2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
8 version number again (Stephen Watson).
12 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
13 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
17 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
21 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
22 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
23 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
24 anyway (Stephen Watson).
28 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
32 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
36 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
38 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
40 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
44 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
45 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
46 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
50 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
51 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
56 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
57 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
58 impossible to change shortcuts.
59 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
60 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
64 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
65 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
70 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
71 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
72 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
76 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
77 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
78 to the functions being missing.
82 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
86 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
90 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
94 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
98 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
99 worries people for no reason.
103 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
107 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
108 files selected (Peter Geer).
112 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
113 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
117 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
121 Added 'Select by Name'.
125 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
129 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
134 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
138 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
140 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
142 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
143 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
147 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
151 Misc changes for next release.
155 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
156 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
160 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
161 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
162 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
163 Watson, reported on #rox).
167 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
168 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
172 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
173 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
177 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
178 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
182 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
183 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
188 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
192 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
194 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
199 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
203 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
204 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
208 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
209 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
213 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
217 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
222 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
223 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
225 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
226 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
230 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
231 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
235 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
240 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
241 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
245 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
246 support not being detected (igla).
250 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
254 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
255 dialog (Stephen Watson).
259 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
263 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
264 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
265 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
266 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
269 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
271 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
272 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
276 New icon for selection ops.
280 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
284 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
288 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
292 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
293 Added icon theme selector.
297 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
301 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
305 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
306 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
310 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
311 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
312 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
316 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
317 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
321 Allow ejecting mounted media.
325 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
326 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
327 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
331 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
335 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
336 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
341 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
342 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
346 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
347 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
351 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
352 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
356 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
360 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
361 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
362 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
366 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
370 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
371 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
372 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
373 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
377 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
378 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
380 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
384 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
388 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
389 bits (Stephen Watson).
393 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
397 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
401 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
402 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
406 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
410 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
411 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
416 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
417 forward them explicitly.
421 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
422 help from Götz Waschk).
426 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
427 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
428 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
432 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
436 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
440 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
444 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
445 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
447 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
449 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
453 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
455 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
457 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
461 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
462 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
463 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
464 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
468 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
472 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
476 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
480 Minor updates to the manual.
481 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
482 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
486 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
487 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
489 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
491 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
492 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
496 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
497 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
498 reduce flickering effect.
502 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
506 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
508 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
512 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
513 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
514 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
515 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
516 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
520 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
521 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
525 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
529 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
534 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
535 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
539 Winking now works in List view.
543 Lasso selections now work in List view.
547 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
548 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
552 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
553 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
555 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
557 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
561 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
565 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
566 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
568 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
572 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
573 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
577 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
579 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
583 Centre the image for iconified windows.
584 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
588 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
590 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
594 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
598 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
599 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
604 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
605 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
607 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
609 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
611 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
615 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
619 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
620 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
624 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
629 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
630 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
634 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
636 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
638 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
639 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
644 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
648 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
649 (suggested by Michael Adams).
650 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
651 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
652 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
653 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
654 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
656 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
660 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
665 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
666 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
670 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
671 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
672 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
673 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
678 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
679 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
680 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
681 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
682 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
683 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
684 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
685 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
686 talent can do something better?
687 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
688 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
692 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
693 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
694 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
699 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
701 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
702 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
703 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
704 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
705 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
706 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
707 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
708 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
709 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
710 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
711 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
712 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
713 label wasn't hidden / shown.
717 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
718 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
719 allow fine repositioning.
720 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
721 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
722 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
723 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
725 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
726 changing the aspect ratio.
730 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
734 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
738 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
739 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
740 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
744 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
748 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
753 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
754 make sharing icons easier.
755 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
759 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
760 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
764 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
768 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
770 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
774 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
779 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
784 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
785 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
787 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
788 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
789 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
790 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
794 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
795 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
799 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
803 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
805 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
810 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
811 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
813 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
817 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
818 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
820 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
822 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
826 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
827 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
832 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
836 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
837 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
838 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
842 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
843 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
847 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
851 Preserve selection when changing view type.
852 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
856 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
857 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
858 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
862 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
866 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
867 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
868 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
869 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
871 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
872 the information in the tooltips anyway.
876 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
877 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
881 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
886 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
887 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
891 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
895 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
896 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
897 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
898 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
903 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
904 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
905 Always use case-insensitive sort.
909 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
913 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
914 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
918 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
919 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
920 since it didn't include the contents.
921 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
922 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
926 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
930 Style improvements to options window.
934 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
938 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
940 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
942 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
947 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
948 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
949 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
950 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
954 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
958 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
962 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
963 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
967 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
969 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
974 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
978 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
979 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
980 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
985 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
989 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
993 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
997 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1001 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1002 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1003 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1007 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1008 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1012 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1013 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1018 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1022 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1026 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1031 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1032 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1036 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1037 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1042 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1043 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1047 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1048 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1049 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1053 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1057 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1058 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1059 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1060 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1061 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1065 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1066 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1070 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1071 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1075 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1079 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1080 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1081 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1082 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1083 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1084 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1088 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1089 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1090 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1094 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1095 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1100 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1104 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1106 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1108 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1113 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1117 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1121 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1122 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1127 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1131 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1135 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1136 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1137 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1141 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1145 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1150 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1154 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1155 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1156 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1157 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1161 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1165 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1166 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1170 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1171 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1172 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1176 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1180 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1184 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1185 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1186 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1187 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1188 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1189 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1193 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1194 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1198 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1199 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1200 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1204 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1205 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1209 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1213 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1214 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1215 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1216 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1218 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1220 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1224 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1225 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1226 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1230 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1234 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1235 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1240 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1244 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1248 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1249 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1253 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1254 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1255 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1259 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1260 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1264 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1265 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1269 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1270 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1274 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1278 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1279 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1283 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1285 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1287 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1291 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1295 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1296 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1300 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1304 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1308 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1309 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1310 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1311 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1312 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1313 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1317 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1321 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1323 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1324 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1328 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1329 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1333 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1337 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1338 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1339 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1340 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1342 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1344 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1348 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1349 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1353 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1354 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1355 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1359 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1360 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1361 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1362 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1363 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1364 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1365 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1369 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1370 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1374 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1378 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1382 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1387 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1391 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1392 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1393 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1397 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1398 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1399 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1403 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1404 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1405 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1409 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1410 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1414 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1419 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1420 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1421 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1422 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1423 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1425 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1426 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1430 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1434 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1435 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1436 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1437 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1441 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1442 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1443 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1444 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1445 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1446 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1450 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1454 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1455 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1459 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1460 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1461 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1462 restart (Olli Helenius).
1466 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1470 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1471 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1472 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1477 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1482 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1483 Small and Large sizes.
1487 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1491 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1492 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1496 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1497 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1498 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1499 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1503 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1504 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1505 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1510 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1515 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1516 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1520 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1521 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1526 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1528 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1530 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1534 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1538 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1540 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1542 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1546 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1548 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1549 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1553 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1554 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1558 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1559 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1563 Various speed improvements.
1564 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1568 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1569 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1573 Slight speed increase when starting.
1577 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1581 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1582 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1583 button is no longer supported.
1587 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1591 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1595 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1600 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1601 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1605 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1606 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1607 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1611 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1612 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1613 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1614 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1618 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1619 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1620 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1622 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1627 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1628 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1633 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1637 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1638 and converted to new dialog style.
1642 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1643 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1647 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1648 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1652 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1656 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1658 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1662 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1666 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1667 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1668 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1672 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1673 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1677 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1682 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1686 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1687 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1691 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1692 and Cancel is now Revert.
1693 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1694 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1698 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1702 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1703 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1705 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1706 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1707 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1708 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1712 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1714 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1715 labels display them.
1716 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1719 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1723 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1725 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1729 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1730 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1731 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1735 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1736 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1738 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1740 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1744 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1745 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1749 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1750 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1751 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1752 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1756 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1760 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1761 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1765 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1766 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1771 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1772 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1776 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1777 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1778 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1782 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1783 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1787 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1788 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1789 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1790 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1792 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1797 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1798 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1800 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1802 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1806 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1807 any image (saves time).
1808 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1809 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1810 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1811 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1813 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1814 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1818 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1819 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1821 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1822 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1824 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1829 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1830 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1831 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1832 has stopped accepting STRING.
1836 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1837 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1841 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1846 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1847 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1849 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1850 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1851 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1855 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1856 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1857 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1858 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1859 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1860 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1864 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1865 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1866 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1867 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1868 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1869 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1874 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1875 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1876 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1877 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1882 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1883 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1887 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1888 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1890 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1892 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1893 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1894 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1898 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1899 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1900 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1904 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1905 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1909 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1910 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1914 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1916 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1921 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1922 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1926 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1927 their menus correctly.
1928 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1933 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1934 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1935 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1939 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1940 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1944 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1948 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1951 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1953 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1954 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1955 the toggle menu items from working!
1959 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1961 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1967 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1968 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1972 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1973 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1974 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1975 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1976 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1977 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1981 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1985 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1986 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1990 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1991 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1992 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1996 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1997 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2002 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2004 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2008 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2009 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2010 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2011 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2015 Improved error reporting.
2016 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2020 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2021 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2022 check box and does 'Yes'.
2026 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2027 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2028 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2029 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2034 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2036 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2037 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2039 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2041 Internal changes to options system:
2042 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2043 filer is fully initialised).
2044 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2046 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2048 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2049 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2050 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2051 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2055 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2056 now reclaims the selection.
2057 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2058 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2063 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2064 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2065 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2066 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2067 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2071 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2072 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2074 Code tidying in various places.
2078 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2079 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2084 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2085 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2089 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2090 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2091 edit the file, not the file itself!
2092 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2096 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2097 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2098 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2099 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2100 of the SOAP working draft.
2101 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2102 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2103 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2108 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2109 it was in the displayed area before.
2111 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2114 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2115 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2119 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2120 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2121 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2123 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2124 selection (Andras Mohari).
2128 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2132 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2136 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2137 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2138 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2142 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2146 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2148 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2149 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2150 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2154 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2155 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2160 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2161 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2162 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2166 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2170 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2174 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2175 replaced by a Restart button.
2179 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2180 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2184 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2188 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2192 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2193 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2194 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2198 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2199 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2201 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2202 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2203 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2207 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2208 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2213 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2215 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2216 (requested by Graham Borland).
2217 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2218 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2219 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2223 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2224 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2225 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2226 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2230 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2231 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2232 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2233 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2234 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2235 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2236 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2237 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2238 - Lots of code tidying.
2243 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2244 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2248 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2250 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2252 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2256 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2257 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2261 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2262 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2266 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2267 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2271 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2272 option to access it directly.
2276 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2277 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2278 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2282 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2283 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2284 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2285 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2286 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2287 when the filer is run.
2291 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2292 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2293 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2298 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2302 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2303 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2307 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2309 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2313 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2317 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2318 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2319 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2324 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2325 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2326 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2327 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2328 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2329 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2330 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2334 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2338 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2339 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2343 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2344 of possible actions (Taras).
2345 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2347 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2348 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2352 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2357 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2361 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2364 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2365 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2369 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2370 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2372 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2374 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2375 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2376 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2377 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2381 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2385 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2389 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2393 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2398 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2399 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2400 the first one found.
2401 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2405 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2409 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2410 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2411 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2415 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2416 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2417 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2422 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2423 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2424 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2428 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2430 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2435 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2440 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2444 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2445 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2449 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2451 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2452 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2456 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2460 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2461 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2465 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2466 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2470 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2471 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2473 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2475 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2479 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2483 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2484 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2488 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2492 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2497 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2498 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2502 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2506 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2510 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2512 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2513 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2517 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2518 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2522 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2523 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2524 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2528 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2529 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2533 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2534 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2536 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2538 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2542 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2543 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2544 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2546 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2547 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2549 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2551 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2552 and the default size with no details.
2556 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2557 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2561 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2566 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2571 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2575 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2580 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2581 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2585 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2589 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2590 the button to run it does.
2591 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2592 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2593 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2597 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2598 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2599 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2603 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2607 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2608 and panels into icon.c.
2612 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2613 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2614 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2615 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2619 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2621 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2623 Updated the documentation.
2627 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2628 up if they're too small.
2632 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2634 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2635 (Christopher Arndt).
2636 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2641 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2642 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2646 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2647 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2651 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2652 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2653 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2658 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2663 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2667 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2668 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2673 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2678 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2679 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2683 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2684 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2688 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2692 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2696 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2700 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2701 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2704 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2705 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2710 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2711 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2712 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2713 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2718 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2719 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2721 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2723 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2724 for non-applications.
2728 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2729 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2734 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2738 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2739 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2741 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2745 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2746 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2750 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2751 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2755 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2756 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2760 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2761 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2763 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2764 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2768 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2769 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2771 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2775 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2776 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2779 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2783 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2784 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2788 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2792 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2793 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2796 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2797 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2801 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2805 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2810 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2814 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2815 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2820 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2825 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2829 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2831 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2833 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2834 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2836 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2838 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2839 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2843 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2844 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2845 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2847 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2848 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2852 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2856 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2857 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2861 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2865 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2866 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2868 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2871 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2872 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2873 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2877 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2878 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2883 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2888 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2890 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2893 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2895 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2896 sensible shape itself now.
2898 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2899 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2900 file at all, just a reused inode!
2901 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2902 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2903 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2907 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2911 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2912 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2917 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2918 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2922 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2926 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2927 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2931 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2936 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2940 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2941 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2945 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2946 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2947 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2948 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2949 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2953 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2954 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2955 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2956 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2957 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2961 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2962 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2963 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2967 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2969 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2970 python's portable system.
2971 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2972 set the LANG variable.
2976 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2977 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2979 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2981 Made a few updates to the manual.
2985 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2986 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2988 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2990 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2991 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2995 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2996 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3000 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3001 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3006 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3007 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3008 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3012 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3013 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3017 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3018 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3022 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3023 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3025 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3026 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3027 open... (Denis Manente).
3031 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3035 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3037 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3038 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3039 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3041 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3043 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3045 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3046 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3051 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3052 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3053 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3057 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3058 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3062 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3066 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3070 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3071 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3072 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3076 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3077 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3078 between pinboards...
3080 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3081 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3082 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3086 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3089 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3090 window (Denis Manente).
3092 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3093 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3097 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3098 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3099 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3103 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3106 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3107 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3109 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3114 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3115 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3117 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3121 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3122 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3124 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3126 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3131 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3132 the icon points to as well as its name.
3134 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3135 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3139 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3140 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3141 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3142 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3146 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3150 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3151 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3152 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3156 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3157 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3159 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3160 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3163 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3164 the item after the drag.
3166 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3167 showing where the file really is.
3171 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3172 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3177 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3178 warning is displayed if so.
3180 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3184 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3185 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3186 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3187 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3190 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3191 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3192 works like the panels.
3196 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3197 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3198 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3199 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3200 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3204 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3205 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3206 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3207 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3209 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3214 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3218 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3219 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3222 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3223 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3225 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3228 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3229 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3230 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3231 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3233 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3235 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3236 slightly. Updated the manual.
3238 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3239 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3242 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3243 or bottom panel to make room.
3247 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3252 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3253 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3254 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3255 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3256 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3260 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3262 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3263 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3265 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3269 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3270 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3274 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3278 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3280 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3285 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3286 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3288 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3292 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3293 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3294 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3298 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3299 rewriting the panel system.
3303 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3306 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3307 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3311 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3312 (suggested by James Kermode).
3316 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3317 than as a full path.
3319 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3321 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3322 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3323 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3327 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3328 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3332 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3333 rename something onto another filesystem.
3337 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3339 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3340 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3344 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3348 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3351 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3352 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3354 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3357 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3362 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3363 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3364 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3366 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3367 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3369 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3370 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3375 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3376 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3381 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3382 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3383 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3385 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3386 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3387 of the 'missing image' image.
3391 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3393 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3395 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3400 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3401 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3402 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3403 its name into another program.
3405 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3409 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3411 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3412 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3413 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3415 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3416 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3417 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3420 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3421 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3425 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3426 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3427 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3431 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3432 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3433 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3437 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3438 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3439 and position the icons directly.
3443 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3448 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3449 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3450 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3454 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3458 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3459 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3463 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3468 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3472 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3473 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3474 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3475 some versions of GTK+.
3479 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3484 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3485 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3486 from a sub-sub-menu.
3488 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3489 drawn on a log scale.
3493 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3494 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3495 happy with the UI yet though...
3497 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3498 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3499 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3503 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3504 by Stephen Harrison).
3506 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3508 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3509 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3510 standard types are in Choices.
3511 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3513 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3514 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3515 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3520 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3521 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3522 shell command minibuffer.
3526 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3527 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3528 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3529 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3530 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3532 Default search path for Choices is now:
3533 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3535 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3536 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3537 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3541 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3542 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3546 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3547 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3548 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3553 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3554 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3555 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3558 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3560 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3561 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3562 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3564 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3565 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3569 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3570 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3571 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3572 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3577 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3578 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3579 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3581 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3583 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3584 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3588 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3589 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3590 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3595 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3596 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3599 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3601 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3606 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3611 Added GNU gettext support.
3612 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3616 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3618 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3620 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3625 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3629 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3630 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3632 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3633 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3638 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3639 onto the directory and winks the file.
3643 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3644 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3645 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3647 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3648 instead of random values.
3649 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3651 Applied Bernard's patch:
3652 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3653 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3654 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3655 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3656 it the RISC OS way...
3657 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3658 alignment corrected.
3659 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3664 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3668 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3669 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3673 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3674 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3675 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3676 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3677 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3678 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3679 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3680 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3681 in the file(1) says... box).
3684 Before the Changes file
3685 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3686 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3688 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3689 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3690 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3691 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3692 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD