2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
8 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
13 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
14 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
18 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
19 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
23 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
24 (reported by Tony Houghton).
28 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
30 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
31 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
35 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
36 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
40 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
44 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
48 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
52 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
53 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
54 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
58 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
62 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
67 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
71 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
73 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
75 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
79 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
80 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
81 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
83 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
87 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
88 print a warning and then crash.
92 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
93 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
94 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
99 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
103 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
108 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
112 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
116 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
118 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
123 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
124 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
125 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
130 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
131 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
136 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
138 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
139 anyway, and noone had complained).
140 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
141 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
145 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
146 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
147 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
151 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
155 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
156 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
160 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
161 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
162 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
166 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
167 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
168 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
170 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
171 by Simon Templer and others).
175 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
176 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
177 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
181 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
185 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
189 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
190 version number again (Stephen Watson).
194 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
195 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
199 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
203 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
204 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
205 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
206 anyway (Stephen Watson).
210 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
214 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
218 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
220 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
222 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
226 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
227 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
228 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
232 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
233 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
238 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
239 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
240 impossible to change shortcuts.
241 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
242 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
246 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
247 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
252 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
253 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
254 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
258 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
259 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
260 to the functions being missing.
264 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
268 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
272 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
276 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
280 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
281 worries people for no reason.
285 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
289 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
290 files selected (Peter Geer).
294 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
295 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
299 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
303 Added 'Select by Name'.
307 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
311 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
316 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
320 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
322 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
324 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
325 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
329 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
333 Misc changes for next release.
337 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
338 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
342 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
343 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
344 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
345 Watson, reported on #rox).
349 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
350 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
354 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
355 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
359 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
360 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
364 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
365 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
370 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
374 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
376 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
381 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
385 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
386 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
390 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
391 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
395 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
399 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
404 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
405 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
407 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
408 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
412 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
413 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
417 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
422 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
423 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
427 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
428 support not being detected (igla).
432 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
436 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
437 dialog (Stephen Watson).
441 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
445 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
446 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
447 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
448 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
451 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
453 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
454 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
458 New icon for selection ops.
462 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
466 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
470 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
474 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
475 Added icon theme selector.
479 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
483 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
487 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
488 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
492 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
493 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
494 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
498 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
499 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
503 Allow ejecting mounted media.
507 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
508 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
509 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
513 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
517 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
518 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
523 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
524 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
528 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
529 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
533 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
534 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
538 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
542 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
543 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
544 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
548 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
552 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
553 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
554 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
555 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
559 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
560 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
562 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
566 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
570 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
571 bits (Stephen Watson).
575 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
579 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
583 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
584 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
588 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
592 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
593 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
598 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
599 forward them explicitly.
603 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
604 help from Götz Waschk).
608 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
609 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
610 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
614 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
618 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
622 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
626 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
627 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
629 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
631 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
635 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
637 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
639 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
643 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
644 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
645 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
646 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
650 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
654 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
658 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
662 Minor updates to the manual.
663 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
664 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
668 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
669 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
671 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
673 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
674 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
678 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
679 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
680 reduce flickering effect.
684 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
688 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
690 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
694 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
695 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
696 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
697 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
698 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
702 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
703 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
707 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
711 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
716 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
717 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
721 Winking now works in List view.
725 Lasso selections now work in List view.
729 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
730 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
734 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
735 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
737 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
739 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
743 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
747 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
748 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
750 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
754 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
755 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
759 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
761 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
765 Centre the image for iconified windows.
766 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
770 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
772 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
776 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
780 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
781 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
786 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
787 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
789 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
791 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
793 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
797 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
801 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
802 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
806 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
811 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
812 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
816 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
818 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
820 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
821 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
826 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
830 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
831 (suggested by Michael Adams).
832 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
833 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
834 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
835 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
836 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
838 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
842 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
847 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
848 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
852 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
853 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
854 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
855 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
860 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
861 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
862 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
863 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
864 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
865 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
866 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
867 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
868 talent can do something better?
869 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
870 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
874 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
875 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
876 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
881 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
883 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
884 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
885 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
886 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
887 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
888 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
889 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
890 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
891 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
892 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
893 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
894 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
895 label wasn't hidden / shown.
899 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
900 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
901 allow fine repositioning.
902 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
903 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
904 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
905 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
907 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
908 changing the aspect ratio.
912 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
916 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
920 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
921 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
922 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
926 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
930 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
935 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
936 make sharing icons easier.
937 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
941 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
942 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
946 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
950 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
952 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
956 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
961 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
966 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
967 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
969 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
970 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
971 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
972 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
976 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
977 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
981 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
985 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
987 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
992 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
993 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
995 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
999 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1000 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1002 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1004 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1008 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1009 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1014 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1018 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1019 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1020 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1024 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1025 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1029 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1033 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1034 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1038 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1039 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1040 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1044 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1048 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1049 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1050 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1051 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1053 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1054 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1058 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1059 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1063 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1068 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1069 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1073 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1077 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1078 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1079 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1080 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1085 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1086 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1087 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1091 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1095 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1096 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1100 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1101 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1102 since it didn't include the contents.
1103 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1104 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1108 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1112 Style improvements to options window.
1116 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1120 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1122 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1124 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1129 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1130 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1131 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1132 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1136 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1140 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1144 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1145 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1149 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1151 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1156 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1160 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1161 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1162 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1167 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1171 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1175 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1179 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1183 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1184 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1185 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1189 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1190 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1194 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1195 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1200 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1204 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1208 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1213 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1214 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1218 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1219 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1224 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1225 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1229 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1230 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1231 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1235 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1239 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1240 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1241 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1242 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1243 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1247 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1248 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1252 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1253 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1257 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1261 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1262 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1263 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1264 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1265 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1266 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1270 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1271 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1272 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1276 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1277 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1282 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1286 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1288 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1290 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1295 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1299 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1303 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1304 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1309 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1313 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1317 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1318 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1319 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1323 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1327 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1332 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1336 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1337 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1338 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1339 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1343 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1347 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1348 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1352 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1353 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1354 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1358 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1362 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1366 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1367 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1368 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1369 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1370 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1371 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1375 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1376 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1380 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1381 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1382 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1386 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1387 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1391 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1395 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1396 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1397 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1398 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1400 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1402 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1406 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1407 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1408 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1412 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1416 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1417 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1422 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1426 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1430 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1431 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1435 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1436 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1437 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1441 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1442 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1446 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1447 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1451 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1452 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1456 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1460 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1461 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1465 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1467 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1469 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1473 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1477 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1478 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1482 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1486 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1490 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1491 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1492 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1493 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1494 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1495 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1499 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1503 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1505 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1506 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1510 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1511 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1515 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1519 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1520 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1521 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1522 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1524 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1526 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1530 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1531 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1535 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1536 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1537 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1541 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1542 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1543 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1544 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1545 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1546 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1547 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1551 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1552 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1556 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1560 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1564 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1569 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1573 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1574 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1575 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1579 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1580 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1581 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1585 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1586 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1587 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1591 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1592 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1596 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1601 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1602 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1603 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1604 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1605 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1607 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1608 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1612 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1616 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1617 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1618 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1619 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1623 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1624 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1625 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1626 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1627 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1628 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1632 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1636 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1637 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1641 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1642 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1643 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1644 restart (Olli Helenius).
1648 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1652 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1653 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1654 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1659 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1664 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1665 Small and Large sizes.
1669 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1673 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1674 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1678 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1679 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1680 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1681 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1685 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1686 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1687 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1692 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1697 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1698 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1702 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1703 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1708 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1710 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1712 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1716 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1720 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1722 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1724 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1728 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1730 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1731 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1735 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1736 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1740 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1741 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1745 Various speed improvements.
1746 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1750 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1751 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1755 Slight speed increase when starting.
1759 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1763 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1764 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1765 button is no longer supported.
1769 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1773 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1777 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1782 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1783 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1787 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1788 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1789 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1793 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1794 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1795 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1796 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1800 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1801 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1802 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1804 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1809 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1810 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1815 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1819 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1820 and converted to new dialog style.
1824 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1825 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1829 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1830 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1834 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1838 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1840 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1844 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1848 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1849 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1850 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1854 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1855 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1859 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1864 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1868 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1869 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1873 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1874 and Cancel is now Revert.
1875 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1876 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1880 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1884 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1885 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1887 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1888 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1889 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1890 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1894 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1896 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1897 labels display them.
1898 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1901 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1905 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1907 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1911 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1912 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1913 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1917 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1918 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1920 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1922 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1926 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1927 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1931 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1932 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1933 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1934 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1938 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1942 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1943 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1947 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1948 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1953 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1954 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1958 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1959 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1960 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1964 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1965 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1969 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1970 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1971 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1972 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1974 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1979 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1980 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1982 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1984 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1988 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1989 any image (saves time).
1990 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1991 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1992 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1993 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1995 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1996 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2000 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2001 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2003 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2004 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2006 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2011 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2012 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2013 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2014 has stopped accepting STRING.
2018 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2019 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2023 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2028 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2029 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2031 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2032 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2033 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2037 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2038 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2039 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2040 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2041 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2042 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2046 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2047 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2048 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2049 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2050 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2051 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2056 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2057 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2058 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2059 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2064 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2065 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2069 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2070 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2072 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2074 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2075 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2076 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2080 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2081 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2082 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2086 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2087 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2091 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2092 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2096 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2098 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2103 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2104 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2108 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2109 their menus correctly.
2110 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2115 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2116 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2117 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2121 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2122 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2126 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2130 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2133 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2135 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2136 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2137 the toggle menu items from working!
2141 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2143 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2149 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2150 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2154 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2155 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2156 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2157 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2158 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2159 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2163 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2167 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2168 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2172 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2173 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2174 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2178 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2179 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2184 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2186 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2190 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2191 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2192 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2193 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2197 Improved error reporting.
2198 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2202 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2203 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2204 check box and does 'Yes'.
2208 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2209 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2210 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2211 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2216 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2218 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2219 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2221 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2223 Internal changes to options system:
2224 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2225 filer is fully initialised).
2226 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2228 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2230 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2231 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2232 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2233 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2237 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2238 now reclaims the selection.
2239 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2240 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2245 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2246 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2247 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2248 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2249 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2253 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2254 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2256 Code tidying in various places.
2260 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2261 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2266 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2267 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2271 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2272 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2273 edit the file, not the file itself!
2274 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2278 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2279 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2280 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2281 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2282 of the SOAP working draft.
2283 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2284 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2285 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2290 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2291 it was in the displayed area before.
2293 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2296 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2297 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2301 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2302 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2303 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2305 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2306 selection (Andras Mohari).
2310 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2314 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2318 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2319 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2320 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2324 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2328 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2330 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2331 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2332 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2336 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2337 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2342 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2343 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2344 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2348 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2352 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2356 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2357 replaced by a Restart button.
2361 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2362 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2366 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2370 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2374 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2375 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2376 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2380 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2381 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2383 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2384 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2385 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2389 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2390 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2395 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2397 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2398 (requested by Graham Borland).
2399 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2400 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2401 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2405 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2406 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2407 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2408 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2412 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2413 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2414 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2415 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2416 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2417 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2418 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2419 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2420 - Lots of code tidying.
2425 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2426 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2430 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2432 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2434 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2438 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2439 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2443 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2444 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2448 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2449 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2453 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2454 option to access it directly.
2458 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2459 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2460 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2464 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2465 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2466 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2467 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2468 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2469 when the filer is run.
2473 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2474 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2475 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2480 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2484 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2485 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2489 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2491 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2495 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2499 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2500 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2501 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2506 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2507 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2508 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2509 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2510 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2511 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2512 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2516 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2520 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2521 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2525 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2526 of possible actions (Taras).
2527 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2529 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2530 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2534 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2539 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2543 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2546 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2547 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2551 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2552 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2554 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2556 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2557 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2558 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2559 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2563 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2567 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2571 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2575 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2580 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2581 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2582 the first one found.
2583 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2587 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2591 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2592 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2593 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2597 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2598 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2599 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2604 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2605 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2606 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2610 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2612 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2617 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2622 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2626 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2627 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2631 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2633 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2634 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2638 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2642 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2643 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2647 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2648 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2652 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2653 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2655 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2657 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2661 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2665 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2666 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2670 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2674 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2679 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2680 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2684 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2688 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2692 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2694 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2695 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2699 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2700 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2704 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2705 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2706 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2710 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2711 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2715 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2716 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2718 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2720 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2724 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2725 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2726 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2728 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2729 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2731 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2733 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2734 and the default size with no details.
2738 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2739 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2743 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2748 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2753 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2757 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2762 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2763 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2767 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2771 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2772 the button to run it does.
2773 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2774 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2775 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2779 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2780 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2781 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2785 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2789 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2790 and panels into icon.c.
2794 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2795 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2796 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2797 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2801 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2803 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2805 Updated the documentation.
2809 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2810 up if they're too small.
2814 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2816 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2817 (Christopher Arndt).
2818 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2823 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2824 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2828 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2829 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2833 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2834 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2835 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2840 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2845 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2849 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2850 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2855 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2860 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2861 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2865 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2866 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2870 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2874 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2878 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2882 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2883 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2886 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2887 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2892 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2893 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2894 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2895 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2900 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2901 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2903 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2905 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2906 for non-applications.
2910 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2911 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2916 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2920 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2921 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2923 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2927 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2928 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2932 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2933 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2937 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2938 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2942 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2943 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2945 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2946 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2950 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2951 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2953 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2957 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2958 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2961 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2965 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2966 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2970 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2974 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2975 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2978 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2979 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2983 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2987 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2992 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2996 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2997 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3002 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3007 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3011 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3013 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3015 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3016 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3018 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3020 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3021 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3025 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3026 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3027 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3029 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3030 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3034 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3038 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3039 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3043 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3047 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3048 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3050 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3053 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3054 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3055 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3059 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3060 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3065 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3070 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3072 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3075 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3077 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3078 sensible shape itself now.
3080 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3081 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3082 file at all, just a reused inode!
3083 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3084 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3085 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3089 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3093 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3094 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3099 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3100 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3104 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3108 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3109 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3113 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3118 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3122 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3123 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3127 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3128 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3129 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3130 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3131 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3135 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3136 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3137 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3138 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3139 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3143 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3144 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3145 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3149 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3151 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3152 python's portable system.
3153 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3154 set the LANG variable.
3158 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3159 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3161 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3163 Made a few updates to the manual.
3167 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3168 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3170 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3172 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3173 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3177 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3178 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3182 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3183 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3188 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3189 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3190 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3194 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3195 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3199 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3200 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3204 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3205 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3207 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3208 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3209 open... (Denis Manente).
3213 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3217 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3219 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3220 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3221 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3223 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3225 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3227 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3228 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3233 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3234 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3235 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3239 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3240 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3244 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3248 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3252 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3253 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3254 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3258 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3259 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3260 between pinboards...
3262 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3263 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3264 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3268 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3271 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3272 window (Denis Manente).
3274 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3275 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3279 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3280 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3281 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3285 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3288 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3289 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3291 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3296 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3297 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3299 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3303 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3304 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3306 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3308 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3313 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3314 the icon points to as well as its name.
3316 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3317 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3321 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3322 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3323 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3324 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3328 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3332 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3333 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3334 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3338 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3339 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3341 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3342 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3345 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3346 the item after the drag.
3348 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3349 showing where the file really is.
3353 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3354 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3359 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3360 warning is displayed if so.
3362 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3366 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3367 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3368 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3369 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3372 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3373 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3374 works like the panels.
3378 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3379 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3380 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3381 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3382 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3386 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3387 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3388 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3389 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3391 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3396 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3400 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3401 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3404 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3405 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3407 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3410 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3411 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3412 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3413 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3415 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3417 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3418 slightly. Updated the manual.
3420 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3421 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3424 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3425 or bottom panel to make room.
3429 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3434 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3435 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3436 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3437 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3438 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3442 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3444 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3445 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3447 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3451 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3452 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3456 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3460 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3462 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3467 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3468 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3470 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3474 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3475 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3476 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3480 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3481 rewriting the panel system.
3485 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3488 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3489 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3493 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3494 (suggested by James Kermode).
3498 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3499 than as a full path.
3501 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3503 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3504 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3505 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3509 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3510 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3514 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3515 rename something onto another filesystem.
3519 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3521 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3522 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3526 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3530 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3533 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3534 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3536 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3539 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3544 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3545 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3546 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3548 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3549 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3551 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3552 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3557 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3558 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3563 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3564 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3565 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3567 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3568 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3569 of the 'missing image' image.
3573 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3575 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3577 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3582 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3583 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3584 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3585 its name into another program.
3587 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3591 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3593 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3594 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3595 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3597 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3598 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3599 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3602 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3603 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3607 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3608 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3609 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3613 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3614 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3615 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3619 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3620 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3621 and position the icons directly.
3625 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3630 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3631 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3632 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3636 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3640 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3641 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3645 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3650 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3654 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3655 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3656 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3657 some versions of GTK+.
3661 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3666 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3667 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3668 from a sub-sub-menu.
3670 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3671 drawn on a log scale.
3675 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3676 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3677 happy with the UI yet though...
3679 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3680 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3681 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3685 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3686 by Stephen Harrison).
3688 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3690 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3691 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3692 standard types are in Choices.
3693 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3695 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3696 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3697 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3702 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3703 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3704 shell command minibuffer.
3708 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3709 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3710 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3711 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3712 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3714 Default search path for Choices is now:
3715 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3717 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3718 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3719 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3723 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3724 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3728 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3729 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3730 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3735 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3736 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3737 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3740 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3742 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3743 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3744 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3746 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3747 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3751 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3752 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3753 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3754 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3759 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3760 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3761 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3763 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3765 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3766 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3770 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3771 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3772 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3777 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3778 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3781 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3783 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3788 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3793 Added GNU gettext support.
3794 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3798 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3800 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3802 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3807 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3811 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3812 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3814 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3815 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3820 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3821 onto the directory and winks the file.
3825 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3826 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3827 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3829 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3830 instead of random values.
3831 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3833 Applied Bernard's patch:
3834 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3835 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3836 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3837 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3838 it the RISC OS way...
3839 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3840 alignment corrected.
3841 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3846 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3850 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3851 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3855 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3856 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3857 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3858 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3859 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3860 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3861 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3862 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3863 in the file(1) says... box).
3866 Before the Changes file
3867 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3868 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3870 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3871 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3872 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3873 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3874 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD