2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Make sure all the help message is translatable (Stephen Watson, reported
12 Use a monospace font for the size and permissions columsn in the list view
15 30-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4.1)
17 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
21 Some .desktop files put ".png" after the icon name, which prevents the icon
22 from being found. Ignore it (Thomass Leonard; reported by Peter).
26 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
30 If we can't find libc.so.6 for xattr support, try libc.so in case we only have
31 uClib (Lucas Correia Villa Real).
35 Allow .desktop files to be used as run actions (Thomas Leonard).
39 Bugfix: New detail crashes cleanice theme (reported by Andras Mohari; reported
40 as CleanIce bug #1383457). Try another value...
44 Highlight icons using the theme's preferred colour instead of always using
46 Bugfix: Don't set style detail to "base" when highlighting items in a
47 Collection, as it confuses GTK's lighthouseblue theme engine
52 Bugfix: Changing the display style crashes the filer with GTK >= 2.8.9 because
53 it sends a selection changed event before the view has finished
54 initialising (Thomas Leonard; reported by Tobias Kieslich).
55 Removed some done entries from the TODO file (Stephen Watson).
57 13-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4)
59 Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
63 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
64 Make Path optional in PanelRemove SOAP call, allowing removal of items based
65 only on their label (Jonatan Liljedahl).
66 Bugfix: The install script failed to compile ROX-Filer on Debian systems, due
67 to a bug in recent versions of xterm (Vincent Lefèvre). Added a
69 Bugfix: On 64-bit systems communication between ROX-Filer processes didn't
70 work, because GDK uses sizeof(long) bytes (not always 4 bytes) to store
71 a 32 bit property (Lucas Hazel).
75 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
76 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
77 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
82 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
86 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
87 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
89 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
90 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
91 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
95 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
100 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
104 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
105 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
109 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
113 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
114 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
115 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
119 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
123 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
124 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
128 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
129 manually (Thomas Leonard).
133 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
134 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
135 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
140 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
141 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
145 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
146 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
147 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
148 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
152 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
153 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
154 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
158 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
162 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
166 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
167 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
171 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
172 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
173 reported by Tristan McLeay).
177 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
178 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
180 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
184 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
185 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
186 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
187 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
191 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
192 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
194 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
196 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
201 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
202 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
203 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
204 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
205 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
210 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
215 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
219 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
220 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
222 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
223 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
224 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
225 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
229 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
230 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
231 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
236 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
238 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
243 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
247 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
248 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
252 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
253 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
254 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
258 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
262 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
263 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
264 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
265 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
266 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
270 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
271 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
272 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
274 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
275 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
276 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
277 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
278 though they may be valid UTF-8.
279 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
281 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
282 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
283 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
284 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
285 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
291 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
292 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
294 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
295 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
300 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
301 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
305 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
306 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
311 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
312 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
313 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
314 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
315 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
316 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
318 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
320 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
321 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
322 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
326 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
327 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
331 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
332 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
336 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
337 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
338 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
339 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
343 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
347 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
348 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
352 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
354 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
355 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
356 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
361 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
362 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
363 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
364 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
368 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
370 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
371 function address (Tony Houghton).
375 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
376 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
381 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
385 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
386 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
390 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
391 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
392 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
396 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
400 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
401 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
402 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
403 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
404 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
409 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
414 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
418 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
419 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
423 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
424 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
428 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
432 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
433 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
435 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
439 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
440 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
444 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
445 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
446 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
448 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
450 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
455 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
456 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
460 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
465 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
469 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
470 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
471 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
472 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
474 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
479 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
480 the old one (Stephen Watson).
481 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
482 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
483 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
487 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
492 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
494 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
496 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
497 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
501 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
502 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
504 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
506 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
507 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
508 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
509 reported by Lewis Denizen).
513 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
517 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
518 the binary (Stephen Watson).
522 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
526 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
527 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
528 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
532 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
535 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
537 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
538 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
539 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
540 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
541 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
545 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
549 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
550 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
554 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
558 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
559 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
560 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
562 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
563 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
565 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
566 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
567 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
568 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
572 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
573 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
577 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
578 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
579 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
580 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
585 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
586 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
590 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
591 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
592 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
596 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
597 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
598 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
602 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
606 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
607 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
611 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
612 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
616 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
620 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
621 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
626 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
627 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
631 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
635 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
636 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
637 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
638 when changing to a parent directory.
639 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
643 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
647 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
651 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
653 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
655 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
659 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
661 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
665 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
667 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
671 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
675 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
676 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
677 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
678 reported by Anthony DiSante).
682 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
686 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
690 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
691 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
692 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
693 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
694 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
698 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
699 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
703 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
704 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
709 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
710 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
715 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
716 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
720 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
721 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
725 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
726 (reported by Tony Houghton).
730 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
732 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
733 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
737 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
738 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
742 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
746 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
750 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
754 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
755 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
756 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
760 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
764 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
769 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
773 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
775 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
777 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
781 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
782 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
783 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
785 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
789 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
790 print a warning and then crash.
794 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
795 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
796 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
801 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
805 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
810 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
814 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
818 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
820 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
825 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
826 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
827 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
832 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
833 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
838 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
840 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
841 anyway, and noone had complained).
842 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
843 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
847 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
848 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
849 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
853 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
857 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
858 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
862 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
863 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
864 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
868 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
869 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
870 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
872 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
873 by Simon Templer and others).
877 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
878 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
879 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
883 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
887 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
891 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
892 version number again (Stephen Watson).
896 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
897 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
901 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
905 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
906 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
907 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
908 anyway (Stephen Watson).
912 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
916 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
920 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
922 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
924 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
928 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
929 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
930 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
934 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
935 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
940 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
941 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
942 impossible to change shortcuts.
943 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
944 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
948 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
949 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
954 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
955 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
956 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
960 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
961 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
962 to the functions being missing.
966 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
970 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
974 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
978 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
982 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
983 worries people for no reason.
987 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
991 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
992 files selected (Peter Geer).
996 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
997 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
1001 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
1005 Added 'Select by Name'.
1009 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
1013 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
1018 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1022 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1024 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
1026 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1027 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1031 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1035 Misc changes for next release.
1039 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
1040 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
1044 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
1045 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
1046 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
1047 Watson, reported on #rox).
1051 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
1052 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
1056 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
1057 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
1061 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
1062 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
1066 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
1067 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1072 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1076 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1078 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1083 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1087 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1088 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1092 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1093 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1097 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1101 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1106 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1107 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1108 for the same reason.
1109 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1110 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1114 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1115 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1119 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1124 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1125 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1129 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1130 support not being detected (igla).
1134 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1138 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1139 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1143 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1147 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1148 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1149 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1150 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1153 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1155 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1156 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1160 New icon for selection ops.
1164 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1168 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1172 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1176 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1177 Added icon theme selector.
1181 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1185 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1189 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1190 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1194 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1195 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1196 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1200 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1201 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1205 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1209 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1210 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1211 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1215 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1219 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1220 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1225 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1226 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1230 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1231 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1235 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1236 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1240 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1244 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1245 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1246 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1250 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1254 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1255 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1256 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1257 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1261 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1262 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1264 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1268 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1272 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1273 bits (Stephen Watson).
1277 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1281 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1285 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1286 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1290 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1294 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1295 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1300 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1301 forward them explicitly.
1305 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1306 help from Götz Waschk).
1310 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1311 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1312 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1316 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1320 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1324 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1328 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1329 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1331 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1333 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1337 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1339 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1341 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1345 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1346 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1347 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1348 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1352 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1356 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1360 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1364 Minor updates to the manual.
1365 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1366 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1370 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1371 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1373 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1375 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1376 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1380 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1381 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1382 reduce flickering effect.
1386 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1390 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1392 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1396 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1397 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1398 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1399 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1400 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1404 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1405 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1409 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1413 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1418 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1419 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1423 Winking now works in List view.
1427 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1431 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1432 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1436 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1437 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1439 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1441 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1445 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1449 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1450 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1452 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1456 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1457 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1461 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1463 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1467 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1468 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1472 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1474 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1478 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1482 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1483 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1488 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1489 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1491 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1493 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1495 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1499 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1503 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1504 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1508 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1513 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1514 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1518 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1520 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1522 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1523 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1528 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1532 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1533 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1534 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1535 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1536 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1537 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1538 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1540 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1544 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1549 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1550 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1554 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1555 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1556 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1557 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1562 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1563 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1564 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1565 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1566 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1567 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1568 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1569 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1570 talent can do something better?
1571 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1572 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1576 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1577 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1578 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1583 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1585 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1586 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1587 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1588 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1589 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1590 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1591 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1592 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1593 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1594 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1595 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1596 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1597 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1601 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1602 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1603 allow fine repositioning.
1604 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1605 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1606 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1607 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1609 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1610 changing the aspect ratio.
1614 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1618 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1622 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1623 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1624 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1628 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1632 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1637 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1638 make sharing icons easier.
1639 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1643 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1644 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1648 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1652 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1654 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1658 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1663 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1668 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1669 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1671 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1672 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1673 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1674 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1678 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1679 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1683 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1687 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1689 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1690 Brian Langenberger).
1694 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1695 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1697 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1701 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1702 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1704 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1706 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1710 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1711 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1716 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1720 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1721 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1722 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1726 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1727 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1731 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1735 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1736 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1740 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1741 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1742 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1746 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1750 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1751 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1752 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1753 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1755 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1756 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1760 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1761 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1765 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1770 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1771 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1775 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1779 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1780 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1781 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1782 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1787 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1788 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1789 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1793 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1797 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1798 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1802 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1803 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1804 since it didn't include the contents.
1805 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1806 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1810 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1814 Style improvements to options window.
1818 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1822 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1824 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1826 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1831 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1832 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1833 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1834 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1838 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1842 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1846 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1847 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1851 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1853 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1858 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1862 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1863 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1864 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1869 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1873 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1877 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1881 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1885 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1886 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1887 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1891 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1892 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1896 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1897 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1902 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1906 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1910 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1915 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1916 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1920 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1921 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1926 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1927 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1931 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1932 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1933 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1937 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1941 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1942 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1943 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1944 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1945 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1949 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1950 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1954 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1955 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1959 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1963 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1964 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1965 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1966 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1967 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1968 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1972 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1973 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1974 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1978 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1979 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1984 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1988 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1990 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1992 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1997 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
2001 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
2005 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
2006 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
2011 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
2015 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2019 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
2020 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
2021 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2025 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2029 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
2034 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2038 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
2039 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
2040 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
2041 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2045 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
2049 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2050 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
2054 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
2055 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
2056 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
2060 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
2064 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
2068 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2069 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2070 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2071 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2072 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2073 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2077 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2078 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2082 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2083 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2084 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2088 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2089 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2093 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2097 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2098 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2099 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2100 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2102 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2104 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2108 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2109 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2110 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2114 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2118 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2119 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2124 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2128 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2132 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2133 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2137 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2138 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2139 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2143 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2144 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2148 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2149 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2153 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2154 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2158 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2162 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2163 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2167 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2169 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2171 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2175 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2179 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2180 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2184 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2188 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2192 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2193 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2194 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2195 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2196 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2197 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2201 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2205 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2207 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2208 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2212 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2213 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2217 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2221 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2222 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2223 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2224 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2226 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2228 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2232 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2233 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2237 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2238 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2239 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2243 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2244 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2245 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2246 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2247 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2248 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2249 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2253 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2254 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2258 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2262 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2266 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2271 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2275 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2276 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2277 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2281 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2282 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2283 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2287 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2288 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2289 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2293 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2294 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2298 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2303 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2304 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2305 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2306 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2307 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2309 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2310 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2314 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2318 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2319 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2320 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2321 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2325 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2326 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2327 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2328 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2329 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2330 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2334 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2338 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2339 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2343 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2344 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2345 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2346 restart (Olli Helenius).
2350 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2354 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2355 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2356 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2361 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2366 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2367 Small and Large sizes.
2371 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2375 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2376 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2380 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2381 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2382 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2383 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2387 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2388 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2389 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2394 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2399 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2400 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2404 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2405 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2410 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2412 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2414 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2418 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2422 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2424 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2426 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2430 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2432 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2433 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2437 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2438 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2442 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2443 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2447 Various speed improvements.
2448 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2452 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2453 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2457 Slight speed increase when starting.
2461 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2465 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2466 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2467 button is no longer supported.
2471 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2475 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2479 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2484 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2485 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2489 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2490 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2491 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2495 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2496 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2497 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2498 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2502 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2503 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2504 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2506 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2511 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2512 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2517 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2521 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2522 and converted to new dialog style.
2526 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2527 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2531 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2532 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2536 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2540 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2542 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2546 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2550 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2551 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2552 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2556 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2557 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2561 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2566 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2570 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2571 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2575 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2576 and Cancel is now Revert.
2577 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2578 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2582 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2586 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2587 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2589 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2590 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2591 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2592 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2596 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2598 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2599 labels display them.
2600 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2603 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2607 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2609 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2613 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2614 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2615 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2619 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2620 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2622 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2624 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2628 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2629 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2633 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2634 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2635 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2636 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2640 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2644 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2645 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2649 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2650 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2655 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2656 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2660 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2661 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2662 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2666 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2667 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2671 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2672 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2673 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2674 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2676 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2681 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2682 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2684 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2686 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2690 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2691 any image (saves time).
2692 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2693 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2694 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2695 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2697 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2698 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2702 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2703 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2705 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2706 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2708 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2713 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2714 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2715 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2716 has stopped accepting STRING.
2720 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2721 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2725 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2730 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2731 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2733 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2734 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2735 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2739 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2740 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2741 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2742 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2743 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2744 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2748 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2749 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2750 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2751 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2752 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2753 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2758 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2759 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2760 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2761 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2766 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2767 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2771 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2772 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2774 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2776 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2777 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2778 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2782 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2783 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2784 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2788 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2789 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2793 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2794 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2798 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2800 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2805 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2806 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2810 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2811 their menus correctly.
2812 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2817 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2818 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2819 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2823 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2824 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2828 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2832 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2835 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2837 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2838 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2839 the toggle menu items from working!
2843 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2845 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2851 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2852 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2856 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2857 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2858 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2859 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2860 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2861 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2865 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2869 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2870 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2874 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2875 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2876 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2880 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2881 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2886 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2888 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2892 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2893 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2894 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2895 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2899 Improved error reporting.
2900 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2904 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2905 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2906 check box and does 'Yes'.
2910 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2911 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2912 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2913 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2918 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2920 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2921 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2923 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2925 Internal changes to options system:
2926 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2927 filer is fully initialised).
2928 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2930 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2932 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2933 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2934 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2935 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2939 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2940 now reclaims the selection.
2941 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2942 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2947 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2948 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2949 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2950 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2951 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2955 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2956 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2958 Code tidying in various places.
2962 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2963 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2968 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2969 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2973 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2974 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2975 edit the file, not the file itself!
2976 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2980 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2981 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2982 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2983 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2984 of the SOAP working draft.
2985 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2986 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2987 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2992 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2993 it was in the displayed area before.
2995 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2998 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2999 winking effect until the window actually appears.
3003 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
3004 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
3005 Kristian A. Rink and others).
3007 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
3008 selection (Andras Mohari).
3012 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
3016 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
3020 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
3021 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
3022 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
3026 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
3030 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
3032 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
3033 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
3034 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
3038 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
3039 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
3044 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
3045 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
3046 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
3050 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
3054 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
3058 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
3059 replaced by a Restart button.
3063 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
3064 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
3068 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3072 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3076 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3077 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3078 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3082 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3083 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3085 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3086 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3087 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3091 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3092 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3097 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3099 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3100 (requested by Graham Borland).
3101 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3102 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3103 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3107 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3108 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3109 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3110 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3114 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3115 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3116 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3117 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3118 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3119 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3120 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3121 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3122 - Lots of code tidying.
3127 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3128 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3132 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3134 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3136 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3140 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3141 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3145 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3146 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3150 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3151 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3155 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3156 option to access it directly.
3160 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3161 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3162 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3166 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3167 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3168 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3169 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3170 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3171 when the filer is run.
3175 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3176 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3177 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3182 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3186 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3187 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3191 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3193 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3197 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3201 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3202 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3203 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3208 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3209 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3210 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3211 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3212 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3213 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3214 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3218 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3222 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3223 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3227 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3228 of possible actions (Taras).
3229 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3231 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3232 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3236 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3241 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3245 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3248 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3249 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3253 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3254 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3256 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3258 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3259 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3260 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3261 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3265 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3269 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3273 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3277 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3282 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3283 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3284 the first one found.
3285 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3289 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3293 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3294 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3295 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3299 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3300 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3301 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3306 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3307 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3308 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3312 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3314 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3319 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3324 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3328 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3329 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3333 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3335 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3336 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3340 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3344 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3345 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3349 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3350 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3354 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3355 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3357 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3359 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3363 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3367 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3368 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3372 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3376 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3381 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3382 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3386 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3390 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3394 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3396 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3397 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3401 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3402 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3406 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3407 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3408 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3412 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3413 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3417 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3418 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3420 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3422 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3426 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3427 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3428 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3430 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3431 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3433 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3435 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3436 and the default size with no details.
3440 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3441 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3445 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3450 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3455 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3459 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3464 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3465 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3469 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3473 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3474 the button to run it does.
3475 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3476 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3477 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3481 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3482 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3483 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3487 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3491 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3492 and panels into icon.c.
3496 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3497 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3498 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3499 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3503 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3505 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3507 Updated the documentation.
3511 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3512 up if they're too small.
3516 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3518 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3519 (Christopher Arndt).
3520 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3525 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3526 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3530 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3531 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3535 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3536 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3537 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3542 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3547 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3551 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3552 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3557 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3562 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3563 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3567 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3568 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3572 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3576 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3580 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3584 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3585 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3588 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3589 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3594 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3595 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3596 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3597 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3602 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3603 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3605 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3607 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3608 for non-applications.
3612 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3613 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3618 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3622 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3623 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3625 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3629 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3630 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3634 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3635 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3639 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3640 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3644 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3645 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3647 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3648 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3652 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3653 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3655 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3659 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3660 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3663 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3667 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3668 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3672 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3676 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3677 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3680 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3681 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3685 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3689 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3694 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3698 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3699 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3704 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3709 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3713 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3715 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3717 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3718 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3720 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3722 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3723 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3727 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3728 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3729 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3731 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3732 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3736 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3740 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3741 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3745 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3749 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3750 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3752 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3755 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3756 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3757 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3761 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3762 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3767 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3772 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3774 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3777 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3779 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3780 sensible shape itself now.
3782 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3783 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3784 file at all, just a reused inode!
3785 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3786 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3787 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3791 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3795 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3796 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3801 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3802 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3806 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3810 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3811 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3815 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3820 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3824 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3825 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3829 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3830 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3831 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3832 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3833 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3837 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3838 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3839 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3840 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3841 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3845 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3846 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3847 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3851 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3853 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3854 python's portable system.
3855 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3856 set the LANG variable.
3860 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3861 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3863 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3865 Made a few updates to the manual.
3869 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3870 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3872 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3874 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3875 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3879 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3880 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3884 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3885 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3890 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3891 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3892 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3896 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3897 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3901 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3902 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3906 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3907 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3909 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3910 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3911 open... (Denis Manente).
3915 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3919 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3921 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3922 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3923 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3925 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3927 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3929 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3930 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3935 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3936 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3937 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3941 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3942 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3946 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3950 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3954 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3955 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3956 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3960 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3961 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3962 between pinboards...
3964 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3965 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3966 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3970 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3973 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3974 window (Denis Manente).
3976 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3977 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3981 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3982 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3983 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3987 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3990 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3991 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3993 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3998 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3999 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
4001 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
4005 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
4006 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
4008 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
4010 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
4015 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
4016 the icon points to as well as its name.
4018 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
4019 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
4023 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
4024 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
4025 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
4026 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
4030 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4034 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
4035 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
4036 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
4040 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
4041 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
4043 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
4044 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
4047 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
4048 the item after the drag.
4050 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
4051 showing where the file really is.
4055 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
4056 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
4061 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
4062 warning is displayed if so.
4064 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
4068 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4069 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4070 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4071 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4074 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4075 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4076 works like the panels.
4080 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4081 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4082 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4083 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4084 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4088 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4089 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4090 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4091 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4093 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4098 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4102 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4103 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4106 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4107 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4109 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4112 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4113 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4114 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4115 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4117 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4119 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4120 slightly. Updated the manual.
4122 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4123 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4126 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4127 or bottom panel to make room.
4131 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4136 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4137 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4138 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4139 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4140 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4144 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4146 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4147 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4149 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4153 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4154 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4158 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4162 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4164 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4169 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4170 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4172 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4176 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4177 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4178 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4182 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4183 rewriting the panel system.
4187 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4190 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4191 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4195 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4196 (suggested by James Kermode).
4200 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4201 than as a full path.
4203 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4205 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4206 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4207 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4211 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4212 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4216 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4217 rename something onto another filesystem.
4221 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4223 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4224 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4228 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4232 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4235 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4236 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4238 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4241 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4246 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4247 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4248 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4250 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4251 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4253 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4254 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4259 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4260 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4265 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4266 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4267 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4269 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4270 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4271 of the 'missing image' image.
4275 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4277 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4279 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4284 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4285 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4286 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4287 its name into another program.
4289 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4293 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4295 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4296 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4297 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4299 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4300 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4301 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4304 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4305 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4309 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4310 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4311 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4315 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4316 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4317 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4321 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4322 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4323 and position the icons directly.
4327 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4332 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4333 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4334 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4338 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4342 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4343 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4347 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4352 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4356 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4357 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4358 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4359 some versions of GTK+.
4363 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4368 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4369 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4370 from a sub-sub-menu.
4372 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4373 drawn on a log scale.
4377 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4378 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4379 happy with the UI yet though...
4381 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4382 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4383 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4387 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4388 by Stephen Harrison).
4390 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4392 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4393 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4394 standard types are in Choices.
4395 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4397 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4398 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4399 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4404 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4405 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4406 shell command minibuffer.
4410 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4411 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4412 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4413 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4414 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4416 Default search path for Choices is now:
4417 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4419 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4420 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4421 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4425 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4426 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4430 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4431 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4432 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4437 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4438 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4439 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4442 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4444 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4445 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4446 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4448 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4449 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4453 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4454 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4455 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4456 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4461 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4462 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4463 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4465 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4467 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4468 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4472 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4473 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4474 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4479 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4480 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4483 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4485 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4490 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4495 Added GNU gettext support.
4496 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4500 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4502 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4504 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4509 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4513 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4514 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4516 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4517 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4522 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4523 onto the directory and winks the file.
4527 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4528 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4529 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4531 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4532 instead of random values.
4533 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4535 Applied Bernard's patch:
4536 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4537 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4538 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4539 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4540 it the RISC OS way...
4541 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4542 alignment corrected.
4543 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4548 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4552 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4553 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4557 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4558 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4559 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4560 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4561 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4562 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4563 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4564 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4565 in the file(1) says... box).
4568 Before the Changes file
4569 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4570 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4572 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4573 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4574 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4575 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4576 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD