2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Some .desktop files put ".png" after the icon name, which prevents the icon
8 from being found. Ignore it (Thomass Leonard; reported by Peter).
12 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
16 If we can't find libc.so.6 for xattr support, try libc.so in case we only have
17 uClib (Lucas Correia Villa Real).
21 Allow .desktop files to be used as run actions (Thomas Leonard).
25 Bugfix: New detail crashes cleanice theme (reported by Andras Mohari; reported
26 as CleanIce bug #1383457). Try another value...
30 Highlight icons using the theme's preferred colour instead of always using
32 Bugfix: Don't set style detail to "base" when highlighting items in a
33 Collection, as it confuses GTK's lighthouseblue theme engine
38 Bugfix: Changing the display style crashes the filer with GTK >= 2.8.9 because
39 it sends a selection changed event before the view has finished
40 initialising (Thomas Leonard; reported by Tobias Kieslich).
41 Removed some done entries from the TODO file (Stephen Watson).
43 13-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4)
45 Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
49 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
50 Make Path optional in PanelRemove SOAP call, allowing removal of items based
51 only on their label (Jonatan Liljedahl).
52 Bugfix: The install script failed to compile ROX-Filer on Debian systems, due
53 to a bug in recent versions of xterm (Vincent Lefèvre). Added a
55 Bugfix: On 64-bit systems communication between ROX-Filer processes didn't
56 work, because GDK uses sizeof(long) bytes (not always 4 bytes) to store
57 a 32 bit property (Lucas Hazel).
61 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
62 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
63 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
68 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
72 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
73 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
75 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
76 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
77 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
81 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
86 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
90 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
91 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
95 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
99 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
100 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
101 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
105 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
109 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
110 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
114 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
115 manually (Thomas Leonard).
119 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
120 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
121 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
126 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
127 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
131 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
132 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
133 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
134 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
138 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
139 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
140 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
144 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
148 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
152 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
153 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
157 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
158 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
159 reported by Tristan McLeay).
163 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
164 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
166 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
170 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
171 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
172 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
173 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
177 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
178 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
180 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
182 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
187 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
188 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
189 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
190 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
191 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
196 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
201 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
205 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
206 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
208 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
209 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
210 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
211 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
215 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
216 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
217 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
222 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
224 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
229 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
233 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
234 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
238 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
239 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
240 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
244 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
248 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
249 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
250 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
251 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
252 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
256 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
257 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
258 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
260 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
261 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
262 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
263 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
264 though they may be valid UTF-8.
265 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
267 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
268 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
269 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
270 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
271 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
277 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
278 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
280 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
281 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
286 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
287 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
291 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
292 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
297 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
298 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
299 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
300 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
301 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
302 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
304 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
306 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
307 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
308 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
312 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
313 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
317 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
318 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
322 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
323 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
324 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
325 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
329 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
333 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
334 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
338 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
340 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
341 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
342 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
347 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
348 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
349 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
350 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
354 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
356 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
357 function address (Tony Houghton).
361 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
362 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
367 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
371 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
372 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
376 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
377 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
378 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
382 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
386 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
387 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
388 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
389 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
390 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
395 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
400 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
404 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
405 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
409 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
410 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
414 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
418 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
419 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
421 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
425 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
426 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
430 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
431 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
432 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
434 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
436 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
441 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
442 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
446 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
451 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
455 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
456 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
457 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
458 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
460 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
465 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
466 the old one (Stephen Watson).
467 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
468 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
469 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
473 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
478 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
480 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
482 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
483 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
487 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
488 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
490 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
492 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
493 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
494 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
495 reported by Lewis Denizen).
499 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
503 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
504 the binary (Stephen Watson).
508 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
512 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
513 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
514 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
518 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
521 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
523 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
524 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
525 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
526 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
527 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
531 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
535 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
536 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
540 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
544 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
545 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
546 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
548 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
549 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
551 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
552 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
553 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
554 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
558 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
559 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
563 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
564 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
565 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
566 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
571 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
572 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
576 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
577 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
578 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
582 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
583 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
584 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
588 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
592 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
593 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
597 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
598 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
602 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
606 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
607 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
612 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
613 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
617 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
621 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
622 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
623 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
624 when changing to a parent directory.
625 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
629 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
633 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
637 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
639 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
641 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
645 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
647 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
651 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
653 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
657 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
661 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
662 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
663 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
664 reported by Anthony DiSante).
668 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
672 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
676 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
677 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
678 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
679 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
680 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
684 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
685 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
689 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
690 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
695 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
696 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
701 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
702 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
706 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
707 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
711 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
712 (reported by Tony Houghton).
716 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
718 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
719 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
723 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
724 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
728 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
732 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
736 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
740 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
741 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
742 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
746 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
750 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
755 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
759 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
761 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
763 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
767 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
768 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
769 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
771 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
775 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
776 print a warning and then crash.
780 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
781 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
782 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
787 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
791 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
796 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
800 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
804 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
806 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
811 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
812 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
813 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
818 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
819 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
824 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
826 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
827 anyway, and noone had complained).
828 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
829 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
833 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
834 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
835 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
839 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
843 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
844 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
848 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
849 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
850 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
854 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
855 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
856 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
858 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
859 by Simon Templer and others).
863 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
864 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
865 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
869 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
873 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
877 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
878 version number again (Stephen Watson).
882 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
883 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
887 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
891 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
892 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
893 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
894 anyway (Stephen Watson).
898 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
902 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
906 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
908 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
910 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
914 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
915 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
916 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
920 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
921 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
926 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
927 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
928 impossible to change shortcuts.
929 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
930 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
934 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
935 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
940 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
941 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
942 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
946 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
947 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
948 to the functions being missing.
952 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
956 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
960 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
964 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
968 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
969 worries people for no reason.
973 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
977 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
978 files selected (Peter Geer).
982 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
983 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
987 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
991 Added 'Select by Name'.
995 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
999 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
1004 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1008 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1010 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
1012 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1013 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1017 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1021 Misc changes for next release.
1025 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
1026 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
1030 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
1031 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
1032 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
1033 Watson, reported on #rox).
1037 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
1038 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
1042 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
1043 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
1047 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
1048 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
1052 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
1053 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1058 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1062 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1064 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1069 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1073 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1074 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1078 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1079 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1083 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1087 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1092 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1093 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1094 for the same reason.
1095 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1096 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1100 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1101 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1105 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1110 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1111 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1115 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1116 support not being detected (igla).
1120 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1124 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1125 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1129 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1133 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1134 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1135 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1136 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1139 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1141 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1142 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1146 New icon for selection ops.
1150 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1154 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1158 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1162 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1163 Added icon theme selector.
1167 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1171 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1175 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1176 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1180 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1181 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1182 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1186 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1187 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1191 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1195 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1196 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1197 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1201 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1205 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1206 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1211 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1212 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1216 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1217 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1221 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1222 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1226 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1230 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1231 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1232 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1236 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1240 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1241 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1242 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1243 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1247 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1248 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1250 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1254 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1258 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1259 bits (Stephen Watson).
1263 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1267 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1271 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1272 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1276 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1280 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1281 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1286 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1287 forward them explicitly.
1291 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1292 help from Götz Waschk).
1296 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1297 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1298 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1302 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1306 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1310 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1314 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1315 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1317 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1319 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1323 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1325 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1327 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1331 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1332 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1333 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1334 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1338 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1342 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1346 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1350 Minor updates to the manual.
1351 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1352 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1356 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1357 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1359 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1361 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1362 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1366 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1367 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1368 reduce flickering effect.
1372 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1376 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1378 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1382 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1383 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1384 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1385 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1386 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1390 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1391 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1395 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1399 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1404 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1405 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1409 Winking now works in List view.
1413 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1417 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1418 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1422 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1423 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1425 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1427 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1431 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1435 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1436 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1438 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1442 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1443 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1447 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1449 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1453 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1454 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1458 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1460 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1464 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1468 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1469 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1474 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1475 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1477 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1479 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1481 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1485 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1489 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1490 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1494 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1499 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1500 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1504 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1506 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1508 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1509 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1514 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1518 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1519 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1520 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1521 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1522 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1523 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1524 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1526 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1530 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1535 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1536 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1540 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1541 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1542 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1543 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1548 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1549 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1550 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1551 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1552 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1553 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1554 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1555 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1556 talent can do something better?
1557 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1558 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1562 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1563 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1564 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1569 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1571 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1572 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1573 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1574 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1575 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1576 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1577 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1578 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1579 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1580 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1581 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1582 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1583 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1587 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1588 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1589 allow fine repositioning.
1590 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1591 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1592 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1593 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1595 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1596 changing the aspect ratio.
1600 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1604 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1608 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1609 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1610 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1614 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1618 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1623 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1624 make sharing icons easier.
1625 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1629 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1630 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1634 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1638 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1640 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1644 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1649 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1654 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1655 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1657 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1658 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1659 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1660 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1664 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1665 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1669 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1673 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1675 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1676 Brian Langenberger).
1680 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1681 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1683 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1687 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1688 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1690 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1692 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1696 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1697 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1702 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1706 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1707 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1708 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1712 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1713 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1717 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1721 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1722 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1726 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1727 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1728 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1732 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1736 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1737 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1738 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1739 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1741 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1742 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1746 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1747 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1751 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1756 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1757 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1761 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1765 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1766 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1767 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1768 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1773 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1774 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1775 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1779 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1783 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1784 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1788 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1789 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1790 since it didn't include the contents.
1791 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1792 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1796 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1800 Style improvements to options window.
1804 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1808 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1810 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1812 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1817 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1818 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1819 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1820 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1824 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1828 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1832 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1833 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1837 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1839 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1844 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1848 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1849 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1850 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1855 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1859 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1863 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1867 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1871 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1872 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1873 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1877 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1878 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1882 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1883 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1888 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1892 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1896 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1901 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1902 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1906 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1907 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1912 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1913 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1917 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1918 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1919 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1923 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1927 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1928 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1929 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1930 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1931 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1935 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1936 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1940 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1941 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1945 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1949 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1950 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1951 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1952 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1953 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1954 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1958 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1959 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1960 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1964 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1965 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1970 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1974 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1976 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1978 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1983 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1987 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1991 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1992 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1997 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
2001 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2005 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
2006 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
2007 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2011 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2015 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
2020 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2024 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
2025 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
2026 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
2027 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2031 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
2035 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2036 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
2040 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
2041 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
2042 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
2046 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
2050 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
2054 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2055 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2056 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2057 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2058 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2059 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2063 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2064 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2068 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2069 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2070 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2074 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2075 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2079 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2083 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2084 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2085 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2086 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2088 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2090 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2094 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2095 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2096 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2100 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2104 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2105 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2110 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2114 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2118 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2119 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2123 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2124 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2125 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2129 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2130 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2134 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2135 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2139 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2140 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2144 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2148 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2149 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2153 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2155 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2157 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2161 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2165 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2166 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2170 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2174 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2178 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2179 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2180 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2181 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2182 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2183 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2187 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2191 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2193 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2194 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2198 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2199 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2203 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2207 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2208 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2209 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2210 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2212 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2214 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2218 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2219 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2223 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2224 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2225 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2229 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2230 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2231 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2232 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2233 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2234 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2235 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2239 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2240 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2244 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2248 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2252 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2257 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2261 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2262 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2263 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2267 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2268 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2269 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2273 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2274 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2275 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2279 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2280 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2284 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2289 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2290 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2291 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2292 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2293 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2295 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2296 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2300 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2304 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2305 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2306 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2307 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2311 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2312 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2313 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2314 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2315 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2316 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2320 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2324 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2325 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2329 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2330 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2331 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2332 restart (Olli Helenius).
2336 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2340 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2341 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2342 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2347 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2352 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2353 Small and Large sizes.
2357 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2361 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2362 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2366 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2367 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2368 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2369 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2373 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2374 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2375 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2380 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2385 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2386 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2390 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2391 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2396 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2398 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2400 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2404 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2408 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2410 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2412 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2416 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2418 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2419 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2423 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2424 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2428 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2429 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2433 Various speed improvements.
2434 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2438 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2439 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2443 Slight speed increase when starting.
2447 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2451 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2452 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2453 button is no longer supported.
2457 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2461 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2465 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2470 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2471 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2475 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2476 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2477 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2481 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2482 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2483 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2484 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2488 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2489 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2490 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2492 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2497 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2498 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2503 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2507 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2508 and converted to new dialog style.
2512 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2513 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2517 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2518 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2522 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2526 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2528 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2532 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2536 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2537 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2538 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2542 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2543 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2547 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2552 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2556 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2557 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2561 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2562 and Cancel is now Revert.
2563 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2564 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2568 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2572 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2573 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2575 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2576 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2577 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2578 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2582 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2584 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2585 labels display them.
2586 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2589 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2593 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2595 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2599 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2600 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2601 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2605 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2606 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2608 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2610 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2614 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2615 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2619 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2620 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2621 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2622 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2626 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2630 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2631 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2635 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2636 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2641 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2642 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2646 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2647 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2648 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2652 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2653 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2657 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2658 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2659 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2660 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2662 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2667 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2668 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2670 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2672 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2676 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2677 any image (saves time).
2678 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2679 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2680 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2681 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2683 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2684 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2688 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2689 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2691 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2692 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2694 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2699 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2700 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2701 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2702 has stopped accepting STRING.
2706 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2707 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2711 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2716 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2717 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2719 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2720 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2721 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2725 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2726 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2727 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2728 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2729 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2730 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2734 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2735 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2736 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2737 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2738 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2739 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2744 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2745 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2746 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2747 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2752 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2753 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2757 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2758 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2760 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2762 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2763 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2764 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2768 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2769 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2770 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2774 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2775 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2779 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2780 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2784 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2786 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2791 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2792 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2796 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2797 their menus correctly.
2798 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2803 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2804 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2805 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2809 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2810 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2814 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2818 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2821 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2823 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2824 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2825 the toggle menu items from working!
2829 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2831 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2837 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2838 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2842 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2843 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2844 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2845 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2846 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2847 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2851 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2855 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2856 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2860 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2861 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2862 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2866 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2867 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2872 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2874 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2878 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2879 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2880 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2881 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2885 Improved error reporting.
2886 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2890 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2891 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2892 check box and does 'Yes'.
2896 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2897 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2898 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2899 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2904 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2906 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2907 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2909 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2911 Internal changes to options system:
2912 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2913 filer is fully initialised).
2914 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2916 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2918 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2919 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2920 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2921 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2925 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2926 now reclaims the selection.
2927 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2928 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2933 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2934 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2935 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2936 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2937 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2941 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2942 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2944 Code tidying in various places.
2948 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2949 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2954 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2955 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2959 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2960 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2961 edit the file, not the file itself!
2962 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2966 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2967 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2968 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2969 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2970 of the SOAP working draft.
2971 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2972 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2973 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2978 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2979 it was in the displayed area before.
2981 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2984 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2985 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2989 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2990 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2991 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2993 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2994 selection (Andras Mohari).
2998 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
3002 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
3006 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
3007 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
3008 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
3012 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
3016 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
3018 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
3019 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
3020 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
3024 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
3025 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
3030 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
3031 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
3032 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
3036 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
3040 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
3044 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
3045 replaced by a Restart button.
3049 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
3050 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
3054 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3058 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3062 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3063 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3064 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3068 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3069 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3071 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3072 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3073 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3077 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3078 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3083 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3085 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3086 (requested by Graham Borland).
3087 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3088 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3089 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3093 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3094 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3095 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3096 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3100 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3101 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3102 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3103 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3104 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3105 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3106 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3107 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3108 - Lots of code tidying.
3113 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3114 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3118 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3120 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3122 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3126 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3127 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3131 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3132 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3136 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3137 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3141 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3142 option to access it directly.
3146 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3147 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3148 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3152 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3153 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3154 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3155 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3156 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3157 when the filer is run.
3161 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3162 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3163 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3168 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3172 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3173 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3177 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3179 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3183 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3187 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3188 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3189 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3194 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3195 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3196 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3197 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3198 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3199 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3200 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3204 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3208 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3209 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3213 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3214 of possible actions (Taras).
3215 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3217 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3218 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3222 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3227 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3231 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3234 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3235 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3239 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3240 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3242 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3244 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3245 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3246 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3247 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3251 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3255 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3259 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3263 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3268 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3269 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3270 the first one found.
3271 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3275 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3279 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3280 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3281 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3285 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3286 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3287 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3292 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3293 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3294 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3298 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3300 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3305 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3310 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3314 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3315 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3319 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3321 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3322 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3326 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3330 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3331 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3335 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3336 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3340 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3341 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3343 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3345 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3349 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3353 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3354 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3358 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3362 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3367 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3368 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3372 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3376 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3380 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3382 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3383 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3387 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3388 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3392 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3393 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3394 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3398 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3399 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3403 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3404 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3406 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3408 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3412 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3413 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3414 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3416 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3417 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3419 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3421 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3422 and the default size with no details.
3426 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3427 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3431 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3436 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3441 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3445 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3450 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3451 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3455 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3459 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3460 the button to run it does.
3461 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3462 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3463 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3467 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3468 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3469 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3473 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3477 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3478 and panels into icon.c.
3482 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3483 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3484 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3485 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3489 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3491 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3493 Updated the documentation.
3497 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3498 up if they're too small.
3502 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3504 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3505 (Christopher Arndt).
3506 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3511 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3512 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3516 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3517 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3521 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3522 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3523 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3528 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3533 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3537 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3538 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3543 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3548 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3549 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3553 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3554 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3558 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3562 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3566 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3570 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3571 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3574 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3575 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3580 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3581 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3582 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3583 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3588 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3589 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3591 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3593 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3594 for non-applications.
3598 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3599 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3604 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3608 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3609 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3611 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3615 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3616 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3620 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3621 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3625 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3626 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3630 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3631 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3633 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3634 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3638 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3639 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3641 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3645 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3646 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3649 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3653 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3654 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3658 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3662 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3663 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3666 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3667 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3671 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3675 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3680 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3684 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3685 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3690 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3695 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3699 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3701 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3703 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3704 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3706 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3708 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3709 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3713 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3714 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3715 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3717 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3718 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3722 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3726 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3727 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3731 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3735 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3736 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3738 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3741 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3742 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3743 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3747 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3748 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3753 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3758 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3760 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3763 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3765 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3766 sensible shape itself now.
3768 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3769 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3770 file at all, just a reused inode!
3771 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3772 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3773 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3777 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3781 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3782 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3787 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3788 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3792 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3796 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3797 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3801 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3806 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3810 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3811 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3815 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3816 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3817 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3818 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3819 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3823 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3824 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3825 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3826 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3827 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3831 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3832 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3833 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3837 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3839 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3840 python's portable system.
3841 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3842 set the LANG variable.
3846 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3847 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3849 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3851 Made a few updates to the manual.
3855 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3856 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3858 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3860 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3861 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3865 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3866 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3870 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3871 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3876 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3877 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3878 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3882 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3883 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3887 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3888 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3892 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3893 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3895 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3896 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3897 open... (Denis Manente).
3901 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3905 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3907 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3908 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3909 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3911 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3913 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3915 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3916 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3921 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3922 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3923 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3927 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3928 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3932 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3936 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3940 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3941 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3942 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3946 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3947 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3948 between pinboards...
3950 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3951 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3952 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3956 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3959 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3960 window (Denis Manente).
3962 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3963 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3967 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3968 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3969 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3973 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3976 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3977 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3979 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3984 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3985 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3987 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3991 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3992 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3994 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3996 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
4001 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
4002 the icon points to as well as its name.
4004 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
4005 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
4009 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
4010 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
4011 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
4012 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
4016 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4020 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
4021 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
4022 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
4026 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
4027 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
4029 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
4030 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
4033 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
4034 the item after the drag.
4036 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
4037 showing where the file really is.
4041 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
4042 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
4047 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
4048 warning is displayed if so.
4050 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
4054 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4055 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4056 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4057 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4060 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4061 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4062 works like the panels.
4066 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4067 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4068 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4069 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4070 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4074 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4075 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4076 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4077 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4079 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4084 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4088 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4089 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4092 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4093 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4095 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4098 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4099 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4100 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4101 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4103 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4105 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4106 slightly. Updated the manual.
4108 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4109 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4112 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4113 or bottom panel to make room.
4117 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4122 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4123 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4124 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4125 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4126 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4130 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4132 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4133 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4135 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4139 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4140 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4144 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4148 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4150 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4155 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4156 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4158 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4162 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4163 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4164 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4168 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4169 rewriting the panel system.
4173 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4176 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4177 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4181 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4182 (suggested by James Kermode).
4186 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4187 than as a full path.
4189 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4191 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4192 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4193 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4197 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4198 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4202 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4203 rename something onto another filesystem.
4207 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4209 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4210 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4214 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4218 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4221 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4222 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4224 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4227 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4232 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4233 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4234 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4236 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4237 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4239 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4240 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4245 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4246 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4251 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4252 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4253 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4255 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4256 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4257 of the 'missing image' image.
4261 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4263 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4265 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4270 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4271 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4272 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4273 its name into another program.
4275 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4279 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4281 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4282 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4283 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4285 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4286 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4287 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4290 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4291 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4295 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4296 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4297 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4301 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4302 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4303 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4307 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4308 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4309 and position the icons directly.
4313 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4318 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4319 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4320 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4324 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4328 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4329 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4333 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4338 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4342 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4343 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4344 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4345 some versions of GTK+.
4349 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4354 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4355 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4356 from a sub-sub-menu.
4358 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4359 drawn on a log scale.
4363 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4364 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4365 happy with the UI yet though...
4367 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4368 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4369 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4373 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4374 by Stephen Harrison).
4376 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4378 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4379 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4380 standard types are in Choices.
4381 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4383 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4384 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4385 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4390 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4391 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4392 shell command minibuffer.
4396 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4397 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4398 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4399 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4400 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4402 Default search path for Choices is now:
4403 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4405 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4406 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4407 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4411 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4412 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4416 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4417 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4418 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4423 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4424 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4425 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4428 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4430 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4431 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4432 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4434 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4435 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4439 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4440 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4441 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4442 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4447 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4448 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4449 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4451 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4453 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4454 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4458 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4459 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4460 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4465 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4466 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4469 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4471 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4476 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4481 Added GNU gettext support.
4482 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4486 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4488 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4490 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4495 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4499 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4500 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4502 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4503 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4508 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4509 onto the directory and winks the file.
4513 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4514 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4515 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4517 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4518 instead of random values.
4519 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4521 Applied Bernard's patch:
4522 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4523 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4524 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4525 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4526 it the RISC OS way...
4527 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4528 alignment corrected.
4529 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4534 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4538 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4539 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4543 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4544 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4545 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4546 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4547 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4548 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4549 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4550 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4551 in the file(1) says... box).
4554 Before the Changes file
4555 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4556 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4558 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4559 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4560 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4561 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4562 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD