2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
5 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
7 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
11 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
12 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
14 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
16 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
17 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
18 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
19 reported by Lewis Denizen).
23 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
27 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
28 the binary (Stephen Watson).
32 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
36 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
37 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
38 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
42 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
45 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
47 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
48 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
49 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
50 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
51 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
55 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
59 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
60 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
64 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
68 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
69 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
70 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
72 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
73 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
75 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
76 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
77 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
78 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
82 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
83 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
87 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
88 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
89 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
90 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
95 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
96 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
100 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
101 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
102 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
106 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
107 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
108 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
112 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
116 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
117 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
121 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
122 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
126 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
130 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
131 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
136 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
137 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
141 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
145 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
146 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
147 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
148 when changing to a parent directory.
149 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
153 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
157 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
161 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
163 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
165 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
169 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
171 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
175 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
177 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
181 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
185 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
186 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
187 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
188 reported by Anthony DiSante).
192 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
196 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
200 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
201 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
202 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
203 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
204 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
208 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
209 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
213 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
214 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
219 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
220 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
225 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
226 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
230 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
231 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
235 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
236 (reported by Tony Houghton).
240 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
242 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
243 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
247 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
248 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
252 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
256 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
260 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
264 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
265 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
266 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
270 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
274 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
279 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
283 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
285 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
287 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
291 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
292 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
293 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
295 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
299 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
300 print a warning and then crash.
304 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
305 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
306 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
311 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
315 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
320 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
324 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
328 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
330 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
335 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
336 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
337 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
342 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
343 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
348 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
350 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
351 anyway, and noone had complained).
352 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
353 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
357 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
358 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
359 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
363 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
367 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
368 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
372 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
373 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
374 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
378 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
379 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
380 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
382 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
383 by Simon Templer and others).
387 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
388 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
389 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
393 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
397 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
401 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
402 version number again (Stephen Watson).
406 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
407 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
411 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
415 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
416 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
417 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
418 anyway (Stephen Watson).
422 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
426 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
430 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
432 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
434 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
438 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
439 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
440 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
444 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
445 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
450 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
451 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
452 impossible to change shortcuts.
453 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
454 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
458 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
459 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
464 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
465 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
466 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
470 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
471 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
472 to the functions being missing.
476 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
480 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
484 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
488 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
492 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
493 worries people for no reason.
497 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
501 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
502 files selected (Peter Geer).
506 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
507 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
511 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
515 Added 'Select by Name'.
519 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
523 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
528 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
532 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
534 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
536 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
537 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
541 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
545 Misc changes for next release.
549 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
550 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
554 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
555 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
556 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
557 Watson, reported on #rox).
561 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
562 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
566 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
567 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
571 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
572 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
576 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
577 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
582 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
586 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
588 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
593 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
597 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
598 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
602 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
603 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
607 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
611 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
616 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
617 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
619 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
620 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
624 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
625 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
629 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
634 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
635 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
639 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
640 support not being detected (igla).
644 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
648 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
649 dialog (Stephen Watson).
653 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
657 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
658 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
659 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
660 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
663 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
665 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
666 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
670 New icon for selection ops.
674 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
678 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
682 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
686 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
687 Added icon theme selector.
691 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
695 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
699 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
700 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
704 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
705 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
706 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
710 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
711 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
715 Allow ejecting mounted media.
719 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
720 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
721 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
725 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
729 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
730 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
735 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
736 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
740 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
741 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
745 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
746 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
750 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
754 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
755 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
756 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
760 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
764 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
765 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
766 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
767 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
771 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
772 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
774 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
778 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
782 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
783 bits (Stephen Watson).
787 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
791 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
795 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
796 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
800 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
804 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
805 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
810 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
811 forward them explicitly.
815 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
816 help from Götz Waschk).
820 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
821 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
822 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
826 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
830 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
834 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
838 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
839 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
841 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
843 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
847 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
849 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
851 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
855 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
856 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
857 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
858 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
862 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
866 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
870 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
874 Minor updates to the manual.
875 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
876 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
880 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
881 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
883 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
885 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
886 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
890 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
891 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
892 reduce flickering effect.
896 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
900 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
902 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
906 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
907 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
908 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
909 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
910 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
914 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
915 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
919 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
923 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
928 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
929 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
933 Winking now works in List view.
937 Lasso selections now work in List view.
941 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
942 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
946 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
947 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
949 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
951 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
955 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
959 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
960 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
962 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
966 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
967 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
971 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
973 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
977 Centre the image for iconified windows.
978 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
982 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
984 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
988 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
992 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
993 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
998 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
999 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1001 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1003 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1005 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1009 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1013 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1014 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1018 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1023 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1024 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1028 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1030 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1032 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1033 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1038 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1042 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1043 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1044 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1045 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1046 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1047 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1048 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1050 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1054 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1059 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1060 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1064 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1065 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1066 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1067 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1072 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1073 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1074 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1075 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1076 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1077 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1078 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1079 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1080 talent can do something better?
1081 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1082 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1086 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1087 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1088 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1093 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1095 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1096 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1097 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1098 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1099 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1100 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1101 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1102 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1103 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1104 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1105 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1106 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1107 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1111 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1112 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1113 allow fine repositioning.
1114 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1115 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1116 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1117 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1119 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1120 changing the aspect ratio.
1124 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1128 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1132 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1133 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1134 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1138 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1142 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1147 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1148 make sharing icons easier.
1149 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1153 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1154 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1158 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1162 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1164 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1168 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1173 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1178 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1179 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1181 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1182 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1183 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1184 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1188 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1189 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1193 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1197 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1199 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1200 Brian Langenberger).
1204 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1205 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1207 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1211 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1212 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1214 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1216 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1220 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1221 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1226 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1230 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1231 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1232 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1236 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1237 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1241 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1245 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1246 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1250 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1251 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1252 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1256 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1260 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1261 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1262 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1263 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1265 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1266 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1270 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1271 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1275 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1280 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1281 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1285 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1289 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1290 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1291 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1292 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1297 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1298 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1299 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1303 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1307 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1308 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1312 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1313 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1314 since it didn't include the contents.
1315 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1316 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1320 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1324 Style improvements to options window.
1328 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1332 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1334 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1336 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1341 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1342 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1343 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1344 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1348 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1352 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1356 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1357 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1361 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1363 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1368 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1372 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1373 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1374 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1379 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1383 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1387 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1391 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1395 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1396 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1397 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1401 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1402 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1406 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1407 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1412 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1416 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1420 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1425 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1426 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1430 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1431 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1436 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1437 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1441 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1442 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1443 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1447 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1451 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1452 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1453 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1454 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1455 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1459 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1460 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1464 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1465 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1469 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1473 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1474 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1475 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1476 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1477 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1478 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1482 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1483 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1484 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1488 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1489 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1494 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1498 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1500 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1502 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1507 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1511 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1515 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1516 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1521 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1525 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1529 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1530 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1531 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1535 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1539 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1544 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1548 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1549 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1550 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1551 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1555 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1559 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1560 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1564 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1565 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1566 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1570 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1574 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1578 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1579 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1580 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1581 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1582 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1583 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1587 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1588 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1592 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1593 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1594 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1598 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1599 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1603 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1607 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1608 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1609 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1610 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1612 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1614 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1618 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1619 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1620 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1624 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1628 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1629 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1634 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1638 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1642 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1643 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1647 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1648 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1649 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1653 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1654 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1658 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1659 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1663 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1664 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1668 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1672 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1673 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1677 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1679 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1681 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1685 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1689 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1690 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1694 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1698 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1702 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1703 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1704 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1705 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1706 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1707 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1711 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1715 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1717 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1718 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1722 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1723 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1727 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1731 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1732 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1733 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1734 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1736 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1738 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1742 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1743 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1747 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1748 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1749 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1753 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1754 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1755 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1756 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1757 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1758 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1759 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1763 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1764 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1768 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1772 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1776 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1781 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1785 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1786 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1787 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1791 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1792 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1793 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1797 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1798 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1799 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1803 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1804 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1808 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1813 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1814 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1815 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1816 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1817 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1819 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1820 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1824 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1828 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1829 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1830 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1831 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1835 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1836 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1837 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1838 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1839 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1840 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1844 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1848 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1849 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1853 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1854 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1855 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1856 restart (Olli Helenius).
1860 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1864 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1865 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1866 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1871 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1876 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1877 Small and Large sizes.
1881 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1885 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1886 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1890 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1891 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1892 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1893 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1897 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1898 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1899 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1904 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1909 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1910 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1914 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1915 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1920 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1922 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1924 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1928 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1932 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1934 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1936 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1940 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1942 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1943 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1947 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1948 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1952 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1953 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1957 Various speed improvements.
1958 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1962 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1963 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1967 Slight speed increase when starting.
1971 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1975 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1976 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1977 button is no longer supported.
1981 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1985 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1989 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1994 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1995 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1999 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2000 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2001 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2005 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2006 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2007 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2008 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2012 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2013 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2014 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2016 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2021 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2022 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2027 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2031 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2032 and converted to new dialog style.
2036 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2037 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2041 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2042 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2046 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2050 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2052 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2056 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2060 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2061 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2062 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2066 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2067 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2071 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2076 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2080 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2081 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2085 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2086 and Cancel is now Revert.
2087 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2088 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2092 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2096 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2097 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2099 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2100 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2101 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2102 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2106 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2108 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2109 labels display them.
2110 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2113 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2117 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2119 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2123 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2124 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2125 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2129 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2130 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2132 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2134 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2138 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2139 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2143 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2144 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2145 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2146 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2150 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2154 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2155 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2159 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2160 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2165 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2166 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2170 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2171 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2172 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2176 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2177 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2181 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2182 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2183 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2184 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2186 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2191 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2192 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2194 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2196 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2200 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2201 any image (saves time).
2202 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2203 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2204 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2205 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2207 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2208 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2212 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2213 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2215 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2216 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2218 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2223 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2224 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2225 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2226 has stopped accepting STRING.
2230 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2231 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2235 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2240 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2241 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2243 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2244 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2245 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2249 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2250 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2251 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2252 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2253 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2254 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2258 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2259 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2260 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2261 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2262 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2263 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2268 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2269 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2270 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2271 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2276 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2277 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2281 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2282 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2284 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2286 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2287 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2288 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2292 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2293 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2294 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2298 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2299 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2303 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2304 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2308 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2310 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2315 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2316 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2320 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2321 their menus correctly.
2322 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2327 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2328 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2329 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2333 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2334 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2338 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2342 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2345 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2347 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2348 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2349 the toggle menu items from working!
2353 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2355 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2361 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2362 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2366 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2367 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2368 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2369 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2370 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2371 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2375 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2379 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2380 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2384 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2385 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2386 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2390 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2391 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2396 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2398 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2402 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2403 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2404 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2405 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2409 Improved error reporting.
2410 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2414 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2415 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2416 check box and does 'Yes'.
2420 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2421 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2422 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2423 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2428 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2430 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2431 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2433 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2435 Internal changes to options system:
2436 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2437 filer is fully initialised).
2438 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2440 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2442 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2443 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2444 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2445 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2449 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2450 now reclaims the selection.
2451 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2452 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2457 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2458 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2459 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2460 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2461 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2465 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2466 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2468 Code tidying in various places.
2472 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2473 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2478 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2479 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2483 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2484 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2485 edit the file, not the file itself!
2486 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2490 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2491 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2492 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2493 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2494 of the SOAP working draft.
2495 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2496 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2497 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2502 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2503 it was in the displayed area before.
2505 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2508 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2509 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2513 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2514 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2515 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2517 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2518 selection (Andras Mohari).
2522 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2526 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2530 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2531 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2532 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2536 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2540 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2542 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2543 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2544 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2548 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2549 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2554 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2555 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2556 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2560 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2564 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2568 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2569 replaced by a Restart button.
2573 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2574 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2578 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2582 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2586 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2587 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2588 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2592 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2593 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2595 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2596 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2597 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2601 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2602 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2607 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2609 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2610 (requested by Graham Borland).
2611 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2612 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2613 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2617 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2618 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2619 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2620 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2624 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2625 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2626 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2627 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2628 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2629 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2630 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2631 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2632 - Lots of code tidying.
2637 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2638 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2642 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2644 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2646 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2650 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2651 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2655 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2656 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2660 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2661 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2665 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2666 option to access it directly.
2670 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2671 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2672 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2676 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2677 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2678 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2679 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2680 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2681 when the filer is run.
2685 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2686 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2687 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2692 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2696 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2697 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2701 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2703 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2707 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2711 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2712 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2713 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2718 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2719 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2720 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2721 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2722 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2723 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2724 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2728 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2732 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2733 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2737 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2738 of possible actions (Taras).
2739 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2741 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2742 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2746 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2751 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2755 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2758 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2759 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2763 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2764 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2766 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2768 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2769 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2770 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2771 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2775 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2779 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2783 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2787 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2792 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2793 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2794 the first one found.
2795 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2799 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2803 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2804 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2805 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2809 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2810 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2811 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2816 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2817 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2818 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2822 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2824 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2829 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2834 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2838 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2839 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2843 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2845 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2846 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2850 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2854 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2855 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2859 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2860 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2864 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2865 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2867 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2869 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2873 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2877 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2878 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2882 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2886 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2891 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2892 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2896 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2900 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2904 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2906 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2907 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2911 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2912 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2916 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2917 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2918 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2922 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2923 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2927 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2928 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2930 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2932 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2936 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2937 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2938 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2940 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2941 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2943 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2945 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2946 and the default size with no details.
2950 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2951 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2955 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2960 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2965 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2969 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2974 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2975 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2979 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2983 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2984 the button to run it does.
2985 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2986 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2987 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2991 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2992 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2993 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2997 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3001 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3002 and panels into icon.c.
3006 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3007 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3008 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3009 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3013 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3015 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3017 Updated the documentation.
3021 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3022 up if they're too small.
3026 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3028 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3029 (Christopher Arndt).
3030 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3035 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3036 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3040 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3041 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3045 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3046 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3047 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3052 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3057 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3061 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3062 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3067 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3072 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3073 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3077 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3078 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3082 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3086 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3090 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3094 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3095 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3098 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3099 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3104 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3105 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3106 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3107 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3112 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3113 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3115 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3117 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3118 for non-applications.
3122 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3123 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3128 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3132 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3133 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3135 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3139 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3140 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3144 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3145 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3149 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3150 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3154 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3155 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3157 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3158 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3162 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3163 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3165 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3169 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3170 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3173 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3177 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3178 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3182 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3186 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3187 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3190 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3191 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3195 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3199 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3204 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3208 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3209 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3214 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3219 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3223 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3225 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3227 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3228 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3230 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3232 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3233 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3237 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3238 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3239 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3241 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3242 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3246 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3250 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3251 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3255 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3259 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3260 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3262 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3265 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3266 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3267 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3271 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3272 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3277 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3282 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3284 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3287 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3289 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3290 sensible shape itself now.
3292 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3293 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3294 file at all, just a reused inode!
3295 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3296 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3297 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3301 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3305 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3306 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3311 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3312 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3316 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3320 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3321 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3325 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3330 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3334 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3335 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3339 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3340 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3341 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3342 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3343 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3347 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3348 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3349 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3350 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3351 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3355 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3356 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3357 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3361 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3363 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3364 python's portable system.
3365 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3366 set the LANG variable.
3370 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3371 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3373 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3375 Made a few updates to the manual.
3379 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3380 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3382 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3384 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3385 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3389 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3390 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3394 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3395 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3400 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3401 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3402 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3406 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3407 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3411 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3412 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3416 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3417 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3419 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3420 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3421 open... (Denis Manente).
3425 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3429 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3431 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3432 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3433 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3435 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3437 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3439 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3440 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3445 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3446 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3447 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3451 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3452 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3456 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3460 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3464 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3465 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3466 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3470 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3471 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3472 between pinboards...
3474 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3475 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3476 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3480 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3483 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3484 window (Denis Manente).
3486 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3487 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3491 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3492 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3493 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3497 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3500 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3501 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3503 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3508 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3509 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3511 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3515 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3516 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3518 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3520 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3525 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3526 the icon points to as well as its name.
3528 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3529 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3533 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3534 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3535 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3536 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3540 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3544 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3545 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3546 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3550 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3551 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3553 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3554 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3557 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3558 the item after the drag.
3560 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3561 showing where the file really is.
3565 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3566 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3571 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3572 warning is displayed if so.
3574 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3578 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3579 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3580 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3581 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3584 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3585 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3586 works like the panels.
3590 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3591 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3592 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3593 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3594 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3598 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3599 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3600 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3601 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3603 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3608 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3612 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3613 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3616 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3617 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3619 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3622 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3623 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3624 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3625 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3627 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3629 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3630 slightly. Updated the manual.
3632 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3633 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3636 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3637 or bottom panel to make room.
3641 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3646 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3647 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3648 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3649 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3650 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3654 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3656 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3657 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3659 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3663 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3664 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3668 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3672 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3674 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3679 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3680 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3682 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3686 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3687 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3688 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3692 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3693 rewriting the panel system.
3697 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3700 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3701 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3705 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3706 (suggested by James Kermode).
3710 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3711 than as a full path.
3713 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3715 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3716 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3717 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3721 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3722 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3726 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3727 rename something onto another filesystem.
3731 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3733 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3734 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3738 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3742 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3745 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3746 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3748 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3751 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3756 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3757 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3758 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3760 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3761 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3763 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3764 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3769 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3770 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3775 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3776 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3777 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3779 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3780 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3781 of the 'missing image' image.
3785 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3787 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3789 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3794 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3795 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3796 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3797 its name into another program.
3799 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3803 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3805 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3806 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3807 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3809 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3810 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3811 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3814 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3815 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3819 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3820 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3821 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3825 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3826 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3827 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3831 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3832 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3833 and position the icons directly.
3837 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3842 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3843 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3844 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3848 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3852 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3853 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3857 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3862 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3866 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3867 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3868 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3869 some versions of GTK+.
3873 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3878 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3879 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3880 from a sub-sub-menu.
3882 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3883 drawn on a log scale.
3887 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3888 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3889 happy with the UI yet though...
3891 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3892 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3893 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3897 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3898 by Stephen Harrison).
3900 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3902 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3903 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3904 standard types are in Choices.
3905 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3907 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3908 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3909 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3914 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3915 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3916 shell command minibuffer.
3920 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3921 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3922 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3923 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3924 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3926 Default search path for Choices is now:
3927 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3929 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3930 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3931 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3935 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3936 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3940 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3941 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3942 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3947 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3948 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3949 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3952 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3954 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3955 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3956 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3958 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3959 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3963 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3964 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3965 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3966 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3971 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3972 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3973 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3975 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3977 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3978 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3982 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3983 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3984 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3989 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3990 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3993 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3995 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4000 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4005 Added GNU gettext support.
4006 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4010 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4012 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4014 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4019 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4023 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4024 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4026 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4027 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4032 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4033 onto the directory and winks the file.
4037 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4038 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4039 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4041 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4042 instead of random values.
4043 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4045 Applied Bernard's patch:
4046 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4047 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4048 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4049 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4050 it the RISC OS way...
4051 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4052 alignment corrected.
4053 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4058 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4062 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4063 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4067 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4068 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4069 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4070 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4071 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4072 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4073 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4074 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4075 in the file(1) says... box).
4078 Before the Changes file
4079 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4080 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4082 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4083 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4084 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4085 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4086 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD