2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
11 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
12 version number again (Stephen Watson).
16 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
17 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
21 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
25 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
26 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
27 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
28 anyway (Stephen Watson).
32 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
36 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
40 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
42 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
44 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
48 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
49 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
50 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
54 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
55 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
60 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
61 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
62 impossible to change shortcuts.
63 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
64 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
68 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
69 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
74 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
75 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
76 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
80 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
81 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
82 to the functions being missing.
86 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
90 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
94 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
98 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
102 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
103 worries people for no reason.
107 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
111 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
112 files selected (Peter Geer).
116 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
117 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
121 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
125 Added 'Select by Name'.
129 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
133 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
138 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
142 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
144 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
146 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
147 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
151 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
155 Misc changes for next release.
159 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
160 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
164 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
165 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
166 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
167 Watson, reported on #rox).
171 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
172 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
176 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
177 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
181 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
182 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
186 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
187 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
192 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
196 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
198 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
203 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
207 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
208 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
212 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
213 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
217 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
221 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
226 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
227 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
229 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
230 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
234 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
235 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
239 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
244 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
245 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
249 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
250 support not being detected (igla).
254 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
258 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
259 dialog (Stephen Watson).
263 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
267 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
268 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
269 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
270 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
273 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
275 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
276 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
280 New icon for selection ops.
284 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
288 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
292 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
296 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
297 Added icon theme selector.
301 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
305 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
309 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
310 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
314 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
315 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
316 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
320 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
321 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
325 Allow ejecting mounted media.
329 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
330 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
331 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
335 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
339 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
340 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
345 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
346 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
350 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
351 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
355 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
356 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
360 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
364 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
365 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
366 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
370 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
374 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
375 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
376 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
377 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
381 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
382 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
384 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
388 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
392 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
393 bits (Stephen Watson).
397 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
401 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
405 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
406 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
410 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
414 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
415 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
420 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
421 forward them explicitly.
425 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
426 help from Götz Waschk).
430 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
431 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
432 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
436 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
440 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
444 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
448 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
449 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
451 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
453 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
457 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
459 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
461 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
465 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
466 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
467 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
468 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
472 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
476 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
480 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
484 Minor updates to the manual.
485 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
486 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
490 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
491 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
493 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
495 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
496 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
500 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
501 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
502 reduce flickering effect.
506 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
510 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
512 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
516 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
517 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
518 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
519 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
520 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
524 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
525 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
529 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
533 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
538 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
539 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
543 Winking now works in List view.
547 Lasso selections now work in List view.
551 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
552 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
556 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
557 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
559 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
561 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
565 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
569 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
570 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
572 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
576 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
577 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
581 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
583 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
587 Centre the image for iconified windows.
588 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
592 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
594 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
598 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
602 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
603 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
608 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
609 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
611 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
613 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
615 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
619 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
623 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
624 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
628 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
633 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
634 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
638 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
640 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
642 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
643 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
648 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
652 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
653 (suggested by Michael Adams).
654 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
655 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
656 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
657 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
658 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
660 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
664 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
669 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
670 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
674 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
675 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
676 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
677 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
682 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
683 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
684 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
685 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
686 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
687 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
688 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
689 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
690 talent can do something better?
691 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
692 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
696 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
697 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
698 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
703 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
705 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
706 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
707 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
708 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
709 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
710 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
711 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
712 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
713 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
714 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
715 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
716 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
717 label wasn't hidden / shown.
721 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
722 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
723 allow fine repositioning.
724 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
725 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
726 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
727 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
729 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
730 changing the aspect ratio.
734 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
738 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
742 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
743 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
744 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
748 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
752 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
757 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
758 make sharing icons easier.
759 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
763 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
764 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
768 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
772 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
774 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
778 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
783 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
788 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
789 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
791 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
792 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
793 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
794 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
798 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
799 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
803 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
807 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
809 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
814 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
815 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
817 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
821 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
822 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
824 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
826 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
830 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
831 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
836 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
840 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
841 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
842 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
846 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
847 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
851 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
855 Preserve selection when changing view type.
856 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
860 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
861 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
862 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
866 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
870 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
871 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
872 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
873 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
875 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
876 the information in the tooltips anyway.
880 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
881 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
885 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
890 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
891 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
895 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
899 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
900 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
901 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
902 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
907 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
908 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
909 Always use case-insensitive sort.
913 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
917 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
918 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
922 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
923 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
924 since it didn't include the contents.
925 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
926 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
930 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
934 Style improvements to options window.
938 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
942 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
944 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
946 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
951 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
952 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
953 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
954 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
958 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
962 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
966 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
967 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
971 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
973 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
978 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
982 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
983 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
984 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
989 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
993 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
997 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1001 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1005 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1006 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1007 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1011 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1012 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1016 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1017 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1022 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1026 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1030 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1035 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1036 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1040 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1041 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1046 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1047 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1051 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1052 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1053 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1057 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1061 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1062 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1063 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1064 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1065 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1069 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1070 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1074 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1075 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1079 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1083 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1084 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1085 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1086 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1087 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1088 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1092 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1093 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1094 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1098 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1099 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1104 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1108 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1110 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1112 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1117 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1121 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1125 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1126 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1131 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1135 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1139 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1140 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1141 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1145 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1149 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1154 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1158 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1159 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1160 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1161 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1165 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1169 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1170 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1174 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1175 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1176 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1180 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1184 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1188 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1189 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1190 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1191 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1192 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1193 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1197 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1198 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1202 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1203 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1204 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1208 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1209 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1213 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1217 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1218 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1219 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1220 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1222 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1224 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1228 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1229 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1230 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1234 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1238 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1239 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1244 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1248 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1252 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1253 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1257 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1258 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1259 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1263 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1264 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1268 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1269 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1273 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1274 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1278 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1282 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1283 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1287 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1289 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1291 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1295 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1299 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1300 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1304 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1308 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1312 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1313 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1314 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1315 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1316 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1317 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1321 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1325 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1327 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1328 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1332 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1333 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1337 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1341 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1342 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1343 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1344 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1346 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1348 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1352 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1353 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1357 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1358 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1359 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1363 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1364 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1365 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1366 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1367 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1368 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1369 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1373 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1374 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1378 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1382 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1386 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1391 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1395 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1396 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1397 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1401 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1402 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1403 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1407 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1408 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1409 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1413 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1414 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1418 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1423 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1424 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1425 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1426 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1427 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1429 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1430 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1434 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1438 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1439 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1440 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1441 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1445 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1446 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1447 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1448 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1449 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1450 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1454 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1458 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1459 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1463 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1464 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1465 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1466 restart (Olli Helenius).
1470 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1474 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1475 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1476 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1481 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1486 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1487 Small and Large sizes.
1491 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1495 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1496 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1500 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1501 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1502 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1503 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1507 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1508 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1509 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1514 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1519 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1520 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1524 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1525 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1530 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1532 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1534 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1538 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1542 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1544 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1546 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1550 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1552 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1553 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1557 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1558 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1562 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1563 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1567 Various speed improvements.
1568 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1572 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1573 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1577 Slight speed increase when starting.
1581 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1585 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1586 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1587 button is no longer supported.
1591 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1595 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1599 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1604 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1605 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1609 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1610 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1611 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1615 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1616 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1617 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1618 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1622 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1623 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1624 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1626 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1631 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1632 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1637 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1641 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1642 and converted to new dialog style.
1646 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1647 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1651 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1652 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1656 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1660 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1662 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1666 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1670 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1671 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1672 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1676 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1677 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1681 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1686 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1690 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1691 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1695 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1696 and Cancel is now Revert.
1697 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1698 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1702 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1706 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1707 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1709 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1710 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1711 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1712 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1716 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1718 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1719 labels display them.
1720 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1723 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1727 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1729 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1733 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1734 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1735 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1739 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1740 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1742 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1744 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1748 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1749 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1753 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1754 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1755 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1756 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1760 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1764 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1765 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1769 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1770 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1775 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1776 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1780 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1781 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1782 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1786 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1787 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1791 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1792 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1793 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1794 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1796 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1801 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1802 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1804 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1806 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1810 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1811 any image (saves time).
1812 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1813 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1814 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1815 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1817 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1818 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1822 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1823 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1825 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1826 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1828 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1833 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1834 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1835 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1836 has stopped accepting STRING.
1840 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1841 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1845 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1850 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1851 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1853 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1854 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1855 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1859 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1860 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1861 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1862 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1863 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1864 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1868 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1869 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1870 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1871 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1872 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1873 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1878 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1879 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1880 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1881 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1886 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1887 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1891 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1892 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1894 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1896 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1897 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1898 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1902 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1903 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1904 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1908 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1909 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1913 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1914 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1918 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1920 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1925 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1926 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1930 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1931 their menus correctly.
1932 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1937 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1938 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1939 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1943 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1944 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1948 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1952 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1955 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1957 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1958 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1959 the toggle menu items from working!
1963 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1965 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1971 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1972 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1976 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1977 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1978 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1979 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1980 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1981 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1985 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1989 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1990 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1994 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1995 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1996 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2000 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2001 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2006 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2008 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2012 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2013 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2014 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2015 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2019 Improved error reporting.
2020 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2024 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2025 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2026 check box and does 'Yes'.
2030 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2031 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2032 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2033 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2038 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2040 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2041 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2043 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2045 Internal changes to options system:
2046 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2047 filer is fully initialised).
2048 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2050 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2052 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2053 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2054 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2055 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2059 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2060 now reclaims the selection.
2061 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2062 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2067 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2068 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2069 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2070 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2071 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2075 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2076 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2078 Code tidying in various places.
2082 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2083 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2088 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2089 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2093 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2094 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2095 edit the file, not the file itself!
2096 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2100 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2101 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2102 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2103 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2104 of the SOAP working draft.
2105 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2106 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2107 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2112 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2113 it was in the displayed area before.
2115 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2118 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2119 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2123 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2124 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2125 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2127 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2128 selection (Andras Mohari).
2132 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2136 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2140 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2141 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2142 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2146 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2150 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2152 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2153 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2154 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2158 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2159 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2164 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2165 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2166 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2170 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2174 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2178 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2179 replaced by a Restart button.
2183 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2184 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2188 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2192 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2196 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2197 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2198 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2202 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2203 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2205 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2206 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2207 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2211 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2212 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2217 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2219 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2220 (requested by Graham Borland).
2221 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2222 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2223 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2227 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2228 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2229 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2230 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2234 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2235 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2236 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2237 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2238 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2239 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2240 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2241 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2242 - Lots of code tidying.
2247 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2248 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2252 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2254 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2256 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2260 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2261 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2265 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2266 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2270 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2271 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2275 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2276 option to access it directly.
2280 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2281 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2282 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2286 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2287 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2288 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2289 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2290 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2291 when the filer is run.
2295 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2296 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2297 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2302 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2306 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2307 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2311 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2313 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2317 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2321 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2322 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2323 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2328 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2329 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2330 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2331 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2332 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2333 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2334 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2338 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2342 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2343 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2347 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2348 of possible actions (Taras).
2349 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2351 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2352 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2356 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2361 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2365 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2368 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2369 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2373 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2374 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2376 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2378 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2379 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2380 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2381 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2385 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2389 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2393 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2397 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2402 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2403 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2404 the first one found.
2405 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2409 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2413 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2414 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2415 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2419 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2420 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2421 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2426 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2427 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2428 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2432 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2434 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2439 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2444 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2448 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2449 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2453 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2455 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2456 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2460 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2464 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2465 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2469 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2470 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2474 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2475 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2477 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2479 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2483 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2487 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2488 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2492 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2496 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2501 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2502 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2506 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2510 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2514 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2516 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2517 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2521 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2522 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2526 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2527 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2528 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2532 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2533 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2537 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2538 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2540 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2542 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2546 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2547 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2548 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2550 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2551 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2553 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2555 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2556 and the default size with no details.
2560 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2561 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2565 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2570 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2575 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2579 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2584 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2585 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2589 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2593 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2594 the button to run it does.
2595 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2596 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2597 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2601 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2602 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2603 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2607 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2611 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2612 and panels into icon.c.
2616 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2617 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2618 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2619 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2623 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2625 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2627 Updated the documentation.
2631 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2632 up if they're too small.
2636 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2638 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2639 (Christopher Arndt).
2640 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2645 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2646 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2650 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2651 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2655 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2656 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2657 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2662 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2667 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2671 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2672 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2677 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2682 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2683 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2687 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2688 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2692 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2696 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2700 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2704 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2705 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2708 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2709 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2714 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2715 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2716 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2717 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2722 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2723 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2725 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2727 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2728 for non-applications.
2732 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2733 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2738 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2742 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2743 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2745 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2749 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2750 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2754 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2755 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2759 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2760 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2764 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2765 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2767 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2768 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2772 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2773 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2775 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2779 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2780 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2783 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2787 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2788 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2792 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2796 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2797 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2800 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2801 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2805 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2809 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2814 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2818 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2819 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2824 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2829 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2833 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2835 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2837 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2838 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2840 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2842 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2843 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2847 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2848 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2849 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2851 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2852 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2856 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2860 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2861 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2865 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2869 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2870 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2872 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2875 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2876 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2877 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2881 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2882 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2887 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2892 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2894 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2897 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2899 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2900 sensible shape itself now.
2902 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2903 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2904 file at all, just a reused inode!
2905 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2906 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2907 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2911 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2915 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2916 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2921 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2922 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2926 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2930 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2931 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2935 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2940 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2944 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2945 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2949 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2950 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2951 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2952 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2953 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2957 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2958 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2959 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2960 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2961 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2965 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2966 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2967 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2971 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2973 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2974 python's portable system.
2975 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2976 set the LANG variable.
2980 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2981 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2983 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2985 Made a few updates to the manual.
2989 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2990 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2992 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2994 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2995 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2999 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3000 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3004 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3005 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3010 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3011 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3012 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3016 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3017 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3021 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3022 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3026 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3027 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3029 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3030 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3031 open... (Denis Manente).
3035 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3039 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3041 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3042 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3043 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3045 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3047 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3049 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3050 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3055 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3056 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3057 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3061 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3062 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3066 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3070 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3074 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3075 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3076 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3080 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3081 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3082 between pinboards...
3084 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3085 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3086 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3090 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3093 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3094 window (Denis Manente).
3096 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3097 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3101 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3102 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3103 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3107 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3110 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3111 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3113 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3118 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3119 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3121 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3125 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3126 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3128 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3130 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3135 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3136 the icon points to as well as its name.
3138 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3139 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3143 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3144 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3145 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3146 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3150 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3154 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3155 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3156 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3160 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3161 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3163 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3164 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3167 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3168 the item after the drag.
3170 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3171 showing where the file really is.
3175 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3176 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3181 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3182 warning is displayed if so.
3184 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3188 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3189 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3190 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3191 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3194 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3195 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3196 works like the panels.
3200 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3201 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3202 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3203 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3204 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3208 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3209 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3210 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3211 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3213 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3218 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3222 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3223 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3226 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3227 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3229 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3232 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3233 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3234 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3235 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3237 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3239 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3240 slightly. Updated the manual.
3242 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3243 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3246 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3247 or bottom panel to make room.
3251 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3256 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3257 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3258 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3259 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3260 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3264 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3266 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3267 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3269 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3273 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3274 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3278 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3282 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3284 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3289 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3290 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3292 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3296 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3297 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3298 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3302 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3303 rewriting the panel system.
3307 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3310 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3311 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3315 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3316 (suggested by James Kermode).
3320 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3321 than as a full path.
3323 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3325 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3326 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3327 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3331 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3332 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3336 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3337 rename something onto another filesystem.
3341 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3343 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3344 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3348 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3352 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3355 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3356 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3358 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3361 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3366 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3367 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3368 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3370 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3371 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3373 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3374 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3379 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3380 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3385 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3386 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3387 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3389 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3390 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3391 of the 'missing image' image.
3395 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3397 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3399 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3404 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3405 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3406 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3407 its name into another program.
3409 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3413 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3415 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3416 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3417 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3419 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3420 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3421 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3424 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3425 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3429 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3430 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3431 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3435 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3436 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3437 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3441 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3442 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3443 and position the icons directly.
3447 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3452 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3453 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3454 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3458 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3462 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3463 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3467 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3472 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3476 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3477 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3478 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3479 some versions of GTK+.
3483 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3488 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3489 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3490 from a sub-sub-menu.
3492 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3493 drawn on a log scale.
3497 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3498 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3499 happy with the UI yet though...
3501 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3502 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3503 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3507 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3508 by Stephen Harrison).
3510 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3512 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3513 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3514 standard types are in Choices.
3515 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3517 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3518 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3519 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3524 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3525 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3526 shell command minibuffer.
3530 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3531 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3532 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3533 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3534 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3536 Default search path for Choices is now:
3537 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3539 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3540 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3541 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3545 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3546 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3550 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3551 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3552 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3557 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3558 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3559 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3562 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3564 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3565 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3566 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3568 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3569 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3573 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3574 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3575 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3576 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3581 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3582 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3583 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3585 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3587 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3588 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3592 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3593 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3594 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3599 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3600 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3603 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3605 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3610 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3615 Added GNU gettext support.
3616 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3620 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3622 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3624 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3629 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3633 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3634 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3636 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3637 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3642 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3643 onto the directory and winks the file.
3647 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3648 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3649 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3651 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3652 instead of random values.
3653 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3655 Applied Bernard's patch:
3656 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3657 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3658 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3659 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3660 it the RISC OS way...
3661 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3662 alignment corrected.
3663 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3668 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3672 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3673 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3677 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3678 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3679 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3680 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3681 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3682 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3683 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3684 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3685 in the file(1) says... box).
3688 Before the Changes file
3689 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3690 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3692 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3693 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3694 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3695 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3696 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD