2 Shared code for ROX applications
4 http://rox.sourceforge.net
8 Added Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
12 Made message in AppRun translatable (Andras Mohari).
16 Added launch module, which allows running programs easily using the injector,
17 and made filer.py use 0launch if available (Thomas Leonard; requested by
19 Double-click on a line in the stack-trace display of an error to open the
20 source file in Edit (Thomas Leonard).
24 If pygtk is found, but not gtk, give a better error (Thomas Leonard; reported
29 If 'xterm' isn't available, give a sensible error message when using the
30 su module (Thomas Leonard; reported by Vincent Lefevre).
34 Added ROX-Lib.xml file, which makes it easy to register a CVS copy of ROX-Lib
35 with the 0launch, using '0launch --add-feed' (Thomas Leonard).
37 25-Jul-2005 (Release 2.0.2)
39 Bugfix: Installing MIME handlers under the XDG base dir system didn't
40 work (Stephen Watson).
42 17-Jun-2005 (Release 2.0.1)
44 Send deprecation warnings to stdout, not stderr, so only developers will
45 see them (Thomas Leonard).
49 Fixed deprecation warning in processes.py (Thomas Leonard).
53 Avoid apparent PyGTK bug related to icon themes, may result in a
54 memory leak but probably won't (Stephen Watson).
58 Clean up of icon theme handling (Stephen Watson).
62 Compatability with PyGTK 2.4 retaining backwards compatability with
63 2.2 at least (Ken Hayber, Stephen Watson).
67 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
71 Added Portuguese translation (José Carlos do Nascimento).
75 Don't try to get pygtk through Zero Install. The injector can be used to
76 choose the implementation of pygtk to use, including a version in Zero
77 Install if desired (Thomas Leonard).
81 MIME handler install now uses basedir (Stephen Watson).
82 Tests use gtk.main() instead of the deprecated gtk.mainloop() (Stephen Watson).
86 Some versions of GTK silently remove '-' from sys.argv (GTK bug #303166).
87 Added a work-around (Thomas Leonard).
91 Put "root" back in su command, but detect what the exact string should be, as
92 Solaris needs something here (reported by Stephen Watson).
96 The default SaveArea.confirm_new_path() now shows an error if the target
97 exists as a directory, instead of asking if you want to overwrite it (Thomas
98 Leonard; reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
99 Remove "root" from the su command, as some systems call user 0 something else
100 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
104 When getting an icon for saving, specify the size if PyGTK is recent enough.
105 This prevents SVG icons from appearing in huge sizes (Thomas Leonard;
106 requested by John Pettigrew).
107 Bugfix: Theme index parser failed to cope with comments at the start of the
108 file (Thomas Leonard).
112 Compatability fixes for the su module (Stephen Watson).
116 Fixed Zero Install version test in findrox.py (Thomas Leonard).
118 16-Apr-2005 (Release 2.0.0)
120 Run unit tests in alphabetical order as it fixes a strange interaction between them (Stephen Watson).
124 Added unit tests for processes module, based on old tests in Archive (Thomas
129 Changed MakeDist to allow use of other SourceForge accounts (Stephen Watson).
133 Added 'testall' script to run all the unit tests together (Thomas Leonard).
135 23-Mar-2005 (Release 1.9.18)
137 German translation (Guido Schimmels).
141 Added TODO file to track bugs and changes needed for 2.0.0 release.
145 Bugfix: Set default in Options box to OK to avoid triggering a GTK bug
146 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Guido Schimmels).
148 16-Jan-2005 (Release 1.9.17)
150 Added OutputBlocker, which works in a similar way to InputBlocker (Thomas
155 Be consistent about URI escaping. set_uri() is now always passed an unescaped
156 UTF-8 string (Thomas Leonard).
160 Added fixedlist and varlist widgets to OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).
164 Added MIME type matching by file contents (Stephen Watson).
168 If a 'rox' module is in PYTHONPATH, use that without any searching (Thomas
173 Added Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
177 Suppress warning when we use GtkItemFactory under pygtk 2.4 (Stephen Watson).
181 Added tasks.InputBlocker, which triggers when an input source becomes
182 readable (Thomas Leonard).
186 Bugfix: Use only text nodes when getting the tool tip from the Options.xml
187 file (Stephen Watson).
191 Bugfix: Theme subdirectories are separated by ',' not ';' (reported by
196 Bugfix: When a menu has more than one toggle item, only one is updated
197 correctly (Ken Hayber).
201 Replace g.mainloop() and g.mainquit() with g.main() and g.main_quit() as
202 recommended since pygtk 2.0.0 to avoid warnings with pygtk 2.4.0 (Stephen
207 Added options.ListOption to support multi-valued option widgets, such as
208 lists (Stephen Watson).
210 02-Oct-2004 (Release 1.9.16)
212 Cope better with user cancelling su operation. New interface to replace
213 create_su_proxy (Thomas Leonard).
217 The choices module is now deprecated. You can use choices.migrate() to move
218 settings over to the basedir system (Thomas Leonard). Also added
219 basedir.load_first_config(), which works like the old choices.load().
223 Several incompatible changes to the experimental proxy API to make it simpler
226 - Create_su_proxy now returns the MasterObject directly, not the MasterProxy.
227 - You can call finish on the MasterObject (so the MasterProxy isn't needed).
228 - Slave methods no longer take a 'request' argument. Instead, the return
229 value of the function is returned.
230 - Methods can only return one value. dequeue and dequeue_last have been
231 replaced with a 'result' property.
232 - Methods on MasterObject now return a RequestBlocker, not a Queue. This
233 means you just yield the object itself, not object.blocker.
235 Tasks API is no longer experimental, but proxy API is.
239 Added a Help button to the exception dialog, which opens the new Help/Errors
240 file (Thomas Leonard).
244 Bugfix: Failed to call the parent constructor to AbortSave correctly.
248 Simplified su code and interface.
249 New suchild methods: open, close, read, write, chmod and rename, which work
250 just like their normal Python counterparts (Thomas Leonard).
254 Removed code to turn off the separator in the debug dialog. GTK 2.4 doesn't
255 need it, and generates a warning if you use it (Thomas Leonard).
257 27-Aug-2004 (Release 1.9.15)
259 Added spawnvpe and waitpid methods to suchild.
263 If the unit field for a <numentry> option is blank, don't try to translate it
264 (reported by Guido Schimmels).
268 Added 'su' module for performing operations as root.
272 Allow "" as a valid value in a OptionsBox menu (reported by Guido Schimmels).
276 Added 'proxy' module. This allows one Python process to invoke methods on
277 another asynchronously.
278 Added rox.UserAbort exception, to be raised when users cancel something
283 Fix syntax error I caused when I added a docstring (Stephen Watson).
287 Get update-mime-database command through Zero Install, if possible.
291 mime_handler can now uninstall (Stephen Watson).
295 Translate menu items in options (Guido Schimmels).
299 Added <slider> widget to options.
303 Added 'size-group' attribute to Options.xml elements. This allows grouping
304 elements so that their labels all appear the same width.
308 Bugfix: Colour buttons in the Options boxes didn't work with some themes
311 17-Apr-2004 (Release 1.9.14)
313 Added ToggleItem (based on a patch from Ken Hayber).
317 Better <label> widgets (wrapping and icon). Taken from LookAndFeel.
321 Stop themes from overriding the display of the colour-picker buttons in
322 the options box (Rene Ejury).
326 Warn about old versions of findrox.py.
327 Bugfix: Bug in new menu API prevented submenus from working.
329 16-Mar-2004 (Release 1.9.13)
331 Bugfix: Icon themes didn't work with python versions older than 2.2.2
332 (reported by Thomas Zajic).
336 Bugfix: Use filer module to show ROX-Lib help, rather than using os.system,
337 so that it works with Zero Install (reported by Keith Hopper).
341 Added widget_registry to OptionsBox, to provide an easy way to register
342 new option types. Removed build_button in favour of this method.
344 Bugfix: If an error occurred loading the ROX theme at startup it could not
345 be reported, because icon_theme wants debug, debug wants saving, and
346 saving wants icon_theme (reported by Thomas Zajic).
350 Cope with pygtk2.2 API change (Stephen Watson, reported by Guido Schimmels).
354 Added secretentry and button options to the OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).
358 Cope with option values split into multiple DOM text nodes (Rene Ejury).
362 Allow a list of values to be stored in each menu Action. These are used as
363 the arguments to the callback function.
364 If a file's details were recorded (in document.save_last_stat) when it was
365 loaded, make sure they haven't changed when saving. Saving also updates this
366 variable (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
370 Updated examples in documentation for new findrox (Yuri Bongiorno).
374 New API for menus. Instead of passing tuples for menu items, python classes
375 can be used. The old tuple interface is still supported.
379 Don't stop DnD working in the savebox just because no icon can be found
380 (reported by Martin Lucina).
384 Added French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
388 Also translate <label> elements in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
392 Also translate section names in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
394 22-Jan-2004 (Release 1.9.12)
396 Added 'tasks' module to provide a light-weight alternative to threads.
397 Bugfix: On non-zero-install systems, the sense of the version check in findrox
402 Added method to MIMEtype to fetch its icon. Install list window for
403 the MIME handler installation uses it (Stephen Watson).
407 Translate text in Options box.
411 Allow ROXLIB_DISABLE_ZEROINSTALL to override looking for ROX-Lib in Zero
412 Install (useful for ROX-Lib developers). Prefer a locally installed version
413 of ROX-Filer to the Zero Install version; this also allows users to select
414 which Zero Install version they want (eg, stable or developer).
415 Moved MIME handler installation into a separate module (mime_handler) and
416 made a few changes to the XML syntax.
420 Added <menu> OptionMenu widget for Options box (Chris Shaffer).
424 Fixed bug in findrox when not using Zero Install (Lionel Bringuier).
428 Escape and unescape URIs, as required by ROX-Filer 2.1.0 (reported by
430 Note that the xds_load_uris() method is now called with escaped URIs.
431 Try to run the filer through Zero Install, if possible.
435 If we can't get pygtk through Zero Install, try the local copy.
439 Added support in mime.py for an application to set MIME-type run
440 actions and thumbnail programs (Stephen Watson).
444 Simplified implementation of saving.SaveFilter by using the new
445 processes.PipeThroughCommand class. The child_run() method of SaveFilter
446 is no longer supported.
447 In processes.PipeThroughCommand, a None input stream gets /dev/null instead
448 of inheriting its parent's stream. The class has a new run_child_with_streams
449 to make overriding the behaviour easier.
450 findrox.py script now warns if ROX-Lib2 version is too old (unless requesting
451 a version too old to have a version number).
455 Changed 'Dismiss' to 'Close' (Chris Shaffer).
456 Bugfix: Error reporting in mime.py failed to import the _ function (reported
457 by Christopher Haines).
458 New AppInfo.py for parsing AppInfo.xml files (Christopher Arndt), InfoWin
459 converted to use it (Stephen Watson).
461 15-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.11)
463 Bugfix: Python 2.3's new bool type broke options saving (reported by Lars
468 Added PipeThroughCommand class (copied from Archive, with some minor
473 Allow event to be None for Menu.popup. This allows the menu to be activated
474 from the keyboard, using the 'popup-menu' signal.
478 Added French translation in AppInfo.xml (Vincent Lefèvre).
480 03-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.10)
482 Added support for icon themes (doesn't do inheritance yet).
486 Added some version information to the dialog you get when you run ROX-Lib
491 New bug() function to quickly bring up a debugging prompt.
495 The glob patterns in mime.py are now sorted longest first. Fix for setting
496 icon in the old way when there was no icon (Stephen Watson).
500 Try to cope better with bad hostname setup (reported by Nathan Howell).
504 Added InfoWin.py to provide standardized information window (Stephen Watson).
508 Fall back to old way of setting default icon for older pygtk's (Stephen
513 Added Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
517 Better way to set the default icon.
519 16-Aug-2003 (Release 1.9.9)
521 Give windows a default icon from .DirIcon (Chris Shaffer).
525 Try to get pygtk through ZeroInstall.
529 Updated findrox to use ZeroInstall, if possible.
533 Work out correct application name even if invoked via a symlink. This stops
534 applications from calling themselves 'text_plain', etc (reported by Joe Hill).
536 19-Jul-2003 (Release 1.9.8)
538 Make default menu positioning function keep the pointer inside the menu.
539 Allow stock icons in menus.
543 Added position_fn argument to rox.Menu.popup.
547 Cope with % escaped URIs.
551 Added italian translation in AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
555 When loading data from another application, pass the suggested leafname to
556 xds_load_from_stream().
560 Code tidying, thanks to pychecker.
564 Added fileutils module, which provides an interactive makedirs() function
566 Changed savebox module to use it.
568 16-May-2003 (Release 1.9.7)
570 New icon (Geoff Youngs).
571 Added 'basedir' module for freedesktop.org Base Directory specification.
575 Added functions to read MIME database (Stephen Watson).
577 27-Jan-2003 (Release 1.9.6)
579 Make the default window class the name of the application directory, not
580 'AppRun' (suggested by Albert Wagner).
581 Bugfix: With pygtk-1.99.14, only the first error message from a process
582 would be detected; this meant that ROX-Lib wouldn't detect when the
583 process quit (reported by joehill).
584 Bugfix: <hbox> and <vbox> layouts didn't work in the options box (Allen
589 If python is too old, raise SystemExit instead of quitting.
590 Ensure that True and False are defined.
594 Work around bug in some versions of pygtk that stopped the options window
597 12-Dec-2002 (Release 1.9.5)
599 Upgrade Options box to new style.
603 Bugfix: If an option had an empty value, an exception was thrown on loading
604 (reported by Stephen Watson).
608 Cope with missing input_add_full.
612 Pygtk 1.99.12 seems to more-or-less work now (according to Alastair Porter), so
613 remove the warning for that so we can support RedHat 8.0.
615 20-Oct-2002 (Release 1.9.4)
617 More warnings about old pygtk versions.
618 Added Dialog class (does ref-counting, like Window).
622 Trying to use ROX-Lib2 with earlier versions of python now gives a sensible
627 Make clicking on ROX-Lib itself work again (Christopher Arndt).
631 Updated findrox.py to use pygtk 1.99.13 -- update your programs!
633 25-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.3)
635 Switch to use new pygtk versioning system (requires pygtk 1.99.13).
639 Added 'processes' module, based on code in Archive, which makes controlling
644 Bugfix: Changing the keys lost any builtin shortcuts (Gtk behaviour has
649 Trap exceptions when activating menu items and report nicely.
653 Bugfix: Remember to call drop_finish() after a drag-and-drop operation.
655 05-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.2)
657 Renamed XDSLoader module to 'loading' (like 'saving').
658 Added 'mime' module for installing extra MIME information.
659 Bugfix: XDSLoader didn't handle the drag-drop signal, and so only worked for
660 widgets with their own implementation!
664 Show local variables in report_exception, and allow expressions to be
665 evaluated in the context of any frame.
666 Added StringSaver class.
670 Added applet module for creating ROX panel applets.
674 Bugfix: saving code didn't cope with missing images (reported by Musus Umbra).
678 If 'gtk2' isn't available, see if 'gtk' is actually the 2.0 version.
679 Added save_set_permissions to Saveable interface, allowing the default
680 save_to_file to preserve file permissions.
681 Changes to XDSLoader: xds_load_from_stream(name, type, stream)
682 replaces the old xds_load_data(data).
683 Loading files from remote filers works now.
684 Added much improved exception reporting system.
686 19-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.1)
688 Added support for translations.
692 License change to the LGPL (allows commercial programs to use this library).
693 Added AbortSave exception.
697 Saveable.save_to_file() should raise an exception when saving fails, rather
698 than returning 0. The return value is now ignored (note that raising an
699 exception will still work with 1.9.0).
700 toplevel_unref() ignores any arguments, so it is easier to use as a signal
703 12-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.0)
705 First release for Gtk+-2.0.