2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
8 the binary (Stephen Watson).
12 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
16 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
17 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
18 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
22 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
25 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
27 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
28 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
29 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
30 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
31 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
35 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
39 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
40 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
44 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
48 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
49 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
50 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
52 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
53 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
55 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
56 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
57 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
58 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
62 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
63 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
67 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
68 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
69 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
70 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
75 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
76 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
80 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
81 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
82 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
86 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
87 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
88 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
92 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
96 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
97 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
101 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
102 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
106 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
110 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
111 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
116 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
117 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
121 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
125 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
126 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
127 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
128 when changing to a parent directory.
129 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
133 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
137 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
141 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
143 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
145 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
149 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
151 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
155 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
157 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
161 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
165 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
166 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
167 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
168 reported by Anthony DiSante).
172 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
176 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
180 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
181 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
182 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
183 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
184 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
188 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
189 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
193 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
194 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
199 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
200 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
205 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
206 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
210 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
211 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
215 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
216 (reported by Tony Houghton).
220 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
222 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
223 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
227 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
228 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
232 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
236 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
240 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
244 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
245 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
246 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
250 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
254 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
259 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
263 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
265 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
267 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
271 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
272 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
273 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
275 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
279 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
280 print a warning and then crash.
284 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
285 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
286 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
291 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
295 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
300 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
304 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
308 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
310 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
315 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
316 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
317 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
322 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
323 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
328 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
330 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
331 anyway, and noone had complained).
332 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
333 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
337 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
338 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
339 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
343 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
347 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
348 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
352 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
353 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
354 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
358 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
359 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
360 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
362 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
363 by Simon Templer and others).
367 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
368 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
369 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
373 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
377 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
381 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
382 version number again (Stephen Watson).
386 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
387 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
391 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
395 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
396 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
397 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
398 anyway (Stephen Watson).
402 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
406 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
410 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
412 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
414 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
418 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
419 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
420 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
424 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
425 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
430 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
431 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
432 impossible to change shortcuts.
433 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
434 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
438 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
439 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
444 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
445 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
446 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
450 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
451 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
452 to the functions being missing.
456 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
460 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
464 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
468 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
472 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
473 worries people for no reason.
477 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
481 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
482 files selected (Peter Geer).
486 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
487 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
491 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
495 Added 'Select by Name'.
499 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
503 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
508 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
512 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
514 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
516 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
517 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
521 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
525 Misc changes for next release.
529 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
530 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
534 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
535 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
536 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
537 Watson, reported on #rox).
541 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
542 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
546 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
547 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
551 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
552 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
556 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
557 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
562 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
566 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
568 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
573 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
577 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
578 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
582 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
583 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
587 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
591 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
596 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
597 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
599 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
600 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
604 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
605 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
609 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
614 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
615 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
619 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
620 support not being detected (igla).
624 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
628 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
629 dialog (Stephen Watson).
633 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
637 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
638 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
639 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
640 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
643 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
645 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
646 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
650 New icon for selection ops.
654 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
658 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
662 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
666 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
667 Added icon theme selector.
671 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
675 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
679 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
680 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
684 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
685 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
686 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
690 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
691 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
695 Allow ejecting mounted media.
699 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
700 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
701 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
705 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
709 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
710 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
715 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
716 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
720 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
721 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
725 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
726 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
730 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
734 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
735 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
736 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
740 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
744 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
745 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
746 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
747 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
751 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
752 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
754 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
758 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
762 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
763 bits (Stephen Watson).
767 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
771 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
775 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
776 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
780 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
784 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
785 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
790 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
791 forward them explicitly.
795 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
796 help from Götz Waschk).
800 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
801 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
802 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
806 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
810 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
814 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
818 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
819 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
821 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
823 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
827 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
829 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
831 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
835 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
836 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
837 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
838 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
842 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
846 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
850 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
854 Minor updates to the manual.
855 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
856 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
860 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
861 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
863 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
865 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
866 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
870 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
871 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
872 reduce flickering effect.
876 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
880 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
882 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
886 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
887 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
888 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
889 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
890 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
894 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
895 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
899 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
903 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
908 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
909 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
913 Winking now works in List view.
917 Lasso selections now work in List view.
921 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
922 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
926 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
927 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
929 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
931 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
935 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
939 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
940 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
942 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
946 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
947 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
951 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
953 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
957 Centre the image for iconified windows.
958 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
962 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
964 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
968 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
972 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
973 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
978 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
979 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
981 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
983 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
985 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
989 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
993 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
994 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
998 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1003 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1004 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1008 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1010 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1012 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1013 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1018 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1022 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1023 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1024 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1025 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1026 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1027 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1028 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1030 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1034 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1039 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1040 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1044 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1045 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1046 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1047 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1052 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1053 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1054 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1055 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1056 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1057 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1058 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1059 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1060 talent can do something better?
1061 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1062 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1066 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1067 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1068 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1073 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1075 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1076 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1077 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1078 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1079 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1080 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1081 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1082 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1083 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1084 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1085 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1086 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1087 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1091 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1092 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1093 allow fine repositioning.
1094 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1095 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1096 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1097 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1099 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1100 changing the aspect ratio.
1104 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1108 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1112 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1113 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1114 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1118 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1122 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1127 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1128 make sharing icons easier.
1129 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1133 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1134 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1138 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1142 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1144 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1148 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1153 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1158 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1159 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1161 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1162 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1163 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1164 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1168 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1169 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1173 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1177 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1179 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1180 Brian Langenberger).
1184 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1185 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1187 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1191 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1192 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1194 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1196 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1200 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1201 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1206 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1210 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1211 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1212 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1216 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1217 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1221 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1225 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1226 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1230 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1231 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1232 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1236 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1240 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1241 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1242 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1243 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1245 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1246 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1250 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1251 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1255 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1260 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1261 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1265 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1269 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1270 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1271 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1272 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1277 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1278 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1279 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1283 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1287 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1288 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1292 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1293 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1294 since it didn't include the contents.
1295 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1296 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1300 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1304 Style improvements to options window.
1308 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1312 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1314 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1316 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1321 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1322 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1323 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1324 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1328 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1332 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1336 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1337 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1341 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1343 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1348 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1352 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1353 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1354 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1359 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1363 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1367 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1371 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1375 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1376 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1377 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1381 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1382 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1386 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1387 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1392 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1396 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1400 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1405 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1406 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1410 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1411 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1416 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1417 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1421 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1422 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1423 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1427 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1431 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1432 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1433 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1434 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1435 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1439 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1440 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1444 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1445 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1449 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1453 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1454 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1455 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1456 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1457 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1458 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1462 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1463 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1464 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1468 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1469 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1474 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1478 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1480 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1482 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1487 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1491 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1495 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1496 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1501 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1505 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1509 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1510 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1511 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1515 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1519 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1524 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1528 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1529 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1530 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1531 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1535 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1539 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1540 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1544 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1545 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1546 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1550 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1554 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1558 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1559 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1560 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1561 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1562 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1563 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1567 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1568 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1572 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1573 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1574 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1578 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1579 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1583 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1587 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1588 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1589 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1590 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1592 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1594 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1598 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1599 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1600 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1604 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1608 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1609 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1614 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1618 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1622 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1623 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1627 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1628 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1629 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1633 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1634 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1638 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1639 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1643 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1644 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1648 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1652 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1653 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1657 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1659 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1661 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1665 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1669 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1670 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1674 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1678 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1682 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1683 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1684 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1685 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1686 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1687 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1691 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1695 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1697 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1698 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1702 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1703 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1707 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1711 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1712 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1713 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1714 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1716 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1718 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1722 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1723 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1727 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1728 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1729 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1733 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1734 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1735 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1736 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1737 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1738 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1739 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1743 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1744 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1748 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1752 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1756 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1761 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1765 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1766 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1767 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1771 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1772 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1773 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1777 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1778 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1779 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1783 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1784 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1788 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1793 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1794 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1795 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1796 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1797 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1799 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1800 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1804 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1808 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1809 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1810 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1811 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1815 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1816 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1817 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1818 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1819 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1820 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1824 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1828 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1829 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1833 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1834 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1835 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1836 restart (Olli Helenius).
1840 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1844 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1845 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1846 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1851 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1856 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1857 Small and Large sizes.
1861 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1865 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1866 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1870 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1871 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1872 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1873 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1877 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1878 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1879 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1884 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1889 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1890 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1894 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1895 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1900 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1902 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1904 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1908 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1912 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1914 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1916 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1920 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1922 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1923 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1927 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1928 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1932 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1933 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1937 Various speed improvements.
1938 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1942 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1943 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1947 Slight speed increase when starting.
1951 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1955 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1956 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1957 button is no longer supported.
1961 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1965 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1969 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1974 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1975 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1979 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1980 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1981 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1985 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1986 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1987 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1988 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1992 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1993 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1994 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1996 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2001 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2002 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2007 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2011 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2012 and converted to new dialog style.
2016 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2017 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2021 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2022 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2026 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2030 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2032 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2036 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2040 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2041 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2042 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2046 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2047 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2051 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2056 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2060 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2061 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2065 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2066 and Cancel is now Revert.
2067 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2068 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2072 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2076 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2077 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2079 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2080 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2081 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2082 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2086 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2088 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2089 labels display them.
2090 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2093 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2097 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2099 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2103 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2104 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2105 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2109 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2110 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2112 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2114 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2118 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2119 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2123 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2124 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2125 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2126 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2130 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2134 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2135 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2139 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2140 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2145 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2146 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2150 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2151 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2152 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2156 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2157 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2161 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2162 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2163 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2164 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2166 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2171 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2172 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2174 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2176 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2180 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2181 any image (saves time).
2182 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2183 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2184 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2185 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2187 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2188 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2192 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2193 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2195 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2196 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2198 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2203 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2204 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2205 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2206 has stopped accepting STRING.
2210 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2211 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2215 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2220 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2221 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2223 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2224 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2225 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2229 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2230 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2231 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2232 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2233 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2234 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2238 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2239 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2240 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2241 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2242 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2243 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2248 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2249 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2250 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2251 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2256 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2257 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2261 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2262 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2264 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2266 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2267 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2268 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2272 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2273 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2274 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2278 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2279 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2283 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2284 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2288 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2290 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2295 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2296 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2300 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2301 their menus correctly.
2302 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2307 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2308 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2309 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2313 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2314 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2318 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2322 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2325 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2327 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2328 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2329 the toggle menu items from working!
2333 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2335 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2341 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2342 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2346 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2347 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2348 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2349 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2350 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2351 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2355 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2359 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2360 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2364 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2365 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2366 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2370 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2371 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2376 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2378 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2382 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2383 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2384 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2385 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2389 Improved error reporting.
2390 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2394 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2395 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2396 check box and does 'Yes'.
2400 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2401 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2402 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2403 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2408 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2410 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2411 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2413 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2415 Internal changes to options system:
2416 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2417 filer is fully initialised).
2418 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2420 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2422 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2423 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2424 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2425 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2429 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2430 now reclaims the selection.
2431 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2432 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2437 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2438 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2439 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2440 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2441 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2445 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2446 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2448 Code tidying in various places.
2452 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2453 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2458 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2459 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2463 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2464 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2465 edit the file, not the file itself!
2466 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2470 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2471 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2472 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2473 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2474 of the SOAP working draft.
2475 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2476 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2477 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2482 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2483 it was in the displayed area before.
2485 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2488 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2489 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2493 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2494 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2495 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2497 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2498 selection (Andras Mohari).
2502 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2506 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2510 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2511 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2512 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2516 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2520 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2522 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2523 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2524 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2528 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2529 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2534 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2535 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2536 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2540 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2544 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2548 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2549 replaced by a Restart button.
2553 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2554 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2558 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2562 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2566 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2567 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2568 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2572 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2573 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2575 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2576 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2577 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2581 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2582 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2587 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2589 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2590 (requested by Graham Borland).
2591 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2592 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2593 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2597 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2598 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2599 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2600 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2604 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2605 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2606 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2607 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2608 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2609 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2610 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2611 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2612 - Lots of code tidying.
2617 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2618 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2622 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2624 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2626 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2630 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2631 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2635 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2636 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2640 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2641 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2645 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2646 option to access it directly.
2650 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2651 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2652 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2656 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2657 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2658 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2659 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2660 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2661 when the filer is run.
2665 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2666 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2667 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2672 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2676 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2677 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2681 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2683 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2687 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2691 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2692 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2693 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2698 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2699 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2700 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2701 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2702 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2703 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2704 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2708 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2712 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2713 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2717 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2718 of possible actions (Taras).
2719 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2721 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2722 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2726 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2731 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2735 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2738 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2739 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2743 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2744 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2746 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2748 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2749 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2750 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2751 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2755 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2759 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2763 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2767 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2772 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2773 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2774 the first one found.
2775 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2779 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2783 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2784 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2785 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2789 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2790 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2791 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2796 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2797 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2798 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2802 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2804 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2809 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2814 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2818 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2819 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2823 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2825 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2826 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2830 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2834 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2835 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2839 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2840 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2844 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2845 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2847 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2849 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2853 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2857 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2858 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2862 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2866 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2871 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2872 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2876 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2880 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2884 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2886 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2887 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2891 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2892 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2896 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2897 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2898 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2902 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2903 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2907 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2908 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2910 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2912 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2916 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2917 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2918 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2920 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2921 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2923 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2925 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2926 and the default size with no details.
2930 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2931 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2935 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2940 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2945 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2949 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2954 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2955 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2959 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2963 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2964 the button to run it does.
2965 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2966 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2967 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2971 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2972 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2973 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2977 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2981 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2982 and panels into icon.c.
2986 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2987 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2988 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2989 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2993 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2995 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2997 Updated the documentation.
3001 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3002 up if they're too small.
3006 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3008 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3009 (Christopher Arndt).
3010 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3015 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3016 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3020 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3021 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3025 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3026 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3027 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3032 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3037 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3041 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3042 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3047 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3052 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3053 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3057 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3058 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3062 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3066 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3070 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3074 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3075 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3078 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3079 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3084 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3085 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3086 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3087 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3092 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3093 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3095 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3097 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3098 for non-applications.
3102 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3103 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3108 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3112 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3113 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3115 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3119 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3120 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3124 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3125 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3129 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3130 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3134 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3135 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3137 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3138 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3142 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3143 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3145 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3149 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3150 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3153 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3157 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3158 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3162 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3166 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3167 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3170 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3171 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3175 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3179 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3184 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3188 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3189 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3194 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3199 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3203 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3205 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3207 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3208 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3210 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3212 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3213 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3217 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3218 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3219 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3221 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3222 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3226 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3230 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3231 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3235 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3239 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3240 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3242 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3245 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3246 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3247 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3251 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3252 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3257 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3262 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3264 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3267 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3269 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3270 sensible shape itself now.
3272 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3273 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3274 file at all, just a reused inode!
3275 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3276 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3277 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3281 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3285 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3286 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3291 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3292 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3296 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3300 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3301 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3305 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3310 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3314 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3315 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3319 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3320 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3321 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3322 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3323 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3327 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3328 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3329 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3330 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3331 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3335 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3336 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3337 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3341 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3343 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3344 python's portable system.
3345 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3346 set the LANG variable.
3350 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3351 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3353 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3355 Made a few updates to the manual.
3359 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3360 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3362 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3364 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3365 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3369 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3370 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3374 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3375 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3380 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3381 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3382 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3386 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3387 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3391 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3392 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3396 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3397 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3399 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3400 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3401 open... (Denis Manente).
3405 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3409 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3411 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3412 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3413 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3415 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3417 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3419 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3420 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3425 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3426 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3427 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3431 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3432 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3436 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3440 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3444 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3445 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3446 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3450 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3451 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3452 between pinboards...
3454 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3455 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3456 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3460 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3463 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3464 window (Denis Manente).
3466 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3467 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3471 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3472 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3473 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3477 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3480 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3481 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3483 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3488 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3489 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3491 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3495 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3496 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3498 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3500 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3505 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3506 the icon points to as well as its name.
3508 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3509 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3513 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3514 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3515 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3516 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3520 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3524 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3525 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3526 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3530 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3531 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3533 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3534 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3537 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3538 the item after the drag.
3540 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3541 showing where the file really is.
3545 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3546 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3551 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3552 warning is displayed if so.
3554 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3558 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3559 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3560 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3561 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3564 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3565 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3566 works like the panels.
3570 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3571 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3572 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3573 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3574 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3578 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3579 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3580 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3581 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3583 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3588 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3592 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3593 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3596 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3597 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3599 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3602 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3603 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3604 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3605 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3607 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3609 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3610 slightly. Updated the manual.
3612 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3613 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3616 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3617 or bottom panel to make room.
3621 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3626 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3627 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3628 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3629 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3630 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3634 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3636 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3637 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3639 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3643 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3644 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3648 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3652 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3654 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3659 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3660 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3662 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3666 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3667 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3668 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3672 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3673 rewriting the panel system.
3677 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3680 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3681 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3685 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3686 (suggested by James Kermode).
3690 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3691 than as a full path.
3693 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3695 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3696 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3697 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3701 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3702 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3706 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3707 rename something onto another filesystem.
3711 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3713 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3714 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3718 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3722 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3725 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3726 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3728 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3731 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3736 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3737 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3738 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3740 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3741 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3743 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3744 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3749 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3750 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3755 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3756 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3757 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3759 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3760 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3761 of the 'missing image' image.
3765 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3767 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3769 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3774 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3775 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3776 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3777 its name into another program.
3779 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3783 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3785 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3786 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3787 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3789 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3790 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3791 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3794 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3795 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3799 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3800 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3801 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3805 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3806 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3807 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3811 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3812 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3813 and position the icons directly.
3817 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3822 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3823 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3824 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3828 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3832 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3833 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3837 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3842 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3846 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3847 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3848 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3849 some versions of GTK+.
3853 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3858 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3859 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3860 from a sub-sub-menu.
3862 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3863 drawn on a log scale.
3867 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3868 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3869 happy with the UI yet though...
3871 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3872 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3873 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3877 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3878 by Stephen Harrison).
3880 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3882 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3883 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3884 standard types are in Choices.
3885 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3887 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3888 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3889 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3894 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3895 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3896 shell command minibuffer.
3900 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3901 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3902 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3903 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3904 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3906 Default search path for Choices is now:
3907 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3909 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3910 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3911 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3915 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3916 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3920 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3921 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3922 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3927 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3928 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3929 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3932 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3934 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3935 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3936 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3938 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3939 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3943 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3944 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3945 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3946 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3951 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3952 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3953 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3955 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3957 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3958 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3962 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3963 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3964 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3969 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3970 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3973 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3975 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3980 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3985 Added GNU gettext support.
3986 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3990 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3992 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3994 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3999 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4003 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4004 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4006 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4007 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4012 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4013 onto the directory and winks the file.
4017 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4018 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4019 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4021 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4022 instead of random values.
4023 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4025 Applied Bernard's patch:
4026 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4027 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4028 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4029 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4030 it the RISC OS way...
4031 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4032 alignment corrected.
4033 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4038 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4042 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4043 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4047 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4048 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4049 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4050 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4051 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4052 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4053 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4054 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4055 in the file(1) says... box).
4058 Before the Changes file
4059 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4060 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4062 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4063 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4064 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4065 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4066 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD