2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
8 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
10 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
11 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
12 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
16 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
21 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
25 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
26 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
30 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
34 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
35 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
36 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
40 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
44 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
45 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
49 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
50 manually (Thomas Leonard).
54 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
55 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
56 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
61 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
62 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
66 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
67 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
68 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
69 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
73 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
74 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
75 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
79 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
83 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
87 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
88 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
92 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
93 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
94 reported by Tristan McLeay).
98 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
99 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
101 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
105 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
106 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
107 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
108 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
112 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
113 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
115 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
117 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
122 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
123 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
124 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
125 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
126 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
131 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
136 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
140 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
141 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
143 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
144 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
145 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
146 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
150 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
151 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
152 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
157 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
159 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
164 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
168 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
169 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
173 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
174 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
175 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
179 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
183 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
184 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
185 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
186 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
187 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
191 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
192 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
193 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
195 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
196 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
197 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
198 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
199 though they may be valid UTF-8.
200 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
202 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
203 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
204 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
205 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
206 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
212 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
213 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
215 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
216 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
221 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
222 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
226 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
227 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
232 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
233 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
234 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
235 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
236 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
237 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
239 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
241 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
242 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
243 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
247 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
248 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
252 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
253 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
257 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
258 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
259 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
260 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
264 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
268 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
269 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
273 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
275 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
276 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
277 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
282 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
283 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
284 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
285 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
289 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
291 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
292 function address (Tony Houghton).
296 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
297 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
302 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
306 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
307 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
311 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
312 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
313 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
317 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
321 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
322 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
323 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
324 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
325 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
330 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
335 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
339 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
340 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
344 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
345 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
349 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
353 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
354 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
356 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
360 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
361 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
365 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
366 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
367 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
369 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
371 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
376 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
377 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
381 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
386 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
390 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
391 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
392 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
393 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
395 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
400 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
401 the old one (Stephen Watson).
402 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
403 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
404 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
408 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
413 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
415 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
417 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
418 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
422 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
423 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
425 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
427 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
428 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
429 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
430 reported by Lewis Denizen).
434 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
438 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
439 the binary (Stephen Watson).
443 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
447 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
448 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
449 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
453 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
456 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
458 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
459 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
460 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
461 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
462 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
466 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
470 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
471 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
475 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
479 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
480 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
481 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
483 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
484 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
486 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
487 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
488 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
489 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
493 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
494 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
498 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
499 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
500 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
501 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
506 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
507 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
511 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
512 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
513 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
517 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
518 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
519 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
523 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
527 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
528 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
532 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
533 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
537 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
541 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
542 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
547 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
548 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
552 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
556 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
557 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
558 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
559 when changing to a parent directory.
560 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
564 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
568 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
572 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
574 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
576 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
580 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
582 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
586 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
588 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
592 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
596 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
597 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
598 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
599 reported by Anthony DiSante).
603 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
607 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
611 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
612 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
613 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
614 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
615 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
619 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
620 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
624 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
625 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
630 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
631 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
636 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
637 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
641 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
642 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
646 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
647 (reported by Tony Houghton).
651 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
653 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
654 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
658 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
659 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
663 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
667 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
671 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
675 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
676 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
677 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
681 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
685 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
690 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
694 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
696 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
698 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
702 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
703 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
704 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
706 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
710 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
711 print a warning and then crash.
715 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
716 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
717 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
722 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
726 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
731 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
735 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
739 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
741 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
746 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
747 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
748 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
753 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
754 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
759 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
761 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
762 anyway, and noone had complained).
763 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
764 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
768 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
769 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
770 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
774 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
778 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
779 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
783 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
784 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
785 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
789 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
790 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
791 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
793 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
794 by Simon Templer and others).
798 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
799 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
800 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
804 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
808 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
812 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
813 version number again (Stephen Watson).
817 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
818 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
822 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
826 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
827 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
828 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
829 anyway (Stephen Watson).
833 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
837 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
841 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
843 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
845 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
849 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
850 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
851 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
855 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
856 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
861 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
862 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
863 impossible to change shortcuts.
864 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
865 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
869 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
870 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
875 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
876 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
877 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
881 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
882 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
883 to the functions being missing.
887 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
891 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
895 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
899 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
903 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
904 worries people for no reason.
908 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
912 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
913 files selected (Peter Geer).
917 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
918 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
922 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
926 Added 'Select by Name'.
930 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
934 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
939 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
943 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
945 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
947 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
948 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
952 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
956 Misc changes for next release.
960 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
961 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
965 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
966 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
967 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
968 Watson, reported on #rox).
972 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
973 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
977 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
978 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
982 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
983 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
987 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
988 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
993 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
997 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
999 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1004 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1008 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1009 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1013 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1014 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1018 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1022 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1027 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1028 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1029 for the same reason.
1030 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1031 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1035 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1036 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1040 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1045 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1046 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1050 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1051 support not being detected (igla).
1055 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1059 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1060 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1064 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1068 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1069 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1070 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1071 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1074 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1076 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1077 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1081 New icon for selection ops.
1085 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1089 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1093 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1097 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1098 Added icon theme selector.
1102 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1106 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1110 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1111 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1115 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1116 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1117 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1121 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1122 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1126 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1130 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1131 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1132 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1136 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1140 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1141 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1146 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1147 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1151 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1152 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1156 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1157 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1161 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1165 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1166 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1167 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1171 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1175 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1176 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1177 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1178 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1182 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1183 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1185 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1189 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1193 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1194 bits (Stephen Watson).
1198 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1202 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1206 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1207 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1211 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1215 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1216 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1221 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1222 forward them explicitly.
1226 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1227 help from Götz Waschk).
1231 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1232 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1233 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1237 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1241 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1245 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1249 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1250 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1252 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1254 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1258 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1260 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1262 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1266 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1267 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1268 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1269 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1273 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1277 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1281 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1285 Minor updates to the manual.
1286 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1287 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1291 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1292 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1294 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1296 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1297 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1301 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1302 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1303 reduce flickering effect.
1307 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1311 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1313 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1317 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1318 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1319 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1320 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1321 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1325 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1326 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1330 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1334 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1339 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1340 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1344 Winking now works in List view.
1348 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1352 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1353 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1357 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1358 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1360 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1362 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1366 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1370 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1371 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1373 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1377 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1378 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1382 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1384 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1388 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1389 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1393 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1395 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1399 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1403 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1404 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1409 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1410 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1412 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1414 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1416 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1420 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1424 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1425 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1429 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1434 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1435 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1439 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1441 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1443 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1444 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1449 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1453 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1454 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1455 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1456 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1457 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1458 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1459 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1461 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1465 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1470 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1471 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1475 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1476 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1477 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1478 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1483 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1484 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1485 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1486 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1487 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1488 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1489 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1490 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1491 talent can do something better?
1492 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1493 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1497 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1498 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1499 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1504 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1506 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1507 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1508 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1509 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1510 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1511 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1512 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1513 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1514 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1515 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1516 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1517 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1518 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1522 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1523 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1524 allow fine repositioning.
1525 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1526 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1527 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1528 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1530 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1531 changing the aspect ratio.
1535 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1539 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1543 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1544 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1545 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1549 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1553 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1558 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1559 make sharing icons easier.
1560 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1564 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1565 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1569 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1573 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1575 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1579 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1584 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1589 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1590 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1592 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1593 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1594 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1595 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1599 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1600 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1604 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1608 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1610 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1611 Brian Langenberger).
1615 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1616 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1618 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1622 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1623 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1625 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1627 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1631 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1632 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1637 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1641 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1642 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1643 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1647 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1648 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1652 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1656 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1657 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1661 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1662 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1663 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1667 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1671 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1672 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1673 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1674 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1676 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1677 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1681 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1682 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1686 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1691 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1692 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1696 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1700 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1701 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1702 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1703 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1708 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1709 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1710 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1714 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1718 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1719 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1723 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1724 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1725 since it didn't include the contents.
1726 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1727 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1731 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1735 Style improvements to options window.
1739 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1743 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1745 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1747 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1752 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1753 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1754 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1755 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1759 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1763 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1767 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1768 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1772 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1774 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1779 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1783 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1784 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1785 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1790 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1794 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1798 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1802 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1806 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1807 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1808 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1812 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1813 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1817 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1818 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1823 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1827 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1831 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1836 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1837 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1841 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1842 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1847 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1848 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1852 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1853 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1854 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1858 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1862 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1863 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1864 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1865 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1866 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1870 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1871 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1875 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1876 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1880 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1884 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1885 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1886 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1887 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1888 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1889 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1893 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1894 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1895 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1899 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1900 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1905 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1909 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1911 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1913 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1918 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1922 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1926 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1927 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1932 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1936 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1940 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1941 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1942 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1946 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1950 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1955 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1959 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1960 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1961 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1962 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1966 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1970 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1971 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1975 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1976 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1977 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1981 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1985 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1989 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1990 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1991 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1992 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1993 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1994 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1998 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1999 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2003 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2004 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2005 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2009 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2010 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2014 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2018 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2019 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2020 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2021 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2023 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2025 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2029 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2030 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2031 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2035 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2039 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2040 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2045 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2049 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2053 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2054 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2058 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2059 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2060 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2064 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2065 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2069 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2070 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2074 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2075 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2079 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2083 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2084 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2088 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2090 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2092 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2096 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2100 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2101 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2105 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2109 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2113 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2114 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2115 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2116 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2117 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2118 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2122 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2126 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2128 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2129 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2133 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2134 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2138 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2142 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2143 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2144 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2145 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2147 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2149 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2153 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2154 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2158 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2159 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2160 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2164 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2165 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2166 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2167 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2168 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2169 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2170 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2174 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2175 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2179 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2183 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2187 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2192 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2196 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2197 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2198 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2202 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2203 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2204 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2208 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2209 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2210 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2214 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2215 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2219 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2224 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2225 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2226 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2227 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2228 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2230 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2231 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2235 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2239 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2240 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2241 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2242 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2246 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2247 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2248 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2249 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2250 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2251 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2255 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2259 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2260 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2264 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2265 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2266 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2267 restart (Olli Helenius).
2271 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2275 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2276 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2277 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2282 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2287 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2288 Small and Large sizes.
2292 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2296 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2297 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2301 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2302 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2303 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2304 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2308 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2309 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2310 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2315 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2320 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2321 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2325 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2326 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2331 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2333 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2335 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2339 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2343 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2345 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2347 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2351 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2353 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2354 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2358 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2359 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2363 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2364 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2368 Various speed improvements.
2369 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2373 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2374 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2378 Slight speed increase when starting.
2382 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2386 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2387 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2388 button is no longer supported.
2392 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2396 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2400 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2405 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2406 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2410 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2411 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2412 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2416 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2417 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2418 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2419 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2423 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2424 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2425 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2427 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2432 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2433 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2438 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2442 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2443 and converted to new dialog style.
2447 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2448 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2452 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2453 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2457 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2461 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2463 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2467 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2471 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2472 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2473 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2477 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2478 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2482 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2487 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2491 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2492 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2496 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2497 and Cancel is now Revert.
2498 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2499 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2503 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2507 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2508 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2510 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2511 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2512 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2513 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2517 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2519 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2520 labels display them.
2521 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2524 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2528 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2530 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2534 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2535 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2536 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2540 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2541 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2543 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2545 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2549 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2550 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2554 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2555 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2556 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2557 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2561 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2565 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2566 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2570 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2571 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2576 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2577 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2581 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2582 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2583 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2587 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2588 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2592 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2593 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2594 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2595 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2597 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2602 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2603 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2605 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2607 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2611 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2612 any image (saves time).
2613 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2614 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2615 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2616 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2618 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2619 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2623 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2624 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2626 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2627 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2629 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2634 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2635 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2636 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2637 has stopped accepting STRING.
2641 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2642 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2646 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2651 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2652 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2654 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2655 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2656 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2660 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2661 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2662 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2663 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2664 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2665 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2669 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2670 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2671 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2672 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2673 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2674 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2679 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2680 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2681 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2682 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2687 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2688 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2692 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2693 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2695 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2697 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2698 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2699 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2703 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2704 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2705 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2709 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2710 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2714 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2715 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2719 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2721 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2726 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2727 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2731 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2732 their menus correctly.
2733 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2738 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2739 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2740 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2744 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2745 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2749 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2753 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2756 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2758 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2759 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2760 the toggle menu items from working!
2764 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2766 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2772 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2773 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2777 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2778 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2779 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2780 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2781 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2782 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2786 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2790 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2791 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2795 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2796 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2797 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2801 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2802 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2807 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2809 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2813 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2814 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2815 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2816 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2820 Improved error reporting.
2821 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2825 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2826 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2827 check box and does 'Yes'.
2831 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2832 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2833 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2834 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2839 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2841 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2842 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2844 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2846 Internal changes to options system:
2847 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2848 filer is fully initialised).
2849 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2851 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2853 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2854 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2855 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2856 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2860 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2861 now reclaims the selection.
2862 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2863 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2868 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2869 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2870 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2871 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2872 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2876 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2877 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2879 Code tidying in various places.
2883 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2884 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2889 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2890 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2894 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2895 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2896 edit the file, not the file itself!
2897 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2901 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2902 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2903 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2904 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2905 of the SOAP working draft.
2906 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2907 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2908 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2913 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2914 it was in the displayed area before.
2916 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2919 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2920 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2924 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2925 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2926 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2928 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2929 selection (Andras Mohari).
2933 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2937 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2941 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2942 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2943 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2947 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2951 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2953 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2954 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2955 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2959 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2960 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2965 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2966 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2967 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2971 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2975 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2979 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2980 replaced by a Restart button.
2984 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2985 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2989 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2993 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2997 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2998 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2999 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3003 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3004 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3006 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3007 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3008 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3012 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3013 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3018 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3020 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3021 (requested by Graham Borland).
3022 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3023 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3024 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3028 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3029 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3030 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3031 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3035 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3036 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3037 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3038 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3039 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3040 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3041 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3042 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3043 - Lots of code tidying.
3048 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3049 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3053 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3055 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3057 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3061 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3062 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3066 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3067 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3071 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3072 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3076 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3077 option to access it directly.
3081 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3082 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3083 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3087 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3088 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3089 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3090 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3091 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3092 when the filer is run.
3096 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3097 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3098 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3103 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3107 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3108 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3112 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3114 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3118 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3122 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3123 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3124 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3129 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3130 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3131 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3132 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3133 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3134 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3135 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3139 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3143 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3144 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3148 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3149 of possible actions (Taras).
3150 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3152 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3153 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3157 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3162 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3166 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3169 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3170 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3174 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3175 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3177 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3179 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3180 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3181 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3182 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3186 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3190 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3194 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3198 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3203 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3204 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3205 the first one found.
3206 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3210 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3214 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3215 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3216 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3220 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3221 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3222 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3227 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3228 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3229 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3233 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3235 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3240 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3245 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3249 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3250 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3254 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3256 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3257 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3261 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3265 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3266 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3270 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3271 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3275 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3276 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3278 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3280 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3284 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3288 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3289 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3293 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3297 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3302 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3303 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3307 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3311 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3315 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3317 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3318 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3322 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3323 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3327 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3328 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3329 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3333 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3334 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3338 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3339 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3341 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3343 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3347 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3348 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3349 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3351 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3352 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3354 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3356 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3357 and the default size with no details.
3361 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3362 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3366 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3371 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3376 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3380 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3385 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3386 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3390 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3394 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3395 the button to run it does.
3396 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3397 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3398 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3402 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3403 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3404 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3408 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3412 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3413 and panels into icon.c.
3417 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3418 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3419 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3420 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3424 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3426 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3428 Updated the documentation.
3432 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3433 up if they're too small.
3437 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3439 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3440 (Christopher Arndt).
3441 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3446 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3447 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3451 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3452 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3456 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3457 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3458 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3463 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3468 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3472 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3473 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3478 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3483 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3484 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3488 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3489 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3493 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3497 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3501 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3505 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3506 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3509 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3510 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3515 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3516 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3517 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3518 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3523 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3524 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3526 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3528 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3529 for non-applications.
3533 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3534 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3539 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3543 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3544 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3546 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3550 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3551 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3555 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3556 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3560 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3561 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3565 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3566 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3568 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3569 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3573 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3574 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3576 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3580 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3581 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3584 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3588 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3589 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3593 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3597 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3598 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3601 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3602 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3606 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3610 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3615 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3619 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3620 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3625 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3630 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3634 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3636 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3638 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3639 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3641 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3643 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3644 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3648 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3649 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3650 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3652 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3653 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3657 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3661 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3662 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3666 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3670 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3671 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3673 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3676 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3677 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3678 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3682 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3683 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3688 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3693 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3695 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3698 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3700 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3701 sensible shape itself now.
3703 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3704 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3705 file at all, just a reused inode!
3706 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3707 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3708 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3712 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3716 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3717 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3722 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3723 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3727 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3731 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3732 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3736 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3741 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3745 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3746 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3750 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3751 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3752 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3753 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3754 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3758 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3759 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3760 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3761 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3762 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3766 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3767 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3768 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3772 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3774 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3775 python's portable system.
3776 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3777 set the LANG variable.
3781 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3782 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3784 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3786 Made a few updates to the manual.
3790 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3791 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3793 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3795 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3796 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3800 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3801 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3805 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3806 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3811 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3812 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3813 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3817 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3818 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3822 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3823 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3827 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3828 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3830 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3831 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3832 open... (Denis Manente).
3836 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3840 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3842 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3843 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3844 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3846 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3848 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3850 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3851 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3856 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3857 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3858 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3862 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3863 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3867 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3871 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3875 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3876 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3877 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3881 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3882 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3883 between pinboards...
3885 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3886 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3887 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3891 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3894 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3895 window (Denis Manente).
3897 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3898 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3902 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3903 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3904 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3908 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3911 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3912 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3914 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3919 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3920 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3922 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3926 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3927 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3929 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3931 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3936 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3937 the icon points to as well as its name.
3939 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3940 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3944 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3945 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3946 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3947 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3951 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3955 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3956 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3957 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3961 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3962 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3964 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3965 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3968 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3969 the item after the drag.
3971 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3972 showing where the file really is.
3976 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3977 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3982 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3983 warning is displayed if so.
3985 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3989 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3990 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3991 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3992 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3995 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3996 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3997 works like the panels.
4001 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4002 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4003 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4004 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4005 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4009 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4010 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4011 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4012 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4014 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4019 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4023 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4024 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4027 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4028 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4030 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4033 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4034 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4035 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4036 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4038 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4040 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4041 slightly. Updated the manual.
4043 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4044 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4047 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4048 or bottom panel to make room.
4052 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4057 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4058 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4059 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4060 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4061 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4065 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4067 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4068 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4070 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4074 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4075 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4079 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4083 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4085 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4090 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4091 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4093 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4097 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4098 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4099 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4103 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4104 rewriting the panel system.
4108 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4111 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4112 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4116 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4117 (suggested by James Kermode).
4121 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4122 than as a full path.
4124 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4126 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4127 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4128 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4132 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4133 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4137 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4138 rename something onto another filesystem.
4142 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4144 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4145 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4149 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4153 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4156 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4157 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4159 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4162 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4167 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4168 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4169 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4171 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4172 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4174 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4175 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4180 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4181 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4186 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4187 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4188 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4190 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4191 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4192 of the 'missing image' image.
4196 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4198 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4200 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4205 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4206 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4207 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4208 its name into another program.
4210 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4214 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4216 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4217 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4218 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4220 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4221 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4222 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4225 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4226 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4230 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4231 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4232 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4236 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4237 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4238 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4242 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4243 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4244 and position the icons directly.
4248 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4253 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4254 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4255 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4259 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4263 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4264 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4268 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4273 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4277 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4278 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4279 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4280 some versions of GTK+.
4284 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4289 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4290 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4291 from a sub-sub-menu.
4293 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4294 drawn on a log scale.
4298 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4299 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4300 happy with the UI yet though...
4302 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4303 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4304 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4308 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4309 by Stephen Harrison).
4311 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4313 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4314 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4315 standard types are in Choices.
4316 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4318 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4319 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4320 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4325 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4326 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4327 shell command minibuffer.
4331 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4332 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4333 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4334 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4335 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4337 Default search path for Choices is now:
4338 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4340 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4341 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4342 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4346 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4347 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4351 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4352 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4353 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4358 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4359 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4360 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4363 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4365 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4366 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4367 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4369 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4370 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4374 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4375 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4376 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4377 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4382 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4383 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4384 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4386 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4388 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4389 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4393 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4394 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4395 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4400 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4401 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4404 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4406 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4411 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4416 Added GNU gettext support.
4417 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4421 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4423 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4425 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4430 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4434 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4435 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4437 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4438 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4443 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4444 onto the directory and winks the file.
4448 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4449 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4450 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4452 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4453 instead of random values.
4454 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4456 Applied Bernard's patch:
4457 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4458 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4459 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4460 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4461 it the RISC OS way...
4462 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4463 alignment corrected.
4464 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4469 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4473 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4474 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4478 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4479 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4480 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4481 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4482 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4483 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4484 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4485 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4486 in the file(1) says... box).
4489 Before the Changes file
4490 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4491 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4493 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4494 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4495 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4496 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4497 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD