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 2.11 (2011-10-09)
11 - Converted from Glade to GtkBuilder.
13 - Fixed typo in German translation (Alek).
15 - "build" script runs autoconf and build the documentation if necessary. This
16 is needed for Git checkouts.
18 - Don't lower panel when the pointer moves over an applet. Reported by mark76
21 - Centre the pinboard image correctly if larger than the screen (Mohamed Amine
22 IL Idrissi). Patch sent to Ubuntu anonymously and forwarded; see Ubuntu bug
25 - Depend on 0compile 0.19.1. Fixes bug using distribution-provided pkg-config.
27 - Added build dependency on pkg-config.
29 - Bugfix: unselect item when menu is closed. We used to listen for
30 "unmap_event", but this is no longer emitted in recent versions of GTK.
31 Switched to using "selection-done" instead. Closes #2925212 (reported by
34 - Added button to options window to create the 'rox' start up script (Stephen
37 - Updated Italian translation (Yuri).
39 - Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation (Sérgio Cipolla).
41 - Updated Spanish and Galician translations (Antonio Sánchez). The
42 how-to-change-permissions explanation had a mistake that made the help window
45 - Updated Spanish translation (Antonio Sánchez and Luis Felipe Abad).
47 - Turn the error on invalid line breaks in uri_list_to_glist into a warning
48 (Stephen Watson). Firefox 3.5 upto and including 3.5.2 gets it wrong, but we
49 don't want to stop drops working until they fix it.
51 - Eliminated the duplicated code between pixmap_background_thumb() and
52 pixmap_try_thumb(). pixmap_background_thumb() now calls pixmap_try_thumb() to
53 get from memory or load from cache (Stephen Watson).
55 - Added option to place panels under the control of the _NET_WORKAREA property
56 (Stephen Watson). Note it only checks the work area at the point it creates
59 - Fix bug in XDG MIME magic: if two matches at the same priority returned
60 exactly the same type, it was considered a conflict (Stephen Watson).
62 - Newer versions of GTK+ issue warnings if a spin button has a non-zero page
63 size (Stephen Watson).
65 - If a file has a thumbnail, display it in the infobox (Stephen Watson).
67 Release 2.10 (2009-07-18)
69 - Added "Don't ask..." to may_offer_unmount() (Tony Houghton).
71 - Update japanese trancslation (heroaki_TANAKA)
73 - Applied Bernard Jungen's patch and suggestion (Tony Houghton):
74 - _() i18n wrappers for new infobox buttons.
75 - Don't save learnt mount points with default of "ASK".
76 - Use GPOINTER_TO_INT(NULL) instead of assuming 0.
78 - New options in mount point Properties dialog (Tony Houghton):
79 What action to take when all a mount point's windows are closed.
81 - Left align permissions labels in Properties (Tony Houghton).
83 Release 2.9 (2009-05-10)
85 - ROX-Filer didn't compile without inotify support. dnotify_fd_to_dir
86 got renamed in 71061457fee9e95d65c53f2bdcc400bc4ac502c0, but not
89 - Removed separate source feed. For historical reasons, ROX-Filer had a
90 somewhat confused build system. The main feed claimed it to be a
91 binary that worked on any architecture (because it compiled itself if
92 the binary was missing), while a separate "source" feed provided the
93 build dependencies. Now it has just a single feed, asserting that
94 this is source code. Compiling it generates a binary release,
95 including a binary feed. Also, there is a new 0compile.properties
96 file so you can easily compile it with "0compile build". Clicking on
97 the source's AppRun when there is no binary compiles it as before
98 (without using Zero Install).
100 - Don't use "cp -u" in build script; doesn't work on FreeBSD.
102 - Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung)
104 - Support back-references when bulk renaming (Rogutės). Back
105 references from \0 to \9 can be used in the "With:" field of the bulk
106 renaming dialog. Every back-reference is replaced by a captured
107 substring from the "Replace:" field. As a side effect, \0, \1, ..., \9
108 become special characters and they must be escaped with an additional
109 backslash (e.g. \\3).
111 - Update panels correctly when the screen size changes (Tony Houghton)
113 - Support "Show per workspace" pinboard option when the window manager
114 is using viewports instead of desktops. This is needed for things like
115 compiz (Stephen Watson).
117 - Make more terms become translatable in log.c (Babyfai Cheung).
119 - Fix detection of *BSD systems for large file support. Third attempt.
120 Instead of including huge autoconf files, restore the uname call that
121 was accidentally removed in 462ae76daefc4f536f474982b4452e640ea48350.
123 - Use inotify to monitor directories when available, in preference to
124 dnotify (Stephen Watson).
126 - Handle desktop files that have a blank Path (Stephen Watson).
128 - Handle the case where there is nothing following the version number
129 when checking the gcc --version output (Stephen Watson).
131 - Improve detection of GCC version (Stephen Watson).
133 - Plug memory leak looking for local apps (Stephen Watson).
135 - Fix getting $APPDIRPATH when finding apps (Stephen Watson).
137 - Added Galician to AppInfo.xml (Maria).
139 - Update Spanish translation and add new Galego translation (Maria).
140 This is from the GALPon MiniNo project, a Debian distribution for old
143 - Don't lose selection when starting a drag with Ctrl. If we drag from
144 an unselected item, we normally unselect any other items. However, if
145 we're also holding down Ctrl it's probably unselected only because we
146 mis-interpreted the click as toggle-selected, so just re-select it in
147 that case (reported by Kacper Wysocki).
149 - Launch buttons in the options dialog now look for a locally installed
150 app when 0launch isn't available (Stephen Watson).
152 - Creating a new file from a template works when the template is a
153 symlink (Bernard Jungen). It now creates a copy of the symlink's
154 target, not a copy of the symlink. However, if the template target is
155 a directory containing symlinks, those are copied as they are.
157 - Make the symlink box remember the "relative" setting between
158 invocations (Bernard Jungen).
160 - Updated Japanese translation (TANAKA hiroaki).
162 - Remove very old code for /uri filesystem.
164 - Change the way emblems are drawn on icons (Stephen Watson). The
165 emblem images are no longer MaskedPixmaps but are fetched from stock
166 when needed. This allows the theming mechanism to work on them.
167 There may be an overhead due to repeated calls to
168 gtk_style_lookup_icon_set and gtk_icon_set_render_icon.
170 - Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno)
172 - Added missing release notes to Changes file. For versions 2.7.1 and
176 Release 2.8 (2008-05-17)
178 - Add a "keep panel on top" option (Tony Houghton)
179 On compiz-fusion 0.7.4, the panels come off the screen; I think it's
180 compiz's fault. This is a work-around (reported by Lucas Hazel).
182 - Support "Path" key in .desktop files (Stephen Watson)
183 Reported by Mildred in http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=19
184 36189&group_id=7023&atid=107023
186 - Updated Vietnamese translation (Anh Tuan).
188 - Renamed icons to use new freedesktop.org scheme.
189 - Use correct name for coredump icon (Stephen Watson).
191 - Don't crash trying to display invalid timestamps. localtime() can
192 return NULL if the input is out-of-range.
194 - MIME magic lookup now returns text/plain for certain unknown file
195 types (Stephen Watson). Restored the code, lost in the update to the
196 newer XDG MIME code, which checks unknown files to see if they are
199 - Updated Russian translation (Nikita E. Shalaev).
201 - Fix validity error in French manual XML (Stephen Watson)
203 - Italian translation update (Yuri Bongiorno).
205 - Typo in panel options (Vincent Lefèvre).
207 - Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
209 - Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
214 - Don't try to copy install.sh when building binary release.
216 - Give choice of using 0launch when building. 'make' gives the old
217 behaviour. 'make with0launch' gets the headers using 0launch.
219 - Updated Chinese Translations (BabyfaiCheung)
221 - Fixed segfault on startup due to missing import. Recent versions of
222 GTK import time.h for us, but older ones didn't, leading to a segfault
225 - Running 'make' in the src directory now uses 0launch to find the
226 headers. This ensures that doing a normal build uses the same headers
227 that 0compile will use, hopefully detecting problems earlier (e.g. use
228 of a function from a newer GTK than the one we want to support). Note
229 that 'AppRun --compile' is unaffected.
231 - Fixed check to ensure that the ROX theme is available. Before, we
232 just checked that the postscript icon could be found, but now we
233 fallback to the GNOME theme so that always succeeds. Also, if the
234 theme exists but is a broken link then we fix it automatically rather
235 than popping up a box telling the user to fix it.
237 - Fix: Set the output codeset to UTF-8 (Andras Mohari). This should fix
238 the problems in non-UTF-8 locales.
240 - Ensure the Glade templates go in the binary release. Reported by
243 - Fix checking for gcc version (Stephen Watson).
245 - Don't use -fno-stack-protector unless we are using GCC 4.1 or later
246 (Stephen Watson). Should probably also check for GLIBC as well.
248 - Fix typo in the save display settings window (Stephen Watson).
249 (Reported by Vincent Lefèvre)
251 - Fixed typo in label. Reported by Vincent Lefèvre.
253 - Updated README. Was *very* out-of-date (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
255 - Removed install script. I haven't run this thing for years. There are
256 plenty of better ways of adding the filer to your system (using a
257 package, Zero Install, running it in-place, etc). Also added Glade to
258 the requirements in the manual, and updated the instructions there.
260 - Remove unnecessary argument in the unmount message (Adam Sampson).
262 - Only set -fno-stack-protector when using GCC.
265 Release 2.7 (2007-11-29)
270 - New panel configuration GUI (Tony Houghton):
271 - Created new Panel Options dialog in Templates.glade.
272 - Changing panel side is now in the dialog.
273 - Created new panel menu item.
274 - Implemented Remove Panel menu item.
275 - Pinboard menu has "Add panel" submenu.
276 - Added panel_side_to_{translated_}name.
277 - Options are stored with each panel.
279 Use new panels config file to decide which panels to create with -S (Tony
282 Fixed some problems and cleaned up some things in my new Panel Options
283 code spotted by Thomas Leonard (Tony Houghton).
285 Got rid of panel options from main Options dialog (Tony Houghton).
286 No longer warn about options without widgets.
288 - Added a log viewer (Thomas Leonard).
289 On the Window menu there is now a "Show Log" item which opens a window
290 displaying a log of recent actions. Currently, only actions involving
291 an action window are logged. The action is logged when you request the
292 action (so it might not have actually been performed). The log window
293 was created using Glade, and this therefore adds a Glade dependency
294 on ROX-Filer, along with some support code to use it.
296 Make the log window close when the Close button is clicked (Stephen Watson)
298 - Added automatic placement and updating to PinboardAdd RPC (Dennis
301 - Try to find icons in ROX and gnome themes if not in configured
302 theme (Tony Houghton).
307 - Use text/base theme colours for the Collection widget,
308 not fg/bg. (Andras Mohari) This provides a good default for the
309 Collection widget, and is consistent with other widgets (GtkEntry,
312 Setting the colours in .gtkrc-2.0 is unnecessary now (unless someone
313 wants to override theme colours, of course).
315 - Updated xdgmime* files from CVS source (retrieved 2007-08-18)
318 - Making new ROX-Filer releases is now handled by 0release (Thomas
324 - Switched completely to standard gettext (Thomas Leonard).
325 We used to use our own implementation of the gettext functions so that
326 the user could switch langauges on the fly. However, that doesn't work
327 with Glade and it wasn't very useful anyway, so it has all been
330 One visible change is that e.g. "LANG=fr rox -n" no longer works. You
331 have to use the full string (e.g. "LANG=fr_FR.utf8 rox -n").
333 - Added preliminary support for Glade translations (Andras Mohari, as
334 suggested by Lennon Cook). We check for the presence of libintl.h
335 and use the bindtextdomain() call to tell Glade where to find its
338 Build failed on Solaris, because libintl wasn't linked in (Stephen
341 - Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
343 - Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
348 - In the Properties box, the text in the "Contents Indicate" part of the
349 box can now be selected and pasted (Thomas Leonard).
351 - Made uniconify from pinboard work properly with metacity (Tony
352 Houghton): _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message now has timestamp and source
353 field is set to 2 (pretend we're a pager).
355 When uniconifying, set "requestor's currently active window"
356 to zero to be on the safe side (Thomas Leonard).
358 - Arrow keys didn't work in details view (Thomas Leonard; reported by
359 Dennis Nezic and others).
360 GTK likes to select rows as you move over them. Since we don't want
361 that, ROX-Filer marks the rows as unselectable. However, newer GTK
362 versions refuse to move the cursor at all if the selection behaviour
365 - Don't print CRITICAL message if there is no fstab available,
366 for Mac OS X (Stephen Watson, suggested by Anders F Björklund).
368 - Make it clearer what the "Save Display Settings" does (Stephen
371 - Combined adding of release event with motion event for pinboard icons
372 (Tony Houghton). Doesn't seem necessary to add release event
373 explicitly, but best be on safe side.
375 - Fixed build problem on GTK 2.6: GTK_STOCK_INFO doesn't exist
376 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Stephen Watson).
378 - Escape special characters when opening the shell minibuffer (Thomas Leonard).
379 If you click on files while the shell minibuffer is open then the names are
380 escaped, but if you open it with a file under the cursor then the name wasn't
381 escaped (reported by Nils-Erik Svangård).
383 - Fix occasional core dump with multiple magic matches (Stephen
386 - Use the directory icon for mount points if the icon theme has no icon
387 for mount points (Andras Mohari).
389 - Use pathdup() in diritem_restart(), not readlink_dup(), to ensure that
390 we get the full pathname and not a path relative to the filer's
391 working directory (Stephen Watson).
393 - Fixed crash when running a .desktop file in terminal (Dennis Tomas).
395 - Strip .xpm or .svg extensions from Icon entry in .desktop files
398 - When clicking on toolbar buttons, don't crash if gtk_get_current_event
399 returns NULL (Thomas Leonard). This is the case when ATK is used.
401 - Need to use unsigned char when reading the header of an Exif file to
402 avoid problems on some hardware (Stephen Watson, reported by Musus
406 Release 2.6.1 (2007-06-10)
408 SESSION MANAGER CHANGES
410 - When run with -S, restart with -S too rather than expanding the current
411 panels and pinboard on the command-line (Thomas Leonard).
413 - If the filer was started with -S, ask the session manager to automatically
414 restart it if it crashes (Thomas Leonard).
416 - If 0launch is available, use that as the session restart command when using a
417 session manager. Without this, restoring a session would always reload the
418 same version of ROX-Filer that was used when you saved it, not the current
419 version (Thomas Leonard).
423 - Shouldn't use == in /bin/sh scripts, that's a bashism (Stephen Watson).
425 - Don't abort the build if we can't create debugging symbols (Thomas Leonard,
426 reported through 0compile as bug#1678076).
430 - Reduced panel border width to 1 pixel (Tony Houghton).
432 - For JPEG files in Exif format attempt to read an embedded thumbnail first
435 - Bugfix: The Thumb::Size tag is optional in the thumbnail spec (reported by
440 - Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
442 - Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
445 Release 2.6 (2007-02-25)
449 - If a .desktop file says "Terminal=true" then run the program in a terminal
450 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Frank McCormick). Note: this is currently
451 hard-coded to use xterm.
453 - Option to display xattr indicator now independant of xattr support option
455 - The symlink and xattr emblems are now loaded from stock items and therefore
456 themeable. Made clear that setting type on directories sets the contents, not
457 the directory. inode/* types excluded from the list of types available for
458 setting (Stephen Watson).
460 - Added "Fit" backdrop image scaling mode (Peter Hyman). Like "Scale", this
461 scales the image without distorting it, but it will make it larger than the
462 screen if necessary to avoid a border.
464 - New MIME type for Jar archives.
466 - Lookup URI handlers by scheme in choices (Stephen Watson)
468 - Added -U option for parsing filenames in URL form (Stephen Watson).
470 - Added a new SOAP method, RunURI, and made the -U option use that. In addition
471 error returns from SOAP methods implicitly invoked (not via -R) are printed
472 as simple messages rather than the XML data (Stephen Watson).
474 - Add eject button to the unmount/don't unmount dialog (Stephen Watson).
476 - Mount and unmount commands can have additional parameters, eject command can
477 also be changed in the same way (Jim Ramsay, Stephen Watson).
479 - Menu option to control whether directories are filtered by name along with
480 other files (Janek Kozicki and Andras Mohari).
485 - Don't try to thumbnail zero-byte files. They're either empty, or special and
486 may cause us to hang (Thomas Leonard; reported by Barry Kauler).
488 - Always use the default RTL setting to render filenames, even if they start
489 with a character that suggests the opposite. Fixes a positioning problem
490 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Alexander McLeay).
492 - Use $MAKE to run make, for *BSD users
494 - Don't display a warning about deprecated options; it just confuses people
495 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Peter).
497 - When moving the cursor down on the last row of a collection in vertical mode,
498 move to the start of the next column (Thomas Leonard).
500 - When reporting an invalid MIME type, include the type's name in the error
501 message (Thomas Leonard).
503 - Fix bug when checking for escape characters in command string (Stephen Watson).
508 - Removed code to set location of pkg-config files. No longer needed, since the
509 discovery of ${pcfiledir} (suggested by Stephen Watson).
511 - Made ROX-Filer-src.xml use the gtk-2.4 build environment, rather than
512 depending on all the headers directly. The build environment sets up a
513 temporary directory with some symlinks, which means you can compile without
514 having any version of the GTK headers installed at all. Before, an existing
515 -dev installation was required (but only to get the major version number of
521 - Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
523 - Updated Hungarian translation (amohari).
525 - Updated Italian translation (deslar).
527 - Updated Russian translation (Nikita E. Shalaev).
529 - Updated Ukrainian translation (Yury Bulka).
531 - Updated Vietnamese translation (Anhtuan).
534 Release 2.5 (2006-07-07)
538 - Allow pinboard and panel icons to be locked (Dennis Tomas, suggested
541 - Display extra information in properties box for desktop files (Stephen
544 - Allow setting icons in the AppInfo.xml file (Dennis Tomas). Example:
547 <Item option="--options" icon="gtk-preferences">...</Item>
550 - Added SetIcon and UnsetIcon SOAP calls (Jonatan Liljedahl). With this
551 you can have your volume manager (like ivman) set icons for the
552 mounted media that represents what type of media it is (cdr, cdrw, usb
555 - Right-clicking on the Show/hide button now turns thumbnails on and off
558 - Added options to change the "mount" and "umount" commands (Thomas
559 Leonard). This may be useful for using programs such as "pmount" and
560 "pumount" (which allow mounting removable media without an fstab
561 entry, or encrypted filesystems).
563 - Added a 'Manage Thumbnails' link to the Options box (Thomas Leonard).
564 If 0launch isn't available, tell the user the URL of the program we
565 were trying to run so they can get it themselves. Tell users about
566 right-click behaviour in a tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
571 - Removed separator from icon properties dialog box (Thomas Leonard).
573 - Updated Word MIME type for new MIME database (Keith Warno).
575 - When the handler for a MIME type is a symlink to a program, run the
576 program using the target of the symlink rather than the link itself so
577 that programs like gvim see the right name and behave correctly
578 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Keith Warno).
580 - Use full URI, not local path, for DocBook stylesheet (Pär Forsling).
582 - When setting or clearing a globicon, redraw pinboard and panel icons
585 - When loading MIME icons from the current theme only get the pathname
586 from GTK, but actually load it through our own cache (Thomas Leonard).
587 GTK was loading a new copy of the image each time!
589 - Changed name of save settings menu option to be more explicit (Stephen
592 - In many .desktop files there is no "%F" or similar parameter to the
593 "Exec" entry, although the application can open files. Work around
594 this problem by adding the arguments to the end of the command in this
597 - Added Zero Install source interface (Thomas Leonard). Run this with
598 0launch to compile against the GTK and GLib 2.4 headers (which will be
599 downloaded automatically). This produces a binary that runs with these
600 older versions, as well as with all later releases. Note that this has
601 been somewhat superceded by the GTK-2.4 compatibility environment:
603 http://0install.net/2006/interfaces/GTK-2.4.xml
605 - New type for XML files; "application/" rather than "text/" to match
606 freedesktop.org updates (Thomas Leonard).
608 - Moved test for a hidden file into its own function. Allows us to
609 define additional tests as to whether a file is hidden, rather than
610 just the first character of the file name (Stephen Watson).
612 - Updated source file headers by removing the Id line, updating the
613 year and clarifying the copyrights (Thomas Leonard).
615 - The monospace font for the list view is now configurable via a
616 ViewDetails::mono-font gtkrc entry (Stephen Watson).
618 - When iconfiying a window, try to find space on the pinboard of the
619 current screen first (Tony Houghton).
621 - Updated the help text for rox --help (Andras Mohari).
623 - Use a monospace font for the size and permissions columsn in the list
624 view (Andras Mohari).
629 - When a panel icon's image changed, the display didn't update (Thomas
630 Leonard, reported by Dennis Tomas).
632 - Any line in a .desktop file would be ignored if there was a blank line
633 directly before it (Dennis Tomas).
635 - Escape " characters when generating translations for the Options.xml
636 file (Andras Mohari).
638 - When reading the output from 'du' for the Properties box, set the
639 channel's encoding to NULL to avoid errors with non-UTF-8 filenames
642 - When running ROX-Filer for the first time ever, don't tell users that
643 the Choices directory has been migrated unless they already had one.
644 Also, don't bother creating symlinks to the new locations in this
645 case. Other applications have had a while to catch up to the new
646 system, and the message is rather confusing to new users (Thomas
652 - Updated Chinese Translations (Babyfai Cheung).
654 - Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
656 - Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
658 - Updated Hungarian translation and converted to UTF-8 (Andras Mohari).
660 - Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
662 - Updated Russian translation (Nikita E. Shalaev).
664 - Added Ukrainian translation (Yourko).
666 - Added Vietnamese translation (Xomhau Newnick).
668 - Updated instructions for creating a translation (reported by Yourko).
670 - Make sure all the help message is translatable (Stephen Watson,
671 reported by Andras Mohari).
675 30-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4.1)
677 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
681 Some .desktop files put ".png" after the icon name, which prevents the icon
682 from being found. Ignore it (Thomass Leonard; reported by Peter).
686 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
690 If we can't find libc.so.6 for xattr support, try libc.so in case we only have
691 uClib (Lucas Correia Villa Real).
695 Allow .desktop files to be used as run actions (Thomas Leonard).
699 Bugfix: New detail crashes cleanice theme (reported by Andras Mohari; reported
700 as CleanIce bug #1383457). Try another value...
704 Highlight icons using the theme's preferred colour instead of always using
705 blue (Andras Mohari).
706 Bugfix: Don't set style detail to "base" when highlighting items in a
707 Collection, as it confuses GTK's lighthouseblue theme engine
712 Bugfix: Changing the display style crashes the filer with GTK >= 2.8.9 because
713 it sends a selection changed event before the view has finished
714 initialising (Thomas Leonard; reported by Tobias Kieslich).
715 Removed some done entries from the TODO file (Stephen Watson).
717 13-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4)
719 Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
723 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
724 Make Path optional in PanelRemove SOAP call, allowing removal of items based
725 only on their label (Jonatan Liljedahl).
726 Bugfix: The install script failed to compile ROX-Filer on Debian systems, due
727 to a bug in recent versions of xterm (Vincent Lefèvre). Added a
729 Bugfix: On 64-bit systems communication between ROX-Filer processes didn't
730 work, because GDK uses sizeof(long) bytes (not always 4 bytes) to store
731 a 32 bit property (Lucas Hazel).
735 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
736 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
737 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
742 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
746 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
747 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
749 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
750 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
751 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
755 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
760 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
764 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
765 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
769 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
773 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
774 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
775 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
779 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
783 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
784 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
788 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
789 manually (Thomas Leonard).
793 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
794 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
795 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
800 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
801 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
805 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
806 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
807 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
808 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
812 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
813 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
814 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
818 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
822 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
826 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
827 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
831 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
832 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
833 reported by Tristan McLeay).
837 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
838 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
840 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
844 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
845 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
846 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
847 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
851 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
852 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
854 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
856 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
861 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
862 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
863 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
864 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
865 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
870 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
875 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
879 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
880 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
882 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
883 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
884 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
885 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
889 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
890 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
891 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
896 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
898 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
903 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
907 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
908 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
912 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
913 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
914 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
918 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
922 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
923 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
924 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
925 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
926 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
930 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
931 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
932 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
934 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
935 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
936 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
937 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
938 though they may be valid UTF-8.
939 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
941 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
942 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
943 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
944 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
945 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
951 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
952 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
954 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
955 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
960 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
961 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
965 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
966 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
971 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
972 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
973 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
974 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
975 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
976 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
978 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
980 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
981 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
982 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
986 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
987 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
991 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
992 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
996 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
997 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
998 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
999 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
1003 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
1007 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
1008 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
1012 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
1014 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
1015 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
1016 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
1021 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
1022 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
1023 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
1024 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
1028 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
1030 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
1031 function address (Tony Houghton).
1035 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
1036 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
1041 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
1045 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
1046 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
1050 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
1051 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
1052 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
1056 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
1060 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
1061 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
1062 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
1063 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
1064 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
1069 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
1074 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
1078 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
1079 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
1083 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
1084 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
1088 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1092 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
1093 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
1095 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
1099 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
1100 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
1104 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
1105 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
1106 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
1108 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
1110 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
1115 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
1116 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
1120 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
1125 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
1129 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
1130 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
1131 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
1132 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
1134 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
1139 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
1140 the old one (Stephen Watson).
1141 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
1142 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
1143 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
1147 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
1152 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1154 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
1156 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
1157 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1161 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
1162 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
1164 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
1166 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1167 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
1168 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
1169 reported by Lewis Denizen).
1173 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1177 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
1178 the binary (Stephen Watson).
1182 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1186 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
1187 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
1188 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
1192 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
1195 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
1197 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
1198 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
1199 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
1200 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
1201 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
1205 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
1209 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
1210 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
1214 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
1218 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
1219 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
1220 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
1222 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
1223 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
1225 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
1226 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
1227 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
1228 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
1232 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
1233 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
1237 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
1238 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
1239 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
1240 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
1245 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
1246 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
1250 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
1251 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
1252 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
1256 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
1257 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
1258 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
1262 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
1266 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
1267 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
1271 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
1272 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1276 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
1280 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
1281 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
1286 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
1287 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
1291 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
1295 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
1296 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
1297 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
1298 when changing to a parent directory.
1299 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
1303 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1307 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
1311 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
1313 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
1315 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
1319 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
1321 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1325 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
1327 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1331 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
1335 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
1336 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
1337 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
1338 reported by Anthony DiSante).
1342 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
1346 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1350 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
1351 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
1352 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
1353 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
1354 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
1358 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
1359 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
1363 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
1364 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
1369 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
1370 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
1375 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
1376 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
1380 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
1381 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
1385 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
1386 (reported by Tony Houghton).
1390 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
1392 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
1393 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
1397 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
1398 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
1402 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
1406 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
1410 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
1414 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
1415 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
1416 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
1420 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1424 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
1429 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
1433 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1435 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
1437 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
1441 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1442 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
1443 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
1445 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
1449 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
1450 print a warning and then crash.
1454 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
1455 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
1456 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
1461 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
1465 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
1470 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
1474 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
1478 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
1480 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
1485 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
1486 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
1487 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
1492 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
1493 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
1498 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
1500 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
1501 anyway, and noone had complained).
1502 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
1503 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
1507 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
1508 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
1509 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
1513 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
1517 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
1518 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
1522 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
1523 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
1524 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
1528 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
1529 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
1530 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
1532 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
1533 by Simon Templer and others).
1537 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
1538 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
1539 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
1543 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
1547 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
1551 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
1552 version number again (Stephen Watson).
1556 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
1557 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
1561 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
1565 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
1566 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
1567 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
1568 anyway (Stephen Watson).
1572 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1576 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1580 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1582 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
1584 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
1588 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
1589 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
1590 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
1594 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
1595 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
1600 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
1601 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
1602 impossible to change shortcuts.
1603 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
1604 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
1608 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
1609 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
1614 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
1615 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
1616 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1620 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
1621 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
1622 to the functions being missing.
1626 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
1630 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
1634 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
1638 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
1642 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
1643 worries people for no reason.
1647 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
1651 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
1652 files selected (Peter Geer).
1656 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
1657 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
1661 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
1665 Added 'Select by Name'.
1669 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
1673 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
1678 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1682 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1684 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
1686 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1687 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1691 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1695 Misc changes for next release.
1699 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
1700 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
1704 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
1705 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
1706 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
1707 Watson, reported on #rox).
1711 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
1712 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
1716 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
1717 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
1721 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
1722 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
1726 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
1727 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1732 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1736 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1738 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1743 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1747 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1748 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1752 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1753 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1757 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1761 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1766 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1767 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1768 for the same reason.
1769 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1770 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1774 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1775 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1779 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1784 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1785 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1789 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1790 support not being detected (igla).
1794 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1798 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1799 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1803 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1807 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1808 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1809 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1810 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1813 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1815 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1816 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1820 New icon for selection ops.
1824 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1828 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1832 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1836 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1837 Added icon theme selector.
1841 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1845 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1849 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1850 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1854 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1855 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1856 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1860 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1861 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1865 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1869 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1870 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1871 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1875 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1879 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1880 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1885 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1886 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1890 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1891 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1895 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1896 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1900 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1904 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1905 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1906 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1910 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1914 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1915 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1916 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1917 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1921 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1922 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1924 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1928 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1932 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1933 bits (Stephen Watson).
1937 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1941 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1945 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1946 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1950 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1954 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1955 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1960 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1961 forward them explicitly.
1965 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1966 help from Götz Waschk).
1970 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1971 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1972 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1976 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1980 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1984 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1988 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1989 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1991 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1993 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1997 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1999 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
2001 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2005 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
2006 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
2007 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2008 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
2012 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
2016 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2020 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2024 Minor updates to the manual.
2025 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
2026 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
2030 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
2031 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2033 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
2035 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
2036 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
2040 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
2041 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
2042 reduce flickering effect.
2046 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
2050 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
2052 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
2056 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
2057 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
2058 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
2059 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
2060 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2064 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
2065 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2069 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
2073 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
2078 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
2079 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
2083 Winking now works in List view.
2087 Lasso selections now work in List view.
2091 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
2092 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
2096 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
2097 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
2099 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
2101 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2105 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2109 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
2110 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
2112 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2116 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
2117 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
2121 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
2123 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
2127 Centre the image for iconified windows.
2128 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
2132 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
2134 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
2138 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
2142 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
2143 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
2148 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
2149 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
2151 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
2153 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
2155 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2159 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2163 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
2164 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2168 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
2173 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
2174 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
2178 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
2180 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
2182 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2183 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
2188 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
2192 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
2193 (suggested by Michael Adams).
2194 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
2195 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
2196 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
2197 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
2198 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
2200 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
2204 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
2209 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2210 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
2214 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
2215 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
2216 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
2217 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
2222 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
2223 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
2224 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
2225 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
2226 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
2227 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
2228 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
2229 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
2230 talent can do something better?
2231 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
2232 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2236 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
2237 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
2238 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
2243 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
2245 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
2246 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
2247 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
2248 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
2249 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
2250 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
2251 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
2252 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
2253 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
2254 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
2255 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
2256 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
2257 label wasn't hidden / shown.
2261 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
2262 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
2263 allow fine repositioning.
2264 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
2265 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
2266 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
2267 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
2269 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
2270 changing the aspect ratio.
2274 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
2278 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
2282 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
2283 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
2284 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2288 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
2292 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
2297 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
2298 make sharing icons easier.
2299 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2303 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
2304 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
2308 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
2312 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
2314 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
2318 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
2323 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
2328 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2329 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
2331 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
2332 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
2333 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
2334 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
2338 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
2339 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
2343 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2347 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
2349 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
2350 Brian Langenberger).
2354 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
2355 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
2357 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
2361 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
2362 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2364 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
2366 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
2370 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
2371 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
2376 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2380 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
2381 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2382 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2386 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2387 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2391 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
2395 Preserve selection when changing view type.
2396 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
2400 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
2401 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
2402 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
2406 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
2410 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
2411 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
2412 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
2413 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
2415 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
2416 the information in the tooltips anyway.
2420 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
2421 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
2425 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
2430 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
2431 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
2435 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
2439 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
2440 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
2441 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
2442 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
2447 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
2448 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
2449 Always use case-insensitive sort.
2453 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2457 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
2458 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
2462 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
2463 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
2464 since it didn't include the contents.
2465 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
2466 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
2470 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2474 Style improvements to options window.
2478 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2482 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
2484 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
2486 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
2491 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
2492 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
2493 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
2494 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
2498 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
2502 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
2506 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2507 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
2511 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
2513 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
2518 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
2522 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2523 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
2524 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
2529 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
2533 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
2537 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
2541 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
2545 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
2546 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
2547 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
2551 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
2552 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
2556 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
2557 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
2562 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
2566 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
2570 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
2575 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
2576 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
2580 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
2581 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
2586 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
2587 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
2591 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
2592 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
2593 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
2597 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2601 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
2602 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
2603 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
2604 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
2605 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
2609 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
2610 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2614 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2615 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2619 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2623 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
2624 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
2625 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
2626 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2627 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
2628 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
2632 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2633 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2634 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
2638 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
2639 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
2644 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2648 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2650 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
2652 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
2657 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
2661 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
2665 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
2666 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
2671 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
2675 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2679 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
2680 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
2681 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2685 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2689 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
2694 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2698 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
2699 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
2700 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
2701 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2705 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
2709 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2710 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
2714 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
2715 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
2716 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
2720 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
2724 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
2728 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2729 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2730 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2731 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2732 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2733 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2737 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2738 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2742 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2743 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2744 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2748 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2749 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2753 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2757 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2758 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2759 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2760 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2762 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2764 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2768 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2769 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2770 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2774 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2778 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2779 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2784 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2788 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2792 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2793 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2797 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2798 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2799 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2803 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2804 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2808 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2809 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2813 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2814 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2818 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2822 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2823 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2827 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2829 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2831 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2835 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2839 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2840 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2844 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2848 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2852 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2853 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2854 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2855 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2856 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2857 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2861 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2865 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2867 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2868 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2872 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2873 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2877 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2881 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2882 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2883 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2884 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2886 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2888 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2892 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2893 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2897 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2898 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2899 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2903 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2904 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2905 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2906 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2907 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2908 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2909 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2913 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2914 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2918 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2922 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2926 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2931 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2935 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2936 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2937 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2941 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2942 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2943 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2947 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2948 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2949 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2953 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2954 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2958 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2963 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2964 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2965 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2966 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2967 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2969 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2970 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2974 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2978 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2979 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2980 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2981 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2985 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2986 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2987 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2988 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2989 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2990 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2994 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2998 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2999 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
3003 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
3004 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3005 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
3006 restart (Olli Helenius).
3010 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
3014 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
3015 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
3016 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
3021 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
3026 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
3027 Small and Large sizes.
3031 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
3035 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
3036 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
3040 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
3041 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
3042 (requested by Gregory Spath).
3043 Don't quit while Options window is open.
3047 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
3048 the window (requested by Ashwin).
3049 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
3054 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
3059 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
3060 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3064 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3065 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
3070 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
3072 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
3074 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
3078 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
3082 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
3084 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
3086 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
3090 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
3092 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
3093 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
3097 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
3098 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
3102 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
3103 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
3107 Various speed improvements.
3108 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
3112 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
3113 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
3117 Slight speed increase when starting.
3121 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
3125 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
3126 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
3127 button is no longer supported.
3131 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
3135 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
3139 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
3144 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
3145 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
3149 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
3150 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
3151 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
3155 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
3156 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
3157 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
3158 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
3162 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
3163 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
3164 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
3166 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
3171 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
3172 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
3177 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
3181 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
3182 and converted to new dialog style.
3186 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
3187 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
3191 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
3192 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
3196 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
3200 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
3202 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
3206 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
3210 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
3211 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
3212 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
3216 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
3217 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
3221 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
3226 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
3230 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
3231 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
3235 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
3236 and Cancel is now Revert.
3237 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
3238 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
3242 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
3246 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
3247 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
3249 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
3250 (reported by Serban Udrea).
3251 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
3252 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
3256 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
3258 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
3259 labels display them.
3260 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
3263 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
3267 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
3269 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
3273 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
3274 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
3275 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
3279 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3280 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
3282 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
3284 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
3288 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
3289 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3293 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
3294 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
3295 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
3296 (requested by Andras Mohari).
3300 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3304 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
3305 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3309 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
3310 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
3315 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
3316 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
3320 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3321 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
3322 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
3326 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
3327 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
3331 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
3332 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
3333 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
3334 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
3336 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
3341 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
3342 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
3344 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
3346 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3350 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
3351 any image (saves time).
3352 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
3353 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
3354 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
3355 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
3357 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3358 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
3362 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
3363 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
3365 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
3366 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
3368 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
3373 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
3374 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
3375 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
3376 has stopped accepting STRING.
3380 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
3381 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
3385 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
3390 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
3391 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
3393 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
3394 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
3395 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
3399 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
3400 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
3401 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
3402 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
3403 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
3404 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
3408 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
3409 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
3410 Allow '~' in globicons file.
3411 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
3412 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
3413 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
3418 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
3419 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
3420 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
3421 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
3426 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3427 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
3431 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
3432 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
3434 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
3436 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
3437 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
3438 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3442 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
3443 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
3444 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3448 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
3449 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
3453 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
3454 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
3458 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
3460 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
3465 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3466 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3470 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
3471 their menus correctly.
3472 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
3477 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
3478 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
3479 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
3483 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3484 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
3488 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3492 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
3495 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
3497 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3498 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
3499 the toggle menu items from working!
3503 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
3505 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
3511 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
3512 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
3516 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3517 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
3518 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
3519 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
3520 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
3521 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
3525 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
3529 File groups are now saved (automatically).
3530 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
3534 Added Version SOAP RPC.
3535 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
3536 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
3540 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
3541 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
3546 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
3548 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
3552 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
3553 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
3554 bar is displayed in the filer window.
3555 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
3559 Improved error reporting.
3560 Improved sizing code when details are on.
3564 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
3565 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
3566 check box and does 'Yes'.
3570 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
3571 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
3572 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
3573 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
3578 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
3580 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3581 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
3583 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
3585 Internal changes to options system:
3586 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
3587 filer is fully initialised).
3588 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
3590 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
3592 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
3593 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
3594 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
3595 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
3599 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
3600 now reclaims the selection.
3601 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
3602 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
3607 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
3608 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
3609 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
3610 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
3611 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
3615 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
3616 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
3618 Code tidying in various places.
3622 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
3623 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
3628 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
3629 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
3633 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
3634 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
3635 edit the file, not the file itself!
3636 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
3640 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3641 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
3642 (recommended by Jens Finke).
3643 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
3644 of the SOAP working draft.
3645 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
3646 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
3647 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
3652 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
3653 it was in the displayed area before.
3655 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
3658 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
3659 winking effect until the window actually appears.
3663 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
3664 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
3665 Kristian A. Rink and others).
3667 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
3668 selection (Andras Mohari).
3672 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
3676 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
3680 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
3681 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
3682 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
3686 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
3690 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
3692 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
3693 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
3694 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
3698 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
3699 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
3704 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
3705 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
3706 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
3710 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
3714 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
3718 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
3719 replaced by a Restart button.
3723 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
3724 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
3728 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3732 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3736 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3737 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3738 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3742 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3743 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3745 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3746 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3747 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3751 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3752 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3757 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3759 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3760 (requested by Graham Borland).
3761 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3762 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3763 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3767 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3768 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3769 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3770 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3774 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3775 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3776 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3777 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3778 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3779 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3780 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3781 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3782 - Lots of code tidying.
3787 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3788 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3792 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3794 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3796 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3800 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3801 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3805 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3806 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3810 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3811 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3815 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3816 option to access it directly.
3820 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3821 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3822 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3826 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3827 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3828 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3829 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3830 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3831 when the filer is run.
3835 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3836 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3837 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3842 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3846 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3847 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3851 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3853 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3857 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3861 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3862 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3863 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3868 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3869 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3870 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3871 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3872 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3873 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3874 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3878 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3882 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3883 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3887 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3888 of possible actions (Taras).
3889 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3891 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3892 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3896 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3901 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3905 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3908 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3909 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3913 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3914 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3916 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3918 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3919 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3920 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3921 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3925 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3929 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3933 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3937 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3942 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3943 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3944 the first one found.
3945 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3949 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3953 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3954 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3955 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3959 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3960 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3961 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3966 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3967 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3968 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3972 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3974 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3979 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3984 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3988 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3989 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3993 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3995 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3996 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
4000 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
4004 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
4005 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
4009 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
4010 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
4014 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
4015 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
4017 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
4019 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4023 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
4027 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
4028 (requested by Jim Knoble).
4032 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
4036 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
4041 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
4042 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
4046 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
4050 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
4054 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
4056 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
4057 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
4061 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
4062 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
4066 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
4067 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
4068 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
4072 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4073 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
4077 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
4078 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
4080 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
4082 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
4086 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
4087 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
4088 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
4090 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
4091 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
4093 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
4095 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
4096 and the default size with no details.
4100 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
4101 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
4105 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
4110 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
4115 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
4119 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
4124 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
4125 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
4129 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
4133 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
4134 the button to run it does.
4135 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
4136 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
4137 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
4141 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
4142 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
4143 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
4147 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
4151 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
4152 and panels into icon.c.
4156 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
4157 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
4158 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
4159 and Vincent Lefèvre).
4163 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
4165 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
4167 Updated the documentation.
4171 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
4172 up if they're too small.
4176 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
4178 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
4179 (Christopher Arndt).
4180 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
4185 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
4186 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
4190 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
4191 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
4195 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
4196 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
4197 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
4202 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
4207 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
4211 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
4212 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
4217 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
4222 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
4223 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
4227 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
4228 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
4232 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
4236 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
4240 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
4244 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
4245 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
4248 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
4249 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
4254 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
4255 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
4256 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4257 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
4262 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
4263 held over the item (Denis Manente).
4265 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
4267 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
4268 for non-applications.
4272 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
4273 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
4278 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
4282 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
4283 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
4285 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
4289 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
4290 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
4294 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
4295 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
4299 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
4300 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
4304 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
4305 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
4307 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
4308 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
4312 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
4313 standard output (Stephen Watson).
4315 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
4319 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
4320 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
4323 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
4327 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
4328 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
4332 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
4336 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
4337 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
4340 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
4341 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
4345 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
4349 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
4354 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4358 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
4359 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
4364 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
4369 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
4373 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
4375 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
4377 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
4378 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
4380 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
4382 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
4383 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
4387 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
4388 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
4389 were used (Diego Zamboni).
4391 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
4392 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
4396 Many internal changes to the Options system.
4400 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
4401 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
4405 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
4409 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
4410 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
4412 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
4415 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
4416 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
4417 lines in the form 'option Text'.
4421 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
4422 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
4427 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
4432 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4434 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
4437 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
4439 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
4440 sensible shape itself now.
4442 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
4443 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
4444 file at all, just a reused inode!
4445 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
4446 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
4447 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
4451 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
4455 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
4456 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
4461 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
4462 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
4466 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
4470 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
4471 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
4475 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
4480 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
4484 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
4485 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
4489 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
4490 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4491 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
4492 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
4493 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
4497 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
4498 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
4499 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
4500 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
4501 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
4505 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
4506 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
4507 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
4511 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
4513 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
4514 python's portable system.
4515 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
4516 set the LANG variable.
4520 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
4521 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
4523 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
4525 Made a few updates to the manual.
4529 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
4530 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
4532 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
4534 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
4535 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
4539 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
4540 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
4544 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
4545 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
4550 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
4551 by Wilbert Berendsen).
4552 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
4556 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
4557 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
4561 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
4562 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
4566 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
4567 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
4569 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
4570 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
4571 open... (Denis Manente).
4575 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4579 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4581 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
4582 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
4583 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
4585 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
4587 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
4589 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
4590 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
4595 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
4596 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
4597 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
4601 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
4602 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
4606 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4610 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
4614 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
4615 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
4616 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
4620 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
4621 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
4622 between pinboards...
4624 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
4625 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
4626 background - seems to be necessary :-(
4630 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
4633 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
4634 window (Denis Manente).
4636 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
4637 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
4641 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
4642 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
4643 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
4647 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
4650 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
4651 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
4653 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
4658 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
4659 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
4661 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
4665 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
4666 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
4668 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
4670 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
4675 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
4676 the icon points to as well as its name.
4678 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
4679 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
4683 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
4684 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
4685 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
4686 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
4690 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4694 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
4695 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
4696 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
4700 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
4701 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
4703 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
4704 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
4707 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
4708 the item after the drag.
4710 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
4711 showing where the file really is.
4715 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
4716 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
4721 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
4722 warning is displayed if so.
4724 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
4728 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4729 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4730 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4731 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4734 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4735 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4736 works like the panels.
4740 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4741 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4742 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4743 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4744 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4748 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4749 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4750 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4751 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4753 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4758 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4762 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4763 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4766 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4767 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4769 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4772 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4773 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4774 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4775 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4777 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4779 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4780 slightly. Updated the manual.
4782 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4783 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4786 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4787 or bottom panel to make room.
4791 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4796 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4797 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4798 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4799 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4800 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4804 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4806 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4807 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4809 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4813 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4814 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4818 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4822 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4824 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4829 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4830 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4832 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4836 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4837 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4838 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4842 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4843 rewriting the panel system.
4847 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4850 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4851 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4855 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4856 (suggested by James Kermode).
4860 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4861 than as a full path.
4863 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4865 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4866 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4867 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4871 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4872 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4876 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4877 rename something onto another filesystem.
4881 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4883 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4884 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4888 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4892 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4895 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4896 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4898 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4901 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4906 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4907 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4908 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4910 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4911 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4913 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4914 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4919 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4920 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4925 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4926 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4927 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4929 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4930 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4931 of the 'missing image' image.
4935 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4937 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4939 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4944 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4945 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4946 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4947 its name into another program.
4949 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4953 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4955 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4956 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4957 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4959 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4960 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4961 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4964 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4965 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4969 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4970 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4971 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4975 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4976 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4977 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4981 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4982 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4983 and position the icons directly.
4987 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4992 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4993 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4994 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4998 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
5002 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
5003 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
5007 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
5012 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
5016 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
5017 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
5018 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
5019 some versions of GTK+.
5023 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
5028 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
5029 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
5030 from a sub-sub-menu.
5032 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
5033 drawn on a log scale.
5037 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
5038 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
5039 happy with the UI yet though...
5041 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
5042 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
5043 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
5047 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
5048 by Stephen Harrison).
5050 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
5052 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
5053 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
5054 standard types are in Choices.
5055 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
5057 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
5058 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
5059 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
5064 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
5065 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
5066 shell command minibuffer.
5070 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
5071 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
5072 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
5073 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
5074 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
5076 Default search path for Choices is now:
5077 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
5079 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
5080 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
5081 buffering so all this will get changed then...
5085 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
5086 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
5090 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
5091 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
5092 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
5097 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
5098 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
5099 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
5102 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
5104 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
5105 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
5106 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
5108 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
5109 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
5113 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
5114 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
5115 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
5116 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
5121 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
5122 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
5123 an empty directory caused odd effects.
5125 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
5127 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
5128 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
5132 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
5133 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
5134 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
5139 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
5140 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
5143 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
5145 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
5150 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
5155 Added GNU gettext support.
5156 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
5160 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
5162 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
5164 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
5169 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
5173 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
5174 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
5176 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
5177 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
5182 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
5183 onto the directory and winks the file.
5187 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
5188 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
5189 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
5191 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
5192 instead of random values.
5193 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
5195 Applied Bernard's patch:
5196 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
5197 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
5198 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
5199 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
5200 it the RISC OS way...
5201 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
5202 alignment corrected.
5203 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
5208 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
5212 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
5213 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
5217 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
5218 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
5219 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
5220 - Option to only display one window per directory.
5221 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
5222 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
5223 - Errors in options are only reported once.
5224 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
5225 in the file(1) says... box).
5228 Before the Changes file
5229 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5230 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
5232 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
5233 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
5234 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
5235 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
5236 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD