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
754 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
758 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
759 version number again (Stephen Watson).
763 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
764 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
768 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
772 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
773 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
774 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
775 anyway (Stephen Watson).
779 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
783 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
787 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
789 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
791 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
795 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
796 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
797 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
801 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
802 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
807 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
808 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
809 impossible to change shortcuts.
810 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
811 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
815 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
816 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
821 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
822 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
823 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
827 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
828 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
829 to the functions being missing.
833 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
837 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
841 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
845 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
849 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
850 worries people for no reason.
854 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
858 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
859 files selected (Peter Geer).
863 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
864 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
868 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
872 Added 'Select by Name'.
876 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
880 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
885 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
889 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
891 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
893 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
894 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
898 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
902 Misc changes for next release.
906 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
907 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
911 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
912 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
913 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
914 Watson, reported on #rox).
918 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
919 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
923 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
924 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
928 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
929 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
933 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
934 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
939 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
943 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
945 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
950 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
954 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
955 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
959 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
960 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
964 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
968 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
973 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
974 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
976 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
977 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
981 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
982 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
986 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
991 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
992 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
996 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
997 support not being detected (igla).
1001 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1005 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1006 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1010 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1014 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1015 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1016 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1017 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1020 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1022 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1023 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1027 New icon for selection ops.
1031 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1035 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1039 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1043 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1044 Added icon theme selector.
1048 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1052 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1056 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1057 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1061 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1062 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1063 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1067 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1068 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1072 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1076 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1077 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1078 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1082 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1086 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1087 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1092 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1093 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1097 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1098 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1102 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1103 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1107 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1111 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1112 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1113 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1117 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1121 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1122 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1123 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1124 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1128 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1129 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1131 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1135 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1139 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1140 bits (Stephen Watson).
1144 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1148 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1152 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1153 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1157 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1161 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1162 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1167 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1168 forward them explicitly.
1172 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1173 help from Götz Waschk).
1177 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1178 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1179 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1183 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1187 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1191 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1195 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1196 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1198 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1200 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1204 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1206 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1208 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1212 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1213 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1214 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1215 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1219 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1223 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1227 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1231 Minor updates to the manual.
1232 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1233 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1237 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1238 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1240 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1242 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1243 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1247 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1248 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1249 reduce flickering effect.
1253 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1257 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1259 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1263 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1264 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1265 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1266 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1267 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1271 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1272 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1276 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1280 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1285 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1286 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1290 Winking now works in List view.
1294 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1298 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1299 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1303 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1304 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1306 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1308 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1312 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1316 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1317 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1319 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1323 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1324 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1328 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1330 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1334 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1335 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1339 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1341 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1345 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1349 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1350 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1355 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1356 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1358 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1360 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1362 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1366 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1370 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1371 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1375 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1380 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1381 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1385 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1387 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1389 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1390 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1395 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1399 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1400 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1401 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1402 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1403 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1404 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1405 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1407 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1411 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1416 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1417 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1421 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1422 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1423 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1424 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1429 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1430 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1431 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1432 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1433 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1434 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1435 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1436 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1437 talent can do something better?
1438 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1439 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1443 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1444 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1445 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1450 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1452 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1453 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1454 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1455 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1456 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1457 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1458 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1459 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1460 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1461 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1462 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1463 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1464 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1468 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1469 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1470 allow fine repositioning.
1471 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1472 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1473 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1474 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1476 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1477 changing the aspect ratio.
1481 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1485 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1489 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1490 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1491 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1495 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1499 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1504 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1505 make sharing icons easier.
1506 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1510 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1511 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1515 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1519 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1521 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1525 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1530 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1535 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1536 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1538 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1539 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1540 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1541 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1545 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1546 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1550 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1554 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1556 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1557 Brian Langenberger).
1561 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1562 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1564 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1568 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1569 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1571 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1573 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1577 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1578 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1583 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1587 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1588 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1589 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1593 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1594 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1598 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1602 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1603 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1607 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1608 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1609 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1613 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1617 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1618 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1619 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1620 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1622 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1623 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1627 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1628 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1632 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1637 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1638 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1642 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1646 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1647 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1648 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1649 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1654 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1655 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1656 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1660 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1664 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1665 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1669 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1670 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1671 since it didn't include the contents.
1672 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1673 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1677 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1681 Style improvements to options window.
1685 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1689 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1691 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1693 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1698 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1699 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1700 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1701 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1705 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1709 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1713 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1714 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1718 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1720 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1725 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1729 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1730 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1731 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1736 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1740 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1744 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1748 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1752 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1753 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1754 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1758 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1759 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1763 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1764 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1769 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1773 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1777 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1782 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1783 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1787 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1788 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1793 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1794 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1798 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1799 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1800 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1804 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1808 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1809 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1810 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1811 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1812 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1816 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1817 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1821 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1822 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1826 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1830 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1831 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1832 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1833 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1834 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1835 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1839 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1840 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1841 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1845 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1846 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1851 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1855 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1857 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1859 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1864 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1868 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1872 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1873 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1878 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1882 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1886 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1887 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1888 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1892 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1896 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1901 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1905 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1906 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1907 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1908 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1912 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1916 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1917 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1921 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1922 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1923 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1927 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1931 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1935 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1936 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1937 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1938 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1939 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1940 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1944 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1945 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1949 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1950 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1951 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1955 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1956 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1960 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1964 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1965 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1966 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1967 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1969 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1971 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1975 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1976 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1977 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1981 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1985 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1986 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1991 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1995 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1999 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2000 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2004 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2005 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2006 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2010 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2011 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2015 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2016 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2020 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2021 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2025 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2029 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2030 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2034 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2036 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2038 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2042 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2046 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2047 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2051 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2055 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2059 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2060 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2061 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2062 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2063 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2064 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2068 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2072 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2074 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2075 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2079 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2080 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2084 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2088 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2089 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2090 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2091 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2093 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2095 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2099 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2100 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2104 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2105 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2106 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2110 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2111 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2112 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2113 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2114 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2115 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2116 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2120 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2121 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2125 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2129 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2133 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2138 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2142 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2143 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2144 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2148 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2149 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2150 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2154 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2155 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2156 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2160 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2161 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2165 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2170 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2171 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2172 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2173 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2174 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2176 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2177 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2181 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2185 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2186 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2187 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2188 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2192 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2193 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2194 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2195 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2196 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2197 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2201 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2205 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2206 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2210 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2211 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2212 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2213 restart (Olli Helenius).
2217 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2221 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2222 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2223 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2228 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2233 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2234 Small and Large sizes.
2238 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2242 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2243 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2247 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2248 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2249 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2250 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2254 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2255 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2256 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2261 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2266 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2267 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2271 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2272 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2277 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2279 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2281 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2285 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2289 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2291 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2293 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2297 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2299 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2300 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2304 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2305 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2309 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2310 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2314 Various speed improvements.
2315 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2319 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2320 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2324 Slight speed increase when starting.
2328 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2332 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2333 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2334 button is no longer supported.
2338 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2342 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2346 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2351 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2352 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2356 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2357 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2358 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2362 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2363 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2364 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2365 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2369 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2370 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2371 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2373 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2378 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2379 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2384 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2388 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2389 and converted to new dialog style.
2393 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2394 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2398 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2399 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2403 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2407 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2409 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2413 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2417 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2418 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2419 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2423 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2424 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2428 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2433 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2437 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2438 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2442 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2443 and Cancel is now Revert.
2444 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2445 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2449 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2453 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2454 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2456 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2457 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2458 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2459 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2463 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2465 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2466 labels display them.
2467 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2470 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2474 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2476 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2480 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2481 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2482 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2486 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2487 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2489 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2491 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2495 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2496 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2500 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2501 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2502 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2503 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2507 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2511 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2512 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2516 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2517 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2522 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2523 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2527 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2528 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2529 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2533 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2534 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2538 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2539 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2540 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2541 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2543 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2548 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2549 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2551 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2553 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2557 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2558 any image (saves time).
2559 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2560 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2561 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2562 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2564 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2565 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2569 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2570 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2572 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2573 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2575 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2580 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2581 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2582 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2583 has stopped accepting STRING.
2587 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2588 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2592 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2597 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2598 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2600 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2601 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2602 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2606 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2607 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2608 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2609 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2610 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2611 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2615 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2616 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2617 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2618 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2619 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2620 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2625 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2626 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2627 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2628 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2633 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2634 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2638 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2639 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2641 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2643 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2644 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2645 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2649 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2650 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2651 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2655 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2656 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2660 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2661 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2665 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2667 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2672 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2673 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2677 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2678 their menus correctly.
2679 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2684 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2685 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2686 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2690 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2691 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2695 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2699 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2702 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2704 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2705 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2706 the toggle menu items from working!
2710 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2712 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2718 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2719 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2723 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2724 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2725 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2726 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2727 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2728 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2732 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2736 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2737 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2741 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2742 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2743 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2747 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2748 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2753 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2755 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2759 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2760 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2761 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2762 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2766 Improved error reporting.
2767 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2771 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2772 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2773 check box and does 'Yes'.
2777 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2778 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2779 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2780 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2785 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2787 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2788 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2790 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2792 Internal changes to options system:
2793 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2794 filer is fully initialised).
2795 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2797 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2799 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2800 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2801 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2802 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2806 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2807 now reclaims the selection.
2808 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2809 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2814 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2815 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2816 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2817 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2818 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2822 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2823 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2825 Code tidying in various places.
2829 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2830 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2835 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2836 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2840 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2841 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2842 edit the file, not the file itself!
2843 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2847 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2848 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2849 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2850 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2851 of the SOAP working draft.
2852 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2853 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2854 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2859 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2860 it was in the displayed area before.
2862 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2865 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2866 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2870 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2871 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2872 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2874 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2875 selection (Andras Mohari).
2879 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2883 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2887 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2888 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2889 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2893 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2897 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2899 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2900 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2901 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2905 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2906 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2911 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2912 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2913 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2917 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2921 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2925 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2926 replaced by a Restart button.
2930 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2931 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2935 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2939 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2943 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2944 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2945 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2949 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2950 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2952 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2953 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2954 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2958 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2959 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2964 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2966 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2967 (requested by Graham Borland).
2968 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2969 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2970 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2974 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2975 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2976 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2977 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2981 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2982 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2983 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2984 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2985 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2986 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2987 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2988 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2989 - Lots of code tidying.
2994 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2995 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2999 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3001 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3003 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3007 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3008 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3012 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3013 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3017 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3018 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3022 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3023 option to access it directly.
3027 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3028 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3029 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3033 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3034 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3035 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3036 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3037 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3038 when the filer is run.
3042 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3043 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3044 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3049 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3053 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3054 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3058 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3060 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3064 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3068 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3069 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3070 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3075 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3076 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3077 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3078 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3079 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3080 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3081 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3085 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3089 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3090 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3094 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3095 of possible actions (Taras).
3096 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3098 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3099 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3103 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3108 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3112 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3115 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3116 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3120 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3121 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3123 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3125 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3126 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3127 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3128 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3132 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3136 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3140 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3144 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3149 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3150 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3151 the first one found.
3152 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3156 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3160 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3161 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3162 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3166 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3167 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3168 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3173 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3174 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3175 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3179 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3181 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3186 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3191 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3195 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3196 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3200 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3202 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3203 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3207 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3211 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3212 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3216 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3217 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3221 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3222 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3224 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3226 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3230 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3234 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3235 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3239 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3243 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3248 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3249 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3253 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3257 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3261 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3263 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3264 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3268 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3269 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3273 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3274 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3275 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3279 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3280 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3284 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3285 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3287 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3289 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3293 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3294 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3295 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3297 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3298 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3300 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3302 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3303 and the default size with no details.
3307 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3308 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3312 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3317 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3322 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3326 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3331 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3332 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3336 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3340 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3341 the button to run it does.
3342 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3343 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3344 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3348 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3349 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3350 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3354 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3358 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3359 and panels into icon.c.
3363 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3364 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3365 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3366 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3370 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3372 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3374 Updated the documentation.
3378 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3379 up if they're too small.
3383 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3385 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3386 (Christopher Arndt).
3387 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3392 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3393 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3397 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3398 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3402 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3403 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3404 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3409 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3414 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3418 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3419 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3424 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3429 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3430 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3434 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3435 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3439 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3443 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3447 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3451 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3452 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3455 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3456 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3461 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3462 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3463 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3464 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3469 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3470 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3472 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3474 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3475 for non-applications.
3479 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3480 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3485 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3489 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3490 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3492 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3496 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3497 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3501 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3502 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3506 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3507 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3511 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3512 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3514 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3515 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3519 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3520 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3522 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3526 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3527 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3530 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3534 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3535 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3539 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3543 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3544 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3547 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3548 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3552 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3556 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3561 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3565 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3566 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3571 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3576 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3580 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3582 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3584 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3585 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3587 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3589 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3590 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3594 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3595 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3596 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3598 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3599 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3603 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3607 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3608 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3612 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3616 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3617 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3619 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3622 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3623 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3624 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3628 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3629 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3634 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3639 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3641 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3644 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3646 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3647 sensible shape itself now.
3649 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3650 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3651 file at all, just a reused inode!
3652 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3653 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3654 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3658 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3662 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3663 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3668 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3669 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3673 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3677 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3678 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3682 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3687 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3691 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3692 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3696 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3697 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3698 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3699 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3700 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3704 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3705 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3706 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3707 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3708 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3712 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3713 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3714 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3718 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3720 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3721 python's portable system.
3722 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3723 set the LANG variable.
3727 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3728 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3730 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3732 Made a few updates to the manual.
3736 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3737 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3739 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3741 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3742 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3746 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3747 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3751 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3752 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3757 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3758 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3759 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3763 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3764 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3768 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3769 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3773 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3774 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3776 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3777 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3778 open... (Denis Manente).
3782 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3786 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3788 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3789 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3790 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3792 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3794 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3796 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3797 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3802 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3803 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3804 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3808 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3809 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3813 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3817 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3821 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3822 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3823 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3827 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3828 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3829 between pinboards...
3831 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3832 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3833 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3837 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3840 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3841 window (Denis Manente).
3843 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3844 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3848 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3849 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3850 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3854 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3857 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3858 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3860 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3865 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3866 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3868 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3872 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3873 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3875 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3877 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3882 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3883 the icon points to as well as its name.
3885 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3886 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3890 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3891 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3892 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3893 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3897 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3901 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3902 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3903 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3907 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3908 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3910 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3911 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3914 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3915 the item after the drag.
3917 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3918 showing where the file really is.
3922 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3923 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3928 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3929 warning is displayed if so.
3931 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3935 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3936 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3937 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3938 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3941 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3942 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3943 works like the panels.
3947 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3948 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3949 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3950 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3951 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3955 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3956 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3957 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3958 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3960 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3965 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3969 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3970 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3973 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3974 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3976 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3979 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3980 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3981 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3982 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3984 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3986 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3987 slightly. Updated the manual.
3989 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3990 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3993 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3994 or bottom panel to make room.
3998 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4003 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4004 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4005 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4006 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4007 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4011 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4013 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4014 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4016 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4020 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4021 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4025 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4029 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4031 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4036 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4037 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4039 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4043 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4044 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4045 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4049 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4050 rewriting the panel system.
4054 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4057 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4058 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4062 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4063 (suggested by James Kermode).
4067 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4068 than as a full path.
4070 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4072 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4073 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4074 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4078 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4079 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4083 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4084 rename something onto another filesystem.
4088 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4090 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4091 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4095 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4099 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4102 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4103 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4105 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4108 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4113 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4114 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4115 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4117 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4118 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4120 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4121 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4126 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4127 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4132 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4133 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4134 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4136 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4137 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4138 of the 'missing image' image.
4142 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4144 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4146 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4151 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4152 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4153 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4154 its name into another program.
4156 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4160 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4162 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4163 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4164 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4166 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4167 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4168 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4171 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4172 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4176 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4177 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4178 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4182 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4183 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4184 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4188 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4189 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4190 and position the icons directly.
4194 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4199 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4200 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4201 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4205 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4209 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4210 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4214 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4219 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4223 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4224 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4225 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4226 some versions of GTK+.
4230 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4235 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4236 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4237 from a sub-sub-menu.
4239 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4240 drawn on a log scale.
4244 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4245 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4246 happy with the UI yet though...
4248 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4249 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4250 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4254 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4255 by Stephen Harrison).
4257 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4259 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4260 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4261 standard types are in Choices.
4262 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4264 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4265 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4266 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4271 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4272 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4273 shell command minibuffer.
4277 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4278 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4279 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4280 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4281 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4283 Default search path for Choices is now:
4284 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4286 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4287 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4288 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4292 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4293 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4297 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4298 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4299 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4304 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4305 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4306 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4309 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4311 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4312 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4313 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4315 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4316 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4320 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4321 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4322 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4323 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4328 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4329 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4330 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4332 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4334 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4335 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4339 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4340 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4341 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4346 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4347 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4350 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4352 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4357 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4362 Added GNU gettext support.
4363 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4367 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4369 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4371 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4376 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4380 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4381 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4383 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4384 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4389 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4390 onto the directory and winks the file.
4394 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4395 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4396 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4398 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4399 instead of random values.
4400 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4402 Applied Bernard's patch:
4403 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4404 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4405 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4406 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4407 it the RISC OS way...
4408 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4409 alignment corrected.
4410 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4415 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4419 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4420 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4424 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4425 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4426 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4427 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4428 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4429 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4430 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4431 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4432 in the file(1) says... box).
4435 Before the Changes file
4436 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4437 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4439 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4440 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4441 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4442 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4443 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD