2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 When running ROX-Filer for the first time ever, don't tell users that the
8 Choices directory has been migrated unless they already had one. Also, don't
9 bother creating symlinks to the new locations in this case. Other applications
10 have had a while to catch up to the new system, and the message is rather
11 confusing to new users (Thomas Leonard).
12 Add a 'Manage Thumbnails' link to the Options box (Thomas Leonard).
13 If 0launch isn't available, tell the user the URL of the program we were
14 trying to run so they can get it themselves. Tell users about right-click
15 behaviour in a tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
19 Added Vietnamese translation (Xomhau Newnick).
23 The monospace font for the list view is now configurable via
24 a ViewDetails::mono-font gtkrc entry (Stephen Watson).
28 When iconfiying a window, try to find space on the pinboard of the current
29 screen first (Tony Houghton).
33 Make sure all the help message is translatable (Stephen Watson, reported
38 Use a monospace font for the size and permissions columsn in the list view
41 30-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4.1)
43 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
47 Some .desktop files put ".png" after the icon name, which prevents the icon
48 from being found. Ignore it (Thomass Leonard; reported by Peter).
52 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
56 If we can't find libc.so.6 for xattr support, try libc.so in case we only have
57 uClib (Lucas Correia Villa Real).
61 Allow .desktop files to be used as run actions (Thomas Leonard).
65 Bugfix: New detail crashes cleanice theme (reported by Andras Mohari; reported
66 as CleanIce bug #1383457). Try another value...
70 Highlight icons using the theme's preferred colour instead of always using
72 Bugfix: Don't set style detail to "base" when highlighting items in a
73 Collection, as it confuses GTK's lighthouseblue theme engine
78 Bugfix: Changing the display style crashes the filer with GTK >= 2.8.9 because
79 it sends a selection changed event before the view has finished
80 initialising (Thomas Leonard; reported by Tobias Kieslich).
81 Removed some done entries from the TODO file (Stephen Watson).
83 13-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4)
85 Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
89 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
90 Make Path optional in PanelRemove SOAP call, allowing removal of items based
91 only on their label (Jonatan Liljedahl).
92 Bugfix: The install script failed to compile ROX-Filer on Debian systems, due
93 to a bug in recent versions of xterm (Vincent Lefèvre). Added a
95 Bugfix: On 64-bit systems communication between ROX-Filer processes didn't
96 work, because GDK uses sizeof(long) bytes (not always 4 bytes) to store
97 a 32 bit property (Lucas Hazel).
101 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
102 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
103 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
108 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
112 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
113 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
115 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
116 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
117 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
121 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
126 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
130 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
131 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
135 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
139 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
140 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
141 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
145 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
149 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
150 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
154 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
155 manually (Thomas Leonard).
159 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
160 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
161 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
166 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
167 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
171 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
172 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
173 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
174 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
178 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
179 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
180 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
184 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
188 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
192 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
193 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
197 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
198 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
199 reported by Tristan McLeay).
203 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
204 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
206 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
210 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
211 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
212 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
213 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
217 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
218 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
220 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
222 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
227 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
228 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
229 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
230 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
231 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
236 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
241 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
245 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
246 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
248 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
249 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
250 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
251 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
255 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
256 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
257 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
262 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
264 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
269 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
273 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
274 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
278 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
279 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
280 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
284 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
288 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
289 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
290 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
291 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
292 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
296 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
297 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
298 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
300 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
301 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
302 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
303 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
304 though they may be valid UTF-8.
305 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
307 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
308 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
309 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
310 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
311 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
317 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
318 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
320 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
321 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
326 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
327 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
331 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
332 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
337 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
338 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
339 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
340 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
341 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
342 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
344 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
346 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
347 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
348 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
352 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
353 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
357 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
358 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
362 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
363 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
364 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
365 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
369 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
373 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
374 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
378 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
380 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
381 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
382 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
387 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
388 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
389 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
390 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
394 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
396 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
397 function address (Tony Houghton).
401 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
402 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
407 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
411 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
412 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
416 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
417 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
418 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
422 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
426 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
427 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
428 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
429 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
430 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
435 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
440 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
444 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
445 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
449 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
450 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
454 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
458 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
459 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
461 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
465 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
466 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
470 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
471 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
472 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
474 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
476 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
481 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
482 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
486 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
491 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
495 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
496 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
497 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
498 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
500 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
505 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
506 the old one (Stephen Watson).
507 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
508 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
509 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
513 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
518 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
520 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
522 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
523 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
527 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
528 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
530 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
532 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
533 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
534 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
535 reported by Lewis Denizen).
539 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
543 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
544 the binary (Stephen Watson).
548 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
552 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
553 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
554 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
558 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
561 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
563 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
564 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
565 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
566 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
567 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
571 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
575 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
576 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
580 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
584 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
585 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
586 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
588 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
589 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
591 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
592 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
593 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
594 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
598 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
599 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
603 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
604 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
605 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
606 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
611 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
612 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
616 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
617 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
618 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
622 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
623 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
624 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
628 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
632 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
633 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
637 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
638 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
642 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
646 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
647 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
652 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
653 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
657 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
661 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
662 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
663 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
664 when changing to a parent directory.
665 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
669 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
673 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
677 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
679 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
681 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
685 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
687 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
691 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
693 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
697 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
701 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
702 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
703 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
704 reported by Anthony DiSante).
708 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
712 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
716 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
717 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
718 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
719 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
720 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
724 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
725 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
729 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
730 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
735 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
736 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
741 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
742 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
746 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
747 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
751 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
752 (reported by Tony Houghton).
756 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
758 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
759 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
763 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
764 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
768 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
772 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
776 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
780 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
781 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
782 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
786 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
790 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
795 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
799 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
801 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
803 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
807 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
808 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
809 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
811 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
815 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
816 print a warning and then crash.
820 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
821 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
822 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
827 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
831 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
836 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
840 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
844 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
846 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
851 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
852 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
853 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
858 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
859 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
864 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
866 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
867 anyway, and noone had complained).
868 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
869 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
873 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
874 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
875 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
879 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
883 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
884 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
888 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
889 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
890 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
894 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
895 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
896 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
898 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
899 by Simon Templer and others).
903 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
904 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
905 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
909 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
913 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
917 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
918 version number again (Stephen Watson).
922 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
923 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
927 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
931 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
932 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
933 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
934 anyway (Stephen Watson).
938 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
942 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
946 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
948 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
950 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
954 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
955 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
956 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
960 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
961 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
966 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
967 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
968 impossible to change shortcuts.
969 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
970 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
974 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
975 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
980 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
981 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
982 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
986 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
987 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
988 to the functions being missing.
992 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
996 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
1000 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
1004 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
1008 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
1009 worries people for no reason.
1013 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
1017 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
1018 files selected (Peter Geer).
1022 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
1023 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
1027 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
1031 Added 'Select by Name'.
1035 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
1039 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
1044 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1048 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1050 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
1052 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1053 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1057 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1061 Misc changes for next release.
1065 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
1066 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
1070 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
1071 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
1072 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
1073 Watson, reported on #rox).
1077 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
1078 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
1082 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
1083 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
1087 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
1088 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
1092 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
1093 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1098 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1102 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1104 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1109 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1113 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1114 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1118 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1119 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1123 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1127 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1132 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1133 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1134 for the same reason.
1135 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1136 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1140 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1141 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1145 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1150 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1151 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1155 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1156 support not being detected (igla).
1160 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1164 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1165 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1169 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1173 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1174 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1175 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1176 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1179 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1181 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1182 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1186 New icon for selection ops.
1190 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1194 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1198 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1202 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1203 Added icon theme selector.
1207 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1211 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1215 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1216 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1220 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1221 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1222 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1226 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1227 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1231 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1235 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1236 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1237 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1241 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1245 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1246 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1251 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1252 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1256 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1257 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1261 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1262 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1266 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1270 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1271 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1272 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1276 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1280 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1281 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1282 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1283 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1287 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1288 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1290 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1294 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1298 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1299 bits (Stephen Watson).
1303 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1307 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1311 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1312 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1316 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1320 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1321 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1326 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1327 forward them explicitly.
1331 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1332 help from Götz Waschk).
1336 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1337 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1338 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1342 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1346 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1350 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1354 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1355 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1357 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1359 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1363 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1365 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1367 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1371 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1372 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1373 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1374 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1378 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1382 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1386 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1390 Minor updates to the manual.
1391 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1392 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1396 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1397 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1399 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1401 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1402 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1406 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1407 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1408 reduce flickering effect.
1412 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1416 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1418 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1422 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1423 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1424 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1425 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1426 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1430 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1431 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1435 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1439 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1444 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1445 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1449 Winking now works in List view.
1453 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1457 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1458 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1462 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1463 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1465 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1467 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1471 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1475 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1476 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1478 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1482 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1483 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1487 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1489 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1493 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1494 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1498 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1500 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1504 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1508 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1509 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1514 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1515 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1517 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1519 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1521 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1525 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1529 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1530 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1534 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1539 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1540 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1544 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1546 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1548 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1549 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1554 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1558 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1559 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1560 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1561 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1562 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1563 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1564 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1566 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1570 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1575 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1576 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1580 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1581 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1582 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1583 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1588 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1589 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1590 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1591 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1592 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1593 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1594 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1595 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1596 talent can do something better?
1597 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1598 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1602 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1603 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1604 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1609 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1611 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1612 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1613 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1614 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1615 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1616 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1617 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1618 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1619 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1620 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1621 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1622 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1623 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1627 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1628 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1629 allow fine repositioning.
1630 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1631 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1632 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1633 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1635 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1636 changing the aspect ratio.
1640 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1644 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1648 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1649 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1650 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1654 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1658 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1663 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1664 make sharing icons easier.
1665 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1669 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1670 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1674 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1678 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1680 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1684 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1689 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1694 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1695 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1697 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1698 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1699 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1700 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1704 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1705 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1709 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1713 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1715 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1716 Brian Langenberger).
1720 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1721 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1723 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1727 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1728 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1730 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1732 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1736 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1737 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1742 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1746 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1747 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1748 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1752 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1753 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1757 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1761 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1762 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1766 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1767 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1768 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1772 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1776 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1777 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1778 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1779 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1781 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1782 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1786 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1787 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1791 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1796 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1797 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1801 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1805 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1806 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1807 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1808 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1813 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1814 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1815 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1819 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1823 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1824 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1828 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1829 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1830 since it didn't include the contents.
1831 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1832 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1836 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1840 Style improvements to options window.
1844 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1848 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1850 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1852 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1857 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1858 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1859 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1860 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1864 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1868 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1872 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1873 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1877 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1879 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1884 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1888 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1889 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1890 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1895 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1899 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1903 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1907 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1911 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1912 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1913 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1917 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1918 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1922 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1923 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1928 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1932 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1936 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1941 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1942 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1946 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1947 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1952 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1953 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1957 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1958 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1959 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1963 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1967 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1968 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1969 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1970 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1971 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1975 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1976 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1980 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1981 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1985 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1989 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1990 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1991 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1992 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1993 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1994 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1998 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1999 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2000 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
2004 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
2005 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
2010 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2014 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2016 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
2018 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
2023 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
2027 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
2031 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
2032 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
2037 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
2041 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2045 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
2046 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
2047 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2051 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2055 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
2060 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2064 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
2065 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
2066 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
2067 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2071 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
2075 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2076 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
2080 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
2081 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
2082 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
2086 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
2090 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
2094 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2095 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2096 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2097 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2098 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2099 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2103 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2104 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2108 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2109 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2110 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2114 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2115 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2119 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2123 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2124 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2125 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2126 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2128 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2130 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2134 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2135 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2136 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2140 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2144 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2145 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2150 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2154 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2158 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2159 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2163 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2164 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2165 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2169 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2170 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2174 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2175 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2179 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2180 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2184 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2188 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2189 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2193 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2195 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2197 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2201 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2205 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2206 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2210 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2214 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2218 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2219 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2220 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2221 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2222 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2223 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2227 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2231 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2233 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2234 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2238 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2239 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2243 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2247 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2248 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2249 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2250 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2252 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2254 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2258 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2259 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2263 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2264 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2265 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2269 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2270 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2271 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2272 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2273 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2274 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2275 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2279 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2280 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2284 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2288 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2292 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2297 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2301 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2302 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2303 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2307 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2308 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2309 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2313 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2314 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2315 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2319 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2320 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2324 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2329 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2330 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2331 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2332 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2333 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2335 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2336 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2340 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2344 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2345 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2346 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2347 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2351 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2352 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2353 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2354 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2355 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2356 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2360 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2364 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2365 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2369 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2370 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2371 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2372 restart (Olli Helenius).
2376 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2380 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2381 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2382 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2387 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2392 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2393 Small and Large sizes.
2397 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2401 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2402 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2406 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2407 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2408 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2409 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2413 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2414 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2415 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2420 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2425 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2426 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2430 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2431 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2436 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2438 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2440 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2444 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2448 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2450 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2452 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2456 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2458 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2459 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2463 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2464 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2468 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2469 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2473 Various speed improvements.
2474 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2478 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2479 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2483 Slight speed increase when starting.
2487 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2491 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2492 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2493 button is no longer supported.
2497 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2501 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2505 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2510 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2511 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2515 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2516 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2517 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2521 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2522 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2523 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2524 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2528 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2529 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2530 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2532 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2537 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2538 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2543 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2547 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2548 and converted to new dialog style.
2552 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2553 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2557 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2558 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2562 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2566 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2568 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2572 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2576 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2577 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2578 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2582 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2583 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2587 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2592 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2596 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2597 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2601 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2602 and Cancel is now Revert.
2603 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2604 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2608 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2612 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2613 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2615 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2616 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2617 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2618 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2622 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2624 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2625 labels display them.
2626 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2629 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2633 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2635 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2639 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2640 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2641 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2645 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2646 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2648 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2650 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2654 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2655 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2659 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2660 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2661 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2662 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2666 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2670 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2671 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2675 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2676 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2681 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2682 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2686 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2687 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2688 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2692 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2693 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2697 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2698 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2699 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2700 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2702 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2707 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2708 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2710 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2712 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2716 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2717 any image (saves time).
2718 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2719 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2720 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2721 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2723 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2724 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2728 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2729 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2731 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2732 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2734 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2739 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2740 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2741 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2742 has stopped accepting STRING.
2746 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2747 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2751 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2756 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2757 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2759 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2760 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2761 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2765 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2766 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2767 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2768 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2769 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2770 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2774 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2775 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2776 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2777 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2778 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2779 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2784 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2785 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2786 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2787 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2792 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2793 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2797 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2798 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2800 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2802 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2803 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2804 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2808 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2809 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2810 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2814 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2815 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2819 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2820 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2824 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2826 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2831 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2832 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2836 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2837 their menus correctly.
2838 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2843 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2844 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2845 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2849 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2850 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2854 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2858 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2861 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2863 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2864 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2865 the toggle menu items from working!
2869 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2871 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2877 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2878 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2882 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2883 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2884 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2885 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2886 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2887 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2891 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2895 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2896 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2900 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2901 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2902 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2906 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2907 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2912 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2914 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2918 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2919 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2920 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2921 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2925 Improved error reporting.
2926 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2930 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2931 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2932 check box and does 'Yes'.
2936 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2937 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2938 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2939 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2944 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2946 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2947 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2949 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2951 Internal changes to options system:
2952 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2953 filer is fully initialised).
2954 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2956 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2958 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2959 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2960 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2961 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2965 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2966 now reclaims the selection.
2967 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2968 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2973 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2974 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2975 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2976 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2977 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2981 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2982 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2984 Code tidying in various places.
2988 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2989 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2994 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2995 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2999 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
3000 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
3001 edit the file, not the file itself!
3002 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
3006 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3007 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
3008 (recommended by Jens Finke).
3009 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
3010 of the SOAP working draft.
3011 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
3012 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
3013 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
3018 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
3019 it was in the displayed area before.
3021 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
3024 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
3025 winking effect until the window actually appears.
3029 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
3030 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
3031 Kristian A. Rink and others).
3033 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
3034 selection (Andras Mohari).
3038 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
3042 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
3046 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
3047 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
3048 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
3052 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
3056 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
3058 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
3059 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
3060 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
3064 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
3065 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
3070 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
3071 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
3072 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
3076 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
3080 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
3084 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
3085 replaced by a Restart button.
3089 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
3090 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
3094 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3098 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3102 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3103 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3104 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3108 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3109 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3111 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3112 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3113 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3117 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3118 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3123 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3125 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3126 (requested by Graham Borland).
3127 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3128 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3129 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3133 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3134 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3135 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3136 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3140 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3141 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3142 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3143 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3144 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3145 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3146 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3147 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3148 - Lots of code tidying.
3153 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3154 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3158 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3160 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3162 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3166 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3167 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3171 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3172 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3176 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3177 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3181 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3182 option to access it directly.
3186 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3187 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3188 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3192 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3193 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3194 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3195 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3196 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3197 when the filer is run.
3201 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3202 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3203 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3208 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3212 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3213 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3217 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3219 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3223 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3227 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3228 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3229 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3234 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3235 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3236 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3237 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3238 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3239 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3240 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3244 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3248 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3249 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3253 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3254 of possible actions (Taras).
3255 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3257 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3258 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3262 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3267 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3271 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3274 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3275 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3279 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3280 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3282 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3284 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3285 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3286 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3287 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3291 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3295 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3299 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3303 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3308 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3309 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3310 the first one found.
3311 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3315 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3319 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3320 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3321 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3325 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3326 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3327 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3332 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3333 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3334 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3338 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3340 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3345 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3350 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3354 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3355 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3359 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3361 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3362 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3366 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3370 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3371 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3375 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3376 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3380 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3381 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3383 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3385 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3389 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3393 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3394 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3398 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3402 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3407 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3408 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3412 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3416 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3420 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3422 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3423 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3427 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3428 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3432 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3433 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3434 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3438 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3439 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3443 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3444 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3446 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3448 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3452 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3453 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3454 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3456 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3457 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3459 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3461 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3462 and the default size with no details.
3466 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3467 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3471 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3476 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3481 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3485 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3490 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3491 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3495 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3499 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3500 the button to run it does.
3501 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3502 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3503 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3507 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3508 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3509 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3513 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3517 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3518 and panels into icon.c.
3522 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3523 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3524 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3525 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3529 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3531 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3533 Updated the documentation.
3537 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3538 up if they're too small.
3542 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3544 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3545 (Christopher Arndt).
3546 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3551 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3552 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3556 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3557 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3561 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3562 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3563 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3568 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3573 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3577 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3578 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3583 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3588 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3589 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3593 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3594 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3598 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3602 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3606 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3610 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3611 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3614 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3615 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3620 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3621 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3622 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3623 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3628 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3629 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3631 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3633 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3634 for non-applications.
3638 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3639 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3644 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3648 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3649 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3651 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3655 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3656 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3660 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3661 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3665 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3666 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3670 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3671 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3673 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3674 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3678 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3679 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3681 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3685 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3686 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3689 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3693 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3694 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3698 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3702 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3703 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3706 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3707 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3711 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3715 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3720 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3724 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3725 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3730 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3735 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3739 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3741 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3743 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3744 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3746 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3748 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3749 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3753 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3754 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3755 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3757 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3758 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3762 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3766 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3767 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3771 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3775 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3776 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3778 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3781 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3782 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3783 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3787 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3788 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3793 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3798 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3800 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3803 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3805 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3806 sensible shape itself now.
3808 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3809 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3810 file at all, just a reused inode!
3811 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3812 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3813 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3817 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3821 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3822 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3827 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3828 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3832 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3836 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3837 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3841 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3846 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3850 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3851 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3855 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3856 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3857 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3858 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3859 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3863 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3864 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3865 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3866 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3867 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3871 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3872 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3873 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3877 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3879 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3880 python's portable system.
3881 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3882 set the LANG variable.
3886 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3887 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3889 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3891 Made a few updates to the manual.
3895 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3896 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3898 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3900 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3901 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3905 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3906 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3910 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3911 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3916 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3917 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3918 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3922 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3923 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3927 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3928 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3932 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3933 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3935 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3936 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3937 open... (Denis Manente).
3941 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3945 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3947 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3948 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3949 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3951 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3953 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3955 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3956 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3961 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3962 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3963 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3967 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3968 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3972 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3976 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3980 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3981 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3982 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3986 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3987 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3988 between pinboards...
3990 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3991 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3992 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3996 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3999 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
4000 window (Denis Manente).
4002 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
4003 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
4007 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
4008 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
4009 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
4013 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
4016 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
4017 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
4019 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
4024 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
4025 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
4027 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
4031 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
4032 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
4034 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
4036 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
4041 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
4042 the icon points to as well as its name.
4044 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
4045 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
4049 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
4050 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
4051 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
4052 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
4056 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4060 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
4061 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
4062 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
4066 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
4067 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
4069 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
4070 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
4073 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
4074 the item after the drag.
4076 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
4077 showing where the file really is.
4081 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
4082 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
4087 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
4088 warning is displayed if so.
4090 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
4094 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4095 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4096 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4097 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4100 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4101 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4102 works like the panels.
4106 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4107 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4108 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4109 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4110 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4114 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4115 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4116 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4117 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4119 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4124 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4128 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4129 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4132 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4133 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4135 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4138 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4139 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4140 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4141 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4143 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4145 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4146 slightly. Updated the manual.
4148 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4149 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4152 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4153 or bottom panel to make room.
4157 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4162 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4163 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4164 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4165 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4166 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4170 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4172 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4173 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4175 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4179 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4180 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4184 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4188 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4190 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4195 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4196 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4198 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4202 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4203 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4204 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4208 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4209 rewriting the panel system.
4213 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4216 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4217 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4221 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4222 (suggested by James Kermode).
4226 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4227 than as a full path.
4229 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4231 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4232 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4233 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4237 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4238 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4242 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4243 rename something onto another filesystem.
4247 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4249 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4250 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4254 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4258 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4261 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4262 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4264 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4267 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4272 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4273 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4274 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4276 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4277 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4279 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4280 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4285 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4286 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4291 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4292 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4293 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4295 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4296 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4297 of the 'missing image' image.
4301 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4303 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4305 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4310 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4311 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4312 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4313 its name into another program.
4315 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4319 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4321 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4322 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4323 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4325 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4326 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4327 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4330 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4331 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4335 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4336 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4337 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4341 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4342 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4343 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4347 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4348 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4349 and position the icons directly.
4353 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4358 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4359 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4360 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4364 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4368 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4369 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4373 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4378 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4382 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4383 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4384 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4385 some versions of GTK+.
4389 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4394 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4395 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4396 from a sub-sub-menu.
4398 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4399 drawn on a log scale.
4403 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4404 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4405 happy with the UI yet though...
4407 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4408 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4409 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4413 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4414 by Stephen Harrison).
4416 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4418 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4419 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4420 standard types are in Choices.
4421 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4423 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4424 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4425 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4430 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4431 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4432 shell command minibuffer.
4436 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4437 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4438 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4439 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4440 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4442 Default search path for Choices is now:
4443 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4445 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4446 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4447 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4451 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4452 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4456 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4457 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4458 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4463 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4464 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4465 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4468 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4470 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4471 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4472 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4474 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4475 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4479 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4480 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4481 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4482 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4487 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4488 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4489 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4491 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4493 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4494 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4498 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4499 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4500 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4505 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4506 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4509 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4511 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4516 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4521 Added GNU gettext support.
4522 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4526 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4528 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4530 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4535 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4539 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4540 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4542 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4543 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4548 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4549 onto the directory and winks the file.
4553 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4554 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4555 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4557 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4558 instead of random values.
4559 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4561 Applied Bernard's patch:
4562 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4563 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4564 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4565 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4566 it the RISC OS way...
4567 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4568 alignment corrected.
4569 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4574 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4578 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4579 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4583 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4584 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4585 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4586 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4587 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4588 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4589 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4590 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4591 in the file(1) says... box).
4594 Before the Changes file
4595 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4596 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4598 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4599 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4600 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4601 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4602 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD