2 Shared code for ROX applications
4 http://rox.sourceforge.net
6 17-Apr-2004 (Release 1.9.14)
8 Added ToggleItem (based on a patch from Ken Hayber).
12 Better <label> widgets (wrapping and icon). Taken from LookAndFeel.
16 Stop themes from overriding the display of the colour-picker buttons in
17 the options box (Rene Ejury).
21 Warn about old versions of findrox.py.
22 Bugfix: Bug in new menu API prevented submenus from working.
24 16-Mar-2004 (Release 1.9.13)
26 Bugfix: Icon themes didn't work with python versions older than 2.2.2
27 (reported by Thomas Zajic).
31 Bugfix: Use filer module to show ROX-Lib help, rather than using os.system,
32 so that it works with Zero Install (reported by Keith Hopper).
36 Added widget_registry to OptionsBox, to provide an easy way to register
37 new option types. Removed build_button in favour of this method.
39 Bugfix: If an error occurred loading the ROX theme at startup it could not
40 be reported, because icon_theme wants debug, debug wants saving, and
41 saving wants icon_theme (reported by Thomas Zajic).
45 Cope with pygtk2.2 API change (Stephen Watson, reported by Guido Schimmels).
49 Added secretentry and button options to the OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).
53 Cope with option values split into multiple DOM text nodes (Rene Ejury).
57 Allow a list of values to be stored in each menu Action. These are used as
58 the arguments to the callback function.
59 If a file's details were recorded (in document.save_last_stat) when it was
60 loaded, make sure they haven't changed when saving. Saving also updates this
61 variable (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
65 Updated examples in documentation for new findrox (Yuri Bongiorno).
69 New API for menus. Instead of passing tuples for menu items, python classes
70 can be used. The old tuple interface is still supported.
74 Don't stop DnD working in the savebox just because no icon can be found
75 (reported by Martin Lucina).
79 Added French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
83 Also translate <label> elements in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
87 Also translate section names in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
89 22-Jan-2004 (Release 1.9.12)
91 Added 'tasks' module to provide a light-weight alternative to threads.
92 Bugfix: On non-zero-install systems, the sense of the version check in findrox
97 Added method to MIMEtype to fetch its icon. Install list window for
98 the MIME handler installation uses it (Stephen Watson).
102 Translate text in Options box.
106 Allow ROXLIB_DISABLE_ZEROINSTALL to override looking for ROX-Lib in Zero
107 Install (useful for ROX-Lib developers). Prefer a locally installed version
108 of ROX-Filer to the Zero Install version; this also allows users to select
109 which Zero Install version they want (eg, stable or developer).
110 Moved MIME handler installation into a separate module (mime_handler) and
111 made a few changes to the XML syntax.
115 Added <menu> OptionMenu widget for Options box (Chris Shaffer).
119 Fixed bug in findrox when not using Zero Install (Lionel Bringuier).
123 Escape and unescape URIs, as required by ROX-Filer 2.1.0 (reported by
125 Note that the xds_load_uris() method is now called with escaped URIs.
126 Try to run the filer through Zero Install, if possible.
130 If we can't get pygtk through Zero Install, try the local copy.
134 Added support in mime.py for an application to set MIME-type run
135 actions and thumbnail programs (Stephen Watson).
139 Simplified implementation of saving.SaveFilter by using the new
140 processes.PipeThroughCommand class. The child_run() method of SaveFilter
141 is no longer supported.
142 In processes.PipeThroughCommand, a None input stream gets /dev/null instead
143 of inheriting its parent's stream. The class has a new run_child_with_streams
144 to make overriding the behaviour easier.
145 findrox.py script now warns if ROX-Lib2 version is too old (unless requesting
146 a version too old to have a version number).
150 Changed 'Dismiss' to 'Close' (Chris Shaffer).
151 Bugfix: Error reporting in mime.py failed to import the _ function (reported
152 by Christopher Haines).
153 New AppInfo.py for parsing AppInfo.xml files (Christopher Arndt), InfoWin
154 converted to use it (Stephen Watson).
156 15-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.11)
158 Bugfix: Python 2.3's new bool type broke options saving (reported by Lars
163 Added PipeThroughCommand class (copied from Archive, with some minor
168 Allow event to be None for Menu.popup. This allows the menu to be activated
169 from the keyboard, using the 'popup-menu' signal.
173 Added French translation in AppInfo.xml (Vincent Lefèvre).
175 03-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.10)
177 Added support for icon themes (doesn't do inheritance yet).
181 Added some version information to the dialog you get when you run ROX-Lib
186 New bug() function to quickly bring up a debugging prompt.
190 The glob patterns in mime.py are now sorted longest first. Fix for setting
191 icon in the old way when there was no icon (Stephen Watson).
195 Try to cope better with bad hostname setup (reported by Nathan Howell).
199 Added InfoWin.py to provide standardized information window (Stephen Watson).
203 Fall back to old way of setting default icon for older pygtk's (Stephen
208 Added Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
212 Better way to set the default icon.
214 16-Aug-2003 (Release 1.9.9)
216 Give windows a default icon from .DirIcon (Chris Shaffer).
220 Try to get pygtk through ZeroInstall.
224 Updated findrox to use ZeroInstall, if possible.
228 Work out correct application name even if invoked via a symlink. This stops
229 applications from calling themselves 'text_plain', etc (reported by Joe Hill).
231 19-Jul-2003 (Release 1.9.8)
233 Make default menu positioning function keep the pointer inside the menu.
234 Allow stock icons in menus.
238 Added position_fn argument to rox.Menu.popup.
242 Cope with % escaped URIs.
246 Added italian translation in AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
250 When loading data from another application, pass the suggested leafname to
251 xds_load_from_stream().
255 Code tidying, thanks to pychecker.
259 Added fileutils module, which provides an interactive makedirs() function
261 Changed savebox module to use it.
263 16-May-2003 (Release 1.9.7)
265 New icon (Geoff Youngs).
266 Added 'basedir' module for freedesktop.org Base Directory specification.
270 Added functions to read MIME database (Stephen Watson).
272 27-Jan-2003 (Release 1.9.6)
274 Make the default window class the name of the application directory, not
275 'AppRun' (suggested by Albert Wagner).
276 Bugfix: With pygtk-1.99.14, only the first error message from a process
277 would be detected; this meant that ROX-Lib wouldn't detect when the
278 process quit (reported by joehill).
279 Bugfix: <hbox> and <vbox> layouts didn't work in the options box (Allen
284 If python is too old, raise SystemExit instead of quitting.
285 Ensure that True and False are defined.
289 Work around bug in some versions of pygtk that stopped the options window
292 12-Dec-2002 (Release 1.9.5)
294 Upgrade Options box to new style.
298 Bugfix: If an option had an empty value, an exception was thrown on loading
299 (reported by Stephen Watson).
303 Cope with missing input_add_full.
307 Pygtk 1.99.12 seems to more-or-less work now (according to Alastair Porter), so
308 remove the warning for that so we can support RedHat 8.0.
310 20-Oct-2002 (Release 1.9.4)
312 More warnings about old pygtk versions.
313 Added Dialog class (does ref-counting, like Window).
317 Trying to use ROX-Lib2 with earlier versions of python now gives a sensible
322 Make clicking on ROX-Lib itself work again (Christopher Arndt).
326 Updated findrox.py to use pygtk 1.99.13 -- update your programs!
328 25-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.3)
330 Switch to use new pygtk versioning system (requires pygtk 1.99.13).
334 Added 'processes' module, based on code in Archive, which makes controlling
339 Bugfix: Changing the keys lost any builtin shortcuts (Gtk behaviour has
344 Trap exceptions when activating menu items and report nicely.
348 Bugfix: Remember to call drop_finish() after a drag-and-drop operation.
350 05-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.2)
352 Renamed XDSLoader module to 'loading' (like 'saving').
353 Added 'mime' module for installing extra MIME information.
354 Bugfix: XDSLoader didn't handle the drag-drop signal, and so only worked for
355 widgets with their own implementation!
359 Show local variables in report_exception, and allow expressions to be
360 evaluated in the context of any frame.
361 Added StringSaver class.
365 Added applet module for creating ROX panel applets.
369 Bugfix: saving code didn't cope with missing images (reported by Musus Umbra).
373 If 'gtk2' isn't available, see if 'gtk' is actually the 2.0 version.
374 Added save_set_permissions to Saveable interface, allowing the default
375 save_to_file to preserve file permissions.
376 Changes to XDSLoader: xds_load_from_stream(name, type, stream)
377 replaces the old xds_load_data(data).
378 Loading files from remote filers works now.
379 Added much improved exception reporting system.
381 19-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.1)
383 Added support for translations.
387 License change to the LGPL (allows commercial programs to use this library).
388 Added AbortSave exception.
392 Saveable.save_to_file() should raise an exception when saving fails, rather
393 than returning 0. The return value is now ignored (note that raising an
394 exception will still work with 1.9.0).
395 toplevel_unref() ignores any arguments, so it is easier to use as a signal
398 12-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.0)
400 First release for Gtk+-2.0.