2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
6 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
7 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
8 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
13 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
17 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
18 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
20 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
21 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
22 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
26 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
31 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
35 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
36 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
40 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
44 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
45 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
46 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
50 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
54 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
55 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
59 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
60 manually (Thomas Leonard).
64 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
65 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
66 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
71 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
72 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
76 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
77 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
78 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
79 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
83 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
84 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
85 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
89 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
93 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
97 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
98 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
102 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
103 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
104 reported by Tristan McLeay).
108 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
109 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
111 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
115 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
116 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
117 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
118 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
122 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
123 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
125 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
127 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
132 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
133 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
134 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
135 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
136 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
141 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
146 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
150 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
151 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
153 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
154 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
155 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
156 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
160 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
161 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
162 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
167 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
169 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
174 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
178 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
179 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
183 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
184 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
185 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
189 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
193 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
194 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
195 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
196 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
197 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
201 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
202 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
203 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
205 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
206 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
207 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
208 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
209 though they may be valid UTF-8.
210 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
212 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
213 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
214 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
215 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
216 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
222 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
223 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
225 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
226 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
231 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
232 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
236 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
237 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
242 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
243 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
244 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
245 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
246 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
247 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
249 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
251 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
252 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
253 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
257 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
258 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
262 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
263 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
267 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
268 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
269 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
270 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
274 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
278 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
279 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
283 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
285 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
286 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
287 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
292 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
293 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
294 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
295 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
299 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
301 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
302 function address (Tony Houghton).
306 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
307 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
312 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
316 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
317 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
321 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
322 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
323 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
327 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
331 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
332 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
333 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
334 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
335 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
340 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
345 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
349 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
350 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
354 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
355 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
359 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
363 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
364 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
366 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
370 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
371 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
375 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
376 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
377 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
379 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
381 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
386 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
387 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
391 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
396 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
400 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
401 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
402 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
403 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
405 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
410 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
411 the old one (Stephen Watson).
412 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
413 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
414 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
418 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
423 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
425 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
427 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
428 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
432 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
433 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
435 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
437 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
438 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
439 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
440 reported by Lewis Denizen).
444 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
448 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
449 the binary (Stephen Watson).
453 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
457 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
458 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
459 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
463 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
466 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
468 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
469 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
470 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
471 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
472 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
476 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
480 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
481 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
485 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
489 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
490 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
491 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
493 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
494 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
496 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
497 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
498 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
499 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
503 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
504 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
508 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
509 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
510 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
511 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
516 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
517 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
521 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
522 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
523 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
527 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
528 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
529 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
533 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
537 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
538 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
542 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
543 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
547 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
551 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
552 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
557 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
558 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
562 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
566 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
567 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
568 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
569 when changing to a parent directory.
570 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
574 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
578 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
582 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
584 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
586 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
590 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
592 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
596 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
598 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
602 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
606 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
607 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
608 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
609 reported by Anthony DiSante).
613 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
617 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
621 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
622 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
623 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
624 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
625 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
629 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
630 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
634 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
635 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
640 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
641 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
646 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
647 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
651 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
652 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
656 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
657 (reported by Tony Houghton).
661 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
663 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
664 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
668 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
669 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
673 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
677 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
681 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
685 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
686 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
687 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
691 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
695 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
700 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
704 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
706 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
708 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
712 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
713 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
714 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
716 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
720 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
721 print a warning and then crash.
725 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
726 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
727 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
732 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
736 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
741 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
745 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
749 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
751 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
756 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
757 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
758 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
763 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
764 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
769 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
771 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
772 anyway, and noone had complained).
773 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
774 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
778 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
779 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
780 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
784 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
788 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
789 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
793 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
794 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
795 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
799 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
800 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
801 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
803 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
804 by Simon Templer and others).
808 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
809 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
810 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
814 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
818 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
822 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
823 version number again (Stephen Watson).
827 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
828 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
832 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
836 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
837 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
838 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
839 anyway (Stephen Watson).
843 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
847 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
851 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
853 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
855 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
859 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
860 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
861 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
865 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
866 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
871 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
872 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
873 impossible to change shortcuts.
874 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
875 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
879 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
880 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
885 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
886 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
887 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
891 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
892 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
893 to the functions being missing.
897 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
901 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
905 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
909 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
913 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
914 worries people for no reason.
918 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
922 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
923 files selected (Peter Geer).
927 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
928 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
932 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
936 Added 'Select by Name'.
940 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
944 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
949 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
953 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
955 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
957 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
958 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
962 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
966 Misc changes for next release.
970 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
971 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
975 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
976 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
977 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
978 Watson, reported on #rox).
982 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
983 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
987 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
988 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
992 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
993 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
997 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
998 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1003 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1007 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1009 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1014 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1018 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1019 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1023 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1024 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1028 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1032 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1037 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1038 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1039 for the same reason.
1040 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1041 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1045 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1046 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1050 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1055 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1056 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1060 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1061 support not being detected (igla).
1065 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1069 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1070 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1074 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1078 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1079 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1080 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1081 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1084 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1086 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1087 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1091 New icon for selection ops.
1095 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1099 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1103 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1107 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1108 Added icon theme selector.
1112 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1116 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1120 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1121 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1125 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1126 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1127 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1131 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1132 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1136 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1140 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1141 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1142 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1146 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1150 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1151 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1156 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1157 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1161 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1162 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1166 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1167 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1171 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1175 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1176 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1177 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1181 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1185 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1186 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1187 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1188 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1192 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1193 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1195 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1199 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1203 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1204 bits (Stephen Watson).
1208 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1212 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1216 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1217 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1221 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1225 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1226 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1231 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1232 forward them explicitly.
1236 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1237 help from Götz Waschk).
1241 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1242 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1243 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1247 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1251 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1255 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1259 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1260 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1262 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1264 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1268 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1270 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1272 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1276 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1277 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1278 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1279 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1283 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1287 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1291 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1295 Minor updates to the manual.
1296 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1297 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1301 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1302 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1304 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1306 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1307 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1311 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1312 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1313 reduce flickering effect.
1317 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1321 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1323 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1327 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1328 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1329 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1330 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1331 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1335 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1336 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1340 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1344 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1349 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1350 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1354 Winking now works in List view.
1358 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1362 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1363 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1367 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1368 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1370 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1372 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1376 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1380 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1381 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1383 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1387 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1388 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1392 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1394 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1398 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1399 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1403 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1405 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1409 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1413 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1414 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1419 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1420 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1422 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1424 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1426 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1430 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1434 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1435 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1439 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1444 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1445 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1449 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1451 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1453 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1454 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1459 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1463 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1464 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1465 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1466 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1467 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1468 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1469 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1471 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1475 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1480 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1481 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1485 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1486 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1487 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1488 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1493 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1494 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1495 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1496 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1497 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1498 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1499 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1500 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1501 talent can do something better?
1502 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1503 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1507 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1508 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1509 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1514 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1516 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1517 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1518 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1519 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1520 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1521 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1522 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1523 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1524 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1525 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1526 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1527 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1528 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1532 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1533 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1534 allow fine repositioning.
1535 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1536 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1537 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1538 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1540 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1541 changing the aspect ratio.
1545 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1549 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1553 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1554 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1555 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1559 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1563 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1568 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1569 make sharing icons easier.
1570 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1574 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1575 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1579 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1583 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1585 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1589 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1594 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1599 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1600 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1602 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1603 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1604 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1605 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1609 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1610 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1614 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1618 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1620 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1621 Brian Langenberger).
1625 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1626 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1628 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1632 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1633 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1635 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1637 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1641 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1642 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1647 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1651 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1652 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1653 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1657 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1658 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1662 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1666 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1667 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1671 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1672 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1673 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1677 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1681 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1682 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1683 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1684 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1686 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1687 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1691 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1692 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1696 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1701 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1702 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1706 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1710 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1711 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1712 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1713 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1718 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1719 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1720 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1724 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1728 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1729 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1733 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1734 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1735 since it didn't include the contents.
1736 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1737 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1741 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1745 Style improvements to options window.
1749 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1753 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1755 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1757 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1762 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1763 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1764 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1765 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1769 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1773 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1777 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1778 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1782 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1784 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1789 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1793 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1794 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1795 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1800 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1804 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1808 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1812 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1816 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1817 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1818 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1822 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1823 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1827 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1828 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1833 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1837 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1841 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1846 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1847 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1851 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1852 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1857 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1858 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1862 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1863 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1864 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1868 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1872 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1873 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1874 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1875 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1876 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1880 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1881 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1885 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1886 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1890 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1894 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1895 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1896 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1897 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1898 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1899 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1903 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1904 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1905 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1909 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1910 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1915 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1919 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1921 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1923 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1928 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1932 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1936 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1937 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1942 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1946 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1950 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1951 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1952 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1956 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1960 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1965 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1969 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1970 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1971 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1972 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1976 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1980 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1981 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1985 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1986 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1987 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1991 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1995 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1999 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2000 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2001 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2002 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2003 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2004 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2008 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2009 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2013 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2014 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2015 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2019 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2020 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2024 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2028 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2029 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2030 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2031 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2033 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2035 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2039 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2040 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2041 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2045 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2049 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2050 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2055 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2059 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2063 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2064 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2068 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2069 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2070 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2074 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2075 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2079 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2080 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2084 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2085 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2089 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2093 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2094 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2098 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2100 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2102 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2106 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2110 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2111 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2115 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2119 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2123 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2124 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2125 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2126 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2127 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2128 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2132 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2136 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2138 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2139 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2143 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2144 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2148 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2152 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2153 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2154 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2155 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2157 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2159 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2163 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2164 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2168 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2169 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2170 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2174 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2175 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2176 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2177 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2178 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2179 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2180 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2184 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2185 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2189 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2193 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2197 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2202 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2206 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2207 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2208 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2212 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2213 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2214 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2218 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2219 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2220 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2224 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2225 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2229 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2234 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2235 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2236 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2237 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2238 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2240 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2241 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2245 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2249 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2250 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2251 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2252 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2256 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2257 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2258 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2259 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2260 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2261 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2265 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2269 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2270 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2274 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2275 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2276 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2277 restart (Olli Helenius).
2281 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2285 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2286 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2287 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2292 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2297 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2298 Small and Large sizes.
2302 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2306 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2307 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2311 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2312 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2313 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2314 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2318 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2319 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2320 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2325 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2330 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2331 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2335 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2336 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2341 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2343 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2345 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2349 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2353 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2355 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2357 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2361 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2363 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2364 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2368 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2369 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2373 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2374 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2378 Various speed improvements.
2379 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2383 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2384 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2388 Slight speed increase when starting.
2392 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2396 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2397 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2398 button is no longer supported.
2402 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2406 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2410 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2415 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2416 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2420 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2421 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2422 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2426 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2427 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2428 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2429 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2433 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2434 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2435 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2437 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2442 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2443 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2448 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2452 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2453 and converted to new dialog style.
2457 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2458 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2462 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2463 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2467 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2471 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2473 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2477 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2481 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2482 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2483 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2487 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2488 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2492 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2497 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2501 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2502 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2506 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2507 and Cancel is now Revert.
2508 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2509 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2513 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2517 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2518 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2520 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2521 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2522 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2523 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2527 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2529 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2530 labels display them.
2531 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2534 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2538 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2540 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2544 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2545 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2546 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2550 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2551 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2553 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2555 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2559 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2560 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2564 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2565 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2566 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2567 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2571 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2575 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2576 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2580 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2581 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2586 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2587 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2591 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2592 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2593 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2597 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2598 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2602 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2603 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2604 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2605 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2607 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2612 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2613 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2615 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2617 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2621 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2622 any image (saves time).
2623 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2624 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2625 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2626 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2628 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2629 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2633 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2634 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2636 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2637 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2639 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2644 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2645 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2646 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2647 has stopped accepting STRING.
2651 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2652 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2656 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2661 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2662 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2664 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2665 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2666 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2670 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2671 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2672 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2673 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2674 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2675 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2679 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2680 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2681 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2682 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2683 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2684 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2689 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2690 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2691 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2692 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2697 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2698 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2702 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2703 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2705 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2707 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2708 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2709 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2713 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2714 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2715 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2719 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2720 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2724 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2725 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2729 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2731 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2736 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2737 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2741 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2742 their menus correctly.
2743 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2748 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2749 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2750 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2754 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2755 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2759 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2763 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2766 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2768 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2769 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2770 the toggle menu items from working!
2774 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2776 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2782 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2783 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2787 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2788 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2789 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2790 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2791 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2792 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2796 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2800 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2801 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2805 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2806 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2807 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2811 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2812 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2817 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2819 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2823 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2824 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2825 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2826 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2830 Improved error reporting.
2831 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2835 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2836 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2837 check box and does 'Yes'.
2841 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2842 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2843 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2844 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2849 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2851 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2852 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2854 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2856 Internal changes to options system:
2857 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2858 filer is fully initialised).
2859 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2861 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2863 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2864 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2865 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2866 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2870 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2871 now reclaims the selection.
2872 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2873 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2878 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2879 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2880 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2881 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2882 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2886 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2887 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2889 Code tidying in various places.
2893 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2894 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2899 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2900 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2904 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2905 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2906 edit the file, not the file itself!
2907 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2911 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2912 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2913 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2914 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2915 of the SOAP working draft.
2916 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2917 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2918 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2923 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2924 it was in the displayed area before.
2926 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2929 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2930 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2934 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2935 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2936 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2938 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2939 selection (Andras Mohari).
2943 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2947 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2951 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2952 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2953 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2957 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2961 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2963 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2964 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2965 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2969 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2970 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2975 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2976 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2977 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2981 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2985 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2989 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2990 replaced by a Restart button.
2994 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2995 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2999 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3003 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3007 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3008 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3009 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3013 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3014 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3016 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3017 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3018 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3022 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3023 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3028 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3030 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3031 (requested by Graham Borland).
3032 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3033 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3034 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3038 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3039 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3040 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3041 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3045 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3046 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3047 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3048 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3049 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3050 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3051 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3052 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3053 - Lots of code tidying.
3058 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3059 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3063 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3065 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3067 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3071 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3072 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3076 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3077 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3081 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3082 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3086 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3087 option to access it directly.
3091 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3092 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3093 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3097 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3098 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3099 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3100 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3101 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3102 when the filer is run.
3106 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3107 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3108 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3113 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3117 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3118 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3122 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3124 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3128 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3132 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3133 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3134 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3139 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3140 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3141 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3142 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3143 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3144 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3145 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3149 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3153 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3154 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3158 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3159 of possible actions (Taras).
3160 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3162 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3163 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3167 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3172 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3176 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3179 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3180 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3184 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3185 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3187 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3189 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3190 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3191 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3192 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3196 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3200 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3204 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3208 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3213 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3214 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3215 the first one found.
3216 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3220 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3224 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3225 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3226 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3230 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3231 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3232 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3237 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3238 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3239 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3243 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3245 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3250 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3255 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3259 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3260 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3264 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3266 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3267 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3271 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3275 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3276 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3280 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3281 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3285 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3286 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3288 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3290 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3294 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3298 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3299 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3303 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3307 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3312 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3313 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3317 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3321 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3325 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3327 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3328 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3332 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3333 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3337 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3338 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3339 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3343 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3344 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3348 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3349 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3351 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3353 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3357 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3358 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3359 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3361 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3362 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3364 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3366 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3367 and the default size with no details.
3371 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3372 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3376 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3381 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3386 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3390 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3395 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3396 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3400 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3404 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3405 the button to run it does.
3406 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3407 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3408 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3412 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3413 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3414 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3418 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3422 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3423 and panels into icon.c.
3427 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3428 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3429 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3430 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3434 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3436 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3438 Updated the documentation.
3442 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3443 up if they're too small.
3447 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3449 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3450 (Christopher Arndt).
3451 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3456 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3457 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3461 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3462 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3466 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3467 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3468 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3473 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3478 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3482 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3483 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3488 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3493 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3494 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3498 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3499 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3503 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3507 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3511 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3515 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3516 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3519 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3520 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3525 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3526 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3527 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3528 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3533 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3534 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3536 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3538 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3539 for non-applications.
3543 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3544 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3549 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3553 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3554 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3556 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3560 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3561 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3565 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3566 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3570 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3571 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3575 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3576 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3578 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3579 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3583 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3584 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3586 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3590 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3591 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3594 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3598 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3599 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3603 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3607 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3608 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3611 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3612 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3616 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3620 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3625 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3629 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3630 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3635 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3640 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3644 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3646 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3648 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3649 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3651 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3653 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3654 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3658 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3659 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3660 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3662 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3663 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3667 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3671 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3672 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3676 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3680 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3681 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3683 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3686 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3687 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3688 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3692 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3693 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3698 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3703 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3705 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3708 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3710 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3711 sensible shape itself now.
3713 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3714 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3715 file at all, just a reused inode!
3716 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3717 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3718 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3722 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3726 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3727 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3732 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3733 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3737 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3741 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3742 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3746 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3751 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3755 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3756 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3760 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3761 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3762 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3763 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3764 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3768 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3769 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3770 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3771 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3772 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3776 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3777 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3778 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3782 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3784 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3785 python's portable system.
3786 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3787 set the LANG variable.
3791 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3792 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3794 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3796 Made a few updates to the manual.
3800 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3801 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3803 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3805 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3806 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3810 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3811 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3815 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3816 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3821 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3822 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3823 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3827 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3828 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3832 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3833 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3837 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3838 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3840 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3841 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3842 open... (Denis Manente).
3846 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3850 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3852 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3853 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3854 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3856 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3858 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3860 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3861 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3866 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3867 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3868 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3872 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3873 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3877 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3881 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3885 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3886 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3887 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3891 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3892 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3893 between pinboards...
3895 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3896 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3897 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3901 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3904 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3905 window (Denis Manente).
3907 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3908 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3912 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3913 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3914 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3918 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3921 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3922 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3924 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3929 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3930 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3932 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3936 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3937 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3939 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3941 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3946 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3947 the icon points to as well as its name.
3949 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3950 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3954 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3955 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3956 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3957 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3961 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3965 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3966 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3967 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3971 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3972 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3974 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3975 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3978 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3979 the item after the drag.
3981 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3982 showing where the file really is.
3986 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3987 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3992 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3993 warning is displayed if so.
3995 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3999 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4000 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4001 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4002 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4005 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4006 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4007 works like the panels.
4011 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4012 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4013 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4014 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4015 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4019 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4020 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4021 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4022 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4024 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4029 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4033 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4034 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4037 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4038 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4040 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4043 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4044 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4045 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4046 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4048 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4050 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4051 slightly. Updated the manual.
4053 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4054 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4057 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4058 or bottom panel to make room.
4062 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4067 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4068 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4069 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4070 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4071 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4075 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4077 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4078 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4080 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4084 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4085 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4089 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4093 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4095 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4100 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4101 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4103 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4107 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4108 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4109 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4113 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4114 rewriting the panel system.
4118 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4121 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4122 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4126 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4127 (suggested by James Kermode).
4131 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4132 than as a full path.
4134 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4136 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4137 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4138 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4142 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4143 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4147 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4148 rename something onto another filesystem.
4152 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4154 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4155 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4159 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4163 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4166 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4167 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4169 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4172 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4177 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4178 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4179 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4181 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4182 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4184 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4185 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4190 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4191 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4196 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4197 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4198 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4200 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4201 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4202 of the 'missing image' image.
4206 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4208 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4210 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4215 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4216 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4217 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4218 its name into another program.
4220 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4224 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4226 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4227 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4228 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4230 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4231 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4232 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4235 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4236 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4240 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4241 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4242 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4246 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4247 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4248 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4252 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4253 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4254 and position the icons directly.
4258 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4263 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4264 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4265 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4269 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4273 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4274 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4278 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4283 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4287 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4288 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4289 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4290 some versions of GTK+.
4294 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4299 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4300 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4301 from a sub-sub-menu.
4303 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4304 drawn on a log scale.
4308 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4309 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4310 happy with the UI yet though...
4312 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4313 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4314 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4318 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4319 by Stephen Harrison).
4321 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4323 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4324 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4325 standard types are in Choices.
4326 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4328 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4329 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4330 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4335 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4336 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4337 shell command minibuffer.
4341 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4342 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4343 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4344 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4345 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4347 Default search path for Choices is now:
4348 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4350 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4351 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4352 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4356 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4357 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4361 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4362 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4363 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4368 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4369 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4370 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4373 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4375 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4376 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4377 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4379 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4380 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4384 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4385 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4386 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4387 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4392 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4393 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4394 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4396 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4398 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4399 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4403 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4404 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4405 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4410 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4411 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4414 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4416 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4421 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4426 Added GNU gettext support.
4427 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4431 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4433 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4435 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4440 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4444 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4445 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4447 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4448 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4453 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4454 onto the directory and winks the file.
4458 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4459 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4460 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4462 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4463 instead of random values.
4464 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4466 Applied Bernard's patch:
4467 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4468 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4469 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4470 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4471 it the RISC OS way...
4472 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4473 alignment corrected.
4474 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4479 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4483 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4484 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4488 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4489 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4490 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4491 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4492 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4493 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4494 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4495 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4496 in the file(1) says... box).
4499 Before the Changes file
4500 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4501 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4503 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4504 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4505 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4506 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4507 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD