2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
5 * Note: you don't need to update file this when committing a change.
6 * Just add a log message with the commit (with your name in brackets at
7 * the end) and I'll update this file only when making a new release.
10 Release 2.5 (2006-07-07)
14 - Allow pinboard and panel icons to be locked (Dennis Tomas, suggested
17 - Display extra information in properties box for desktop files (Stephen
20 - Allow setting icons in the AppInfo.xml file (Dennis Tomas). Example:
23 <Item option="--options" icon="gtk-preferences">...</Item>
26 - Added SetIcon and UnsetIcon SOAP calls (Jonatan Liljedahl). With this
27 you can have your volume manager (like ivman) set icons for the
28 mounted media that represents what type of media it is (cdr, cdrw, usb
31 - Right-clicking on the Show/hide button now turns thumbnails on and off
34 - Added options to change the "mount" and "umount" commands (Thomas
35 Leonard). This may be useful for using programs such as "pmount" and
36 "pumount" (which allow mounting removable media without an fstab
37 entry, or encrypted filesystems).
39 - Added a 'Manage Thumbnails' link to the Options box (Thomas Leonard).
40 If 0launch isn't available, tell the user the URL of the program we
41 were trying to run so they can get it themselves. Tell users about
42 right-click behaviour in a tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
47 - Removed separator from icon properties dialog box (Thomas Leonard).
49 - Updated Word MIME type for new MIME database (Keith Warno).
51 - When the handler for a MIME type is a symlink to a program, run the
52 program using the target of the symlink rather than the link itself so
53 that programs like gvim see the right name and behave correctly
54 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Keith Warno).
56 - Use full URI, not local path, for DocBook stylesheet (Pär Forsling).
58 - When setting or clearing a globicon, redraw pinboard and panel icons
61 - When loading MIME icons from the current theme only get the pathname
62 from GTK, but actually load it through our own cache (Thomas Leonard).
63 GTK was loading a new copy of the image each time!
65 - Changed name of save settings menu option to be more explicit (Stephen
68 - In many .desktop files there is no "%F" or similar parameter to the
69 "Exec" entry, although the application can open files. Work around
70 this problem by adding the arguments to the end of the command in this
73 - Added Zero Install source interface (Thomas Leonard). Run this with
74 0launch to compile against the GTK and GLib 2.4 headers (which will be
75 downloaded automatically). This produces a binary that runs with these
76 older versions, as well as with all later releases. Note that this has
77 been somewhat superceded by the GTK-2.4 compatibility environment:
79 http://0install.net/2006/interfaces/GTK-2.4.xml
81 - New type for XML files; "application/" rather than "text/" to match
82 freedesktop.org updates (Thomas Leonard).
84 - Moved test for a hidden file into its own function. Allows us to
85 define additional tests as to whether a file is hidden, rather than
86 just the first character of the file name (Stephen Watson).
88 - Updated source file headers by removing the $Id$ line, updating the
89 year and clarifying the copyrights (Thomas Leonard).
91 - The monospace font for the list view is now configurable via a
92 ViewDetails::mono-font gtkrc entry (Stephen Watson).
94 - When iconfiying a window, try to find space on the pinboard of the
95 current screen first (Tony Houghton).
97 - Updated the help text for rox --help (Andras Mohari).
99 - Use a monospace font for the size and permissions columsn in the list
100 view (Andras Mohari).
105 - When a panel icon's image changed, the display didn't update (Thomas
106 Leonard, reported by Dennis Tomas).
108 - Any line in a .desktop file would be ignored if there was a blank line
109 directly before it (Dennis Tomas).
111 - Escape " characters when generating translations for the Options.xml
112 file (Andras Mohari).
114 - When reading the output from 'du' for the Properties box, set the
115 channel's encoding to NULL to avoid errors with non-UTF-8 filenames
118 - When running ROX-Filer for the first time ever, don't tell users that
119 the Choices directory has been migrated unless they already had one.
120 Also, don't bother creating symlinks to the new locations in this
121 case. Other applications have had a while to catch up to the new
122 system, and the message is rather confusing to new users (Thomas
128 - Updated Chinese Translations (Babyfai Cheung).
130 - Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
132 - Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
134 - Updated Hungarian translation and converted to UTF-8 (Andras Mohari).
136 - Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
138 - Updated Russian translation (Nikita E. Shalaev).
140 - Added Ukrainian translation (Yourko).
142 - Added Vietnamese translation (Xomhau Newnick).
144 - Updated instructions for creating a translation (reported by Yourko).
146 - Make sure all the help message is translatable (Stephen Watson,
147 reported by Andras Mohari).
151 30-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4.1)
153 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
157 Some .desktop files put ".png" after the icon name, which prevents the icon
158 from being found. Ignore it (Thomass Leonard; reported by Peter).
162 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
166 If we can't find libc.so.6 for xattr support, try libc.so in case we only have
167 uClib (Lucas Correia Villa Real).
171 Allow .desktop files to be used as run actions (Thomas Leonard).
175 Bugfix: New detail crashes cleanice theme (reported by Andras Mohari; reported
176 as CleanIce bug #1383457). Try another value...
180 Highlight icons using the theme's preferred colour instead of always using
181 blue (Andras Mohari).
182 Bugfix: Don't set style detail to "base" when highlighting items in a
183 Collection, as it confuses GTK's lighthouseblue theme engine
188 Bugfix: Changing the display style crashes the filer with GTK >= 2.8.9 because
189 it sends a selection changed event before the view has finished
190 initialising (Thomas Leonard; reported by Tobias Kieslich).
191 Removed some done entries from the TODO file (Stephen Watson).
193 13-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4)
195 Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
199 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
200 Make Path optional in PanelRemove SOAP call, allowing removal of items based
201 only on their label (Jonatan Liljedahl).
202 Bugfix: The install script failed to compile ROX-Filer on Debian systems, due
203 to a bug in recent versions of xterm (Vincent Lefèvre). Added a
205 Bugfix: On 64-bit systems communication between ROX-Filer processes didn't
206 work, because GDK uses sizeof(long) bytes (not always 4 bytes) to store
207 a 32 bit property (Lucas Hazel).
211 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
212 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
213 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
218 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
222 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
223 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
225 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
226 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
227 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
231 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
236 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
240 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
241 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
245 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
249 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
250 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
251 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
255 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
259 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
260 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
264 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
265 manually (Thomas Leonard).
269 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
270 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
271 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
276 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
277 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
281 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
282 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
283 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
284 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
288 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
289 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
290 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
294 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
298 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
302 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
303 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
307 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
308 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
309 reported by Tristan McLeay).
313 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
314 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
316 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
320 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
321 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
322 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
323 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
327 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
328 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
330 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
332 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
337 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
338 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
339 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
340 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
341 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
346 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
351 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
355 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
356 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
358 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
359 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
360 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
361 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
365 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
366 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
367 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
372 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
374 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
379 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
383 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
384 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
388 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
389 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
390 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
394 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
398 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
399 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
400 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
401 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
402 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
406 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
407 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
408 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
410 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
411 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
412 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
413 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
414 though they may be valid UTF-8.
415 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
417 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
418 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
419 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
420 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
421 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
427 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
428 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
430 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
431 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
436 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
437 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
441 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
442 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
447 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
448 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
449 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
450 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
451 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
452 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
454 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
456 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
457 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
458 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
462 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
463 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
467 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
468 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
472 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
473 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
474 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
475 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
479 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
483 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
484 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
488 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
490 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
491 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
492 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
497 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
498 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
499 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
500 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
504 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
506 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
507 function address (Tony Houghton).
511 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
512 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
517 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
521 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
522 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
526 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
527 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
528 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
532 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
536 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
537 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
538 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
539 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
540 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
545 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
550 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
554 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
555 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
559 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
560 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
564 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
568 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
569 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
571 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
575 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
576 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
580 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
581 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
582 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
584 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
586 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
591 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
592 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
596 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
601 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
605 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
606 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
607 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
608 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
610 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
615 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
616 the old one (Stephen Watson).
617 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
618 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
619 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
623 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
628 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
630 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
632 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
633 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
637 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
638 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
640 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
642 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
643 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
644 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
645 reported by Lewis Denizen).
649 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
653 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
654 the binary (Stephen Watson).
658 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
662 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
663 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
664 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
668 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
671 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
673 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
674 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
675 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
676 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
677 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
681 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
685 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
686 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
690 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
694 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
695 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
696 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
698 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
699 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
701 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
702 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
703 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
704 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
708 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
709 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
713 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
714 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
715 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
716 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
721 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
722 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
726 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
727 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
728 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
732 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
733 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
734 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
738 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
742 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
743 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
747 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
748 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
752 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
756 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
757 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
762 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
763 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
767 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
771 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
772 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
773 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
774 when changing to a parent directory.
775 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
779 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
783 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
787 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
789 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
791 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
795 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
797 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
801 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
803 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
807 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
811 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
812 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
813 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
814 reported by Anthony DiSante).
818 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
822 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
826 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
827 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
828 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
829 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
830 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
834 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
835 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
839 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
840 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
845 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
846 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
851 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
852 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
856 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
857 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
861 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
862 (reported by Tony Houghton).
866 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
868 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
869 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
873 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
874 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
878 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
882 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
886 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
890 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
891 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
892 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
896 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
900 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
905 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
909 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
911 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
913 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
917 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
918 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
919 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
921 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
925 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
926 print a warning and then crash.
930 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
931 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
932 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
937 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
941 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
946 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
950 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
954 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
956 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
961 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
962 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
963 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
968 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
969 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
974 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
976 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
977 anyway, and noone had complained).
978 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
979 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
983 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
984 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
985 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
989 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
993 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
994 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
998 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
999 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
1000 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
1004 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
1005 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
1006 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
1008 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
1009 by Simon Templer and others).
1013 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
1014 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
1015 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
1019 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
1023 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
1027 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
1028 version number again (Stephen Watson).
1032 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
1033 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
1037 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
1041 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
1042 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
1043 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
1044 anyway (Stephen Watson).
1048 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1052 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1056 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1058 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
1060 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
1064 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
1065 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
1066 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
1070 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
1071 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
1076 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
1077 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
1078 impossible to change shortcuts.
1079 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
1080 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
1084 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
1085 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
1090 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
1091 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
1092 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1096 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
1097 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
1098 to the functions being missing.
1102 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
1106 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
1110 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
1114 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
1118 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
1119 worries people for no reason.
1123 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
1127 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
1128 files selected (Peter Geer).
1132 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
1133 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
1137 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
1141 Added 'Select by Name'.
1145 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
1149 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
1154 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1158 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1160 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
1162 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1163 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1167 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1171 Misc changes for next release.
1175 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
1176 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
1180 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
1181 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
1182 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
1183 Watson, reported on #rox).
1187 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
1188 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
1192 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
1193 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
1197 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
1198 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
1202 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
1203 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1208 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1212 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1214 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1219 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1223 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1224 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1228 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1229 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1233 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1237 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1242 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1243 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1244 for the same reason.
1245 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1246 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1250 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1251 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1255 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1260 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1261 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1265 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1266 support not being detected (igla).
1270 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1274 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1275 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1279 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1283 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1284 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1285 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1286 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1289 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1291 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1292 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1296 New icon for selection ops.
1300 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1304 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1308 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1312 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1313 Added icon theme selector.
1317 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1321 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1325 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1326 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1330 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1331 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1332 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1336 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1337 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1341 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1345 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1346 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1347 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1351 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1355 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1356 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1361 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1362 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1366 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1367 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1371 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1372 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1376 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1380 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1381 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1382 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1386 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1390 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1391 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1392 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1393 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1397 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1398 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1400 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1404 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1408 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1409 bits (Stephen Watson).
1413 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1417 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1421 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1422 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1426 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1430 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1431 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1436 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1437 forward them explicitly.
1441 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1442 help from Götz Waschk).
1446 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1447 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1448 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1452 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1456 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1460 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1464 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1465 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1467 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1469 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1473 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1475 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1477 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1481 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1482 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1483 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1484 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1488 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1492 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1496 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1500 Minor updates to the manual.
1501 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1502 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1506 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1507 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1509 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1511 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1512 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1516 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1517 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1518 reduce flickering effect.
1522 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1526 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1528 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1532 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1533 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1534 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1535 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1536 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1540 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1541 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1545 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1549 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1554 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1555 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1559 Winking now works in List view.
1563 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1567 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1568 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1572 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1573 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1575 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1577 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1581 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1585 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1586 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1588 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1592 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1593 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1597 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1599 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1603 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1604 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1608 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1610 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1614 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1618 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1619 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1624 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1625 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1627 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1629 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1631 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1635 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1639 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1640 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1644 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1649 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1650 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1654 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1656 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1658 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1659 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1664 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1668 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1669 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1670 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1671 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1672 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1673 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1674 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1676 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1680 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1685 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1686 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1690 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1691 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1692 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1693 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1698 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1699 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1700 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1701 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1702 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1703 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1704 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1705 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1706 talent can do something better?
1707 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1708 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1712 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1713 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1714 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1719 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1721 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1722 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1723 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1724 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1725 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1726 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1727 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1728 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1729 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1730 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1731 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1732 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1733 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1737 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1738 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1739 allow fine repositioning.
1740 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1741 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1742 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1743 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1745 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1746 changing the aspect ratio.
1750 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1754 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1758 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1759 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1760 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1764 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1768 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1773 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1774 make sharing icons easier.
1775 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1779 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1780 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1784 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1788 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1790 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1794 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1799 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1804 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1805 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1807 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1808 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1809 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1810 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1814 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1815 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1819 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1823 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1825 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1826 Brian Langenberger).
1830 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1831 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1833 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1837 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1838 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1840 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1842 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1846 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1847 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1852 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1856 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1857 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1858 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1862 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1863 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1867 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1871 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1872 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1876 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1877 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1878 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1882 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1886 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1887 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1888 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1889 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1891 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1892 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1896 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1897 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1901 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1906 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1907 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1911 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1915 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1916 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1917 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1918 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1923 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1924 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1925 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1929 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1933 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1934 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1938 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1939 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1940 since it didn't include the contents.
1941 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1942 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1946 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1950 Style improvements to options window.
1954 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1958 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1960 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1962 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1967 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1968 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1969 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1970 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1974 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1978 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1982 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1983 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1987 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1989 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1994 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1998 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1999 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
2000 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
2005 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
2009 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
2013 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
2017 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
2021 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
2022 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
2023 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
2027 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
2028 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
2032 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
2033 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
2038 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
2042 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
2046 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
2051 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
2052 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
2056 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
2057 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
2062 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
2063 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
2067 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
2068 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
2069 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
2073 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2077 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
2078 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
2079 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
2080 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
2081 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
2085 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
2086 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2090 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2091 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2095 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2099 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
2100 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
2101 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
2102 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2103 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
2104 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
2108 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2109 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2110 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
2114 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
2115 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
2120 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2124 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2126 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
2128 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
2133 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
2137 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
2141 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
2142 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
2147 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
2151 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2155 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
2156 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
2157 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2161 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2165 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
2170 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2174 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
2175 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
2176 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
2177 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2181 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
2185 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2186 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
2190 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
2191 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
2192 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
2196 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
2200 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
2204 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2205 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2206 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2207 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2208 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2209 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2213 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2214 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2218 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2219 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2220 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2224 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2225 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2229 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2233 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2234 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2235 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2236 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2238 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2240 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2244 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2245 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2246 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2250 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2254 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2255 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2260 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2264 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2268 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2269 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2273 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2274 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2275 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2279 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2280 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2284 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2285 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2289 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2290 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2294 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2298 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2299 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2303 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2305 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2307 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2311 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2315 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2316 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2320 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2324 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2328 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2329 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2330 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2331 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2332 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2333 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2337 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2341 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2343 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2344 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2348 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2349 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2353 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2357 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2358 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2359 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2360 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2362 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2364 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2368 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2369 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2373 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2374 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2375 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2379 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2380 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2381 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2382 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2383 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2384 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2385 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2389 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2390 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2394 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2398 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2402 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2407 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2411 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2412 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2413 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2417 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2418 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2419 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2423 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2424 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2425 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2429 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2430 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2434 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2439 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2440 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2441 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2442 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2443 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2445 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2446 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2450 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2454 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2455 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2456 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2457 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2461 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2462 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2463 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2464 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2465 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2466 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2470 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2474 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2475 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2479 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2480 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2481 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2482 restart (Olli Helenius).
2486 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2490 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2491 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2492 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2497 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2502 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2503 Small and Large sizes.
2507 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2511 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2512 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2516 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2517 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2518 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2519 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2523 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2524 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2525 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2530 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2535 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2536 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2540 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2541 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2546 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2548 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2550 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2554 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2558 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2560 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2562 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2566 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2568 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2569 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2573 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2574 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2578 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2579 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2583 Various speed improvements.
2584 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2588 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2589 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2593 Slight speed increase when starting.
2597 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2601 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2602 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2603 button is no longer supported.
2607 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2611 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2615 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2620 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2621 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2625 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2626 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2627 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2631 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2632 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2633 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2634 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2638 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2639 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2640 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2642 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2647 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2648 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2653 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2657 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2658 and converted to new dialog style.
2662 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2663 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2667 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2668 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2672 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2676 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2678 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2682 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2686 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2687 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2688 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2692 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2693 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2697 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2702 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2706 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2707 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2711 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2712 and Cancel is now Revert.
2713 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2714 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2718 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2722 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2723 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2725 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2726 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2727 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2728 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2732 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2734 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2735 labels display them.
2736 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2739 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2743 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2745 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2749 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2750 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2751 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2755 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2756 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2758 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2760 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2764 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2765 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2769 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2770 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2771 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2772 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2776 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2780 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2781 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2785 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2786 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2791 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2792 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2796 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2797 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2798 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2802 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2803 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2807 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2808 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2809 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2810 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2812 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2817 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2818 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2820 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2822 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2826 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2827 any image (saves time).
2828 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2829 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2830 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2831 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2833 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2834 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2838 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2839 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2841 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2842 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2844 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2849 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2850 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2851 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2852 has stopped accepting STRING.
2856 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2857 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2861 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2866 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2867 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2869 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2870 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2871 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2875 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2876 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2877 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2878 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2879 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2880 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2884 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2885 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2886 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2887 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2888 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2889 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2894 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2895 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2896 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2897 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2902 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2903 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2907 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2908 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2910 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2912 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2913 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2914 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2918 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2919 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2920 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2924 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2925 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2929 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2930 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2934 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2936 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2941 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2942 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2946 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2947 their menus correctly.
2948 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2953 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2954 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2955 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2959 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2960 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2964 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2968 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2971 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2973 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2974 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2975 the toggle menu items from working!
2979 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2981 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2987 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2988 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2992 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2993 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2994 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2995 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2996 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2997 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
3001 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
3005 File groups are now saved (automatically).
3006 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
3010 Added Version SOAP RPC.
3011 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
3012 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
3016 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
3017 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
3022 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
3024 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
3028 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
3029 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
3030 bar is displayed in the filer window.
3031 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
3035 Improved error reporting.
3036 Improved sizing code when details are on.
3040 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
3041 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
3042 check box and does 'Yes'.
3046 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
3047 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
3048 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
3049 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
3054 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
3056 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3057 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
3059 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
3061 Internal changes to options system:
3062 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
3063 filer is fully initialised).
3064 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
3066 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
3068 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
3069 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
3070 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
3071 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
3075 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
3076 now reclaims the selection.
3077 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
3078 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
3083 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
3084 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
3085 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
3086 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
3087 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
3091 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
3092 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
3094 Code tidying in various places.
3098 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
3099 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
3104 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
3105 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
3109 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
3110 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
3111 edit the file, not the file itself!
3112 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
3116 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3117 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
3118 (recommended by Jens Finke).
3119 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
3120 of the SOAP working draft.
3121 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
3122 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
3123 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
3128 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
3129 it was in the displayed area before.
3131 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
3134 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
3135 winking effect until the window actually appears.
3139 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
3140 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
3141 Kristian A. Rink and others).
3143 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
3144 selection (Andras Mohari).
3148 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
3152 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
3156 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
3157 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
3158 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
3162 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
3166 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
3168 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
3169 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
3170 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
3174 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
3175 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
3180 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
3181 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
3182 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
3186 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
3190 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
3194 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
3195 replaced by a Restart button.
3199 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
3200 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
3204 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3208 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3212 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3213 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3214 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3218 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3219 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3221 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3222 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3223 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3227 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3228 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3233 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3235 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3236 (requested by Graham Borland).
3237 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3238 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3239 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3243 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3244 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3245 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3246 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3250 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3251 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3252 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3253 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3254 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3255 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3256 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3257 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3258 - Lots of code tidying.
3263 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3264 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3268 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3270 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3272 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3276 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3277 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3281 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3282 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3286 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3287 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3291 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3292 option to access it directly.
3296 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3297 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3298 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3302 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3303 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3304 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3305 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3306 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3307 when the filer is run.
3311 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3312 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3313 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3318 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3322 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3323 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3327 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3329 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3333 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3337 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3338 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3339 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3344 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3345 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3346 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3347 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3348 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3349 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3350 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3354 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3358 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3359 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3363 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3364 of possible actions (Taras).
3365 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3367 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3368 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3372 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3377 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3381 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3384 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3385 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3389 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3390 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3392 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3394 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3395 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3396 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3397 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3401 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3405 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3409 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3413 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3418 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3419 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3420 the first one found.
3421 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3425 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3429 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3430 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3431 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3435 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3436 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3437 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3442 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3443 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3444 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3448 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3450 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3455 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3460 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3464 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3465 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3469 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3471 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3472 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3476 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3480 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3481 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3485 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3486 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3490 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3491 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3493 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3495 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3499 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3503 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3504 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3508 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3512 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3517 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3518 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3522 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3526 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3530 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3532 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3533 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3537 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3538 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3542 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3543 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3544 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3548 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3549 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3553 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3554 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3556 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3558 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3562 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3563 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3564 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3566 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3567 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3569 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3571 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3572 and the default size with no details.
3576 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3577 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3581 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3586 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3591 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3595 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3600 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3601 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3605 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3609 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3610 the button to run it does.
3611 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3612 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3613 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3617 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3618 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3619 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3623 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3627 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3628 and panels into icon.c.
3632 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3633 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3634 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3635 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3639 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3641 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3643 Updated the documentation.
3647 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3648 up if they're too small.
3652 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3654 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3655 (Christopher Arndt).
3656 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3661 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3662 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3666 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3667 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3671 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3672 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3673 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3678 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3683 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3687 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3688 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3693 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3698 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3699 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3703 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3704 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3708 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3712 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3716 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3720 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3721 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3724 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3725 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3730 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3731 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3732 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3733 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3738 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3739 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3741 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3743 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3744 for non-applications.
3748 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3749 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3754 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3758 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3759 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3761 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3765 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3766 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3770 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3771 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3775 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3776 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3780 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3781 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3783 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3784 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3788 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3789 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3791 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3795 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3796 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3799 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3803 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3804 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3808 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3812 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3813 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3816 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3817 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3821 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3825 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3830 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3834 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3835 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3840 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3845 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3849 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3851 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3853 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3854 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3856 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3858 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3859 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3863 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3864 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3865 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3867 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3868 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3872 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3876 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3877 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3881 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3885 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3886 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3888 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3891 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3892 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3893 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3897 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3898 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3903 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3908 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3910 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3913 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3915 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3916 sensible shape itself now.
3918 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3919 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3920 file at all, just a reused inode!
3921 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3922 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3923 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3927 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3931 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3932 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3937 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3938 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3942 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3946 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3947 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3951 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3956 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3960 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3961 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3965 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3966 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3967 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3968 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3969 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3973 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3974 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3975 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3976 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3977 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3981 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3982 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3983 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3987 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3989 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3990 python's portable system.
3991 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3992 set the LANG variable.
3996 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3997 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3999 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
4001 Made a few updates to the manual.
4005 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
4006 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
4008 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
4010 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
4011 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
4015 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
4016 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
4020 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
4021 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
4026 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
4027 by Wilbert Berendsen).
4028 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
4032 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
4033 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
4037 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
4038 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
4042 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
4043 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
4045 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
4046 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
4047 open... (Denis Manente).
4051 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4055 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
4057 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
4058 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
4059 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
4061 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
4063 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
4065 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
4066 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
4071 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
4072 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
4073 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
4077 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
4078 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
4082 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
4086 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
4090 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
4091 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
4092 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
4096 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
4097 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
4098 between pinboards...
4100 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
4101 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
4102 background - seems to be necessary :-(
4106 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
4109 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
4110 window (Denis Manente).
4112 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
4113 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
4117 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
4118 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
4119 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
4123 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
4126 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
4127 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
4129 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
4134 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
4135 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
4137 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
4141 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
4142 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
4144 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
4146 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
4151 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
4152 the icon points to as well as its name.
4154 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
4155 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
4159 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
4160 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
4161 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
4162 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
4166 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4170 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
4171 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
4172 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
4176 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
4177 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
4179 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
4180 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
4183 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
4184 the item after the drag.
4186 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
4187 showing where the file really is.
4191 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
4192 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
4197 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
4198 warning is displayed if so.
4200 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
4204 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4205 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4206 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4207 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4210 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4211 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4212 works like the panels.
4216 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4217 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4218 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4219 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4220 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4224 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4225 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4226 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4227 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4229 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4234 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4238 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4239 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4242 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4243 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4245 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4248 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4249 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4250 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4251 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4253 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4255 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4256 slightly. Updated the manual.
4258 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4259 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4262 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4263 or bottom panel to make room.
4267 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4272 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4273 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4274 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4275 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4276 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4280 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4282 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4283 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4285 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4289 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4290 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4294 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4298 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4300 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4305 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4306 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4308 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4312 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4313 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4314 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4318 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4319 rewriting the panel system.
4323 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4326 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4327 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4331 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4332 (suggested by James Kermode).
4336 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4337 than as a full path.
4339 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4341 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4342 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4343 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4347 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4348 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4352 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4353 rename something onto another filesystem.
4357 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4359 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4360 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4364 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4368 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4371 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4372 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4374 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4377 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4382 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4383 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4384 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4386 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4387 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4389 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4390 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4395 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4396 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4401 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4402 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4403 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4405 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4406 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4407 of the 'missing image' image.
4411 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4413 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4415 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4420 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4421 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4422 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4423 its name into another program.
4425 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4429 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4431 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4432 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4433 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4435 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4436 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4437 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4440 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4441 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4445 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4446 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4447 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4451 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4452 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4453 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4457 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4458 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4459 and position the icons directly.
4463 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4468 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4469 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4470 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4474 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4478 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4479 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4483 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4488 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4492 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4493 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4494 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4495 some versions of GTK+.
4499 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4504 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4505 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4506 from a sub-sub-menu.
4508 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4509 drawn on a log scale.
4513 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4514 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4515 happy with the UI yet though...
4517 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4518 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4519 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4523 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4524 by Stephen Harrison).
4526 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4528 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4529 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4530 standard types are in Choices.
4531 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4533 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4534 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4535 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4540 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4541 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4542 shell command minibuffer.
4546 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4547 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4548 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4549 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4550 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4552 Default search path for Choices is now:
4553 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4555 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4556 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4557 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4561 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4562 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4566 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4567 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4568 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4573 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4574 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4575 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4578 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4580 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4581 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4582 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4584 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4585 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4589 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4590 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4591 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4592 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4597 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4598 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4599 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4601 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4603 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4604 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4608 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4609 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4610 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4615 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4616 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4619 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4621 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4626 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4631 Added GNU gettext support.
4632 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4636 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4638 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4640 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4645 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4649 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4650 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4652 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4653 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4658 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4659 onto the directory and winks the file.
4663 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4664 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4665 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4667 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4668 instead of random values.
4669 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4671 Applied Bernard's patch:
4672 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4673 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4674 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4675 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4676 it the RISC OS way...
4677 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4678 alignment corrected.
4679 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4684 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4688 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4689 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4693 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4694 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4695 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4696 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4697 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4698 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4699 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4700 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4701 in the file(1) says... box).
4704 Before the Changes file
4705 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4706 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4708 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4709 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4710 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4711 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4712 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD