2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
5 * Note: you don't need to update file this when committing a change. Just add a
6 * log message with the commit and I'll update this file only when making a new
9 Release 2.7 (2007-11-29)
14 - New panel configuration GUI (Tony Houghton):
15 - Created new Panel Options dialog in Templates.glade.
16 - Changing panel side is now in the dialog.
17 - Created new panel menu item.
18 - Implemented Remove Panel menu item.
19 - Pinboard menu has "Add panel" submenu.
20 - Added panel_side_to_{translated_}name.
21 - Options are stored with each panel.
23 Use new panels config file to decide which panels to create with -S (Tony
26 Fixed some problems and cleaned up some things in my new Panel Options
27 code spotted by Thomas Leonard (Tony Houghton).
29 Got rid of panel options from main Options dialog (Tony Houghton).
30 No longer warn about options without widgets.
32 - Added a log viewer (Thomas Leonard).
33 On the Window menu there is now a "Show Log" item which opens a window
34 displaying a log of recent actions. Currently, only actions involving
35 an action window are logged. The action is logged when you request the
36 action (so it might not have actually been performed). The log window
37 was created using Glade, and this therefore adds a Glade dependency
38 on ROX-Filer, along with some support code to use it.
40 Make the log window close when the Close button is clicked (Stephen Watson)
42 - Added automatic placement and updating to PinboardAdd RPC (Dennis
45 - Try to find icons in ROX and gnome themes if not in configured
46 theme (Tony Houghton).
51 - Use text/base theme colours for the Collection widget,
52 not fg/bg. (Andras Mohari) This provides a good default for the
53 Collection widget, and is consistent with other widgets (GtkEntry,
56 Setting the colours in .gtkrc-2.0 is unnecessary now (unless someone
57 wants to override theme colours, of course).
59 - Updated xdgmime* files from CVS source (retrieved 2007-08-18)
62 - Making new ROX-Filer releases is now handled by 0release (Thomas
68 - Switched completely to standard gettext (Thomas Leonard).
69 We used to use our own implementation of the gettext functions so that
70 the user could switch langauges on the fly. However, that doesn't work
71 with Glade and it wasn't very useful anyway, so it has all been
74 One visible change is that e.g. "LANG=fr rox -n" no longer works. You
75 have to use the full string (e.g. "LANG=fr_FR.utf8 rox -n").
77 - Added preliminary support for Glade translations (Andras Mohari, as
78 suggested by Lennon Cook). We check for the presence of libintl.h
79 and use the bindtextdomain() call to tell Glade where to find its
82 Build failed on Solaris, because libintl wasn't linked in (Stephen
85 - Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
87 - Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
92 - In the Properties box, the text in the "Contents Indicate" part of the
93 box can now be selected and pasted (Thomas Leonard).
95 - Made uniconify from pinboard work properly with metacity (Tony
96 Houghton): _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message now has timestamp and source
97 field is set to 2 (pretend we're a pager).
99 When uniconifying, set "requestor's currently active window"
100 to zero to be on the safe side (Thomas Leonard).
102 - Arrow keys didn't work in details view (Thomas Leonard; reported by
103 Dennis Nezic and others).
104 GTK likes to select rows as you move over them. Since we don't want
105 that, ROX-Filer marks the rows as unselectable. However, newer GTK
106 versions refuse to move the cursor at all if the selection behaviour
109 - Don't print CRITICAL message if there is no fstab available,
110 for Mac OS X (Stephen Watson, suggested by Anders F Björklund).
112 - Make it clearer what the "Save Display Settings" does (Stephen
115 - Combined adding of release event with motion event for pinboard icons
116 (Tony Houghton). Doesn't seem necessary to add release event
117 explicitly, but best be on safe side.
119 - Fixed build problem on GTK 2.6: GTK_STOCK_INFO doesn't exist
120 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Stephen Watson).
122 - Escape special characters when opening the shell minibuffer (Thomas Leonard).
123 If you click on files while the shell minibuffer is open then the names are
124 escaped, but if you open it with a file under the cursor then the name wasn't
125 escaped (reported by Nils-Erik Svangård).
127 - Fix occasional core dump with multiple magic matches (Stephen
130 - Use the directory icon for mount points if the icon theme has no icon
131 for mount points (Andras Mohari).
133 - Use pathdup() in diritem_restart(), not readlink_dup(), to ensure that
134 we get the full pathname and not a path relative to the filer's
135 working directory (Stephen Watson).
137 - Fixed crash when running a .desktop file in terminal (Dennis Tomas).
139 - Strip .xpm or .svg extensions from Icon entry in .desktop files
142 - When clicking on toolbar buttons, don't crash if gtk_get_current_event
143 returns NULL (Thomas Leonard). This is the case when ATK is used.
145 - Need to use unsigned char when reading the header of an Exif file to
146 avoid problems on some hardware (Stephen Watson, reported by Musus
150 Release 2.6.1 (2007-06-10)
152 SESSION MANAGER CHANGES
154 - When run with -S, restart with -S too rather than expanding the current
155 panels and pinboard on the command-line (Thomas Leonard).
157 - If the filer was started with -S, ask the session manager to automatically
158 restart it if it crashes (Thomas Leonard).
160 - If 0launch is available, use that as the session restart command when using a
161 session manager. Without this, restoring a session would always reload the
162 same version of ROX-Filer that was used when you saved it, not the current
163 version (Thomas Leonard).
167 - Shouldn't use == in /bin/sh scripts, that's a bashism (Stephen Watson).
169 - Don't abort the build if we can't create debugging symbols (Thomas Leonard,
170 reported through 0compile as bug#1678076).
174 - Reduced panel border width to 1 pixel (Tony Houghton).
176 - For JPEG files in Exif format attempt to read an embedded thumbnail first
179 - Bugfix: The Thumb::Size tag is optional in the thumbnail spec (reported by
184 - Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
186 - Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
189 Release 2.6 (2007-02-25)
193 - If a .desktop file says "Terminal=true" then run the program in a terminal
194 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Frank McCormick). Note: this is currently
195 hard-coded to use xterm.
197 - Option to display xattr indicator now independant of xattr support option
199 - The symlink and xattr emblems are now loaded from stock items and therefore
200 themeable. Made clear that setting type on directories sets the contents, not
201 the directory. inode/* types excluded from the list of types available for
202 setting (Stephen Watson).
204 - Added "Fit" backdrop image scaling mode (Peter Hyman). Like "Scale", this
205 scales the image without distorting it, but it will make it larger than the
206 screen if necessary to avoid a border.
208 - New MIME type for Jar archives.
210 - Lookup URI handlers by scheme in choices (Stephen Watson)
212 - Added -U option for parsing filenames in URL form (Stephen Watson).
214 - Added a new SOAP method, RunURI, and made the -U option use that. In addition
215 error returns from SOAP methods implicitly invoked (not via -R) are printed
216 as simple messages rather than the XML data (Stephen Watson).
218 - Add eject button to the unmount/don't unmount dialog (Stephen Watson).
220 - Mount and unmount commands can have additional parameters, eject command can
221 also be changed in the same way (Jim Ramsay, Stephen Watson).
223 - Menu option to control whether directories are filtered by name along with
224 other files (Janek Kozicki and Andras Mohari).
229 - Don't try to thumbnail zero-byte files. They're either empty, or special and
230 may cause us to hang (Thomas Leonard; reported by Barry Kauler).
232 - Always use the default RTL setting to render filenames, even if they start
233 with a character that suggests the opposite. Fixes a positioning problem
234 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Alexander McLeay).
236 - Use $MAKE to run make, for *BSD users
238 - Don't display a warning about deprecated options; it just confuses people
239 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Peter).
241 - When moving the cursor down on the last row of a collection in vertical mode,
242 move to the start of the next column (Thomas Leonard).
244 - When reporting an invalid MIME type, include the type's name in the error
245 message (Thomas Leonard).
247 - Fix bug when checking for escape characters in command string (Stephen Watson).
252 - Removed code to set location of pkg-config files. No longer needed, since the
253 discovery of ${pcfiledir} (suggested by Stephen Watson).
255 - Made ROX-Filer-src.xml use the gtk-2.4 build environment, rather than
256 depending on all the headers directly. The build environment sets up a
257 temporary directory with some symlinks, which means you can compile without
258 having any version of the GTK headers installed at all. Before, an existing
259 -dev installation was required (but only to get the major version number of
265 - Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
267 - Updated Hungarian translation (amohari).
269 - Updated Italian translation (deslar).
271 - Updated Russian translation (Nikita E. Shalaev).
273 - Updated Ukrainian translation (Yury Bulka).
275 - Updated Vietnamese translation (Anhtuan).
278 Release 2.5 (2006-07-07)
282 - Allow pinboard and panel icons to be locked (Dennis Tomas, suggested
285 - Display extra information in properties box for desktop files (Stephen
288 - Allow setting icons in the AppInfo.xml file (Dennis Tomas). Example:
291 <Item option="--options" icon="gtk-preferences">...</Item>
294 - Added SetIcon and UnsetIcon SOAP calls (Jonatan Liljedahl). With this
295 you can have your volume manager (like ivman) set icons for the
296 mounted media that represents what type of media it is (cdr, cdrw, usb
299 - Right-clicking on the Show/hide button now turns thumbnails on and off
302 - Added options to change the "mount" and "umount" commands (Thomas
303 Leonard). This may be useful for using programs such as "pmount" and
304 "pumount" (which allow mounting removable media without an fstab
305 entry, or encrypted filesystems).
307 - Added a 'Manage Thumbnails' link to the Options box (Thomas Leonard).
308 If 0launch isn't available, tell the user the URL of the program we
309 were trying to run so they can get it themselves. Tell users about
310 right-click behaviour in a tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
315 - Removed separator from icon properties dialog box (Thomas Leonard).
317 - Updated Word MIME type for new MIME database (Keith Warno).
319 - When the handler for a MIME type is a symlink to a program, run the
320 program using the target of the symlink rather than the link itself so
321 that programs like gvim see the right name and behave correctly
322 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Keith Warno).
324 - Use full URI, not local path, for DocBook stylesheet (Pär Forsling).
326 - When setting or clearing a globicon, redraw pinboard and panel icons
329 - When loading MIME icons from the current theme only get the pathname
330 from GTK, but actually load it through our own cache (Thomas Leonard).
331 GTK was loading a new copy of the image each time!
333 - Changed name of save settings menu option to be more explicit (Stephen
336 - In many .desktop files there is no "%F" or similar parameter to the
337 "Exec" entry, although the application can open files. Work around
338 this problem by adding the arguments to the end of the command in this
341 - Added Zero Install source interface (Thomas Leonard). Run this with
342 0launch to compile against the GTK and GLib 2.4 headers (which will be
343 downloaded automatically). This produces a binary that runs with these
344 older versions, as well as with all later releases. Note that this has
345 been somewhat superceded by the GTK-2.4 compatibility environment:
347 http://0install.net/2006/interfaces/GTK-2.4.xml
349 - New type for XML files; "application/" rather than "text/" to match
350 freedesktop.org updates (Thomas Leonard).
352 - Moved test for a hidden file into its own function. Allows us to
353 define additional tests as to whether a file is hidden, rather than
354 just the first character of the file name (Stephen Watson).
356 - Updated source file headers by removing the Id line, updating the
357 year and clarifying the copyrights (Thomas Leonard).
359 - The monospace font for the list view is now configurable via a
360 ViewDetails::mono-font gtkrc entry (Stephen Watson).
362 - When iconfiying a window, try to find space on the pinboard of the
363 current screen first (Tony Houghton).
365 - Updated the help text for rox --help (Andras Mohari).
367 - Use a monospace font for the size and permissions columsn in the list
368 view (Andras Mohari).
373 - When a panel icon's image changed, the display didn't update (Thomas
374 Leonard, reported by Dennis Tomas).
376 - Any line in a .desktop file would be ignored if there was a blank line
377 directly before it (Dennis Tomas).
379 - Escape " characters when generating translations for the Options.xml
380 file (Andras Mohari).
382 - When reading the output from 'du' for the Properties box, set the
383 channel's encoding to NULL to avoid errors with non-UTF-8 filenames
386 - When running ROX-Filer for the first time ever, don't tell users that
387 the Choices directory has been migrated unless they already had one.
388 Also, don't bother creating symlinks to the new locations in this
389 case. Other applications have had a while to catch up to the new
390 system, and the message is rather confusing to new users (Thomas
396 - Updated Chinese Translations (Babyfai Cheung).
398 - Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
400 - Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
402 - Updated Hungarian translation and converted to UTF-8 (Andras Mohari).
404 - Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
406 - Updated Russian translation (Nikita E. Shalaev).
408 - Added Ukrainian translation (Yourko).
410 - Added Vietnamese translation (Xomhau Newnick).
412 - Updated instructions for creating a translation (reported by Yourko).
414 - Make sure all the help message is translatable (Stephen Watson,
415 reported by Andras Mohari).
419 30-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4.1)
421 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
425 Some .desktop files put ".png" after the icon name, which prevents the icon
426 from being found. Ignore it (Thomass Leonard; reported by Peter).
430 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
434 If we can't find libc.so.6 for xattr support, try libc.so in case we only have
435 uClib (Lucas Correia Villa Real).
439 Allow .desktop files to be used as run actions (Thomas Leonard).
443 Bugfix: New detail crashes cleanice theme (reported by Andras Mohari; reported
444 as CleanIce bug #1383457). Try another value...
448 Highlight icons using the theme's preferred colour instead of always using
449 blue (Andras Mohari).
450 Bugfix: Don't set style detail to "base" when highlighting items in a
451 Collection, as it confuses GTK's lighthouseblue theme engine
456 Bugfix: Changing the display style crashes the filer with GTK >= 2.8.9 because
457 it sends a selection changed event before the view has finished
458 initialising (Thomas Leonard; reported by Tobias Kieslich).
459 Removed some done entries from the TODO file (Stephen Watson).
461 13-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4)
463 Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
467 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
468 Make Path optional in PanelRemove SOAP call, allowing removal of items based
469 only on their label (Jonatan Liljedahl).
470 Bugfix: The install script failed to compile ROX-Filer on Debian systems, due
471 to a bug in recent versions of xterm (Vincent Lefèvre). Added a
473 Bugfix: On 64-bit systems communication between ROX-Filer processes didn't
474 work, because GDK uses sizeof(long) bytes (not always 4 bytes) to store
475 a 32 bit property (Lucas Hazel).
479 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
480 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
481 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
486 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
490 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
491 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
493 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
494 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
495 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
499 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
504 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
508 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
509 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
513 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
517 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
518 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
519 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
523 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
527 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
528 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
532 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
533 manually (Thomas Leonard).
537 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
538 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
539 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
544 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
545 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
549 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
550 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
551 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
552 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
556 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
557 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
558 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
562 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
566 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
570 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
571 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
575 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
576 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
577 reported by Tristan McLeay).
581 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
582 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
584 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
588 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
589 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
590 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
591 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
595 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
596 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
598 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
600 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
605 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
606 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
607 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
608 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
609 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
614 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
619 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
623 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
624 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
626 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
627 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
628 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
629 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
633 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
634 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
635 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
640 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
642 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
647 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
651 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
652 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
656 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
657 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
658 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
662 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
666 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
667 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
668 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
669 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
670 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
674 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
675 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
676 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
678 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
679 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
680 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
681 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
682 though they may be valid UTF-8.
683 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
685 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
686 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
687 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
688 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
689 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
695 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
696 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
698 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
699 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
704 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
705 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
709 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
710 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
715 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
716 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
717 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
718 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
719 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
720 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
722 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
724 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
725 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
726 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
730 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
731 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
735 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
736 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
740 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
741 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
742 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
743 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
747 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
751 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
752 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
756 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
758 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
759 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
760 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
765 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
766 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
767 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
768 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
772 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
774 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
775 function address (Tony Houghton).
779 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
780 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
785 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
789 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
790 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
794 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
795 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
796 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
800 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
804 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
805 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
806 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
807 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
808 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
813 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
818 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
822 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
823 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
827 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
828 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
832 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
836 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
837 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
839 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
843 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
844 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
848 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
849 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
850 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
852 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
854 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
859 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
860 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
864 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
869 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
873 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
874 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
875 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
876 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
878 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
883 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
884 the old one (Stephen Watson).
885 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
886 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
887 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
891 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
896 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
898 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
900 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
901 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
905 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
906 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
908 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
910 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
911 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
912 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
913 reported by Lewis Denizen).
917 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
921 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
922 the binary (Stephen Watson).
926 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
930 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
931 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
932 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
936 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
939 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
941 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
942 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
943 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
944 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
945 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
949 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
953 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
954 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
958 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
962 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
963 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
964 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
966 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
967 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
969 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
970 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
971 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
972 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
976 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
977 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
981 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
982 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
983 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
984 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
989 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
990 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
994 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
995 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
996 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
1000 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
1001 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
1002 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
1006 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
1010 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
1011 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
1015 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
1016 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1020 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
1024 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
1025 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
1030 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
1031 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
1035 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
1039 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
1040 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
1041 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
1042 when changing to a parent directory.
1043 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
1047 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1051 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
1055 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
1057 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
1059 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
1063 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
1065 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1069 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
1071 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1075 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
1079 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
1080 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
1081 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
1082 reported by Anthony DiSante).
1086 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
1090 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1094 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
1095 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
1096 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
1097 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
1098 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
1102 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
1103 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
1107 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
1108 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
1113 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
1114 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
1119 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
1120 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
1124 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
1125 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
1129 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
1130 (reported by Tony Houghton).
1134 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
1136 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
1137 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
1141 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
1142 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
1146 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
1150 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
1154 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
1158 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
1159 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
1160 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
1164 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1168 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
1173 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
1177 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1179 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
1181 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
1185 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1186 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
1187 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
1189 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
1193 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
1194 print a warning and then crash.
1198 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
1199 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
1200 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
1205 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
1209 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
1214 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
1218 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
1222 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
1224 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
1229 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
1230 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
1231 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
1236 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
1237 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
1242 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
1244 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
1245 anyway, and noone had complained).
1246 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
1247 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
1251 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
1252 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
1253 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
1257 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
1261 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
1262 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
1266 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
1267 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
1268 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
1272 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
1273 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
1274 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
1276 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
1277 by Simon Templer and others).
1281 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
1282 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
1283 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
1287 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
1291 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
1295 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
1296 version number again (Stephen Watson).
1300 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
1301 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
1305 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
1309 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
1310 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
1311 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
1312 anyway (Stephen Watson).
1316 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1320 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1324 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1326 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
1328 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
1332 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
1333 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
1334 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
1338 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
1339 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
1344 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
1345 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
1346 impossible to change shortcuts.
1347 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
1348 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
1352 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
1353 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
1358 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
1359 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
1360 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1364 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
1365 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
1366 to the functions being missing.
1370 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
1374 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
1378 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
1382 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
1386 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
1387 worries people for no reason.
1391 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
1395 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
1396 files selected (Peter Geer).
1400 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
1401 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
1405 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
1409 Added 'Select by Name'.
1413 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
1417 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
1422 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1426 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1428 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
1430 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1431 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1435 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1439 Misc changes for next release.
1443 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
1444 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
1448 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
1449 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
1450 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
1451 Watson, reported on #rox).
1455 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
1456 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
1460 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
1461 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
1465 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
1466 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
1470 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
1471 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1476 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1480 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1482 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1487 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1491 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1492 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1496 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1497 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1501 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1505 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1510 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1511 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1512 for the same reason.
1513 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1514 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1518 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1519 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1523 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1528 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1529 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1533 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1534 support not being detected (igla).
1538 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1542 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1543 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1547 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1551 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1552 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1553 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1554 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1557 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1559 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1560 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1564 New icon for selection ops.
1568 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1572 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1576 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1580 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1581 Added icon theme selector.
1585 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1589 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1593 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1594 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1598 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1599 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1600 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1604 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1605 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1609 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1613 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1614 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1615 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1619 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1623 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1624 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1629 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1630 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1634 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1635 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1639 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1640 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1644 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1648 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1649 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1650 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1654 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1658 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1659 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1660 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1661 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1665 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1666 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1668 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1672 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1676 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1677 bits (Stephen Watson).
1681 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1685 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1689 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1690 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1694 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1698 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1699 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1704 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1705 forward them explicitly.
1709 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1710 help from Götz Waschk).
1714 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1715 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1716 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1720 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1724 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1728 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1732 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1733 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1735 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1737 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1741 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1743 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1745 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1749 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1750 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1751 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1752 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1756 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1760 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1764 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1768 Minor updates to the manual.
1769 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1770 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1774 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1775 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1777 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1779 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1780 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1784 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1785 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1786 reduce flickering effect.
1790 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1794 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1796 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1800 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1801 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1802 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1803 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1804 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1808 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1809 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1813 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1817 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1822 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1823 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1827 Winking now works in List view.
1831 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1835 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1836 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1840 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1841 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1843 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1845 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1849 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1853 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1854 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1856 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1860 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1861 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1865 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1867 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1871 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1872 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1876 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1878 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1882 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1886 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1887 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1892 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1893 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1895 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1897 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1899 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1903 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1907 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1908 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1912 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1917 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1918 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1922 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1924 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1926 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1927 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1932 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1936 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1937 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1938 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1939 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1940 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1941 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1942 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1944 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1948 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1953 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1954 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1958 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1959 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1960 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1961 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1966 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1967 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1968 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1969 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1970 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1971 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1972 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1973 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1974 talent can do something better?
1975 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1976 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1980 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1981 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1982 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1987 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1989 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1990 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1991 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1992 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1993 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1994 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1995 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1996 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1997 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1998 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1999 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
2000 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
2001 label wasn't hidden / shown.
2005 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
2006 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
2007 allow fine repositioning.
2008 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
2009 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
2010 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
2011 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
2013 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
2014 changing the aspect ratio.
2018 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
2022 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
2026 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
2027 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
2028 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2032 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
2036 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
2041 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
2042 make sharing icons easier.
2043 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2047 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
2048 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
2052 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
2056 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
2058 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
2062 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
2067 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
2072 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2073 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
2075 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
2076 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
2077 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
2078 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
2082 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
2083 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
2087 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2091 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
2093 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
2094 Brian Langenberger).
2098 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
2099 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
2101 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
2105 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
2106 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2108 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
2110 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
2114 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
2115 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
2120 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2124 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
2125 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2126 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2130 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2131 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2135 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
2139 Preserve selection when changing view type.
2140 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
2144 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
2145 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
2146 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
2150 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
2154 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
2155 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
2156 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
2157 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
2159 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
2160 the information in the tooltips anyway.
2164 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
2165 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
2169 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
2174 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
2175 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
2179 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
2183 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
2184 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
2185 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
2186 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
2191 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
2192 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
2193 Always use case-insensitive sort.
2197 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2201 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
2202 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
2206 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
2207 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
2208 since it didn't include the contents.
2209 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
2210 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
2214 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2218 Style improvements to options window.
2222 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2226 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
2228 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
2230 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
2235 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
2236 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
2237 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
2238 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
2242 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
2246 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
2250 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2251 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
2255 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
2257 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
2262 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
2266 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2267 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
2268 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
2273 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
2277 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
2281 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
2285 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
2289 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
2290 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
2291 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
2295 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
2296 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
2300 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
2301 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
2306 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
2310 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
2314 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
2319 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
2320 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
2324 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
2325 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
2330 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
2331 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
2335 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
2336 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
2337 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
2341 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2345 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
2346 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
2347 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
2348 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
2349 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
2353 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
2354 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2358 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2359 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2363 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2367 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
2368 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
2369 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
2370 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2371 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
2372 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
2376 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2377 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2378 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
2382 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
2383 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
2388 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2392 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2394 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
2396 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
2401 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
2405 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
2409 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
2410 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
2415 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
2419 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2423 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
2424 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
2425 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2429 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2433 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
2438 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2442 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
2443 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
2444 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
2445 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2449 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
2453 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2454 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
2458 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
2459 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
2460 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
2464 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
2468 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
2472 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2473 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2474 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2475 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2476 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2477 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2481 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2482 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2486 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2487 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2488 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2492 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2493 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2497 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2501 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2502 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2503 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2504 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2506 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2508 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2512 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2513 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2514 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2518 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2522 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2523 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2528 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2532 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2536 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2537 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2541 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2542 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2543 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2547 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2548 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2552 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2553 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2557 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2558 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2562 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2566 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2567 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2571 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2573 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2575 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2579 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2583 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2584 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2588 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2592 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2596 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2597 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2598 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2599 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2600 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2601 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2605 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2609 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2611 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2612 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2616 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2617 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2621 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2625 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2626 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2627 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2628 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2630 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2632 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2636 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2637 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2641 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2642 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2643 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2647 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2648 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2649 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2650 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2651 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2652 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2653 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2657 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2658 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2662 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2666 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2670 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2675 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2679 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2680 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2681 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2685 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2686 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2687 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2691 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2692 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2693 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2697 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2698 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2702 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2707 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2708 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2709 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2710 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2711 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2713 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2714 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2718 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2722 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2723 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2724 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2725 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2729 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2730 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2731 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2732 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2733 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2734 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2738 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2742 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2743 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2747 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2748 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2749 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2750 restart (Olli Helenius).
2754 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2758 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2759 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2760 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2765 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2770 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2771 Small and Large sizes.
2775 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2779 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2780 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2784 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2785 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2786 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2787 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2791 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2792 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2793 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2798 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2803 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2804 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2808 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2809 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2814 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2816 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2818 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2822 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2826 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2828 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2830 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2834 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2836 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2837 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2841 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2842 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2846 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2847 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2851 Various speed improvements.
2852 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2856 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2857 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2861 Slight speed increase when starting.
2865 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2869 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2870 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2871 button is no longer supported.
2875 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2879 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2883 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2888 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2889 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2893 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2894 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2895 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2899 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2900 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2901 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2902 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2906 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2907 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2908 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2910 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2915 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2916 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2921 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2925 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2926 and converted to new dialog style.
2930 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2931 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2935 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2936 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2940 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2944 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2946 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2950 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2954 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2955 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2956 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2960 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2961 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2965 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2970 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2974 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2975 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2979 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2980 and Cancel is now Revert.
2981 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2982 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2986 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2990 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2991 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2993 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2994 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2995 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2996 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
3000 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
3002 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
3003 labels display them.
3004 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
3007 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
3011 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
3013 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
3017 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
3018 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
3019 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
3023 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3024 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
3026 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
3028 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
3032 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
3033 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3037 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
3038 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
3039 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
3040 (requested by Andras Mohari).
3044 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3048 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
3049 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3053 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
3054 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
3059 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
3060 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
3064 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3065 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
3066 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
3070 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
3071 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
3075 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
3076 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
3077 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
3078 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
3080 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
3085 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
3086 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
3088 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
3090 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3094 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
3095 any image (saves time).
3096 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
3097 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
3098 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
3099 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
3101 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3102 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
3106 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
3107 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
3109 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
3110 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
3112 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
3117 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
3118 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
3119 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
3120 has stopped accepting STRING.
3124 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
3125 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
3129 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
3134 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
3135 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
3137 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
3138 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
3139 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
3143 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
3144 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
3145 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
3146 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
3147 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
3148 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
3152 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
3153 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
3154 Allow '~' in globicons file.
3155 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
3156 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
3157 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
3162 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
3163 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
3164 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
3165 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
3170 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3171 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
3175 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
3176 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
3178 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
3180 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
3181 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
3182 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3186 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
3187 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
3188 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3192 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
3193 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
3197 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
3198 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
3202 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
3204 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
3209 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3210 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3214 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
3215 their menus correctly.
3216 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
3221 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
3222 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
3223 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
3227 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3228 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
3232 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3236 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
3239 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
3241 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3242 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
3243 the toggle menu items from working!
3247 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
3249 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
3255 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
3256 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
3260 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3261 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
3262 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
3263 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
3264 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
3265 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
3269 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
3273 File groups are now saved (automatically).
3274 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
3278 Added Version SOAP RPC.
3279 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
3280 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
3284 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
3285 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
3290 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
3292 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
3296 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
3297 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
3298 bar is displayed in the filer window.
3299 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
3303 Improved error reporting.
3304 Improved sizing code when details are on.
3308 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
3309 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
3310 check box and does 'Yes'.
3314 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
3315 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
3316 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
3317 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
3322 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
3324 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3325 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
3327 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
3329 Internal changes to options system:
3330 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
3331 filer is fully initialised).
3332 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
3334 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
3336 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
3337 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
3338 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
3339 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
3343 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
3344 now reclaims the selection.
3345 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
3346 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
3351 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
3352 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
3353 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
3354 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
3355 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
3359 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
3360 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
3362 Code tidying in various places.
3366 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
3367 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
3372 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
3373 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
3377 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
3378 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
3379 edit the file, not the file itself!
3380 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
3384 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3385 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
3386 (recommended by Jens Finke).
3387 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
3388 of the SOAP working draft.
3389 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
3390 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
3391 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
3396 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
3397 it was in the displayed area before.
3399 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
3402 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
3403 winking effect until the window actually appears.
3407 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
3408 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
3409 Kristian A. Rink and others).
3411 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
3412 selection (Andras Mohari).
3416 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
3420 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
3424 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
3425 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
3426 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
3430 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
3434 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
3436 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
3437 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
3438 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
3442 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
3443 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
3448 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
3449 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
3450 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
3454 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
3458 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
3462 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
3463 replaced by a Restart button.
3467 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
3468 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
3472 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3476 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3480 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3481 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3482 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3486 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3487 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3489 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3490 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3491 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3495 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3496 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3501 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3503 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3504 (requested by Graham Borland).
3505 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3506 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3507 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3511 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3512 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3513 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3514 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3518 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3519 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3520 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3521 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3522 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3523 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3524 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3525 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3526 - Lots of code tidying.
3531 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3532 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3536 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3538 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3540 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3544 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3545 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3549 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3550 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3554 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3555 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3559 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3560 option to access it directly.
3564 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3565 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3566 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3570 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3571 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3572 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3573 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3574 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3575 when the filer is run.
3579 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3580 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3581 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3586 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3590 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3591 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3595 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3597 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3601 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3605 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3606 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3607 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3612 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3613 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3614 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3615 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3616 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3617 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3618 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3622 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3626 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3627 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3631 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3632 of possible actions (Taras).
3633 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3635 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3636 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3640 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3645 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3649 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3652 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3653 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3657 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3658 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3660 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3662 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3663 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3664 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3665 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3669 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3673 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3677 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3681 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3686 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3687 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3688 the first one found.
3689 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3693 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3697 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3698 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3699 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3703 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3704 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3705 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3710 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3711 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3712 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3716 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3718 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3723 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3728 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3732 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3733 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3737 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3739 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3740 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3744 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3748 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3749 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3753 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3754 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3758 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3759 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3761 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3763 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3767 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3771 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3772 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3776 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3780 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3785 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3786 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3790 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3794 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3798 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3800 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3801 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3805 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3806 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3810 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3811 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3812 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3816 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3817 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3821 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3822 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3824 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3826 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3830 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3831 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3832 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3834 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3835 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3837 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3839 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3840 and the default size with no details.
3844 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3845 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3849 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3854 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3859 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3863 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3868 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3869 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3873 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3877 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3878 the button to run it does.
3879 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3880 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3881 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3885 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3886 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3887 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3891 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3895 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3896 and panels into icon.c.
3900 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3901 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3902 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3903 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3907 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3909 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3911 Updated the documentation.
3915 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3916 up if they're too small.
3920 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3922 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3923 (Christopher Arndt).
3924 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3929 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3930 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3934 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3935 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3939 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3940 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3941 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3946 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3951 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3955 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3956 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3961 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3966 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3967 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3971 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3972 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3976 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3980 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3984 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3988 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3989 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3992 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3993 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3998 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3999 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
4000 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4001 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
4006 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
4007 held over the item (Denis Manente).
4009 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
4011 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
4012 for non-applications.
4016 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
4017 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
4022 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
4026 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
4027 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
4029 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
4033 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
4034 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
4038 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
4039 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
4043 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
4044 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
4048 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
4049 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
4051 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
4052 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
4056 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
4057 standard output (Stephen Watson).
4059 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
4063 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
4064 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
4067 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
4071 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
4072 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
4076 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
4080 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
4081 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
4084 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
4085 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
4089 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
4093 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
4098 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4102 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
4103 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
4108 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
4113 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
4117 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
4119 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
4121 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
4122 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
4124 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
4126 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
4127 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
4131 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
4132 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
4133 were used (Diego Zamboni).
4135 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
4136 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
4140 Many internal changes to the Options system.
4144 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
4145 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
4149 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
4153 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
4154 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
4156 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
4159 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
4160 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
4161 lines in the form 'option Text'.
4165 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
4166 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
4171 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
4176 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4178 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
4181 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
4183 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
4184 sensible shape itself now.
4186 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
4187 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
4188 file at all, just a reused inode!
4189 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
4190 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
4191 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
4195 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
4199 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
4200 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
4205 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
4206 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
4210 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
4214 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
4215 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
4219 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
4224 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
4228 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
4229 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
4233 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
4234 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4235 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
4236 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
4237 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
4241 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
4242 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
4243 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
4244 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
4245 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
4249 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
4250 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
4251 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
4255 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
4257 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
4258 python's portable system.
4259 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
4260 set the LANG variable.
4264 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
4265 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
4267 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
4269 Made a few updates to the manual.
4273 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
4274 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
4276 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
4278 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
4279 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
4283 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
4284 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
4288 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
4289 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
4294 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
4295 by Wilbert Berendsen).
4296 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
4300 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
4301 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
4305 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
4306 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
4310 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
4311 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
4313 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
4314 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
4315 open... (Denis Manente).
4319 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4323 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4325 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
4326 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
4327 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
4329 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
4331 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
4333 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
4334 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
4339 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
4340 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
4341 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
4345 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
4346 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
4350 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4354 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
4358 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
4359 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
4360 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
4364 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
4365 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
4366 between pinboards...
4368 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
4369 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
4370 background - seems to be necessary :-(
4374 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
4377 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
4378 window (Denis Manente).
4380 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
4381 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
4385 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
4386 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
4387 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
4391 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
4394 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
4395 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
4397 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
4402 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
4403 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
4405 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
4409 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
4410 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
4412 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
4414 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
4419 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
4420 the icon points to as well as its name.
4422 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
4423 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
4427 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
4428 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
4429 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
4430 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
4434 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4438 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
4439 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
4440 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
4444 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
4445 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
4447 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
4448 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
4451 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
4452 the item after the drag.
4454 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
4455 showing where the file really is.
4459 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
4460 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
4465 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
4466 warning is displayed if so.
4468 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
4472 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4473 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4474 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4475 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4478 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4479 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4480 works like the panels.
4484 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4485 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4486 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4487 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4488 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4492 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4493 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4494 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4495 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4497 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4502 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4506 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4507 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4510 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4511 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4513 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4516 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4517 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4518 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4519 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4521 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4523 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4524 slightly. Updated the manual.
4526 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4527 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4530 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4531 or bottom panel to make room.
4535 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4540 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4541 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4542 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4543 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4544 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4548 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4550 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4551 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4553 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4557 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4558 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4562 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4566 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4568 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4573 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4574 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4576 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4580 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4581 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4582 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4586 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4587 rewriting the panel system.
4591 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4594 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4595 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4599 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4600 (suggested by James Kermode).
4604 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4605 than as a full path.
4607 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4609 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4610 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4611 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4615 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4616 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4620 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4621 rename something onto another filesystem.
4625 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4627 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4628 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4632 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4636 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4639 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4640 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4642 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4645 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4650 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4651 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4652 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4654 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4655 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4657 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4658 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4663 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4664 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4669 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4670 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4671 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4673 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4674 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4675 of the 'missing image' image.
4679 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4681 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4683 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4688 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4689 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4690 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4691 its name into another program.
4693 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4697 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4699 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4700 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4701 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4703 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4704 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4705 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4708 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4709 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4713 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4714 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4715 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4719 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4720 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4721 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4725 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4726 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4727 and position the icons directly.
4731 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4736 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4737 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4738 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4742 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4746 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4747 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4751 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4756 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4760 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4761 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4762 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4763 some versions of GTK+.
4767 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4772 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4773 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4774 from a sub-sub-menu.
4776 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4777 drawn on a log scale.
4781 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4782 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4783 happy with the UI yet though...
4785 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4786 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4787 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4791 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4792 by Stephen Harrison).
4794 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4796 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4797 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4798 standard types are in Choices.
4799 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4801 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4802 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4803 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4808 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4809 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4810 shell command minibuffer.
4814 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4815 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4816 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4817 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4818 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4820 Default search path for Choices is now:
4821 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4823 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4824 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4825 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4829 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4830 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4834 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4835 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4836 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4841 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4842 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4843 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4846 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4848 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4849 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4850 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4852 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4853 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4857 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4858 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4859 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4860 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4865 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4866 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4867 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4869 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4871 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4872 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4876 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4877 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4878 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4883 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4884 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4887 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4889 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4894 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4899 Added GNU gettext support.
4900 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4904 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4906 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4908 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4913 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4917 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4918 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4920 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4921 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4926 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4927 onto the directory and winks the file.
4931 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4932 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4933 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4935 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4936 instead of random values.
4937 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4939 Applied Bernard's patch:
4940 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4941 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4942 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4943 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4944 it the RISC OS way...
4945 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4946 alignment corrected.
4947 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4952 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4956 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4957 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4961 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4962 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4963 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4964 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4965 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4966 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4967 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4968 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4969 in the file(1) says... box).
4972 Before the Changes file
4973 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4974 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4976 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4977 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4978 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4979 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4980 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD