2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
8 hold it there, the directory will spring open!
12 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
13 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
14 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
16 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
17 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
18 of the 'missing image' image.
22 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
26 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
31 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
32 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
33 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
34 its name into another program.
36 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
40 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
42 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
43 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
44 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
46 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
47 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
48 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
51 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
52 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
56 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
57 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
58 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
62 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
63 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
64 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
68 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
69 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
70 and position the icons directly.
74 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
79 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
80 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
81 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
85 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
89 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
90 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
94 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
99 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
103 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
104 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
105 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
106 some versions of GTK+.
110 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
115 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
116 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
119 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
120 drawn on a log scale.
124 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
125 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
126 happy with the UI yet though...
128 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
129 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
130 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
134 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
135 by Stephen Harrison).
137 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
139 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
140 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
141 standard types are in Choices.
142 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
144 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
145 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
146 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
151 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
152 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
153 shell command minibuffer.
157 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
158 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
159 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
160 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
161 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
163 Default search path for Choices is now:
164 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
166 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
167 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
168 buffering so all this will get changed then...
172 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
173 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
177 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
178 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
179 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
184 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
185 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
186 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
189 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
191 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
192 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
193 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
195 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
196 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
200 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
201 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
202 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
203 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
208 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
209 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
210 an empty directory caused odd effects.
212 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
214 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
215 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
219 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
220 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
221 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
226 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
227 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
230 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
232 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
237 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
242 Added GNU gettext support.
243 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
247 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
249 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
251 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
256 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
260 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
261 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
263 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
264 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
269 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
270 onto the directory and winks the file.
274 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
275 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
276 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
278 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
279 instead of random values.
280 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
282 Applied Bernard's patch:
283 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
284 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
285 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
286 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
287 it the RISC OS way...
288 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
290 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
295 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
299 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
300 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
304 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
305 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
306 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
307 - Option to only display one window per directory.
308 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
309 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
310 - Errors in options are only reported once.
311 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
312 in the file(1) says... box).