2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
8 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
10 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
12 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
17 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
18 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
19 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
20 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
21 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
26 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
31 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
35 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
36 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
38 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
39 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
40 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
41 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
45 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
46 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
47 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
52 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
54 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
59 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
63 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
64 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
68 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
69 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
70 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
74 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
78 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
79 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
80 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
81 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
82 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
86 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
87 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
88 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
90 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
91 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
92 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
93 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
94 though they may be valid UTF-8.
95 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
97 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
98 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
99 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
100 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
101 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
107 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
108 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
110 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
111 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
116 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
117 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
121 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
122 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
127 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
128 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
129 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
130 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
131 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
132 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
134 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
136 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
137 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
138 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
142 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
143 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
147 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
148 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
152 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
153 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
154 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
155 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
159 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
163 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
164 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
168 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
170 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
171 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
172 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
177 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
178 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
179 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
180 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
184 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
186 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
187 function address (Tony Houghton).
191 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
192 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
197 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
201 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
202 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
206 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
207 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
208 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
212 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
216 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
217 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
218 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
219 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
220 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
225 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
230 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
234 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
235 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
239 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
240 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
244 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
248 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
249 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
251 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
255 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
256 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
260 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
261 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
262 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
264 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
266 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
271 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
272 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
276 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
281 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
285 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
286 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
287 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
288 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
290 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
295 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
296 the old one (Stephen Watson).
297 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
298 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
299 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
303 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
308 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
310 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
312 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
313 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
317 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
318 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
320 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
322 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
323 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
324 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
325 reported by Lewis Denizen).
329 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
333 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
334 the binary (Stephen Watson).
338 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
342 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
343 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
344 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
348 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
351 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
353 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
354 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
355 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
356 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
357 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
361 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
365 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
366 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
370 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
374 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
375 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
376 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
378 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
379 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
381 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
382 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
383 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
384 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
388 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
389 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
393 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
394 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
395 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
396 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
401 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
402 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
406 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
407 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
408 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
412 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
413 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
414 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
418 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
422 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
423 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
427 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
428 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
432 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
436 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
437 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
442 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
443 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
447 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
451 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
452 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
453 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
454 when changing to a parent directory.
455 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
459 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
463 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
467 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
469 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
471 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
475 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
477 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
481 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
483 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
487 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
491 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
492 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
493 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
494 reported by Anthony DiSante).
498 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
502 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
506 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
507 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
508 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
509 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
510 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
514 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
515 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
519 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
520 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
525 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
526 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
531 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
532 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
536 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
537 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
541 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
542 (reported by Tony Houghton).
546 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
548 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
549 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
553 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
554 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
558 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
562 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
566 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
570 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
571 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
572 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
576 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
580 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
585 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
589 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
591 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
593 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
597 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
598 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
599 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
601 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
605 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
606 print a warning and then crash.
610 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
611 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
612 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
617 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
621 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
626 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
630 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
634 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
636 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
641 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
642 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
643 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
648 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
649 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
654 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
656 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
657 anyway, and noone had complained).
658 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
659 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
663 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
664 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
665 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
669 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
673 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
674 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
678 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
679 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
680 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
684 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
685 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
686 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
688 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
689 by Simon Templer and others).
693 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
694 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
695 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
699 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
703 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
707 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
708 version number again (Stephen Watson).
712 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
713 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
717 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
721 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
722 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
723 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
724 anyway (Stephen Watson).
728 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
732 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
736 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
738 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
740 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
744 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
745 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
746 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
750 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
751 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
756 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
757 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
758 impossible to change shortcuts.
759 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
760 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
764 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
765 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
770 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
771 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
772 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
776 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
777 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
778 to the functions being missing.
782 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
786 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
790 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
794 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
798 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
799 worries people for no reason.
803 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
807 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
808 files selected (Peter Geer).
812 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
813 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
817 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
821 Added 'Select by Name'.
825 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
829 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
834 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
838 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
840 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
842 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
843 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
847 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
851 Misc changes for next release.
855 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
856 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
860 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
861 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
862 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
863 Watson, reported on #rox).
867 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
868 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
872 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
873 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
877 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
878 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
882 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
883 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
888 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
892 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
894 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
899 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
903 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
904 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
908 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
909 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
913 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
917 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
922 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
923 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
925 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
926 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
930 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
931 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
935 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
940 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
941 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
945 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
946 support not being detected (igla).
950 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
954 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
955 dialog (Stephen Watson).
959 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
963 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
964 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
965 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
966 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
969 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
971 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
972 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
976 New icon for selection ops.
980 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
984 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
988 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
992 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
993 Added icon theme selector.
997 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1001 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1005 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1006 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1010 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1011 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1012 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1016 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1017 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1021 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1025 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1026 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1027 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1031 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1035 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1036 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1041 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1042 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1046 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1047 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1051 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1052 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1056 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1060 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1061 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1062 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1066 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1070 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1071 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1072 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1073 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1077 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1078 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1080 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1084 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1088 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1089 bits (Stephen Watson).
1093 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1097 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1101 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1102 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1106 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1110 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1111 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1116 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1117 forward them explicitly.
1121 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1122 help from Götz Waschk).
1126 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1127 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1128 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1132 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1136 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1140 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1144 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1145 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1147 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1149 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1153 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1155 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1157 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1161 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1162 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1163 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1164 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1168 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1172 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1176 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1180 Minor updates to the manual.
1181 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1182 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1186 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1187 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1189 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1191 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1192 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1196 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1197 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1198 reduce flickering effect.
1202 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1206 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1208 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1212 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1213 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1214 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1215 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1216 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1220 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1221 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1225 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1229 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1234 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1235 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1239 Winking now works in List view.
1243 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1247 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1248 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1252 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1253 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1255 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1257 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1261 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1265 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1266 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1268 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1272 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1273 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1277 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1279 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1283 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1284 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1288 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1290 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1294 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1298 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1299 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1304 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1305 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1307 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1309 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1311 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1315 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1319 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1320 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1324 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1329 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1330 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1334 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1336 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1338 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1339 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1344 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1348 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1349 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1350 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1351 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1352 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1353 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1354 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1356 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1360 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1365 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1366 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1370 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1371 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1372 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1373 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1378 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1379 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1380 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1381 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1382 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1383 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1384 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1385 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1386 talent can do something better?
1387 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1388 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1392 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1393 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1394 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1399 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1401 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1402 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1403 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1404 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1405 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1406 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1407 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1408 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1409 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1410 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1411 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1412 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1413 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1417 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1418 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1419 allow fine repositioning.
1420 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1421 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1422 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1423 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1425 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1426 changing the aspect ratio.
1430 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1434 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1438 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1439 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1440 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1444 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1448 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1453 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1454 make sharing icons easier.
1455 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1459 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1460 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1464 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1468 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1470 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1474 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1479 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1484 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1485 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1487 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1488 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1489 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1490 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1494 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1495 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1499 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1503 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1505 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1506 Brian Langenberger).
1510 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1511 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1513 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1517 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1518 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1520 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1522 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1526 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1527 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1532 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1536 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1537 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1538 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1542 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1543 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1547 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1551 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1552 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1556 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1557 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1558 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1562 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1566 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1567 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1568 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1569 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1571 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1572 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1576 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1577 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1581 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1586 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1587 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1591 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1595 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1596 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1597 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1598 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1603 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1604 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1605 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1609 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1613 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1614 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1618 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1619 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1620 since it didn't include the contents.
1621 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1622 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1626 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1630 Style improvements to options window.
1634 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1638 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1640 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1642 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1647 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1648 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1649 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1650 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1654 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1658 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1662 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1663 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1667 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1669 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1674 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1678 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1679 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1680 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1685 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1689 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1693 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1697 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1701 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1702 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1703 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1707 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1708 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1712 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1713 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1718 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1722 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1726 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1731 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1732 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1736 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1737 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1742 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1743 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1747 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1748 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1749 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1753 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1757 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1758 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1759 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1760 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1761 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1765 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1766 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1770 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1771 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1775 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1779 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1780 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1781 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1782 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1783 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1784 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1788 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1789 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1790 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1794 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1795 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1800 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1804 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1806 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1808 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1813 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1817 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1821 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1822 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1827 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1831 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1835 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1836 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1837 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1841 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1845 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1850 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1854 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1855 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1856 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1857 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1861 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1865 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1866 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1870 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1871 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1872 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1876 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1880 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1884 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1885 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1886 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1887 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1888 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1889 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1893 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1894 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1898 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1899 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1900 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1904 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1905 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1909 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1913 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1914 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1915 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1916 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1918 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1920 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1924 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1925 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1926 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1930 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1934 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1935 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1940 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1944 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1948 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1949 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1953 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1954 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1955 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1959 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1960 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1964 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1965 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1969 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1970 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1974 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1978 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1979 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1983 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1985 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1987 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1991 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1995 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1996 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2000 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2004 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2008 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2009 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2010 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2011 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2012 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2013 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2017 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2021 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2023 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2024 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2028 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2029 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2033 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2037 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2038 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2039 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2040 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2042 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2044 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2048 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2049 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2053 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2054 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2055 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2059 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2060 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2061 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2062 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2063 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2064 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2065 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2069 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2070 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2074 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2078 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2082 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2087 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2091 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2092 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2093 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2097 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2098 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2099 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2103 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2104 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2105 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2109 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2110 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2114 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2119 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2120 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2121 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2122 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2123 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2125 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2126 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2130 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2134 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2135 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2136 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2137 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2141 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2142 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2143 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2144 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2145 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2146 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2150 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2154 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2155 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2159 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2160 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2161 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2162 restart (Olli Helenius).
2166 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2170 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2171 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2172 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2177 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2182 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2183 Small and Large sizes.
2187 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2191 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2192 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2196 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2197 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2198 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2199 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2203 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2204 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2205 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2210 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2215 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2216 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2220 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2221 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2226 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2228 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2230 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2234 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2238 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2240 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2242 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2246 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2248 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2249 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2253 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2254 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2258 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2259 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2263 Various speed improvements.
2264 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2268 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2269 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2273 Slight speed increase when starting.
2277 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2281 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2282 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2283 button is no longer supported.
2287 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2291 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2295 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2300 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2301 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2305 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2306 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2307 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2311 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2312 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2313 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2314 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2318 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2319 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2320 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2322 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2327 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2328 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2333 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2337 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2338 and converted to new dialog style.
2342 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2343 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2347 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2348 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2352 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2356 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2358 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2362 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2366 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2367 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2368 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2372 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2373 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2377 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2382 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2386 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2387 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2391 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2392 and Cancel is now Revert.
2393 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2394 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2398 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2402 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2403 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2405 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2406 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2407 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2408 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2412 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2414 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2415 labels display them.
2416 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2419 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2423 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2425 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2429 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2430 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2431 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2435 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2436 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2438 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2440 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2444 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2445 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2449 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2450 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2451 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2452 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2456 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2460 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2461 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2465 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2466 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2471 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2472 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2476 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2477 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2478 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2482 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2483 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2487 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2488 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2489 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2490 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2492 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2497 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2498 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2500 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2502 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2506 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2507 any image (saves time).
2508 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2509 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2510 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2511 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2513 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2514 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2518 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2519 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2521 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2522 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2524 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2529 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2530 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2531 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2532 has stopped accepting STRING.
2536 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2537 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2541 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2546 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2547 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2549 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2550 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2551 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2555 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2556 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2557 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2558 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2559 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2560 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2564 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2565 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2566 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2567 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2568 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2569 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2574 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2575 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2576 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2577 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2582 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2583 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2587 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2588 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2590 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2592 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2593 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2594 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2598 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2599 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2600 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2604 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2605 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2609 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2610 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2614 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2616 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2621 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2622 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2626 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2627 their menus correctly.
2628 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2633 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2634 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2635 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2639 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2640 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2644 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2648 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2651 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2653 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2654 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2655 the toggle menu items from working!
2659 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2661 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2667 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2668 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2672 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2673 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2674 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2675 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2676 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2677 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2681 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2685 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2686 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2690 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2691 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2692 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2696 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2697 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2702 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2704 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2708 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2709 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2710 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2711 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2715 Improved error reporting.
2716 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2720 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2721 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2722 check box and does 'Yes'.
2726 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2727 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2728 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2729 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2734 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2736 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2737 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2739 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2741 Internal changes to options system:
2742 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2743 filer is fully initialised).
2744 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2746 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2748 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2749 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2750 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2751 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2755 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2756 now reclaims the selection.
2757 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2758 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2763 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2764 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2765 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2766 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2767 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2771 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2772 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2774 Code tidying in various places.
2778 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2779 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2784 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2785 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2789 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2790 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2791 edit the file, not the file itself!
2792 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2796 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2797 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2798 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2799 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2800 of the SOAP working draft.
2801 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2802 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2803 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2808 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2809 it was in the displayed area before.
2811 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2814 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2815 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2819 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2820 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2821 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2823 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2824 selection (Andras Mohari).
2828 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2832 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2836 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2837 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2838 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2842 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2846 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2848 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2849 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2850 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2854 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2855 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2860 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2861 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2862 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2866 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2870 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2874 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2875 replaced by a Restart button.
2879 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2880 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2884 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2888 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2892 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2893 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2894 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2898 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2899 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2901 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2902 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2903 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2907 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2908 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2913 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2915 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2916 (requested by Graham Borland).
2917 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2918 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2919 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2923 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2924 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2925 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2926 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2930 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2931 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2932 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2933 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2934 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2935 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2936 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2937 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2938 - Lots of code tidying.
2943 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2944 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2948 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2950 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2952 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2956 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2957 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2961 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2962 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2966 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2967 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2971 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2972 option to access it directly.
2976 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2977 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2978 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2982 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2983 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2984 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2985 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2986 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2987 when the filer is run.
2991 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2992 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2993 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2998 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3002 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3003 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3007 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3009 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3013 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3017 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3018 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3019 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3024 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3025 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3026 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3027 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3028 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3029 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3030 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3034 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3038 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3039 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3043 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3044 of possible actions (Taras).
3045 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3047 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3048 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3052 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3057 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3061 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3064 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3065 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3069 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3070 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3072 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3074 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3075 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3076 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3077 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3081 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3085 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3089 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3093 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3098 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3099 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3100 the first one found.
3101 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3105 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3109 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3110 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3111 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3115 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3116 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3117 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3122 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3123 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3124 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3128 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3130 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3135 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3140 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3144 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3145 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3149 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3151 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3152 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3156 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3160 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3161 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3165 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3166 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3170 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3171 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3173 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3175 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3179 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3183 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3184 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3188 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3192 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3197 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3198 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3202 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3206 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3210 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3212 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3213 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3217 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3218 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3222 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3223 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3224 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3228 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3229 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3233 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3234 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3236 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3238 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3242 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3243 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3244 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3246 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3247 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3249 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3251 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3252 and the default size with no details.
3256 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3257 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3261 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3266 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3271 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3275 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3280 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3281 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3285 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3289 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3290 the button to run it does.
3291 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3292 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3293 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3297 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3298 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3299 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3303 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3307 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3308 and panels into icon.c.
3312 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3313 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3314 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3315 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3319 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3321 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3323 Updated the documentation.
3327 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3328 up if they're too small.
3332 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3334 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3335 (Christopher Arndt).
3336 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3341 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3342 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3346 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3347 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3351 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3352 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3353 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3358 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3363 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3367 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3368 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3373 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3378 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3379 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3383 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3384 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3388 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3392 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3396 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3400 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3401 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3404 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3405 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3410 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3411 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3412 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3413 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3418 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3419 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3421 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3423 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3424 for non-applications.
3428 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3429 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3434 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3438 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3439 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3441 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3445 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3446 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3450 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3451 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3455 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3456 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3460 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3461 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3463 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3464 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3468 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3469 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3471 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3475 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3476 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3479 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3483 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3484 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3488 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3492 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3493 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3496 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3497 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3501 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3505 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3510 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3514 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3515 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3520 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3525 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3529 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3531 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3533 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3534 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3536 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3538 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3539 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3543 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3544 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3545 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3547 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3548 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3552 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3556 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3557 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3561 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3565 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3566 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3568 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3571 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3572 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3573 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3577 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3578 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3583 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3588 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3590 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3593 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3595 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3596 sensible shape itself now.
3598 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3599 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3600 file at all, just a reused inode!
3601 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3602 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3603 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3607 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3611 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3612 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3617 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3618 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3622 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3626 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3627 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3631 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3636 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3640 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3641 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3645 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3646 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3647 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3648 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3649 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3653 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3654 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3655 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3656 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3657 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3661 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3662 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3663 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3667 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3669 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3670 python's portable system.
3671 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3672 set the LANG variable.
3676 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3677 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3679 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3681 Made a few updates to the manual.
3685 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3686 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3688 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3690 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3691 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3695 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3696 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3700 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3701 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3706 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3707 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3708 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3712 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3713 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3717 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3718 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3722 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3723 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3725 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3726 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3727 open... (Denis Manente).
3731 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3735 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3737 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3738 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3739 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3741 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3743 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3745 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3746 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3751 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3752 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3753 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3757 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3758 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3762 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3766 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3770 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3771 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3772 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3776 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3777 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3778 between pinboards...
3780 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3781 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3782 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3786 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3789 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3790 window (Denis Manente).
3792 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3793 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3797 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3798 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3799 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3803 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3806 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3807 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3809 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3814 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3815 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3817 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3821 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3822 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3824 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3826 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3831 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3832 the icon points to as well as its name.
3834 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3835 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3839 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3840 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3841 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3842 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3846 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3850 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3851 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3852 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3856 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3857 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3859 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3860 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3863 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3864 the item after the drag.
3866 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3867 showing where the file really is.
3871 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3872 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3877 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3878 warning is displayed if so.
3880 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3884 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3885 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3886 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3887 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3890 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3891 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3892 works like the panels.
3896 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3897 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3898 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3899 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3900 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3904 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3905 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3906 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3907 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3909 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3914 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3918 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3919 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3922 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3923 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3925 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3928 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3929 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3930 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3931 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3933 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3935 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3936 slightly. Updated the manual.
3938 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3939 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3942 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3943 or bottom panel to make room.
3947 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3952 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3953 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3954 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3955 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3956 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3960 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3962 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3963 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3965 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3969 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3970 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3974 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3978 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3980 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3985 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3986 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3988 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3992 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3993 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3994 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3998 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3999 rewriting the panel system.
4003 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4006 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4007 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4011 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4012 (suggested by James Kermode).
4016 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4017 than as a full path.
4019 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4021 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4022 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4023 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4027 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4028 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4032 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4033 rename something onto another filesystem.
4037 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4039 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4040 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4044 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4048 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4051 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4052 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4054 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4057 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4062 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4063 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4064 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4066 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4067 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4069 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4070 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4075 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4076 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4081 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4082 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4083 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4085 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4086 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4087 of the 'missing image' image.
4091 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4093 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4095 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4100 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4101 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4102 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4103 its name into another program.
4105 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4109 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4111 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4112 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4113 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4115 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4116 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4117 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4120 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4121 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4125 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4126 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4127 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4131 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4132 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4133 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4137 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4138 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4139 and position the icons directly.
4143 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4148 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4149 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4150 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4154 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4158 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4159 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4163 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4168 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4172 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4173 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4174 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4175 some versions of GTK+.
4179 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4184 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4185 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4186 from a sub-sub-menu.
4188 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4189 drawn on a log scale.
4193 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4194 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4195 happy with the UI yet though...
4197 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4198 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4199 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4203 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4204 by Stephen Harrison).
4206 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4208 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4209 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4210 standard types are in Choices.
4211 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4213 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4214 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4215 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4220 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4221 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4222 shell command minibuffer.
4226 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4227 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4228 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4229 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4230 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4232 Default search path for Choices is now:
4233 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4235 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4236 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4237 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4241 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4242 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4246 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4247 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4248 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4253 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4254 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4255 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4258 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4260 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4261 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4262 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4264 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4265 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4269 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4270 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4271 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4272 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4277 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4278 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4279 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4281 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4283 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4284 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4288 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4289 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4290 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4295 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4296 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4299 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4301 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4306 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4311 Added GNU gettext support.
4312 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4316 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4318 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4320 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4325 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4329 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4330 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4332 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4333 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4338 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4339 onto the directory and winks the file.
4343 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4344 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4345 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4347 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4348 instead of random values.
4349 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4351 Applied Bernard's patch:
4352 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4353 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4354 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4355 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4356 it the RISC OS way...
4357 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4358 alignment corrected.
4359 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4364 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4368 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4369 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4373 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4374 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4375 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4376 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4377 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4378 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4379 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4380 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4381 in the file(1) says... box).
4384 Before the Changes file
4385 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4386 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4388 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4389 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4390 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4391 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4392 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD