2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
5 * Note: you don't need to update file this when committing a change.
6 * Just add a log message with the commit (with your name in brackets at
7 * the end) and I'll update this file only when making a new release.
10 Release 2.6.1 (2007-06-10)
12 SESSION MANAGER CHANGES
14 - When run with -S, restart with -S too rather than expanding the current
15 panels and pinboard on the command-line (Thomas Leonard).
17 - If the filer was started with -S, ask the session manager to automatically
18 restart it if it crashes (Thomas Leonard).
20 - If 0launch is available, use that as the session restart command when using a
21 session manager. Without this, restoring a session would always reload the
22 same version of ROX-Filer that was used when you saved it, not the current
23 version (Thomas Leonard).
27 - Shouldn't use == in /bin/sh scripts, that's a bashism (Stephen Watson).
29 - Don't abort the build if we can't create debugging symbols (Thomas Leonard,
30 reported through 0compile as bug#1678076).
34 - Reduced panel border width to 1 pixel (Tony Houghton).
36 - For JPEG files in Exif format attempt to read an embedded thumbnail first
39 - Bugfix: The Thumb::Size tag is optional in the thumbnail spec (reported by
44 - Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
46 - Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
49 Release 2.6 (2007-02-25)
53 - If a .desktop file says "Terminal=true" then run the program in a terminal
54 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Frank McCormick). Note: this is currently
55 hard-coded to use xterm.
57 - Option to display xattr indicator now independant of xattr support option
59 - The symlink and xattr emblems are now loaded from stock items and therefore
60 themeable. Made clear that setting type on directories sets the contents, not
61 the directory. inode/* types excluded from the list of types available for
62 setting (Stephen Watson).
64 - Added "Fit" backdrop image scaling mode (Peter Hyman). Like "Scale", this
65 scales the image without distorting it, but it will make it larger than the
66 screen if necessary to avoid a border.
68 - New MIME type for Jar archives.
70 - Lookup URI handlers by scheme in choices (Stephen Watson)
72 - Added -U option for parsing filenames in URL form (Stephen Watson).
74 - Added a new SOAP method, RunURI, and made the -U option use that. In addition
75 error returns from SOAP methods implicitly invoked (not via -R) are printed
76 as simple messages rather than the XML data (Stephen Watson).
78 - Add eject button to the unmount/don't unmount dialog (Stephen Watson).
80 - Mount and unmount commands can have additional parameters, eject command can
81 also be changed in the same way (Jim Ramsay, Stephen Watson).
83 - Menu option to control whether directories are filtered by name along with
84 other files (Janek Kozicki and Andras Mohari).
89 - Don't try to thumbnail zero-byte files. They're either empty, or special and
90 may cause us to hang (Thomas Leonard; reported by Barry Kauler).
92 - Always use the default RTL setting to render filenames, even if they start
93 with a character that suggests the opposite. Fixes a positioning problem
94 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Alexander McLeay).
96 - Use $MAKE to run make, for *BSD users
98 - Don't display a warning about deprecated options; it just confuses people
99 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Peter).
101 - When moving the cursor down on the last row of a collection in vertical mode,
102 move to the start of the next column (Thomas Leonard).
104 - When reporting an invalid MIME type, include the type's name in the error
105 message (Thomas Leonard).
107 - Fix bug when checking for escape characters in command string (Stephen Watson).
112 - Removed code to set location of pkg-config files. No longer needed, since the
113 discovery of ${pcfiledir} (suggested by Stephen Watson).
115 - Made ROX-Filer-src.xml use the gtk-2.4 build environment, rather than
116 depending on all the headers directly. The build environment sets up a
117 temporary directory with some symlinks, which means you can compile without
118 having any version of the GTK headers installed at all. Before, an existing
119 -dev installation was required (but only to get the major version number of
125 - Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
127 - Updated Hungarian translation (amohari).
129 - Updated Italian translation (deslar).
131 - Updated Russian translation (Nikita E. Shalaev).
133 - Updated Ukrainian translation (Yury Bulka).
135 - Updated Vietnamese translation (Anhtuan).
138 Release 2.5 (2006-07-07)
142 - Allow pinboard and panel icons to be locked (Dennis Tomas, suggested
145 - Display extra information in properties box for desktop files (Stephen
148 - Allow setting icons in the AppInfo.xml file (Dennis Tomas). Example:
151 <Item option="--options" icon="gtk-preferences">...</Item>
154 - Added SetIcon and UnsetIcon SOAP calls (Jonatan Liljedahl). With this
155 you can have your volume manager (like ivman) set icons for the
156 mounted media that represents what type of media it is (cdr, cdrw, usb
159 - Right-clicking on the Show/hide button now turns thumbnails on and off
162 - Added options to change the "mount" and "umount" commands (Thomas
163 Leonard). This may be useful for using programs such as "pmount" and
164 "pumount" (which allow mounting removable media without an fstab
165 entry, or encrypted filesystems).
167 - Added a 'Manage Thumbnails' link to the Options box (Thomas Leonard).
168 If 0launch isn't available, tell the user the URL of the program we
169 were trying to run so they can get it themselves. Tell users about
170 right-click behaviour in a tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
175 - Removed separator from icon properties dialog box (Thomas Leonard).
177 - Updated Word MIME type for new MIME database (Keith Warno).
179 - When the handler for a MIME type is a symlink to a program, run the
180 program using the target of the symlink rather than the link itself so
181 that programs like gvim see the right name and behave correctly
182 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Keith Warno).
184 - Use full URI, not local path, for DocBook stylesheet (Pär Forsling).
186 - When setting or clearing a globicon, redraw pinboard and panel icons
189 - When loading MIME icons from the current theme only get the pathname
190 from GTK, but actually load it through our own cache (Thomas Leonard).
191 GTK was loading a new copy of the image each time!
193 - Changed name of save settings menu option to be more explicit (Stephen
196 - In many .desktop files there is no "%F" or similar parameter to the
197 "Exec" entry, although the application can open files. Work around
198 this problem by adding the arguments to the end of the command in this
201 - Added Zero Install source interface (Thomas Leonard). Run this with
202 0launch to compile against the GTK and GLib 2.4 headers (which will be
203 downloaded automatically). This produces a binary that runs with these
204 older versions, as well as with all later releases. Note that this has
205 been somewhat superceded by the GTK-2.4 compatibility environment:
207 http://0install.net/2006/interfaces/GTK-2.4.xml
209 - New type for XML files; "application/" rather than "text/" to match
210 freedesktop.org updates (Thomas Leonard).
212 - Moved test for a hidden file into its own function. Allows us to
213 define additional tests as to whether a file is hidden, rather than
214 just the first character of the file name (Stephen Watson).
216 - Updated source file headers by removing the Id line, updating the
217 year and clarifying the copyrights (Thomas Leonard).
219 - The monospace font for the list view is now configurable via a
220 ViewDetails::mono-font gtkrc entry (Stephen Watson).
222 - When iconfiying a window, try to find space on the pinboard of the
223 current screen first (Tony Houghton).
225 - Updated the help text for rox --help (Andras Mohari).
227 - Use a monospace font for the size and permissions columsn in the list
228 view (Andras Mohari).
233 - When a panel icon's image changed, the display didn't update (Thomas
234 Leonard, reported by Dennis Tomas).
236 - Any line in a .desktop file would be ignored if there was a blank line
237 directly before it (Dennis Tomas).
239 - Escape " characters when generating translations for the Options.xml
240 file (Andras Mohari).
242 - When reading the output from 'du' for the Properties box, set the
243 channel's encoding to NULL to avoid errors with non-UTF-8 filenames
246 - When running ROX-Filer for the first time ever, don't tell users that
247 the Choices directory has been migrated unless they already had one.
248 Also, don't bother creating symlinks to the new locations in this
249 case. Other applications have had a while to catch up to the new
250 system, and the message is rather confusing to new users (Thomas
256 - Updated Chinese Translations (Babyfai Cheung).
258 - Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
260 - Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
262 - Updated Hungarian translation and converted to UTF-8 (Andras Mohari).
264 - Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
266 - Updated Russian translation (Nikita E. Shalaev).
268 - Added Ukrainian translation (Yourko).
270 - Added Vietnamese translation (Xomhau Newnick).
272 - Updated instructions for creating a translation (reported by Yourko).
274 - Make sure all the help message is translatable (Stephen Watson,
275 reported by Andras Mohari).
279 30-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4.1)
281 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
285 Some .desktop files put ".png" after the icon name, which prevents the icon
286 from being found. Ignore it (Thomass Leonard; reported by Peter).
290 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
294 If we can't find libc.so.6 for xattr support, try libc.so in case we only have
295 uClib (Lucas Correia Villa Real).
299 Allow .desktop files to be used as run actions (Thomas Leonard).
303 Bugfix: New detail crashes cleanice theme (reported by Andras Mohari; reported
304 as CleanIce bug #1383457). Try another value...
308 Highlight icons using the theme's preferred colour instead of always using
309 blue (Andras Mohari).
310 Bugfix: Don't set style detail to "base" when highlighting items in a
311 Collection, as it confuses GTK's lighthouseblue theme engine
316 Bugfix: Changing the display style crashes the filer with GTK >= 2.8.9 because
317 it sends a selection changed event before the view has finished
318 initialising (Thomas Leonard; reported by Tobias Kieslich).
319 Removed some done entries from the TODO file (Stephen Watson).
321 13-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4)
323 Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
327 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
328 Make Path optional in PanelRemove SOAP call, allowing removal of items based
329 only on their label (Jonatan Liljedahl).
330 Bugfix: The install script failed to compile ROX-Filer on Debian systems, due
331 to a bug in recent versions of xterm (Vincent Lefèvre). Added a
333 Bugfix: On 64-bit systems communication between ROX-Filer processes didn't
334 work, because GDK uses sizeof(long) bytes (not always 4 bytes) to store
335 a 32 bit property (Lucas Hazel).
339 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
340 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
341 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
346 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
350 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
351 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
353 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
354 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
355 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
359 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
364 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
368 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
369 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
373 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
377 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
378 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
379 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
383 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
387 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
388 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
392 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
393 manually (Thomas Leonard).
397 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
398 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
399 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
404 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
405 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
409 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
410 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
411 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
412 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
416 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
417 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
418 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
422 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
426 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
430 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
431 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
435 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
436 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
437 reported by Tristan McLeay).
441 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
442 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
444 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
448 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
449 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
450 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
451 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
455 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
456 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
458 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
460 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
465 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
466 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
467 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
468 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
469 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
474 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
479 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
483 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
484 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
486 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
487 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
488 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
489 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
493 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
494 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
495 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
500 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
502 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
507 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
511 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
512 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
516 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
517 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
518 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
522 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
526 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
527 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
528 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
529 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
530 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
534 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
535 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
536 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
538 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
539 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
540 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
541 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
542 though they may be valid UTF-8.
543 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
545 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
546 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
547 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
548 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
549 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
555 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
556 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
558 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
559 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
564 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
565 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
569 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
570 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
575 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
576 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
577 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
578 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
579 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
580 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
582 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
584 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
585 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
586 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
590 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
591 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
595 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
596 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
600 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
601 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
602 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
603 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
607 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
611 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
612 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
616 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
618 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
619 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
620 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
625 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
626 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
627 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
628 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
632 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
634 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
635 function address (Tony Houghton).
639 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
640 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
645 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
649 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
650 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
654 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
655 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
656 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
660 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
664 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
665 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
666 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
667 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
668 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
673 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
678 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
682 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
683 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
687 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
688 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
692 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
696 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
697 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
699 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
703 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
704 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
708 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
709 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
710 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
712 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
714 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
719 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
720 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
724 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
729 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
733 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
734 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
735 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
736 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
738 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
743 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
744 the old one (Stephen Watson).
745 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
746 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
747 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
751 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
756 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
758 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
760 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
761 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
765 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
766 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
768 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
770 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
771 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
772 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
773 reported by Lewis Denizen).
777 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
781 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
782 the binary (Stephen Watson).
786 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
790 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
791 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
792 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
796 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
799 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
801 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
802 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
803 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
804 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
805 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
809 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
813 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
814 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
818 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
822 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
823 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
824 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
826 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
827 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
829 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
830 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
831 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
832 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
836 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
837 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
841 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
842 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
843 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
844 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
849 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
850 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
854 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
855 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
856 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
860 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
861 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
862 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
866 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
870 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
871 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
875 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
876 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
880 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
884 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
885 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
890 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
891 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
895 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
899 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
900 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
901 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
902 when changing to a parent directory.
903 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
907 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
911 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
915 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
917 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
919 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
923 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
925 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
929 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
931 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
935 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
939 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
940 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
941 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
942 reported by Anthony DiSante).
946 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
950 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
954 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
955 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
956 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
957 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
958 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
962 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
963 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
967 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
968 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
973 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
974 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
979 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
980 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
984 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
985 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
989 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
990 (reported by Tony Houghton).
994 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
996 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
997 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
1001 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
1002 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
1006 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
1010 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
1014 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
1018 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
1019 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
1020 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
1024 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1028 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
1033 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
1037 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1039 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
1041 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
1045 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1046 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
1047 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
1049 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
1053 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
1054 print a warning and then crash.
1058 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
1059 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
1060 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
1065 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
1069 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
1074 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
1078 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
1082 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
1084 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
1089 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
1090 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
1091 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
1096 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
1097 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
1102 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
1104 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
1105 anyway, and noone had complained).
1106 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
1107 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
1111 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
1112 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
1113 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
1117 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
1121 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
1122 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
1126 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
1127 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
1128 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
1132 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
1133 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
1134 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
1136 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
1137 by Simon Templer and others).
1141 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
1142 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
1143 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
1147 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
1151 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
1155 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
1156 version number again (Stephen Watson).
1160 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
1161 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
1165 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
1169 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
1170 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
1171 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
1172 anyway (Stephen Watson).
1176 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1180 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1184 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1186 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
1188 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
1192 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
1193 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
1194 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
1198 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
1199 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
1204 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
1205 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
1206 impossible to change shortcuts.
1207 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
1208 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
1212 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
1213 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
1218 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
1219 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
1220 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1224 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
1225 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
1226 to the functions being missing.
1230 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
1234 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
1238 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
1242 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
1246 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
1247 worries people for no reason.
1251 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
1255 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
1256 files selected (Peter Geer).
1260 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
1261 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
1265 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
1269 Added 'Select by Name'.
1273 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
1277 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
1282 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1286 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1288 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
1290 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1291 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1295 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1299 Misc changes for next release.
1303 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
1304 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
1308 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
1309 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
1310 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
1311 Watson, reported on #rox).
1315 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
1316 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
1320 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
1321 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
1325 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
1326 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
1330 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
1331 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1336 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1340 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1342 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1347 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1351 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1352 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1356 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1357 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1361 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1365 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1370 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1371 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1372 for the same reason.
1373 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1374 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1378 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1379 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1383 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1388 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1389 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1393 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1394 support not being detected (igla).
1398 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1402 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1403 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1407 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1411 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1412 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1413 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1414 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1417 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1419 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1420 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1424 New icon for selection ops.
1428 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1432 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1436 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1440 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1441 Added icon theme selector.
1445 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1449 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1453 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1454 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1458 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1459 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1460 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1464 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1465 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1469 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1473 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1474 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1475 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1479 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1483 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1484 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1489 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1490 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1494 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1495 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1499 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1500 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1504 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1508 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1509 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1510 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1514 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1518 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1519 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1520 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1521 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1525 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1526 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1528 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1532 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1536 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1537 bits (Stephen Watson).
1541 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1545 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1549 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1550 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1554 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1558 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1559 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1564 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1565 forward them explicitly.
1569 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1570 help from Götz Waschk).
1574 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1575 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1576 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1580 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1584 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1588 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1592 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1593 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1595 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1597 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1601 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1603 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1605 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1609 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1610 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1611 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1612 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1616 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1620 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1624 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1628 Minor updates to the manual.
1629 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1630 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1634 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1635 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1637 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1639 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1640 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1644 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1645 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1646 reduce flickering effect.
1650 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1654 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1656 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1660 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1661 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1662 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1663 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1664 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1668 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1669 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1673 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1677 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1682 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1683 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1687 Winking now works in List view.
1691 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1695 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1696 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1700 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1701 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1703 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1705 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1709 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1713 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1714 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1716 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1720 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1721 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1725 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1727 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1731 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1732 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1736 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1738 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1742 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1746 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1747 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1752 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1753 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1755 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1757 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1759 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1763 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1767 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1768 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1772 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1777 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1778 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1782 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1784 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1786 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1787 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1792 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1796 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1797 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1798 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1799 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1800 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1801 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1802 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1804 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1808 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1813 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1814 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1818 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1819 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1820 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1821 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1826 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1827 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1828 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1829 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1830 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1831 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1832 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1833 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1834 talent can do something better?
1835 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1836 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1840 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1841 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1842 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1847 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1849 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1850 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1851 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1852 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1853 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1854 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1855 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1856 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1857 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1858 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1859 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1860 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1861 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1865 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1866 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1867 allow fine repositioning.
1868 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1869 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1870 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1871 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1873 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1874 changing the aspect ratio.
1878 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1882 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1886 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1887 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1888 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1892 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1896 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1901 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1902 make sharing icons easier.
1903 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1907 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1908 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1912 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1916 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1918 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1922 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1927 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1932 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1933 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1935 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1936 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1937 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1938 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1942 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1943 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1947 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1951 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1953 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1954 Brian Langenberger).
1958 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1959 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1961 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1965 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1966 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1968 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1970 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1974 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1975 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1980 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1984 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1985 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1986 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1990 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1991 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1995 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1999 Preserve selection when changing view type.
2000 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
2004 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
2005 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
2006 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
2010 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
2014 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
2015 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
2016 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
2017 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
2019 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
2020 the information in the tooltips anyway.
2024 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
2025 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
2029 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
2034 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
2035 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
2039 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
2043 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
2044 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
2045 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
2046 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
2051 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
2052 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
2053 Always use case-insensitive sort.
2057 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2061 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
2062 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
2066 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
2067 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
2068 since it didn't include the contents.
2069 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
2070 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
2074 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2078 Style improvements to options window.
2082 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2086 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
2088 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
2090 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
2095 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
2096 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
2097 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
2098 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
2102 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
2106 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
2110 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2111 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
2115 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
2117 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
2122 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
2126 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2127 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
2128 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
2133 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
2137 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
2141 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
2145 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
2149 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
2150 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
2151 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
2155 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
2156 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
2160 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
2161 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
2166 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
2170 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
2174 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
2179 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
2180 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
2184 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
2185 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
2190 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
2191 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
2195 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
2196 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
2197 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
2201 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2205 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
2206 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
2207 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
2208 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
2209 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
2213 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
2214 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2218 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2219 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2223 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2227 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
2228 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
2229 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
2230 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2231 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
2232 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
2236 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2237 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2238 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
2242 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
2243 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
2248 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2252 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2254 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
2256 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
2261 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
2265 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
2269 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
2270 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
2275 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
2279 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2283 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
2284 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
2285 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2289 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2293 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
2298 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2302 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
2303 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
2304 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
2305 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2309 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
2313 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2314 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
2318 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
2319 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
2320 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
2324 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
2328 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
2332 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2333 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2334 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2335 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2336 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2337 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2341 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2342 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2346 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2347 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2348 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2352 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2353 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2357 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2361 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2362 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2363 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2364 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2366 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2368 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2372 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2373 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2374 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2378 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2382 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2383 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2388 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2392 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2396 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2397 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2401 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2402 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2403 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2407 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2408 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2412 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2413 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2417 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2418 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2422 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2426 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2427 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2431 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2433 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2435 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2439 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2443 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2444 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2448 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2452 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2456 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2457 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2458 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2459 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2460 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2461 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2465 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2469 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2471 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2472 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2476 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2477 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2481 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2485 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2486 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2487 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2488 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2490 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2492 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2496 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2497 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2501 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2502 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2503 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2507 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2508 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2509 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2510 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2511 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2512 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2513 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2517 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2518 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2522 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2526 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2530 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2535 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2539 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2540 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2541 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2545 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2546 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2547 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2551 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2552 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2553 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2557 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2558 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2562 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2567 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2568 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2569 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2570 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2571 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2573 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2574 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2578 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2582 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2583 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2584 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2585 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2589 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2590 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2591 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2592 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2593 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2594 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2598 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2602 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2603 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2607 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2608 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2609 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2610 restart (Olli Helenius).
2614 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2618 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2619 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2620 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2625 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2630 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2631 Small and Large sizes.
2635 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2639 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2640 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2644 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2645 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2646 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2647 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2651 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2652 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2653 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2658 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2663 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2664 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2668 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2669 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2674 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2676 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2678 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2682 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2686 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2688 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2690 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2694 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2696 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2697 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2701 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2702 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2706 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2707 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2711 Various speed improvements.
2712 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2716 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2717 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2721 Slight speed increase when starting.
2725 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2729 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2730 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2731 button is no longer supported.
2735 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2739 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2743 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2748 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2749 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2753 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2754 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2755 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2759 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2760 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2761 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2762 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2766 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2767 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2768 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2770 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2775 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2776 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2781 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2785 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2786 and converted to new dialog style.
2790 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2791 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2795 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2796 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2800 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2804 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2806 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2810 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2814 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2815 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2816 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2820 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2821 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2825 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2830 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2834 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2835 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2839 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2840 and Cancel is now Revert.
2841 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2842 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2846 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2850 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2851 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2853 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2854 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2855 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2856 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2860 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2862 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2863 labels display them.
2864 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2867 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2871 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2873 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2877 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2878 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2879 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2883 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2884 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2886 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2888 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2892 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2893 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2897 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2898 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2899 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2900 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2904 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2908 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2909 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2913 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2914 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2919 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2920 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2924 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2925 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2926 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2930 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2931 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2935 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2936 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2937 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2938 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2940 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2945 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2946 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2948 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2950 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2954 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2955 any image (saves time).
2956 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2957 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2958 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2959 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2961 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2962 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2966 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2967 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2969 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2970 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2972 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2977 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2978 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2979 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2980 has stopped accepting STRING.
2984 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2985 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2989 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2994 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2995 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2997 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2998 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2999 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
3003 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
3004 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
3005 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
3006 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
3007 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
3008 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
3012 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
3013 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
3014 Allow '~' in globicons file.
3015 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
3016 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
3017 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
3022 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
3023 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
3024 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
3025 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
3030 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3031 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
3035 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
3036 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
3038 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
3040 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
3041 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
3042 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3046 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
3047 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
3048 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3052 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
3053 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
3057 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
3058 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
3062 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
3064 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
3069 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3070 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3074 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
3075 their menus correctly.
3076 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
3081 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
3082 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
3083 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
3087 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3088 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
3092 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3096 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
3099 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
3101 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3102 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
3103 the toggle menu items from working!
3107 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
3109 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
3115 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
3116 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
3120 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3121 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
3122 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
3123 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
3124 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
3125 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
3129 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
3133 File groups are now saved (automatically).
3134 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
3138 Added Version SOAP RPC.
3139 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
3140 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
3144 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
3145 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
3150 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
3152 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
3156 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
3157 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
3158 bar is displayed in the filer window.
3159 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
3163 Improved error reporting.
3164 Improved sizing code when details are on.
3168 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
3169 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
3170 check box and does 'Yes'.
3174 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
3175 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
3176 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
3177 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
3182 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
3184 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3185 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
3187 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
3189 Internal changes to options system:
3190 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
3191 filer is fully initialised).
3192 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
3194 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
3196 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
3197 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
3198 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
3199 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
3203 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
3204 now reclaims the selection.
3205 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
3206 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
3211 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
3212 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
3213 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
3214 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
3215 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
3219 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
3220 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
3222 Code tidying in various places.
3226 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
3227 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
3232 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
3233 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
3237 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
3238 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
3239 edit the file, not the file itself!
3240 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
3244 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3245 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
3246 (recommended by Jens Finke).
3247 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
3248 of the SOAP working draft.
3249 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
3250 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
3251 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
3256 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
3257 it was in the displayed area before.
3259 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
3262 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
3263 winking effect until the window actually appears.
3267 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
3268 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
3269 Kristian A. Rink and others).
3271 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
3272 selection (Andras Mohari).
3276 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
3280 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
3284 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
3285 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
3286 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
3290 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
3294 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
3296 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
3297 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
3298 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
3302 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
3303 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
3308 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
3309 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
3310 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
3314 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
3318 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
3322 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
3323 replaced by a Restart button.
3327 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
3328 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
3332 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3336 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3340 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3341 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3342 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3346 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3347 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3349 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3350 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3351 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3355 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3356 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3361 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3363 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3364 (requested by Graham Borland).
3365 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3366 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3367 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3371 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3372 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3373 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3374 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3378 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3379 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3380 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3381 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3382 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3383 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3384 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3385 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3386 - Lots of code tidying.
3391 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3392 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3396 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3398 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3400 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3404 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3405 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3409 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3410 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3414 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3415 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3419 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3420 option to access it directly.
3424 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3425 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3426 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3430 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3431 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3432 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3433 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3434 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3435 when the filer is run.
3439 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3440 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3441 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3446 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3450 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3451 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3455 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3457 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3461 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3465 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3466 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3467 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3472 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3473 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3474 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3475 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3476 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3477 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3478 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3482 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3486 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3487 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3491 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3492 of possible actions (Taras).
3493 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3495 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3496 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3500 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3505 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3509 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3512 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3513 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3517 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3518 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3520 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3522 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3523 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3524 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3525 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3529 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3533 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3537 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3541 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3546 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3547 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3548 the first one found.
3549 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3553 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3557 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3558 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3559 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3563 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3564 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3565 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3570 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3571 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3572 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3576 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3578 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3583 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3588 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3592 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3593 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3597 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3599 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3600 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3604 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3608 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3609 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3613 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3614 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3618 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3619 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3621 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3623 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3627 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3631 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3632 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3636 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3640 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3645 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3646 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3650 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3654 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3658 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3660 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3661 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3665 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3666 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3670 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3671 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3672 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3676 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3677 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3681 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3682 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3684 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3686 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3690 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3691 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3692 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3694 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3695 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3697 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3699 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3700 and the default size with no details.
3704 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3705 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3709 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3714 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3719 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3723 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3728 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3729 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3733 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3737 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3738 the button to run it does.
3739 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3740 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3741 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3745 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3746 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3747 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3751 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3755 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3756 and panels into icon.c.
3760 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3761 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3762 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3763 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3767 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3769 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3771 Updated the documentation.
3775 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3776 up if they're too small.
3780 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3782 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3783 (Christopher Arndt).
3784 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3789 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3790 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3794 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3795 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3799 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3800 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3801 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3806 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3811 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3815 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3816 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3821 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3826 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3827 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3831 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3832 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3836 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3840 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3844 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3848 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3849 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3852 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3853 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3858 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3859 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3860 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3861 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3866 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3867 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3869 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3871 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3872 for non-applications.
3876 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3877 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3882 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3886 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3887 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3889 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3893 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3894 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3898 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3899 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3903 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3904 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3908 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3909 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3911 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3912 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3916 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3917 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3919 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3923 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3924 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3927 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3931 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3932 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3936 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3940 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3941 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3944 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3945 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3949 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3953 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3958 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3962 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3963 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3968 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3973 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3977 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3979 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3981 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3982 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3984 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3986 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3987 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3991 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3992 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3993 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3995 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3996 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
4000 Many internal changes to the Options system.
4004 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
4005 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
4009 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
4013 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
4014 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
4016 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
4019 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
4020 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
4021 lines in the form 'option Text'.
4025 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
4026 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
4031 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
4036 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4038 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
4041 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
4043 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
4044 sensible shape itself now.
4046 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
4047 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
4048 file at all, just a reused inode!
4049 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
4050 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
4051 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
4055 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
4059 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
4060 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
4065 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
4066 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
4070 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
4074 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
4075 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
4079 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
4084 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
4088 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
4089 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
4093 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
4094 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4095 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
4096 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
4097 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
4101 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
4102 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
4103 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
4104 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
4105 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
4109 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
4110 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
4111 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
4115 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
4117 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
4118 python's portable system.
4119 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
4120 set the LANG variable.
4124 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
4125 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
4127 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
4129 Made a few updates to the manual.
4133 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
4134 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
4136 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
4138 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
4139 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
4143 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
4144 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
4148 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
4149 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
4154 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
4155 by Wilbert Berendsen).
4156 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
4160 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
4161 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
4165 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
4166 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
4170 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
4171 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
4173 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
4174 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
4175 open... (Denis Manente).
4179 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4183 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4185 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
4186 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
4187 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
4189 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
4191 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
4193 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
4194 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
4199 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
4200 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
4201 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
4205 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
4206 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
4210 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4214 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
4218 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
4219 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
4220 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
4224 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
4225 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
4226 between pinboards...
4228 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
4229 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
4230 background - seems to be necessary :-(
4234 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
4237 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
4238 window (Denis Manente).
4240 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
4241 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
4245 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
4246 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
4247 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
4251 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
4254 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
4255 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
4257 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
4262 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
4263 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
4265 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
4269 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
4270 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
4272 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
4274 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
4279 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
4280 the icon points to as well as its name.
4282 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
4283 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
4287 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
4288 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
4289 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
4290 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
4294 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4298 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
4299 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
4300 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
4304 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
4305 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
4307 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
4308 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
4311 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
4312 the item after the drag.
4314 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
4315 showing where the file really is.
4319 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
4320 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
4325 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
4326 warning is displayed if so.
4328 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
4332 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4333 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4334 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4335 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4338 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4339 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4340 works like the panels.
4344 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4345 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4346 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4347 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4348 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4352 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4353 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4354 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4355 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4357 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4362 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4366 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4367 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4370 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4371 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4373 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4376 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4377 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4378 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4379 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4381 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4383 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4384 slightly. Updated the manual.
4386 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4387 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4390 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4391 or bottom panel to make room.
4395 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4400 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4401 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4402 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4403 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4404 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4408 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4410 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4411 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4413 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4417 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4418 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4422 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4426 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4428 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4433 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4434 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4436 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4440 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4441 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4442 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4446 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4447 rewriting the panel system.
4451 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4454 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4455 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4459 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4460 (suggested by James Kermode).
4464 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4465 than as a full path.
4467 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4469 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4470 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4471 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4475 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4476 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4480 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4481 rename something onto another filesystem.
4485 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4487 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4488 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4492 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4496 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4499 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4500 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4502 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4505 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4510 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4511 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4512 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4514 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4515 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4517 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4518 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4523 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4524 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4529 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4530 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4531 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4533 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4534 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4535 of the 'missing image' image.
4539 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4541 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4543 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4548 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4549 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4550 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4551 its name into another program.
4553 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4557 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4559 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4560 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4561 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4563 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4564 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4565 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4568 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4569 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4573 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4574 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4575 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4579 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4580 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4581 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4585 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4586 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4587 and position the icons directly.
4591 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4596 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4597 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4598 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4602 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4606 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4607 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4611 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4616 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4620 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4621 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4622 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4623 some versions of GTK+.
4627 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4632 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4633 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4634 from a sub-sub-menu.
4636 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4637 drawn on a log scale.
4641 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4642 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4643 happy with the UI yet though...
4645 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4646 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4647 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4651 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4652 by Stephen Harrison).
4654 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4656 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4657 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4658 standard types are in Choices.
4659 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4661 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4662 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4663 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4668 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4669 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4670 shell command minibuffer.
4674 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4675 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4676 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4677 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4678 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4680 Default search path for Choices is now:
4681 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4683 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4684 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4685 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4689 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4690 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4694 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4695 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4696 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4701 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4702 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4703 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4706 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4708 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4709 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4710 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4712 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4713 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4717 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4718 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4719 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4720 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4725 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4726 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4727 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4729 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4731 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4732 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4736 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4737 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4738 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4743 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4744 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4747 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4749 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4754 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4759 Added GNU gettext support.
4760 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4764 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4766 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4768 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4773 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4777 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4778 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4780 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4781 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4786 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4787 onto the directory and winks the file.
4791 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4792 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4793 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4795 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4796 instead of random values.
4797 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4799 Applied Bernard's patch:
4800 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4801 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4802 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4803 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4804 it the RISC OS way...
4805 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4806 alignment corrected.
4807 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4812 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4816 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4817 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4821 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4822 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4823 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4824 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4825 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4826 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4827 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4828 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4829 in the file(1) says... box).
4832 Before the Changes file
4833 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4834 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4836 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4837 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4838 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4839 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4840 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD