2 Shared code for ROX applications
4 http://rox.sourceforge.net
8 Added unit tests for processes module, based on old tests in Archive (Thomas
13 Changed MakeDist to allow use of other SourceForge accounts (Stephen Watson).
17 Added 'testall' script to run all the unit tests together (Thomas Leonard).
19 23-Mar-2005 (Release 1.9.18)
21 German translation (Guido Schimmels).
25 Added TODO file to track bugs and changes needed for 2.0.0 release.
29 Bugfix: Set default in Options box to OK to avoid triggering a GTK bug
30 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Guido Schimmels).
32 16-Jan-2005 (Release 1.9.17)
34 Added OutputBlocker, which works in a similar way to InputBlocker (Thomas
39 Be consistent about URI escaping. set_uri() is now always passed an unescaped
40 UTF-8 string (Thomas Leonard).
44 Added fixedlist and varlist widgets to OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).
48 Added MIME type matching by file contents (Stephen Watson).
52 If a 'rox' module is in PYTHONPATH, use that without any searching (Thomas
57 Added Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
61 Suppress warning when we use GtkItemFactory under pygtk 2.4 (Stephen Watson).
65 Added tasks.InputBlocker, which triggers when an input source becomes
66 readable (Thomas Leonard).
70 Bugfix: Use only text nodes when getting the tool tip from the Options.xml
71 file (Stephen Watson).
75 Bugfix: Theme subdirectories are separated by ',' not ';' (reported by
80 Bugfix: When a menu has more than one toggle item, only one is updated
81 correctly (Ken Hayber).
85 Replace g.mainloop() and g.mainquit() with g.main() and g.main_quit() as
86 recommended since pygtk 2.0.0 to avoid warnings with pygtk 2.4.0 (Stephen
91 Added options.ListOption to support multi-valued option widgets, such as
92 lists (Stephen Watson).
94 02-Oct-2004 (Release 1.9.16)
96 Cope better with user cancelling su operation. New interface to replace
97 create_su_proxy (Thomas Leonard).
101 The choices module is now deprecated. You can use choices.migrate() to move
102 settings over to the basedir system (Thomas Leonard). Also added
103 basedir.load_first_config(), which works like the old choices.load().
107 Several incompatible changes to the experimental proxy API to make it simpler
110 - Create_su_proxy now returns the MasterObject directly, not the MasterProxy.
111 - You can call finish on the MasterObject (so the MasterProxy isn't needed).
112 - Slave methods no longer take a 'request' argument. Instead, the return
113 value of the function is returned.
114 - Methods can only return one value. dequeue and dequeue_last have been
115 replaced with a 'result' property.
116 - Methods on MasterObject now return a RequestBlocker, not a Queue. This
117 means you just yield the object itself, not object.blocker.
119 Tasks API is no longer experimental, but proxy API is.
123 Added a Help button to the exception dialog, which opens the new Help/Errors
124 file (Thomas Leonard).
128 Bugfix: Failed to call the parent constructor to AbortSave correctly.
132 Simplified su code and interface.
133 New suchild methods: open, close, read, write, chmod and rename, which work
134 just like their normal Python counterparts (Thomas Leonard).
138 Removed code to turn off the separator in the debug dialog. GTK 2.4 doesn't
139 need it, and generates a warning if you use it (Thomas Leonard).
141 27-Aug-2004 (Release 1.9.15)
143 Added spawnvpe and waitpid methods to suchild.
147 If the unit field for a <numentry> option is blank, don't try to translate it
148 (reported by Guido Schimmels).
152 Added 'su' module for performing operations as root.
156 Allow "" as a valid value in a OptionsBox menu (reported by Guido Schimmels).
160 Added 'proxy' module. This allows one Python process to invoke methods on
161 another asynchronously.
162 Added rox.UserAbort exception, to be raised when users cancel something
167 Fix syntax error I caused when I added a docstring (Stephen Watson).
171 Get update-mime-database command through Zero Install, if possible.
175 mime_handler can now uninstall (Stephen Watson).
179 Translate menu items in options (Guido Schimmels).
183 Added <slider> widget to options.
187 Added 'size-group' attribute to Options.xml elements. This allows grouping
188 elements so that their labels all appear the same width.
192 Bugfix: Colour buttons in the Options boxes didn't work with some themes
195 17-Apr-2004 (Release 1.9.14)
197 Added ToggleItem (based on a patch from Ken Hayber).
201 Better <label> widgets (wrapping and icon). Taken from LookAndFeel.
205 Stop themes from overriding the display of the colour-picker buttons in
206 the options box (Rene Ejury).
210 Warn about old versions of findrox.py.
211 Bugfix: Bug in new menu API prevented submenus from working.
213 16-Mar-2004 (Release 1.9.13)
215 Bugfix: Icon themes didn't work with python versions older than 2.2.2
216 (reported by Thomas Zajic).
220 Bugfix: Use filer module to show ROX-Lib help, rather than using os.system,
221 so that it works with Zero Install (reported by Keith Hopper).
225 Added widget_registry to OptionsBox, to provide an easy way to register
226 new option types. Removed build_button in favour of this method.
228 Bugfix: If an error occurred loading the ROX theme at startup it could not
229 be reported, because icon_theme wants debug, debug wants saving, and
230 saving wants icon_theme (reported by Thomas Zajic).
234 Cope with pygtk2.2 API change (Stephen Watson, reported by Guido Schimmels).
238 Added secretentry and button options to the OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).
242 Cope with option values split into multiple DOM text nodes (Rene Ejury).
246 Allow a list of values to be stored in each menu Action. These are used as
247 the arguments to the callback function.
248 If a file's details were recorded (in document.save_last_stat) when it was
249 loaded, make sure they haven't changed when saving. Saving also updates this
250 variable (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
254 Updated examples in documentation for new findrox (Yuri Bongiorno).
258 New API for menus. Instead of passing tuples for menu items, python classes
259 can be used. The old tuple interface is still supported.
263 Don't stop DnD working in the savebox just because no icon can be found
264 (reported by Martin Lucina).
268 Added French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
272 Also translate <label> elements in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
276 Also translate section names in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
278 22-Jan-2004 (Release 1.9.12)
280 Added 'tasks' module to provide a light-weight alternative to threads.
281 Bugfix: On non-zero-install systems, the sense of the version check in findrox
286 Added method to MIMEtype to fetch its icon. Install list window for
287 the MIME handler installation uses it (Stephen Watson).
291 Translate text in Options box.
295 Allow ROXLIB_DISABLE_ZEROINSTALL to override looking for ROX-Lib in Zero
296 Install (useful for ROX-Lib developers). Prefer a locally installed version
297 of ROX-Filer to the Zero Install version; this also allows users to select
298 which Zero Install version they want (eg, stable or developer).
299 Moved MIME handler installation into a separate module (mime_handler) and
300 made a few changes to the XML syntax.
304 Added <menu> OptionMenu widget for Options box (Chris Shaffer).
308 Fixed bug in findrox when not using Zero Install (Lionel Bringuier).
312 Escape and unescape URIs, as required by ROX-Filer 2.1.0 (reported by
314 Note that the xds_load_uris() method is now called with escaped URIs.
315 Try to run the filer through Zero Install, if possible.
319 If we can't get pygtk through Zero Install, try the local copy.
323 Added support in mime.py for an application to set MIME-type run
324 actions and thumbnail programs (Stephen Watson).
328 Simplified implementation of saving.SaveFilter by using the new
329 processes.PipeThroughCommand class. The child_run() method of SaveFilter
330 is no longer supported.
331 In processes.PipeThroughCommand, a None input stream gets /dev/null instead
332 of inheriting its parent's stream. The class has a new run_child_with_streams
333 to make overriding the behaviour easier.
334 findrox.py script now warns if ROX-Lib2 version is too old (unless requesting
335 a version too old to have a version number).
339 Changed 'Dismiss' to 'Close' (Chris Shaffer).
340 Bugfix: Error reporting in mime.py failed to import the _ function (reported
341 by Christopher Haines).
342 New AppInfo.py for parsing AppInfo.xml files (Christopher Arndt), InfoWin
343 converted to use it (Stephen Watson).
345 15-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.11)
347 Bugfix: Python 2.3's new bool type broke options saving (reported by Lars
352 Added PipeThroughCommand class (copied from Archive, with some minor
357 Allow event to be None for Menu.popup. This allows the menu to be activated
358 from the keyboard, using the 'popup-menu' signal.
362 Added French translation in AppInfo.xml (Vincent Lefèvre).
364 03-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.10)
366 Added support for icon themes (doesn't do inheritance yet).
370 Added some version information to the dialog you get when you run ROX-Lib
375 New bug() function to quickly bring up a debugging prompt.
379 The glob patterns in mime.py are now sorted longest first. Fix for setting
380 icon in the old way when there was no icon (Stephen Watson).
384 Try to cope better with bad hostname setup (reported by Nathan Howell).
388 Added InfoWin.py to provide standardized information window (Stephen Watson).
392 Fall back to old way of setting default icon for older pygtk's (Stephen
397 Added Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
401 Better way to set the default icon.
403 16-Aug-2003 (Release 1.9.9)
405 Give windows a default icon from .DirIcon (Chris Shaffer).
409 Try to get pygtk through ZeroInstall.
413 Updated findrox to use ZeroInstall, if possible.
417 Work out correct application name even if invoked via a symlink. This stops
418 applications from calling themselves 'text_plain', etc (reported by Joe Hill).
420 19-Jul-2003 (Release 1.9.8)
422 Make default menu positioning function keep the pointer inside the menu.
423 Allow stock icons in menus.
427 Added position_fn argument to rox.Menu.popup.
431 Cope with % escaped URIs.
435 Added italian translation in AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
439 When loading data from another application, pass the suggested leafname to
440 xds_load_from_stream().
444 Code tidying, thanks to pychecker.
448 Added fileutils module, which provides an interactive makedirs() function
450 Changed savebox module to use it.
452 16-May-2003 (Release 1.9.7)
454 New icon (Geoff Youngs).
455 Added 'basedir' module for freedesktop.org Base Directory specification.
459 Added functions to read MIME database (Stephen Watson).
461 27-Jan-2003 (Release 1.9.6)
463 Make the default window class the name of the application directory, not
464 'AppRun' (suggested by Albert Wagner).
465 Bugfix: With pygtk-1.99.14, only the first error message from a process
466 would be detected; this meant that ROX-Lib wouldn't detect when the
467 process quit (reported by joehill).
468 Bugfix: <hbox> and <vbox> layouts didn't work in the options box (Allen
473 If python is too old, raise SystemExit instead of quitting.
474 Ensure that True and False are defined.
478 Work around bug in some versions of pygtk that stopped the options window
481 12-Dec-2002 (Release 1.9.5)
483 Upgrade Options box to new style.
487 Bugfix: If an option had an empty value, an exception was thrown on loading
488 (reported by Stephen Watson).
492 Cope with missing input_add_full.
496 Pygtk 1.99.12 seems to more-or-less work now (according to Alastair Porter), so
497 remove the warning for that so we can support RedHat 8.0.
499 20-Oct-2002 (Release 1.9.4)
501 More warnings about old pygtk versions.
502 Added Dialog class (does ref-counting, like Window).
506 Trying to use ROX-Lib2 with earlier versions of python now gives a sensible
511 Make clicking on ROX-Lib itself work again (Christopher Arndt).
515 Updated findrox.py to use pygtk 1.99.13 -- update your programs!
517 25-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.3)
519 Switch to use new pygtk versioning system (requires pygtk 1.99.13).
523 Added 'processes' module, based on code in Archive, which makes controlling
528 Bugfix: Changing the keys lost any builtin shortcuts (Gtk behaviour has
533 Trap exceptions when activating menu items and report nicely.
537 Bugfix: Remember to call drop_finish() after a drag-and-drop operation.
539 05-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.2)
541 Renamed XDSLoader module to 'loading' (like 'saving').
542 Added 'mime' module for installing extra MIME information.
543 Bugfix: XDSLoader didn't handle the drag-drop signal, and so only worked for
544 widgets with their own implementation!
548 Show local variables in report_exception, and allow expressions to be
549 evaluated in the context of any frame.
550 Added StringSaver class.
554 Added applet module for creating ROX panel applets.
558 Bugfix: saving code didn't cope with missing images (reported by Musus Umbra).
562 If 'gtk2' isn't available, see if 'gtk' is actually the 2.0 version.
563 Added save_set_permissions to Saveable interface, allowing the default
564 save_to_file to preserve file permissions.
565 Changes to XDSLoader: xds_load_from_stream(name, type, stream)
566 replaces the old xds_load_data(data).
567 Loading files from remote filers works now.
568 Added much improved exception reporting system.
570 19-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.1)
572 Added support for translations.
576 License change to the LGPL (allows commercial programs to use this library).
577 Added AbortSave exception.
581 Saveable.save_to_file() should raise an exception when saving fails, rather
582 than returning 0. The return value is now ignored (note that raising an
583 exception will still work with 1.9.0).
584 toplevel_unref() ignores any arguments, so it is easier to use as a signal
587 12-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.0)
589 First release for Gtk+-2.0.