2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
11 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
12 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
16 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
20 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
21 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
22 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
26 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
30 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
31 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
35 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
36 manually (Thomas Leonard).
40 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
41 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
42 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
47 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
48 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
52 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
53 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
54 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
55 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
59 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
60 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
61 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
65 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
69 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
73 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
74 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
78 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
79 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
80 reported by Tristan McLeay).
84 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
85 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
87 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
91 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
92 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
93 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
94 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
98 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
99 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
101 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
103 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
108 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
109 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
110 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
111 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
112 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
117 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
122 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
126 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
127 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
129 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
130 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
131 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
132 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
136 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
137 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
138 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
143 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
145 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
150 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
154 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
155 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
159 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
160 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
161 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
165 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
169 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
170 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
171 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
172 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
173 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
177 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
178 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
179 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
181 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
182 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
183 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
184 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
185 though they may be valid UTF-8.
186 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
188 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
189 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
190 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
191 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
192 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
198 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
199 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
201 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
202 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
207 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
208 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
212 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
213 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
218 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
219 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
220 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
221 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
222 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
223 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
225 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
227 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
228 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
229 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
233 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
234 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
238 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
239 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
243 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
244 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
245 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
246 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
250 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
254 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
255 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
259 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
261 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
262 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
263 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
268 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
269 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
270 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
271 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
275 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
277 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
278 function address (Tony Houghton).
282 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
283 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
288 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
292 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
293 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
297 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
298 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
299 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
303 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
307 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
308 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
309 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
310 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
311 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
316 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
321 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
325 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
326 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
330 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
331 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
335 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
339 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
340 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
342 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
346 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
347 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
351 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
352 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
353 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
355 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
357 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
362 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
363 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
367 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
372 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
376 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
377 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
378 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
379 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
381 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
386 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
387 the old one (Stephen Watson).
388 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
389 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
390 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
394 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
399 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
401 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
403 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
404 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
408 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
409 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
411 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
413 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
414 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
415 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
416 reported by Lewis Denizen).
420 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
424 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
425 the binary (Stephen Watson).
429 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
433 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
434 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
435 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
439 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
442 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
444 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
445 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
446 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
447 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
448 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
452 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
456 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
457 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
461 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
465 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
466 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
467 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
469 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
470 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
472 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
473 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
474 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
475 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
479 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
480 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
484 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
485 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
486 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
487 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
492 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
493 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
497 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
498 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
499 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
503 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
504 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
505 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
509 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
513 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
514 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
518 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
519 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
523 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
527 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
528 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
533 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
534 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
538 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
542 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
543 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
544 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
545 when changing to a parent directory.
546 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
550 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
554 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
558 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
560 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
562 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
566 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
568 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
572 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
574 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
578 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
582 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
583 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
584 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
585 reported by Anthony DiSante).
589 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
593 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
597 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
598 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
599 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
600 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
601 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
605 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
606 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
610 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
611 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
616 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
617 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
622 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
623 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
627 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
628 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
632 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
633 (reported by Tony Houghton).
637 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
639 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
640 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
644 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
645 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
649 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
653 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
657 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
661 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
662 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
663 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
667 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
671 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
676 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
680 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
682 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
684 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
688 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
689 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
690 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
692 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
696 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
697 print a warning and then crash.
701 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
702 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
703 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
708 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
712 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
717 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
721 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
725 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
727 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
732 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
733 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
734 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
739 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
740 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
745 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
747 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
748 anyway, and noone had complained).
749 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
750 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
754 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
755 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
756 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
760 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
764 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
765 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
769 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
770 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
771 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
775 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
776 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
777 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
779 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
780 by Simon Templer and others).
784 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
785 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
786 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
790 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
794 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
798 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
799 version number again (Stephen Watson).
803 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
804 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
808 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
812 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
813 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
814 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
815 anyway (Stephen Watson).
819 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
823 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
827 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
829 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
831 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
835 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
836 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
837 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
841 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
842 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
847 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
848 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
849 impossible to change shortcuts.
850 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
851 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
855 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
856 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
861 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
862 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
863 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
867 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
868 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
869 to the functions being missing.
873 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
877 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
881 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
885 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
889 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
890 worries people for no reason.
894 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
898 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
899 files selected (Peter Geer).
903 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
904 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
908 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
912 Added 'Select by Name'.
916 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
920 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
925 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
929 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
931 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
933 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
934 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
938 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
942 Misc changes for next release.
946 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
947 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
951 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
952 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
953 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
954 Watson, reported on #rox).
958 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
959 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
963 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
964 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
968 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
969 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
973 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
974 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
979 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
983 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
985 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
990 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
994 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
995 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
999 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1000 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1004 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1008 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1013 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1014 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1015 for the same reason.
1016 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1017 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1021 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1022 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1026 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1031 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1032 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1036 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1037 support not being detected (igla).
1041 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1045 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1046 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1050 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1054 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1055 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1056 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1057 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1060 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1062 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1063 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1067 New icon for selection ops.
1071 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1075 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1079 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1083 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1084 Added icon theme selector.
1088 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1092 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1096 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1097 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1101 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1102 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1103 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1107 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1108 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1112 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1116 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1117 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1118 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1122 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1126 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1127 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1132 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1133 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1137 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1138 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1142 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1143 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1147 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1151 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1152 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1153 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1157 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1161 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1162 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1163 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1164 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1168 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1169 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1171 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1175 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1179 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1180 bits (Stephen Watson).
1184 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1188 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1192 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1193 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1197 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1201 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1202 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1207 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1208 forward them explicitly.
1212 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1213 help from Götz Waschk).
1217 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1218 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1219 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1223 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1227 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1231 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1235 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1236 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1238 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1240 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1244 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1246 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1248 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1252 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1253 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1254 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1255 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1259 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1263 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1267 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1271 Minor updates to the manual.
1272 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1273 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1277 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1278 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1280 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1282 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1283 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1287 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1288 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1289 reduce flickering effect.
1293 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1297 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1299 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1303 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1304 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1305 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1306 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1307 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1311 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1312 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1316 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1320 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1325 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1326 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1330 Winking now works in List view.
1334 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1338 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1339 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1343 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1344 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1346 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1348 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1352 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1356 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1357 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1359 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1363 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1364 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1368 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1370 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1374 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1375 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1379 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1381 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1385 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1389 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1390 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1395 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1396 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1398 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1400 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1402 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1406 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1410 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1411 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1415 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1420 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1421 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1425 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1427 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1429 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1430 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1435 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1439 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1440 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1441 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1442 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1443 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1444 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1445 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1447 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1451 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1456 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1457 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1461 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1462 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1463 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1464 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1469 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1470 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1471 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1472 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1473 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1474 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1475 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1476 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1477 talent can do something better?
1478 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1479 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1483 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1484 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1485 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1490 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1492 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1493 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1494 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1495 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1496 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1497 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1498 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1499 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1500 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1501 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1502 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1503 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1504 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1508 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1509 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1510 allow fine repositioning.
1511 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1512 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1513 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1514 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1516 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1517 changing the aspect ratio.
1521 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1525 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1529 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1530 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1531 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1535 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1539 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1544 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1545 make sharing icons easier.
1546 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1550 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1551 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1555 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1559 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1561 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1565 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1570 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1575 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1576 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1578 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1579 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1580 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1581 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1585 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1586 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1590 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1594 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1596 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1597 Brian Langenberger).
1601 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1602 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1604 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1608 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1609 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1611 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1613 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1617 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1618 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1623 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1627 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1628 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1629 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1633 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1634 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1638 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1642 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1643 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1647 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1648 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1649 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1653 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1657 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1658 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1659 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1660 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1662 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1663 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1667 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1668 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1672 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1677 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1678 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1682 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1686 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1687 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1688 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1689 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1694 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1695 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1696 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1700 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1704 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1705 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1709 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1710 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1711 since it didn't include the contents.
1712 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1713 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1717 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1721 Style improvements to options window.
1725 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1729 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1731 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1733 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1738 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1739 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1740 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1741 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1745 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1749 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1753 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1754 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1758 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1760 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1765 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1769 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1770 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1771 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1776 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1780 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1784 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1788 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1792 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1793 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1794 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1798 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1799 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1803 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1804 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1809 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1813 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1817 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1822 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1823 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1827 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1828 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1833 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1834 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1838 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1839 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1840 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1844 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1848 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1849 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1850 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1851 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1852 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1856 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1857 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1861 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1862 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1866 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1870 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1871 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1872 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1873 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1874 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1875 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1879 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1880 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1881 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1885 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1886 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1891 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1895 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1897 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1899 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1904 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1908 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1912 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1913 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1918 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1922 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1926 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1927 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1928 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1932 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1936 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1941 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1945 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1946 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1947 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1948 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1952 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1956 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1957 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1961 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1962 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1963 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1967 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1971 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1975 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1976 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1977 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1978 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1979 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1980 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1984 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1985 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1989 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1990 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1991 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1995 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1996 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2000 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2004 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2005 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2006 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2007 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2009 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2011 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2015 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2016 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2017 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2021 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2025 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2026 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2031 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2035 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2039 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2040 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2044 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2045 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2046 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2050 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2051 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2055 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2056 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2060 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2061 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2065 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2069 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2070 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2074 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2076 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2078 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2082 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2086 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2087 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2091 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2095 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2099 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2100 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2101 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2102 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2103 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2104 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2108 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2112 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2114 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2115 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2119 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2120 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2124 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2128 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2129 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2130 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2131 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2133 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2135 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2139 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2140 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2144 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2145 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2146 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2150 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2151 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2152 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2153 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2154 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2155 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2156 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2160 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2161 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2165 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2169 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2173 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2178 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2182 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2183 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2184 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2188 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2189 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2190 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2194 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2195 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2196 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2200 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2201 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2205 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2210 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2211 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2212 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2213 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2214 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2216 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2217 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2221 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2225 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2226 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2227 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2228 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2232 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2233 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2234 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2235 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2236 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2237 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2241 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2245 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2246 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2250 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2251 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2252 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2253 restart (Olli Helenius).
2257 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2261 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2262 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2263 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2268 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2273 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2274 Small and Large sizes.
2278 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2282 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2283 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2287 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2288 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2289 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2290 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2294 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2295 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2296 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2301 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2306 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2307 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2311 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2312 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2317 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2319 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2321 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2325 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2329 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2331 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2333 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2337 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2339 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2340 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2344 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2345 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2349 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2350 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2354 Various speed improvements.
2355 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2359 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2360 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2364 Slight speed increase when starting.
2368 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2372 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2373 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2374 button is no longer supported.
2378 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2382 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2386 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2391 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2392 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2396 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2397 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2398 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2402 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2403 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2404 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2405 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2409 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2410 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2411 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2413 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2418 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2419 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2424 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2428 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2429 and converted to new dialog style.
2433 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2434 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2438 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2439 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2443 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2447 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2449 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2453 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2457 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2458 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2459 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2463 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2464 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2468 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2473 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2477 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2478 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2482 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2483 and Cancel is now Revert.
2484 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2485 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2489 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2493 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2494 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2496 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2497 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2498 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2499 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2503 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2505 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2506 labels display them.
2507 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2510 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2514 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2516 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2520 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2521 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2522 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2526 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2527 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2529 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2531 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2535 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2536 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2540 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2541 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2542 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2543 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2547 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2551 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2552 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2556 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2557 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2562 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2563 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2567 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2568 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2569 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2573 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2574 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2578 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2579 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2580 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2581 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2583 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2588 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2589 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2591 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2593 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2597 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2598 any image (saves time).
2599 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2600 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2601 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2602 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2604 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2605 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2609 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2610 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2612 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2613 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2615 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2620 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2621 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2622 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2623 has stopped accepting STRING.
2627 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2628 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2632 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2637 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2638 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2640 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2641 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2642 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2646 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2647 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2648 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2649 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2650 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2651 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2655 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2656 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2657 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2658 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2659 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2660 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2665 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2666 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2667 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2668 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2673 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2674 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2678 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2679 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2681 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2683 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2684 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2685 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2689 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2690 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2691 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2695 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2696 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2700 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2701 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2705 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2707 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2712 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2713 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2717 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2718 their menus correctly.
2719 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2724 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2725 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2726 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2730 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2731 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2735 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2739 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2742 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2744 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2745 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2746 the toggle menu items from working!
2750 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2752 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2758 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2759 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2763 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2764 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2765 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2766 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2767 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2768 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2772 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2776 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2777 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2781 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2782 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2783 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2787 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2788 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2793 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2795 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2799 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2800 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2801 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2802 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2806 Improved error reporting.
2807 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2811 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2812 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2813 check box and does 'Yes'.
2817 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2818 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2819 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2820 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2825 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2827 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2828 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2830 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2832 Internal changes to options system:
2833 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2834 filer is fully initialised).
2835 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2837 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2839 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2840 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2841 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2842 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2846 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2847 now reclaims the selection.
2848 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2849 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2854 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2855 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2856 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2857 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2858 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2862 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2863 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2865 Code tidying in various places.
2869 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2870 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2875 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2876 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2880 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2881 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2882 edit the file, not the file itself!
2883 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2887 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2888 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2889 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2890 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2891 of the SOAP working draft.
2892 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2893 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2894 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2899 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2900 it was in the displayed area before.
2902 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2905 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2906 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2910 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2911 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2912 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2914 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2915 selection (Andras Mohari).
2919 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2923 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2927 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2928 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2929 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2933 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2937 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2939 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2940 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2941 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2945 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2946 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2951 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2952 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2953 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2957 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2961 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2965 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2966 replaced by a Restart button.
2970 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2971 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2975 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2979 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2983 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2984 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2985 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2989 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2990 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2992 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2993 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2994 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2998 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2999 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3004 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3006 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3007 (requested by Graham Borland).
3008 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3009 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3010 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3014 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3015 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3016 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3017 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3021 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3022 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3023 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3024 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3025 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3026 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3027 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3028 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3029 - Lots of code tidying.
3034 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3035 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3039 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3041 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3043 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3047 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3048 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3052 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3053 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3057 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3058 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3062 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3063 option to access it directly.
3067 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3068 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3069 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3073 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3074 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3075 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3076 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3077 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3078 when the filer is run.
3082 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3083 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3084 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3089 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3093 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3094 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3098 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3100 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3104 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3108 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3109 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3110 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3115 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3116 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3117 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3118 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3119 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3120 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3121 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3125 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3129 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3130 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3134 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3135 of possible actions (Taras).
3136 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3138 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3139 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3143 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3148 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3152 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3155 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3156 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3160 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3161 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3163 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3165 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3166 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3167 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3168 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3172 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3176 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3180 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3184 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3189 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3190 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3191 the first one found.
3192 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3196 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3200 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3201 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3202 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3206 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3207 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3208 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3213 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3214 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3215 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3219 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3221 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3226 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3231 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3235 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3236 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3240 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3242 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3243 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3247 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3251 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3252 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3256 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3257 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3261 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3262 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3264 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3266 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3270 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3274 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3275 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3279 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3283 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3288 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3289 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3293 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3297 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3301 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3303 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3304 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3308 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3309 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3313 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3314 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3315 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3319 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3320 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3324 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3325 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3327 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3329 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3333 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3334 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3335 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3337 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3338 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3340 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3342 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3343 and the default size with no details.
3347 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3348 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3352 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3357 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3362 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3366 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3371 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3372 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3376 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3380 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3381 the button to run it does.
3382 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3383 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3384 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3388 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3389 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3390 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3394 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3398 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3399 and panels into icon.c.
3403 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3404 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3405 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3406 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3410 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3412 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3414 Updated the documentation.
3418 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3419 up if they're too small.
3423 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3425 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3426 (Christopher Arndt).
3427 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3432 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3433 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3437 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3438 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3442 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3443 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3444 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3449 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3454 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3458 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3459 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3464 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3469 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3470 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3474 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3475 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3479 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3483 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3487 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3491 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3492 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3495 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3496 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3501 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3502 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3503 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3504 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3509 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3510 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3512 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3514 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3515 for non-applications.
3519 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3520 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3525 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3529 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3530 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3532 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3536 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3537 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3541 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3542 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3546 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3547 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3551 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3552 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3554 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3555 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3559 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3560 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3562 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3566 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3567 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3570 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3574 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3575 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3579 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3583 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3584 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3587 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3588 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3592 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3596 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3601 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3605 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3606 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3611 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3616 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3620 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3622 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3624 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3625 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3627 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3629 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3630 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3634 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3635 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3636 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3638 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3639 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3643 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3647 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3648 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3652 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3656 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3657 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3659 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3662 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3663 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3664 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3668 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3669 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3674 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3679 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3681 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3684 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3686 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3687 sensible shape itself now.
3689 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3690 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3691 file at all, just a reused inode!
3692 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3693 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3694 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3698 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3702 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3703 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3708 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3709 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3713 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3717 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3718 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3722 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3727 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3731 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3732 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3736 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3737 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3738 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3739 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3740 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3744 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3745 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3746 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3747 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3748 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3752 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3753 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3754 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3758 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3760 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3761 python's portable system.
3762 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3763 set the LANG variable.
3767 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3768 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3770 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3772 Made a few updates to the manual.
3776 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3777 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3779 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3781 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3782 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3786 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3787 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3791 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3792 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3797 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3798 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3799 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3803 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3804 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3808 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3809 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3813 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3814 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3816 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3817 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3818 open... (Denis Manente).
3822 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3826 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3828 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3829 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3830 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3832 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3834 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3836 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3837 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3842 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3843 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3844 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3848 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3849 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3853 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3857 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3861 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3862 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3863 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3867 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3868 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3869 between pinboards...
3871 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3872 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3873 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3877 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3880 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3881 window (Denis Manente).
3883 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3884 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3888 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3889 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3890 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3894 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3897 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3898 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3900 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3905 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3906 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3908 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3912 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3913 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3915 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3917 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3922 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3923 the icon points to as well as its name.
3925 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3926 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3930 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3931 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3932 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3933 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3937 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3941 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3942 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3943 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3947 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3948 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3950 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3951 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3954 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3955 the item after the drag.
3957 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3958 showing where the file really is.
3962 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3963 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3968 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3969 warning is displayed if so.
3971 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3975 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3976 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3977 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3978 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3981 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3982 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3983 works like the panels.
3987 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3988 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3989 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3990 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3991 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3995 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3996 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3997 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3998 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4000 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4005 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4009 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4010 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4013 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4014 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4016 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4019 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4020 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4021 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4022 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4024 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4026 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4027 slightly. Updated the manual.
4029 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4030 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4033 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4034 or bottom panel to make room.
4038 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4043 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4044 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4045 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4046 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4047 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4051 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4053 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4054 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4056 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4060 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4061 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4065 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4069 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4071 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4076 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4077 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4079 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4083 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4084 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4085 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4089 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4090 rewriting the panel system.
4094 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4097 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4098 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4102 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4103 (suggested by James Kermode).
4107 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4108 than as a full path.
4110 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4112 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4113 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4114 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4118 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4119 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4123 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4124 rename something onto another filesystem.
4128 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4130 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4131 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4135 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4139 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4142 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4143 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4145 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4148 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4153 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4154 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4155 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4157 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4158 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4160 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4161 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4166 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4167 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4172 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4173 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4174 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4176 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4177 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4178 of the 'missing image' image.
4182 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4184 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4186 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4191 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4192 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4193 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4194 its name into another program.
4196 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4200 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4202 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4203 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4204 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4206 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4207 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4208 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4211 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4212 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4216 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4217 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4218 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4222 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4223 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4224 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4228 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4229 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4230 and position the icons directly.
4234 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4239 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4240 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4241 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4245 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4249 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4250 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4254 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4259 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4263 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4264 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4265 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4266 some versions of GTK+.
4270 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4275 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4276 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4277 from a sub-sub-menu.
4279 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4280 drawn on a log scale.
4284 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4285 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4286 happy with the UI yet though...
4288 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4289 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4290 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4294 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4295 by Stephen Harrison).
4297 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4299 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4300 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4301 standard types are in Choices.
4302 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4304 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4305 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4306 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4311 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4312 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4313 shell command minibuffer.
4317 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4318 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4319 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4320 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4321 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4323 Default search path for Choices is now:
4324 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4326 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4327 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4328 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4332 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4333 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4337 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4338 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4339 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4344 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4345 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4346 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4349 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4351 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4352 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4353 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4355 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4356 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4360 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4361 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4362 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4363 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4368 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4369 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4370 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4372 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4374 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4375 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4379 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4380 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4381 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4386 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4387 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4390 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4392 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4397 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4402 Added GNU gettext support.
4403 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4407 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4409 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4411 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4416 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4420 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4421 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4423 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4424 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4429 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4430 onto the directory and winks the file.
4434 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4435 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4436 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4438 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4439 instead of random values.
4440 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4442 Applied Bernard's patch:
4443 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4444 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4445 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4446 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4447 it the RISC OS way...
4448 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4449 alignment corrected.
4450 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4455 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4459 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4460 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4464 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4465 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4466 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4467 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4468 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4469 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4470 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4471 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4472 in the file(1) says... box).
4475 Before the Changes file
4476 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4477 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4479 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4480 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4481 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4482 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4483 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD