2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
11 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
12 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
13 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
14 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
15 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
19 Added icon for messages (Thomas Leonard).
20 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
21 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
23 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
24 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
25 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
26 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
27 though they may be valid UTF-8.
28 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
30 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
31 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
32 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
33 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
34 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
40 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
41 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
43 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
44 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
49 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
50 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
54 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
55 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
60 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
61 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
62 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
63 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
64 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
65 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
67 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
69 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
70 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
71 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
75 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
76 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
80 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
81 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
85 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
86 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
87 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
88 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
92 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
96 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
97 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
101 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
103 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
104 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
105 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
110 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
111 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
112 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
113 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
117 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
119 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
120 function address (Tony Houghton).
124 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
125 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
130 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
134 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
135 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
139 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
140 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
141 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
145 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
149 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
150 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
151 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
152 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
153 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
158 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
163 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
167 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
168 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
172 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
173 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
177 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
181 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
182 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
187 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
188 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
192 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
193 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
194 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
196 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
198 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
203 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
204 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
208 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
213 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
217 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
218 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
219 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
220 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
222 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
227 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
228 the old one (Stephen Watson).
229 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
230 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
231 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
235 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
240 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
242 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
244 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
248 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
249 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
251 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
253 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
254 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
255 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
256 reported by Lewis Denizen).
260 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
264 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
265 the binary (Stephen Watson).
269 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
273 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
274 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
275 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
279 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
282 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
284 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
285 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
286 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
287 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
288 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
292 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
296 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
297 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
301 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
305 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
306 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
307 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
309 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
310 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
312 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
313 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
314 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
315 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
319 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
320 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
324 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
325 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
326 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
327 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
332 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
333 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
337 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
338 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
339 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
343 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
344 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
345 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
349 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
353 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
354 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
358 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
359 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
363 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
367 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
368 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
373 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
374 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
378 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
382 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
383 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
384 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
385 when changing to a parent directory.
386 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
390 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
394 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
398 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
400 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
402 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
406 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
408 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
412 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
414 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
418 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
422 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
423 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
424 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
425 reported by Anthony DiSante).
429 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
433 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
437 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
438 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
439 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
440 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
441 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
445 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
446 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
450 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
451 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
456 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
457 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
462 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
463 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
467 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
468 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
472 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
473 (reported by Tony Houghton).
477 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
479 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
480 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
484 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
485 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
489 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
493 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
497 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
501 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
502 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
503 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
507 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
511 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
516 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
520 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
522 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
524 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
528 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
529 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
530 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
532 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
536 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
537 print a warning and then crash.
541 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
542 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
543 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
548 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
552 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
557 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
561 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
565 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
567 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
572 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
573 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
574 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
579 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
580 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
585 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
587 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
588 anyway, and noone had complained).
589 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
590 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
594 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
595 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
596 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
600 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
604 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
605 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
609 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
610 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
611 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
615 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
616 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
617 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
619 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
620 by Simon Templer and others).
624 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
625 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
626 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
630 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
634 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
638 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
639 version number again (Stephen Watson).
643 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
644 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
648 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
652 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
653 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
654 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
655 anyway (Stephen Watson).
659 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
663 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
667 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
669 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
671 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
675 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
676 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
677 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
681 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
682 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
687 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
688 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
689 impossible to change shortcuts.
690 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
691 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
695 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
696 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
701 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
702 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
703 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
707 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
708 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
709 to the functions being missing.
713 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
717 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
721 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
725 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
729 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
730 worries people for no reason.
734 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
738 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
739 files selected (Peter Geer).
743 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
744 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
748 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
752 Added 'Select by Name'.
756 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
760 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
765 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
769 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
771 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
773 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
774 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
778 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
782 Misc changes for next release.
786 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
787 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
791 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
792 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
793 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
794 Watson, reported on #rox).
798 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
799 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
803 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
804 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
808 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
809 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
813 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
814 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
819 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
823 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
825 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
830 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
834 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
835 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
839 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
840 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
844 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
848 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
853 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
854 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
856 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
857 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
861 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
862 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
866 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
871 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
872 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
876 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
877 support not being detected (igla).
881 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
885 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
886 dialog (Stephen Watson).
890 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
894 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
895 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
896 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
897 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
900 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
902 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
903 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
907 New icon for selection ops.
911 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
915 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
919 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
923 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
924 Added icon theme selector.
928 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
932 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
936 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
937 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
941 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
942 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
943 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
947 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
948 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
952 Allow ejecting mounted media.
956 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
957 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
958 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
962 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
966 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
967 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
972 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
973 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
977 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
978 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
982 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
983 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
987 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
991 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
992 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
993 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
997 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1001 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1002 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1003 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1004 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1008 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1009 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1011 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1015 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1019 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1020 bits (Stephen Watson).
1024 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1028 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1032 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1033 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1037 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1041 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1042 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1047 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1048 forward them explicitly.
1052 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1053 help from Götz Waschk).
1057 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1058 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1059 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1063 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1067 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1071 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1075 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1076 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1078 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1080 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1084 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1086 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1088 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1092 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1093 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1094 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1095 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1099 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1103 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1107 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1111 Minor updates to the manual.
1112 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1113 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1117 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1118 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1120 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1122 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1123 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1127 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1128 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1129 reduce flickering effect.
1133 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1137 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1139 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1143 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1144 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1145 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1146 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1147 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1151 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1152 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1156 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1160 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1165 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1166 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1170 Winking now works in List view.
1174 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1178 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1179 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1183 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1184 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1186 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1188 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1192 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1196 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1197 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1199 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1203 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1204 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1208 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1210 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1214 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1215 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1219 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1221 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1225 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1229 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1230 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1235 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1236 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1238 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1240 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1242 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1246 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1250 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1251 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1255 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1260 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1261 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1265 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1267 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1269 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1270 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1275 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1279 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1280 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1281 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1282 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1283 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1284 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1285 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1287 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1291 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1296 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1297 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1301 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1302 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1303 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1304 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1309 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1310 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1311 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1312 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1313 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1314 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1315 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1316 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1317 talent can do something better?
1318 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1319 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1323 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1324 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1325 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1330 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1332 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1333 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1334 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1335 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1336 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1337 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1338 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1339 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1340 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1341 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1342 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1343 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1344 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1348 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1349 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1350 allow fine repositioning.
1351 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1352 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1353 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1354 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1356 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1357 changing the aspect ratio.
1361 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1365 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1369 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1370 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1371 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1375 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1379 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1384 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1385 make sharing icons easier.
1386 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1390 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1391 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1395 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1399 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1401 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1405 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1410 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1415 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1416 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1418 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1419 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1420 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1421 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1425 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1426 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1430 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1434 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1436 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1437 Brian Langenberger).
1441 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1442 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1444 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1448 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1449 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1451 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1453 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1457 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1458 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1463 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1467 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1468 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1469 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1473 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1474 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1478 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1482 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1483 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1487 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1488 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1489 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1493 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1497 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1498 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1499 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1500 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1502 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1503 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1507 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1508 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1512 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1517 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1518 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1522 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1526 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1527 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1528 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1529 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1534 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1535 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1536 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1540 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1544 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1545 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1549 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1550 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1551 since it didn't include the contents.
1552 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1553 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1557 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1561 Style improvements to options window.
1565 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1569 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1571 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1573 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1578 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1579 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1580 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1581 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1585 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1589 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1593 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1594 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1598 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1600 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1605 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1609 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1610 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1611 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1616 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1620 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1624 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1628 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1632 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1633 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1634 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1638 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1639 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1643 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1644 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1649 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1653 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1657 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1662 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1663 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1667 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1668 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1673 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1674 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1678 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1679 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1680 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1684 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1688 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1689 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1690 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1691 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1692 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1696 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1697 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1701 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1702 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1706 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1710 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1711 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1712 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1713 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1714 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1715 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1719 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1720 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1721 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1725 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1726 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1731 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1735 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1737 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1739 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1744 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1748 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1752 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1753 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1758 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1762 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1766 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1767 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1768 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1772 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1776 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1781 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1785 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1786 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1787 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1788 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1792 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1796 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1797 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1801 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1802 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1803 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1807 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1811 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1815 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1816 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1817 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1818 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1819 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1820 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1824 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1825 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1829 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1830 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1831 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1835 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1836 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1840 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1844 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1845 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1846 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1847 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1849 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1851 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1855 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1856 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1857 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1861 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1865 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1866 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1871 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1875 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1879 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1880 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1884 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1885 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1886 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1890 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1891 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1895 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1896 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1900 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1901 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1905 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1909 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1910 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1914 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1916 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1918 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1922 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1926 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1927 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1931 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1935 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1939 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1940 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1941 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1942 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1943 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1944 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1948 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1952 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1954 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1955 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1959 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1960 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1964 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1968 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1969 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1970 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1971 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1973 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1975 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1979 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1980 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1984 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1985 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1986 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1990 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1991 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1992 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1993 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1994 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1995 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1996 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2000 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2001 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2005 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2009 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2013 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2018 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2022 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2023 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2024 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2028 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2029 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2030 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2034 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2035 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2036 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2040 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2041 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2045 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2050 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2051 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2052 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2053 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2054 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2056 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2057 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2061 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2065 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2066 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2067 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2068 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2072 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2073 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2074 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2075 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2076 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2077 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2081 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2085 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2086 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2090 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2091 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2092 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2093 restart (Olli Helenius).
2097 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2101 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2102 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2103 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2108 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2113 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2114 Small and Large sizes.
2118 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2122 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2123 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2127 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2128 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2129 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2130 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2134 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2135 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2136 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2141 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2146 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2147 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2151 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2152 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2157 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2159 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2161 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2165 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2169 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2171 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2173 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2177 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2179 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2180 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2184 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2185 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2189 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2190 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2194 Various speed improvements.
2195 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2199 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2200 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2204 Slight speed increase when starting.
2208 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2212 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2213 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2214 button is no longer supported.
2218 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2222 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2226 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2231 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2232 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2236 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2237 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2238 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2242 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2243 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2244 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2245 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2249 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2250 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2251 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2253 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2258 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2259 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2264 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2268 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2269 and converted to new dialog style.
2273 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2274 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2278 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2279 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2283 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2287 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2289 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2293 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2297 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2298 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2299 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2303 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2304 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2308 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2313 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2317 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2318 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2322 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2323 and Cancel is now Revert.
2324 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2325 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2329 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2333 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2334 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2336 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2337 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2338 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2339 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2343 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2345 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2346 labels display them.
2347 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2350 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2354 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2356 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2360 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2361 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2362 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2366 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2367 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2369 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2371 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2375 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2376 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2380 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2381 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2382 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2383 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2387 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2391 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2392 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2396 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2397 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2402 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2403 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2407 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2408 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2409 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2413 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2414 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2418 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2419 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2420 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2421 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2423 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2428 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2429 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2431 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2433 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2437 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2438 any image (saves time).
2439 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2440 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2441 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2442 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2444 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2445 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2449 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2450 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2452 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2453 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2455 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2460 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2461 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2462 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2463 has stopped accepting STRING.
2467 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2468 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2472 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2477 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2478 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2480 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2481 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2482 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2486 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2487 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2488 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2489 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2490 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2491 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2495 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2496 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2497 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2498 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2499 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2500 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2505 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2506 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2507 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2508 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2513 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2514 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2518 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2519 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2521 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2523 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2524 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2525 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2529 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2530 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2531 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2535 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2536 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2540 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2541 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2545 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2547 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2552 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2553 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2557 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2558 their menus correctly.
2559 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2564 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2565 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2566 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2570 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2571 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2575 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2579 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2582 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2584 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2585 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2586 the toggle menu items from working!
2590 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2592 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2598 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2599 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2603 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2604 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2605 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2606 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2607 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2608 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2612 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2616 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2617 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2621 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2622 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2623 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2627 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2628 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2633 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2635 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2639 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2640 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2641 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2642 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2646 Improved error reporting.
2647 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2651 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2652 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2653 check box and does 'Yes'.
2657 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2658 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2659 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2660 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2665 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2667 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2668 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2670 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2672 Internal changes to options system:
2673 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2674 filer is fully initialised).
2675 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2677 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2679 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2680 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2681 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2682 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2686 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2687 now reclaims the selection.
2688 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2689 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2694 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2695 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2696 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2697 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2698 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2702 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2703 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2705 Code tidying in various places.
2709 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2710 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2715 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2716 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2720 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2721 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2722 edit the file, not the file itself!
2723 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2727 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2728 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2729 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2730 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2731 of the SOAP working draft.
2732 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2733 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2734 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2739 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2740 it was in the displayed area before.
2742 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2745 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2746 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2750 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2751 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2752 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2754 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2755 selection (Andras Mohari).
2759 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2763 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2767 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2768 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2769 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2773 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2777 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2779 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2780 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2781 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2785 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2786 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2791 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2792 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2793 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2797 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2801 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2805 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2806 replaced by a Restart button.
2810 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2811 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2815 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2819 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2823 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2824 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2825 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2829 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2830 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2832 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2833 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2834 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2838 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2839 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2844 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2846 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2847 (requested by Graham Borland).
2848 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2849 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2850 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2854 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2855 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2856 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2857 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2861 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2862 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2863 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2864 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2865 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2866 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2867 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2868 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2869 - Lots of code tidying.
2874 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2875 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2879 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2881 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2883 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2887 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2888 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2892 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2893 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2897 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2898 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2902 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2903 option to access it directly.
2907 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2908 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2909 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2913 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2914 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2915 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2916 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2917 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2918 when the filer is run.
2922 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2923 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2924 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2929 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2933 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2934 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2938 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2940 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2944 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2948 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2949 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2950 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2955 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2956 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2957 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2958 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2959 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2960 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2961 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2965 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2969 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2970 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2974 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2975 of possible actions (Taras).
2976 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2978 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2979 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2983 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2988 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2992 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2995 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2996 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3000 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3001 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3003 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3005 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3006 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3007 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3008 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3012 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3016 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3020 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3024 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3029 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3030 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3031 the first one found.
3032 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3036 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3040 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3041 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3042 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3046 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3047 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3048 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3053 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3054 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3055 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3059 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3061 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3066 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3071 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3075 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3076 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3080 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3082 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3083 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3087 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3091 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3092 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3096 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3097 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3101 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3102 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3104 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3106 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3110 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3114 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3115 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3119 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3123 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3128 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3129 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3133 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3137 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3141 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3143 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3144 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3148 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3149 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3153 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3154 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3155 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3159 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3160 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3164 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3165 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3167 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3169 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3173 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3174 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3175 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3177 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3178 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3180 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3182 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3183 and the default size with no details.
3187 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3188 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3192 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3197 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3202 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3206 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3211 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3212 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3216 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3220 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3221 the button to run it does.
3222 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3223 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3224 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3228 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3229 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3230 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3234 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3238 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3239 and panels into icon.c.
3243 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3244 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3245 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3246 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3250 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3252 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3254 Updated the documentation.
3258 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3259 up if they're too small.
3263 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3265 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3266 (Christopher Arndt).
3267 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3272 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3273 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3277 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3278 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3282 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3283 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3284 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3289 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3294 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3298 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3299 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3304 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3309 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3310 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3314 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3315 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3319 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3323 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3327 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3331 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3332 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3335 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3336 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3341 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3342 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3343 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3344 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3349 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3350 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3352 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3354 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3355 for non-applications.
3359 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3360 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3365 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3369 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3370 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3372 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3376 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3377 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3381 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3382 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3386 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3387 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3391 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3392 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3394 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3395 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3399 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3400 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3402 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3406 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3407 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3410 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3414 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3415 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3419 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3423 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3424 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3427 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3428 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3432 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3436 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3441 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3445 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3446 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3451 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3456 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3460 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3462 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3464 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3465 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3467 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3469 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3470 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3474 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3475 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3476 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3478 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3479 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3483 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3487 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3488 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3492 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3496 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3497 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3499 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3502 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3503 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3504 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3508 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3509 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3514 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3519 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3521 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3524 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3526 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3527 sensible shape itself now.
3529 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3530 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3531 file at all, just a reused inode!
3532 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3533 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3534 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3538 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3542 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3543 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3548 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3549 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3553 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3557 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3558 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3562 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3567 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3571 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3572 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3576 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3577 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3578 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3579 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3580 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3584 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3585 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3586 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3587 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3588 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3592 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3593 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3594 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3598 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3600 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3601 python's portable system.
3602 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3603 set the LANG variable.
3607 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3608 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3610 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3612 Made a few updates to the manual.
3616 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3617 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3619 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3621 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3622 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3626 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3627 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3631 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3632 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3637 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3638 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3639 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3643 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3644 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3648 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3649 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3653 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3654 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3656 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3657 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3658 open... (Denis Manente).
3662 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3666 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3668 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3669 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3670 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3672 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3674 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3676 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3677 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3682 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3683 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3684 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3688 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3689 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3693 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3697 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3701 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3702 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3703 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3707 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3708 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3709 between pinboards...
3711 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3712 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3713 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3717 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3720 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3721 window (Denis Manente).
3723 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3724 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3728 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3729 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3730 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3734 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3737 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3738 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3740 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3745 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3746 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3748 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3752 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3753 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3755 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3757 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3762 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3763 the icon points to as well as its name.
3765 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3766 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3770 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3771 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3772 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3773 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3777 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3781 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3782 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3783 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3787 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3788 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3790 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3791 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3794 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3795 the item after the drag.
3797 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3798 showing where the file really is.
3802 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3803 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3808 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3809 warning is displayed if so.
3811 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3815 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3816 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3817 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3818 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3821 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3822 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3823 works like the panels.
3827 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3828 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3829 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3830 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3831 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3835 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3836 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3837 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3838 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3840 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3845 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3849 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3850 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3853 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3854 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3856 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3859 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3860 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3861 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3862 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3864 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3866 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3867 slightly. Updated the manual.
3869 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3870 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3873 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3874 or bottom panel to make room.
3878 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3883 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3884 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3885 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3886 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3887 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3891 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3893 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3894 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3896 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3900 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3901 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3905 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3909 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3911 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3916 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3917 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3919 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3923 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3924 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3925 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3929 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3930 rewriting the panel system.
3934 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3937 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3938 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3942 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3943 (suggested by James Kermode).
3947 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3948 than as a full path.
3950 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3952 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3953 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3954 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3958 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3959 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3963 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3964 rename something onto another filesystem.
3968 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3970 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3971 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3975 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3979 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3982 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3983 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3985 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3988 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3993 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3994 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3995 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3997 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3998 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4000 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4001 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4006 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4007 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4012 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4013 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4014 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4016 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4017 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4018 of the 'missing image' image.
4022 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4024 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4026 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4031 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4032 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4033 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4034 its name into another program.
4036 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4040 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4042 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4043 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4044 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4046 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4047 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4048 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4051 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4052 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4056 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4057 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4058 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4062 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4063 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4064 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4068 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4069 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4070 and position the icons directly.
4074 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4079 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4080 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4081 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4085 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4089 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4090 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4094 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4099 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4103 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4104 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4105 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4106 some versions of GTK+.
4110 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4115 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4116 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4117 from a sub-sub-menu.
4119 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4120 drawn on a log scale.
4124 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4125 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4126 happy with the UI yet though...
4128 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4129 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4130 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4134 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4135 by Stephen Harrison).
4137 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4139 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4140 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4141 standard types are in Choices.
4142 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4144 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4145 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4146 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4151 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4152 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4153 shell command minibuffer.
4157 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4158 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4159 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4160 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4161 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4163 Default search path for Choices is now:
4164 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4166 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4167 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4168 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4172 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4173 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4177 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4178 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4179 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4184 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4185 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4186 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4189 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4191 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4192 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4193 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4195 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4196 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4200 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4201 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4202 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4203 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4208 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4209 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4210 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4212 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4214 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4215 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4219 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4220 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4221 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4226 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4227 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4230 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4232 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4237 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4242 Added GNU gettext support.
4243 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4247 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4249 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4251 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4256 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4260 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4261 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4263 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4264 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4269 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4270 onto the directory and winks the file.
4274 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4275 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4276 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4278 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4279 instead of random values.
4280 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4282 Applied Bernard's patch:
4283 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4284 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4285 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4286 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4287 it the RISC OS way...
4288 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4289 alignment corrected.
4290 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4295 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4299 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4300 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4304 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4305 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4306 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4307 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4308 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4309 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4310 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4311 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4312 in the file(1) says... box).
4315 Before the Changes file
4316 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4317 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4319 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4320 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4321 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4322 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4323 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD