2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
8 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
12 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
14 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
15 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
16 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
21 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
22 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
23 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
24 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
28 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
30 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
31 function address (Tony Houghton).
35 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
36 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
41 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
45 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
46 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
50 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
51 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
52 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
56 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
60 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
61 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
62 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
63 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
64 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
69 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
74 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
78 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
79 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
83 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
84 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
88 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
92 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
93 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
98 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
99 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
103 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
104 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
105 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
107 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
109 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
114 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
115 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
119 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
124 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
128 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
129 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
130 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
131 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
133 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
138 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
139 the old one (Stephen Watson).
140 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
141 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
142 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
146 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
151 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
153 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
155 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
159 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
160 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
162 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
164 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
165 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
166 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
167 reported by Lewis Denizen).
171 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
175 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
176 the binary (Stephen Watson).
180 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
184 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
185 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
186 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
190 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
193 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
195 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
196 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
197 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
198 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
199 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
203 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
207 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
208 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
212 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
216 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
217 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
218 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
220 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
221 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
223 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
224 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
225 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
226 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
230 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
231 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
235 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
236 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
237 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
238 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
243 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
244 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
248 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
249 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
250 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
254 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
255 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
256 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
260 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
264 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
265 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
269 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
270 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
274 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
278 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
279 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
284 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
285 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
289 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
293 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
294 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
295 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
296 when changing to a parent directory.
297 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
301 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
305 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
309 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
311 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
313 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
317 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
319 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
323 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
325 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
329 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
333 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
334 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
335 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
336 reported by Anthony DiSante).
340 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
344 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
348 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
349 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
350 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
351 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
352 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
356 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
357 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
361 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
362 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
367 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
368 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
373 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
374 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
378 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
379 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
383 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
384 (reported by Tony Houghton).
388 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
390 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
391 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
395 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
396 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
400 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
404 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
408 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
412 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
413 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
414 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
418 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
422 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
427 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
431 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
433 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
435 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
439 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
440 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
441 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
443 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
447 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
448 print a warning and then crash.
452 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
453 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
454 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
459 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
463 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
468 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
472 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
476 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
478 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
483 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
484 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
485 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
490 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
491 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
496 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
498 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
499 anyway, and noone had complained).
500 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
501 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
505 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
506 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
507 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
511 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
515 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
516 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
520 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
521 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
522 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
526 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
527 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
528 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
530 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
531 by Simon Templer and others).
535 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
536 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
537 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
541 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
545 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
549 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
550 version number again (Stephen Watson).
554 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
555 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
559 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
563 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
564 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
565 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
566 anyway (Stephen Watson).
570 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
574 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
578 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
580 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
582 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
586 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
587 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
588 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
592 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
593 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
598 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
599 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
600 impossible to change shortcuts.
601 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
602 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
606 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
607 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
612 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
613 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
614 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
618 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
619 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
620 to the functions being missing.
624 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
628 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
632 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
636 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
640 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
641 worries people for no reason.
645 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
649 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
650 files selected (Peter Geer).
654 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
655 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
659 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
663 Added 'Select by Name'.
667 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
671 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
676 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
680 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
682 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
684 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
685 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
689 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
693 Misc changes for next release.
697 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
698 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
702 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
703 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
704 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
705 Watson, reported on #rox).
709 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
710 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
714 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
715 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
719 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
720 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
724 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
725 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
730 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
734 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
736 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
741 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
745 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
746 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
750 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
751 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
755 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
759 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
764 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
765 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
767 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
768 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
772 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
773 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
777 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
782 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
783 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
787 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
788 support not being detected (igla).
792 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
796 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
797 dialog (Stephen Watson).
801 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
805 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
806 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
807 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
808 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
811 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
813 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
814 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
818 New icon for selection ops.
822 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
826 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
830 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
834 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
835 Added icon theme selector.
839 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
843 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
847 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
848 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
852 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
853 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
854 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
858 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
859 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
863 Allow ejecting mounted media.
867 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
868 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
869 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
873 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
877 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
878 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
883 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
884 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
888 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
889 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
893 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
894 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
898 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
902 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
903 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
904 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
908 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
912 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
913 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
914 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
915 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
919 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
920 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
922 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
926 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
930 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
931 bits (Stephen Watson).
935 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
939 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
943 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
944 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
948 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
952 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
953 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
958 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
959 forward them explicitly.
963 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
964 help from Götz Waschk).
968 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
969 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
970 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
974 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
978 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
982 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
986 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
987 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
989 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
991 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
995 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
997 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
999 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1003 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1004 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1005 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1006 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1010 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1014 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1018 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1022 Minor updates to the manual.
1023 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1024 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1028 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1029 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1031 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1033 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1034 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1038 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1039 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1040 reduce flickering effect.
1044 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1048 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1050 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1054 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1055 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1056 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1057 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1058 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1062 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1063 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1067 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1071 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1076 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1077 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1081 Winking now works in List view.
1085 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1089 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1090 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1094 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1095 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1097 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1099 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1103 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1107 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1108 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1110 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1114 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1115 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1119 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1121 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1125 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1126 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1130 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1132 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1136 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1140 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1141 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1146 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1147 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1149 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1151 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1153 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1157 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1161 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1162 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1166 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1171 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1172 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1176 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1178 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1180 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1181 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1186 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1190 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1191 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1192 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1193 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1194 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1195 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1196 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1198 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1202 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1207 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1208 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1212 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1213 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1214 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1215 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1220 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1221 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1222 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1223 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1224 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1225 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1226 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1227 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1228 talent can do something better?
1229 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1230 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1234 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1235 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1236 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1241 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1243 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1244 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1245 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1246 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1247 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1248 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1249 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1250 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1251 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1252 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1253 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1254 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1255 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1259 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1260 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1261 allow fine repositioning.
1262 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1263 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1264 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1265 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1267 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1268 changing the aspect ratio.
1272 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1276 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1280 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1281 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1282 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1286 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1290 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1295 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1296 make sharing icons easier.
1297 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1301 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1302 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1306 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1310 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1312 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1316 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1321 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1326 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1327 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1329 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1330 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1331 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1332 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1336 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1337 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1341 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1345 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1347 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1348 Brian Langenberger).
1352 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1353 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1355 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1359 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1360 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1362 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1364 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1368 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1369 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1374 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1378 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1379 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1380 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1384 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1385 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1389 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1393 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1394 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1398 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1399 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1400 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1404 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1408 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1409 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1410 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1411 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1413 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1414 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1418 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1419 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1423 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1428 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1429 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1433 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1437 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1438 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1439 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1440 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1445 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1446 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1447 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1451 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1455 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1456 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1460 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1461 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1462 since it didn't include the contents.
1463 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1464 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1468 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1472 Style improvements to options window.
1476 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1480 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1482 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1484 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1489 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1490 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1491 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1492 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1496 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1500 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1504 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1505 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1509 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1511 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1516 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1520 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1521 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1522 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1527 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1531 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1535 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1539 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1543 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1544 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1545 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1549 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1550 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1554 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1555 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1560 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1564 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1568 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1573 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1574 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1578 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1579 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1584 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1585 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1589 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1590 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1591 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1595 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1599 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1600 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1601 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1602 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1603 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1607 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1608 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1612 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1613 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1617 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1621 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1622 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1623 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1624 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1625 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1626 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1630 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1631 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1632 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1636 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1637 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1642 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1646 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1648 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1650 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1655 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1659 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1663 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1664 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1669 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1673 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1677 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1678 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1679 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1683 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1687 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1692 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1696 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1697 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1698 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1699 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1703 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1707 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1708 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1712 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1713 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1714 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1718 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1722 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1726 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1727 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1728 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1729 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1730 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1731 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1735 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1736 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1740 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1741 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1742 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1746 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1747 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1751 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1755 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1756 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1757 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1758 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1760 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1762 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1766 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1767 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1768 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1772 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1776 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1777 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1782 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1786 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1790 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1791 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1795 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1796 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1797 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1801 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1802 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1806 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1807 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1811 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1812 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1816 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1820 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1821 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1825 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1827 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1829 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1833 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1837 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1838 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1842 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1846 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1850 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1851 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1852 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1853 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1854 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1855 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1859 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1863 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1865 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1866 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1870 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1871 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1875 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1879 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1880 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1881 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1882 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1884 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1886 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1890 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1891 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1895 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1896 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1897 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1901 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1902 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1903 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1904 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1905 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1906 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1907 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1911 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1912 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1916 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1920 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1924 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1929 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1933 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1934 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1935 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1939 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1940 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1941 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1945 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1946 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1947 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1951 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1952 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1956 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1961 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1962 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1963 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1964 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1965 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1967 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1968 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1972 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1976 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1977 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1978 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1979 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1983 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1984 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1985 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1986 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1987 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1988 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1992 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1996 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1997 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2001 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2002 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2003 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2004 restart (Olli Helenius).
2008 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2012 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2013 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2014 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2019 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2024 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2025 Small and Large sizes.
2029 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2033 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2034 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2038 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2039 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2040 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2041 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2045 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2046 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2047 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2052 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2057 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2058 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2062 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2063 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2068 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2070 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2072 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2076 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2080 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2082 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2084 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2088 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2090 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2091 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2095 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2096 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2100 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2101 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2105 Various speed improvements.
2106 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2110 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2111 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2115 Slight speed increase when starting.
2119 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2123 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2124 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2125 button is no longer supported.
2129 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2133 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2137 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2142 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2143 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2147 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2148 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2149 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2153 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2154 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2155 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2156 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2160 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2161 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2162 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2164 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2169 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2170 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2175 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2179 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2180 and converted to new dialog style.
2184 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2185 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2189 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2190 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2194 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2198 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2200 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2204 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2208 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2209 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2210 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2214 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2215 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2219 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2224 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2228 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2229 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2233 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2234 and Cancel is now Revert.
2235 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2236 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2240 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2244 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2245 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2247 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2248 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2249 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2250 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2254 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2256 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2257 labels display them.
2258 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2261 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2265 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2267 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2271 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2272 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2273 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2277 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2278 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2280 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2282 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2286 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2287 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2291 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2292 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2293 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2294 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2298 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2302 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2303 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2307 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2308 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2313 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2314 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2318 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2319 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2320 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2324 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2325 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2329 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2330 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2331 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2332 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2334 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2339 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2340 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2342 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2344 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2348 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2349 any image (saves time).
2350 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2351 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2352 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2353 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2355 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2356 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2360 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2361 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2363 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2364 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2366 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2371 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2372 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2373 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2374 has stopped accepting STRING.
2378 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2379 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2383 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2388 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2389 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2391 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2392 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2393 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2397 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2398 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2399 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2400 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2401 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2402 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2406 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2407 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2408 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2409 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2410 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2411 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2416 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2417 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2418 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2419 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2424 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2425 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2429 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2430 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2432 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2434 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2435 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2436 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2440 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2441 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2442 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2446 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2447 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2451 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2452 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2456 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2458 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2463 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2464 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2468 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2469 their menus correctly.
2470 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2475 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2476 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2477 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2481 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2482 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2486 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2490 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2493 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2495 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2496 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2497 the toggle menu items from working!
2501 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2503 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2509 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2510 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2514 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2515 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2516 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2517 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2518 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2519 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2523 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2527 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2528 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2532 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2533 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2534 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2538 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2539 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2544 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2546 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2550 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2551 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2552 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2553 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2557 Improved error reporting.
2558 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2562 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2563 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2564 check box and does 'Yes'.
2568 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2569 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2570 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2571 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2576 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2578 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2579 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2581 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2583 Internal changes to options system:
2584 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2585 filer is fully initialised).
2586 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2588 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2590 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2591 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2592 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2593 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2597 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2598 now reclaims the selection.
2599 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2600 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2605 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2606 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2607 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2608 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2609 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2613 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2614 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2616 Code tidying in various places.
2620 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2621 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2626 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2627 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2631 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2632 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2633 edit the file, not the file itself!
2634 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2638 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2639 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2640 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2641 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2642 of the SOAP working draft.
2643 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2644 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2645 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2650 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2651 it was in the displayed area before.
2653 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2656 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2657 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2661 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2662 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2663 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2665 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2666 selection (Andras Mohari).
2670 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2674 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2678 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2679 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2680 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2684 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2688 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2690 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2691 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2692 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2696 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2697 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2702 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2703 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2704 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2708 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2712 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2716 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2717 replaced by a Restart button.
2721 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2722 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2726 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2730 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2734 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2735 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2736 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2740 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2741 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2743 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2744 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2745 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2749 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2750 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2755 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2757 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2758 (requested by Graham Borland).
2759 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2760 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2761 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2765 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2766 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2767 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2768 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2772 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2773 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2774 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2775 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2776 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2777 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2778 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2779 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2780 - Lots of code tidying.
2785 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2786 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2790 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2792 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2794 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2798 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2799 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2803 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2804 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2808 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2809 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2813 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2814 option to access it directly.
2818 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2819 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2820 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2824 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2825 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2826 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2827 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2828 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2829 when the filer is run.
2833 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2834 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2835 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2840 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2844 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2845 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2849 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2851 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2855 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2859 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2860 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2861 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2866 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2867 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2868 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2869 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2870 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2871 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2872 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2876 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2880 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2881 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2885 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2886 of possible actions (Taras).
2887 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2889 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2890 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2894 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2899 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2903 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2906 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2907 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2911 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2912 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2914 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2916 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2917 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2918 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2919 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2923 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2927 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2931 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2935 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2940 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2941 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2942 the first one found.
2943 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2947 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2951 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2952 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2953 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2957 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2958 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2959 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2964 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2965 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2966 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2970 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2972 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2977 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2982 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2986 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2987 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2991 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2993 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2994 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2998 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3002 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3003 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3007 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3008 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3012 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3013 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3015 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3017 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3021 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3025 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3026 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3030 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3034 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3039 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3040 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3044 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3048 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3052 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3054 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3055 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3059 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3060 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3064 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3065 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3066 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3070 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3071 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3075 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3076 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3078 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3080 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3084 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3085 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3086 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3088 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3089 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3091 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3093 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3094 and the default size with no details.
3098 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3099 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3103 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3108 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3113 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3117 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3122 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3123 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3127 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3131 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3132 the button to run it does.
3133 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3134 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3135 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3139 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3140 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3141 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3145 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3149 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3150 and panels into icon.c.
3154 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3155 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3156 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3157 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3161 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3163 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3165 Updated the documentation.
3169 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3170 up if they're too small.
3174 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3176 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3177 (Christopher Arndt).
3178 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3183 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3184 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3188 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3189 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3193 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3194 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3195 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3200 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3205 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3209 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3210 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3215 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3220 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3221 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3225 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3226 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3230 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3234 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3238 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3242 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3243 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3246 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3247 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3252 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3253 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3254 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3255 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3260 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3261 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3263 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3265 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3266 for non-applications.
3270 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3271 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3276 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3280 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3281 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3283 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3287 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3288 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3292 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3293 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3297 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3298 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3302 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3303 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3305 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3306 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3310 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3311 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3313 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3317 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3318 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3321 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3325 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3326 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3330 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3334 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3335 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3338 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3339 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3343 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3347 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3352 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3356 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3357 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3362 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3367 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3371 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3373 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3375 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3376 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3378 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3380 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3381 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3385 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3386 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3387 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3389 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3390 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3394 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3398 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3399 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3403 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3407 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3408 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3410 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3413 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3414 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3415 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3419 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3420 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3425 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3430 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3432 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3435 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3437 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3438 sensible shape itself now.
3440 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3441 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3442 file at all, just a reused inode!
3443 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3444 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3445 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3449 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3453 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3454 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3459 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3460 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3464 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3468 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3469 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3473 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3478 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3482 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3483 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3487 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3488 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3489 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3490 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3491 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3495 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3496 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3497 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3498 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3499 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3503 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3504 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3505 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3509 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3511 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3512 python's portable system.
3513 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3514 set the LANG variable.
3518 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3519 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3521 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3523 Made a few updates to the manual.
3527 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3528 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3530 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3532 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3533 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3537 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3538 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3542 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3543 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3548 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3549 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3550 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3554 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3555 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3559 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3560 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3564 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3565 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3567 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3568 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3569 open... (Denis Manente).
3573 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3577 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3579 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3580 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3581 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3583 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3585 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3587 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3588 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3593 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3594 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3595 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3599 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3600 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3604 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3608 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3612 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3613 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3614 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3618 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3619 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3620 between pinboards...
3622 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3623 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3624 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3628 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3631 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3632 window (Denis Manente).
3634 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3635 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3639 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3640 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3641 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3645 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3648 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3649 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3651 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3656 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3657 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3659 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3663 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3664 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3666 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3668 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3673 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3674 the icon points to as well as its name.
3676 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3677 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3681 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3682 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3683 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3684 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3688 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3692 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3693 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3694 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3698 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3699 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3701 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3702 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3705 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3706 the item after the drag.
3708 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3709 showing where the file really is.
3713 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3714 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3719 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3720 warning is displayed if so.
3722 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3726 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3727 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3728 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3729 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3732 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3733 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3734 works like the panels.
3738 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3739 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3740 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3741 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3742 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3746 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3747 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3748 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3749 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3751 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3756 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3760 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3761 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3764 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3765 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3767 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3770 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3771 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3772 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3773 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3775 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3777 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3778 slightly. Updated the manual.
3780 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3781 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3784 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3785 or bottom panel to make room.
3789 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3794 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3795 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3796 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3797 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3798 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3802 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3804 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3805 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3807 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3811 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3812 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3816 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3820 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3822 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3827 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3828 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3830 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3834 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3835 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3836 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3840 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3841 rewriting the panel system.
3845 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3848 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3849 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3853 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3854 (suggested by James Kermode).
3858 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3859 than as a full path.
3861 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3863 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3864 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3865 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3869 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3870 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3874 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3875 rename something onto another filesystem.
3879 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3881 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3882 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3886 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3890 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3893 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3894 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3896 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3899 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3904 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3905 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3906 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3908 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3909 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3911 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3912 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3917 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3918 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3923 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3924 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3925 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3927 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3928 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3929 of the 'missing image' image.
3933 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3935 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3937 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3942 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3943 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3944 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3945 its name into another program.
3947 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3951 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3953 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3954 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3955 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3957 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3958 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3959 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3962 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3963 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3967 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3968 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3969 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3973 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3974 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3975 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3979 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3980 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3981 and position the icons directly.
3985 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3990 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3991 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3992 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3996 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4000 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4001 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4005 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4010 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4014 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4015 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4016 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4017 some versions of GTK+.
4021 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4026 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4027 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4028 from a sub-sub-menu.
4030 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4031 drawn on a log scale.
4035 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4036 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4037 happy with the UI yet though...
4039 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4040 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4041 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4045 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4046 by Stephen Harrison).
4048 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4050 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4051 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4052 standard types are in Choices.
4053 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4055 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4056 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4057 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4062 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4063 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4064 shell command minibuffer.
4068 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4069 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4070 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4071 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4072 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4074 Default search path for Choices is now:
4075 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4077 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4078 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4079 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4083 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4084 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4088 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4089 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4090 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4095 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4096 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4097 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4100 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4102 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4103 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4104 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4106 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4107 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4111 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4112 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4113 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4114 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4119 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4120 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4121 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4123 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4125 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4126 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4130 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4131 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4132 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4137 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4138 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4141 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4143 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4148 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4153 Added GNU gettext support.
4154 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4158 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4160 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4162 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4167 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4171 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4172 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4174 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4175 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4180 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4181 onto the directory and winks the file.
4185 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4186 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4187 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4189 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4190 instead of random values.
4191 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4193 Applied Bernard's patch:
4194 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4195 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4196 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4197 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4198 it the RISC OS way...
4199 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4200 alignment corrected.
4201 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4206 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4210 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4211 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4215 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4216 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4217 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4218 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4219 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4220 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4221 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4222 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4223 in the file(1) says... box).
4226 Before the Changes file
4227 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4228 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4230 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4231 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4232 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4233 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4234 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD