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                        ROX-Lib2
                        Shared code for ROX applications
                        by Thomas Leonard
                        http://rox.sourceforge.net

Note: for a detailed changelog use the GIT history.


Release 2.0.6:

New features:

- When parsing AppInfo files, get the menu icons too (Dennis Tomas).
  The new version of TaskTray needs this to show icons in menu entries
  for app options.

- Updated the code for loading MIME icons (and moved it into mime.py from
  saving.py) (Stephen Watson).

- Added interface for gtk.StatusIcon (Stephen Watson). Wrap the
  StatusIcon class with toplevel_ref/toplevel_unref calls and default to
  using the scaled .DirIcon

- Added module to aid in writing single instance applications (Stephen
  Watson).

Bug fixes:

- Fixed deprecation warning with Python 2.6.

- Fix problem installing handlers which are zero-install aware (Stephen
  Watson) (reported by Mark Williams).

- Handle thumbnail creation failure according to the standard (Stephen
  Watson).

- Fix hang in exception reporting dialog (Tony Houghton). ROX-Lib's
  exception dialog often fails to work correctly. It appears, but
  doesn't respond to any events, and neither does the rest of the
  application. I don't think it always happens, but I haven't figured
  out the circumstances of when it works and when it doesn't. Note that
  this reverses a previous change (8c8822a3), so presumably the code was
  like this for a reason. However, the reason wasn't documented so let's
  just try it and see...

- Fixed some icon-loading bugs (Lennon Cook).

- Ensure version is updated when making releases. Added
  <release-management> section in local feed. Reported by Lucas Hazel.

- Correctly call mime.image_for_type now (Stephen Watson).


Release 2.0.5:

General:

- Added a 'parent' argument to the SaveBox constructor (Thomas Leonard).

- Python 2.4 is now the base version, so test against that.

- Fix example Menu definition. Allow option widgets to expand vertically by
  setting the _rox_lib_expand property to True (Stephen Watson, suggested by
  Thomas Leonard).

Bugfixs:

- Fix scaling of MIME icons (Stephen Watson)

- Work-around possible PyGTK bug (Lars Hansson and Tony Houghton, reported by
  Peter): "assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_SELECTION (selection)' failed"

- Added an assertion to detect a mysterious error (Thomas Leonard; reported by
  Carl Bolduc).


Release 2.0.4:

General:

- Fix unit tests to use correct path (Thomas Leonard).

- Removed a load of unused imports spotted by PyFlakes (Thomas Leonard).

- ROX base platform is now Python 2.3, so run unit tests against that by
  default (Thomas Leonard).

- Bugfix: Must use '..' in interface for backwards compat (Thomas Leonard).

- Removed some more deprecation warnings. Do not run testsu as part of testall
  as it is interactive (Thomas Leonard).

- Ensure window response codes are treated as int(), required for python 2.5 
  and pygtk 2.6 (Stephen Watson).

- Drag-and-drop didn't work if the hostname contained '-', due to an error in
  a regular expression (Thomas Leonard, reported by Lennon Cook).

- Function to fetch an appropriate icon for a file (Lennon Cook).  Changed to
  return a Pixbuf instead of an Image, to use the existing icon theme lookup
  and to first check for a .DirIcon for directories (Stephen Watson).  

Translations:

- Update Chinese Translations (Babyfai Cheung).

- Update French translations (Vincent Lefèvre).

debug:

- Exception handler now copes with old-style non-class exceptions and
  with missing tracebacks (Thomas Leonard).

mime:

- Added xattr support including test for user set MIME types (Stephen Watson).

OptionsBox:

- When there is only one section in the options box, don't show a frame (Thomas
  Leonard).

- Added note about size-groups(Thomas Leonard).

- Added <filechooser> widget to OptionsBox, which lets the user choose a file
  using a GtkFileChooser or by drag-and-drop (Jim Ramsay). Requires GTK >= 2.6.

- Added Clear button to filename options (Jim Ramsay and Thomas Leonard).

saving:

- Lookup icons from /rox.sourceforge.net/MIME-icons before /MIME-ICONS 
 (Stephen Watson)

session:

- Prefered launcher for a URL scheme now part of uri_handler (Stephen Watson).

settings:

- Prefered launcher for a URL scheme now part of uri_handler (Stephen Watson).

tasks:

- Fixed some deprecation warnings (Thomas Leonard).

- Bugfix: InputBlocker and OutputBlocker now trigger on IO_HUP too (Thomas 
  Leonard).

- Added Task.finished blocker, which is triggered when the task finishes,
  successfully or by throwing an exception (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Ken
  Hayber).

- Ensure that IO blocker callbacks return False, not None, or we get a
  warning from PyGTK (Thomas Leonard).

templates: *NEW*

- Added templates module as an interface to glade (Stephen Watson).

- Templates now has full dict behaviour and derives from glade.XML.  Method
  names have therefore changed to be the same used by glade.XML (Stephen 
  Watson).


thumbnail: *NEW*

- Added thumbnail module to access thumbnail images of files and also to 
  generate them (Stephen Watson).

uri_handler: *NEW*

- Suppor shared configuration for launching URIs (Stephen Watson).

xattr: *NEW*

- Added xattr support including test for user set MIME types (Stephen Watson).


Release 2.0.3:

General:

- Added ROX-Lib.xml file, which makes it easy to register a CVS copy of ROX-Lib
  with the 0launch, using '0launch --add-feed' (Thomas Leonard).

- If pygtk is found, but not gtk, give a better error (Thomas Leonard; reported
  by Albert).

- Double-click on a line in the stacktrace display of the debug box to
  open the source code in Edit.

- Added rox.isappdir() function to test the validity of an AppDir (Stephen
  Watson).

- Set sys.excepthook to our graphical exception explorer so that untrapped
  exceptions are reported nicely.

- Don't display KeyboardInterrupt in an error box.

- Added unittests.
  Support Python 2.2.

- When displaying an uncaught exception, still write it to stderr as well as
  opening the exception dialog box.

Translations:

- Made message in AppRun translatable (Andras Mohari).

- Include AppRun when generating translations, and rename translation function
  in OptionsBox to avoid confusing pygettext (reported by Andras Mohari).

- Added Hungarian translation.

- More strings marked for translation.

Current translations:

 de      Guido Schimmels
 es      Juan Carlos Jimenez Garcia
 fr      Vincent Lefèvre
 hu      Andras Mohari
 it      Yuri Bongiorno
 pl      Bart Kreska
 pt_BR * Jose Carlos do Nascimento
 zh_CN * cheungsiufai
 zh_TW * cheungsiufai

* indicates a translation which is out-of-date.

applet:

- Added method for applets to determine the panel orientation (Stephen Watson).

filer:

- Made filer.py use 0launch if available (Thomas Leonard; requested by
  Christopher Arndt).

launch: *NEW*

- Added launch module, which allows running programs easily using the injector,
  and made filer.py use 0launch if available (Thomas Leonard; requested by
  Christopher Arndt).

Menu:

- Changed the doc string in Menu.py to prefer the new MenuItem based method
  of defining menus not the old tuple method (Stephen Watson).

mime:

- Added mime.get_type_handler(), which uses the same algorithm as ROX-Filer to
  find the handler for a file (Ken Hayber and Thomas Leonard).

mime_handler:

- EXPERIMENTAL code for installing MIME handlers via 0launch (Stephen Watson)

- Better detection of the MIME-types/MIME-thumb location when installing type
  handlers (Stephen Watson).

- Improve installation of MIME type handler under Zero Install (Stephen Watson)

- Bugfix: spurious argument when installing SendTo handler under Zero Install
  (Stephen Watson, reported by Andras Mohari)

OptionsBox:

- Rename translation function in OptionsBox to avoid confusing pygettext.

- Make the options box use ComboBox instead of OptionMenu whenever possible. It
  also makes sure that the OptionMenu's initial width is large enough to
  display the widest item (Andras Mohari).

saving:

- When saving a file to a FAT filesystem, the chmod would fail. Log a warning
  instead of aborting (Thomas Leonard; reported by QS Computing).

- Save box now selects icon from same icon theme as ROX-Filer (Stephen Watson).

session: *NEW*

- Added rox.session module for communicating with ROX-Session.

- Use XMLRPC if the DBUS version is too old.

- Check that ROX-Session is providing the dbus service, don't just assume that
  it is (Stephen Watson).

settings: *NEW*

- Added settings module (Tony Houghton, based on code from LookAndFeel).

- Don't create bus object until constructor is called.

- rox.settings now uses rox.session to communicate with ROX-Session and
  the duplicate Options work has been removed from rox.session (Stephen
  Watson).

su:

- If 'xterm' isn't available, give a sensible error message when using the
su module (Thomas Leonard; reported by Vincent Lefevre).

xxmlrpc: *NEW*

- Added 'xxmlrpc' module. This allows sending XML-RPC messages to other
  processes, via the X server.

- Extended XML-RPC code to return response values and faults to caller.

- Better error codes (NoSuchService, UnknownObject, NoSuchMethod).  Cope with 
  returning None (returns True instead).  Simplified API (no need to subclass
  ExportedObject, call register, or use invoke).

- If a service property exists but the window it points to doesn't, then
  report that the service is no longer running.

- XXMLRPC call objects support the Blocker interface (so you can block
  until the reply is available).

- If an XXMLRPC Call object is destroyed before the response is read then
  display a warning and destroy the IPC window.

25-May-2006
~~~~~~~~~~~
Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).

10-Mar-2006
~~~~~~~~~~~
Bugfix: spurious argument when installing SendTo handler under Zero 
        Install (Stephen Watson, reported by Andras Mohari)

04-Mar-2006
~~~~~~~~~~~
When installing a type handler under Zero Install, make sure to pass the
arguments to the program and run 0launch in console mode (Stephen Watson).

25-Feb-2006
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added mime.get_type_handler(), which uses the same algorithm as ROX-Filer to
find the handler for a file (Ken Hayber and Thomas Leonard).

17-Feb-2006
~~~~~~~~~~~
New class Setting in rox.session is an option tied to a ROX-Session setting
(Stephen Watson).

14-Feb-2006
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added rox.session module for communicating with ROX-Session.
Added method for applets to determine the panel orientation (Stephen Watson).

21-Jan-2006
~~~~~~~~~~~
Set sys.excepthook to our graphical exception explorer so that untrapped
exceptions are reported nicely.

13-Jan-2006
~~~~~~~~~~~
Save box now selects icon from same icon theme as ROX-Filer (Stephen Watson).

29-Dec-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
When saving a file to a FAT filesystem, the chmod would fail. Log a warning
instead of aborting (Thomas Leonard; reported by QS Computing).

25-Nov-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Better detection of the MIME-types/MIME-thumb location when installing 
type handlers (Stephen Watson).

12-Nov-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added rox.isappdir() function to test the validity of an AppDir (Stephen
Watson).
EXPERIMENTAL code for installing MIME handlers via 0launch (Stephen Watson).

05-Nov-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Changed the doc string in Menu.py to prefer the new MenuItem based method
of defining menus not the old tuple method (Stephen Watson).

22-Oct-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).

21-Oct-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Made message in AppRun translatable (Andras Mohari).

02-Sep-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added launch module, which allows running programs easily using the injector,
and made filer.py use 0launch if available (Thomas Leonard; requested by
Christopher Arndt).
Double-click on a line in the stack-trace display of an error to open the
source file in Edit (Thomas Leonard).

30-Aug-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
If pygtk is found, but not gtk, give a better error (Thomas Leonard; reported
by Albert).

20-Aug-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
If 'xterm' isn't available, give a sensible error message when using the
su module (Thomas Leonard; reported by Vincent Lefevre).

18-Aug-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added ROX-Lib.xml file, which makes it easy to register a CVS copy of ROX-Lib
with the 0launch, using '0launch --add-feed' (Thomas Leonard).

25-Jul-2005 (Release 2.0.2)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Bugfix: Installing MIME handlers under the XDG base dir system didn't 
        work (Stephen Watson).

17-Jun-2005 (Release 2.0.1)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Send deprecation warnings to stdout, not stderr, so only developers will
see them (Thomas Leonard).

10-Jun-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Fixed deprecation warning in processes.py (Thomas Leonard).

01-Jun-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Avoid apparent PyGTK bug related to icon themes, may result in a
memory leak but probably won't (Stephen Watson).

19-May-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Clean up of icon theme handling (Stephen Watson).

18-May-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Compatability with PyGTK 2.4 retaining backwards compatability with
2.2 at least (Ken Hayber, Stephen Watson).

12-May-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).

11-May-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added Portuguese translation (José Carlos do Nascimento).

07-May-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't try to get pygtk through Zero Install. The injector can be used to
choose the implementation of pygtk to use, including a version in Zero
Install if desired (Thomas Leonard).

06-May-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
MIME handler install now uses basedir (Stephen Watson).
Tests use gtk.main() instead of the deprecated gtk.mainloop() (Stephen Watson).

05-May-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Some versions of GTK silently remove '-' from sys.argv (GTK bug #303166).
Added a work-around (Thomas Leonard).

02-May-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Put "root" back in su command, but detect what the exact string should be, as
Solaris needs something here (reported by Stephen Watson).

01-May-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
The default SaveArea.confirm_new_path() now shows an error if the target
exists as a directory, instead of asking if you want to overwrite it (Thomas
Leonard; reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
Remove "root" from the su command, as some systems call user 0 something else
(Thomas Leonard; reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).

30-Apr-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
When getting an icon for saving, specify the size if PyGTK is recent enough.
This prevents SVG icons from appearing in huge sizes (Thomas Leonard;
requested by John Pettigrew).
Bugfix: Theme index parser failed to cope with comments at the start of the
        file (Thomas Leonard).

29-Apr-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Compatability fixes for the su module (Stephen Watson).

17-Apr-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Fixed Zero Install version test in findrox.py (Thomas Leonard).

16-Apr-2005 (Release 2.0.0)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Run unit tests in alphabetical order as it fixes a strange interaction between them (Stephen Watson).

10-Apr-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added unit tests for processes module, based on old tests in Archive (Thomas
Leonard).

09-Apr-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Changed MakeDist to allow use of other SourceForge accounts (Stephen Watson).

01-Apr-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added 'testall' script to run all the unit tests together (Thomas Leonard).

23-Mar-2005 (Release 1.9.18)
~~~~~~~~~~~
German translation (Guido Schimmels).

13-Mar-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added TODO file to track bugs and changes needed for 2.0.0 release.

10-Mar-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Bugfix: Set default in Options box to OK to avoid triggering a GTK bug
        (Thomas Leonard, reported by Guido Schimmels).

16-Jan-2005 (Release 1.9.17)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added OutputBlocker, which works in a similar way to InputBlocker (Thomas
Leonard).

15-Jan-2005
~~~~~~~~~~~
Be consistent about URI escaping. set_uri() is now always passed an unescaped
UTF-8 string (Thomas Leonard).

03-Jan-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added fixedlist and varlist widgets to OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).

31-Dec-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added MIME type matching by file contents (Stephen Watson).

29-Dec-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
If a 'rox' module is in PYTHONPATH, use that without any searching (Thomas
Leonard).

23-Dec-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).

11-Dec-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Suppress warning when we use GtkItemFactory under pygtk 2.4 (Stephen Watson).

25-Nov-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added tasks.InputBlocker, which triggers when an input source becomes
readable (Thomas Leonard).

21-Nov-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Bugfix: Use only text nodes when getting the tool tip from the Options.xml
        file (Stephen Watson).

22-Oct-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Bugfix: Theme subdirectories are separated by ',' not ';' (reported by
        Denis Prost).

20-Oct-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Bugfix: When a menu has more than one toggle item, only one is updated
        correctly (Ken Hayber).

07-Oct-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Replace g.mainloop() and g.mainquit() with g.main() and g.main_quit() as
recommended since pygtk 2.0.0 to avoid warnings with pygtk 2.4.0 (Stephen 
Watson).

03-Oct-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added options.ListOption to support multi-valued option widgets, such as
lists (Stephen Watson).

02-Oct-2004 (Release 1.9.16)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Cope better with user cancelling su operation. New interface to replace
create_su_proxy (Thomas Leonard).

27-Sep-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
The choices module is now deprecated. You can use choices.migrate() to move
settings over to the basedir system (Thomas Leonard). Also added
basedir.load_first_config(), which works like the old choices.load().

26-Sep-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Several incompatible changes to the experimental proxy API to make it simpler
(Thomas Leonard):

- Create_su_proxy now returns the MasterObject directly, not the MasterProxy.
- You can call finish on the MasterObject (so the MasterProxy isn't needed).
- Slave methods no longer take a 'request' argument. Instead, the return
  value of the function is returned.
- Methods can only return one value. dequeue and dequeue_last have been
  replaced with a 'result' property.
- Methods on MasterObject now return a RequestBlocker, not a Queue. This
  means you just yield the object itself, not object.blocker.

Tasks API is no longer experimental, but proxy API is.

22-Sep-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added a Help button to the exception dialog, which opens the new Help/Errors
file (Thomas Leonard).

08-Sep-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Bugfix: Failed to call the parent constructor to AbortSave correctly.

06-Sep-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Simplified su code and interface.
New suchild methods: open, close, read, write, chmod and rename, which work
just like their normal Python counterparts (Thomas Leonard).

29-Aug-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Removed code to turn off the separator in the debug dialog. GTK 2.4 doesn't
need it, and generates a warning if you use it (Thomas Leonard).

27-Aug-2004 (Release 1.9.15)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added spawnvpe and waitpid methods to suchild.

08-Aug-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
If the unit field for a <numentry> option is blank, don't try to translate it
(reported by Guido Schimmels).

30-Jun-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added 'su' module for performing operations as root.

11-Jun-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Allow "" as a valid value in a OptionsBox menu (reported by Guido Schimmels).

10-Jun-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added 'proxy' module. This allows one Python process to invoke methods on
another asynchronously.
Added rox.UserAbort exception, to be raised when users cancel something
manually.

07-Jun-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Fix syntax error I caused when I added a docstring (Stephen Watson).

30-May-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Get update-mime-database command through Zero Install, if possible.

24-May-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
mime_handler can now uninstall (Stephen Watson).

04-May-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Translate menu items in options (Guido Schimmels).

26-Apr-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added <slider> widget to options.

25-Apr-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added 'size-group' attribute to Options.xml elements. This allows grouping
elements so that their labels all appear the same width.

20-Apr-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Bugfix: Colour buttons in the Options boxes didn't work with some themes
        (Jonatan Liljedahl).

17-Apr-2004 (Release 1.9.14)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added ToggleItem (based on a patch from Ken Hayber).

15-Apr-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Better <label> widgets (wrapping and icon). Taken from LookAndFeel.

20-Mar-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Stop themes from overriding the display of the colour-picker buttons in
the options box (Rene Ejury).

17-Mar-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Warn about old versions of findrox.py.
Bugfix: Bug in new menu API prevented submenus from working.

16-Mar-2004 (Release 1.9.13)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Bugfix: Icon themes didn't work with python versions older than 2.2.2
        (reported by Thomas Zajic).

15-Mar-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Bugfix: Use filer module to show ROX-Lib help, rather than using os.system,
        so that it works with Zero Install (reported by Keith Hopper).

14-Mar-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added widget_registry to OptionsBox, to provide an easy way to register
new option types. Removed build_button in favour of this method.

Bugfix: If an error occurred loading the ROX theme at startup it could not
        be reported, because icon_theme wants debug, debug wants saving, and
        saving wants icon_theme (reported by Thomas Zajic).

12-Mar-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Cope with pygtk2.2 API change (Stephen Watson, reported by Guido Schimmels).

06-Mar-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added secretentry and button options to the OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).

26-Feb-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Cope with option values split into multiple DOM text nodes (Rene Ejury).

22-Feb-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Allow a list of values to be stored in each menu Action. These are used as
the arguments to the callback function.
If a file's details were recorded (in document.save_last_stat) when it was
loaded, make sure they haven't changed when saving. Saving also updates this
variable (requested by Arnaud Calvo).

20-Feb-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Updated examples in documentation for new findrox (Yuri Bongiorno).

10-Feb-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
New API for menus. Instead of passing tuples for menu items, python classes
can be used. The old tuple interface is still supported.

07-Feb-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't stop DnD working in the savebox just because no icon can be found
(reported by Martin Lucina).

02-Feb-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).

30-Jan-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Also translate <label> elements in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).

28-Jan-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Also translate section names in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).

22-Jan-2004 (Release 1.9.12)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added 'tasks' module to provide a light-weight alternative to threads.
Bugfix: On non-zero-install systems, the sense of the version check in findrox
        was wrong.

02-Jan-2004
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added method to MIMEtype to fetch its icon. Install list window for
the MIME handler installation uses it (Stephen Watson).

13-Dec-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Translate text in Options box.

28-Dec-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Allow ROXLIB_DISABLE_ZEROINSTALL to override looking for ROX-Lib in Zero
Install (useful for ROX-Lib developers). Prefer a locally installed version
of ROX-Filer to the Zero Install version; this also allows users to select
which Zero Install version they want (eg, stable or developer).
Moved MIME handler installation into a separate module (mime_handler) and
made a few changes to the XML syntax.

24-Dec-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added <menu> OptionMenu widget for Options box (Chris Shaffer).

27-Nov-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Fixed bug in findrox when not using Zero Install (Lionel Bringuier).

26-Nov-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Escape and unescape URIs, as required by ROX-Filer 2.1.0 (reported by
Peter Geer).
Note that the xds_load_uris() method is now called with escaped URIs.
Try to run the filer through Zero Install, if possible.

11-Nov-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
If we can't get pygtk through Zero Install, try the local copy.

05-Nov-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added support in mime.py for an application to set MIME-type run
actions and thumbnail programs (Stephen Watson).

31-Oct-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Simplified implementation of saving.SaveFilter by using the new
processes.PipeThroughCommand class. The child_run() method of SaveFilter
is no longer supported.
In processes.PipeThroughCommand, a None input stream gets /dev/null instead
of inheriting its parent's stream. The class has a new run_child_with_streams
to make overriding the behaviour easier.
findrox.py script now warns if ROX-Lib2 version is too old (unless requesting
a version too old to have a version number).

29-Oct-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Changed 'Dismiss' to 'Close' (Chris Shaffer).
Bugfix: Error reporting in mime.py failed to import the _ function (reported
        by Christopher Haines).
New AppInfo.py for parsing AppInfo.xml files (Christopher Arndt), InfoWin
converted to use it (Stephen Watson).

15-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.11)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Bugfix: Python 2.3's new bool type broke options saving (reported by Lars
        Hansson).

13-Oct-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added PipeThroughCommand class (copied from Archive, with some minor
changes).

09-Oct-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Allow event to be None for Menu.popup. This allows the menu to be activated
from the keyboard, using the 'popup-menu' signal.

08-Oct-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added French translation in AppInfo.xml (Vincent Lefèvre).

03-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.10)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added support for icon themes (doesn't do inheritance yet).

28-Sep-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added some version information to the dialog you get when you run ROX-Lib
directly.

22-Sep-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
New bug() function to quickly bring up a debugging prompt.

15-Sep-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
The glob patterns in mime.py are now sorted longest first. Fix for setting 
icon in the old way when there was no icon (Stephen Watson).

25-Aug-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Try to cope better with bad hostname setup (reported by Nathan Howell).

24-Aug-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added InfoWin.py to provide standardized information window (Stephen Watson).

24-Aug-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Fall back to old way of setting default icon for older pygtk's (Stephen 
Watson).

20-Aug-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).

18-Aug-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Better way to set the default icon.

16-Aug-2003 (Release 1.9.9)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Give windows a default icon from .DirIcon (Chris Shaffer).

01-Aug-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Try to get pygtk through ZeroInstall.

25-Jul-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Updated findrox to use ZeroInstall, if possible.

22-Jul-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Work out correct application name even if invoked via a symlink. This stops
applications from calling themselves 'text_plain', etc (reported by Joe Hill).

19-Jul-2003 (Release 1.9.8)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Make default menu positioning function keep the pointer inside the menu.
Allow stock icons in menus.

18-Jul-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added position_fn argument to rox.Menu.popup.

17-Jul-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Cope with % escaped URIs.

04-Jul-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added italian translation in AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)

26-Jun-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
When loading data from another application, pass the suggested leafname to
xds_load_from_stream().

04-Jun-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Code tidying, thanks to pychecker.

26-May-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added fileutils module, which provides an interactive makedirs() function
(Richard Boulton).
Changed savebox module to use it.

16-May-2003 (Release 1.9.7)
~~~~~~~~~~~
New icon (Geoff Youngs).
Added 'basedir' module for freedesktop.org Base Directory specification.

06-May-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~
Added functions to read MIME database (Stephen Watson).

27-Jan-2003 (Release 1.9.6)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Make the default window class the name of the application directory, not
'AppRun' (suggested by Albert Wagner).
Bugfix: With pygtk-1.99.14, only the first error message from a process
        would be detected; this meant that ROX-Lib wouldn't detect when the
        process quit (reported by joehill).
Bugfix: <hbox> and <vbox> layouts didn't work in the options box (Allen
        Leonard).

22-Jan-2003
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If python is too old, raise SystemExit instead of quitting.
Ensure that True and False are defined.

16-Dec-2002
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Work around bug in some versions of pygtk that stopped the options window
from working.

12-Dec-2002 (Release 1.9.5)
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Upgrade Options box to new style.

11-Dec-2002
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Bugfix: If an option had an empty value, an exception was thrown on loading
        (reported by Stephen Watson).

05-Dec-2002
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Cope with missing input_add_full.

25-Oct-2002
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Pygtk 1.99.12 seems to more-or-less work now (according to Alastair Porter), so
remove the warning for that so we can support RedHat 8.0.

20-Oct-2002 (Release 1.9.4)
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More warnings about old pygtk versions.
Added Dialog class (does ref-counting, like Window).

15-Oct-2002
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Trying to use ROX-Lib2 with earlier versions of python now gives a sensible
error message.

10-Oct-2002
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Make clicking on ROX-Lib itself work again (Christopher Arndt).

25-Aug-2002
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Updated findrox.py to use pygtk 1.99.13 -- update your programs!

25-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.3)
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Switch to use new pygtk versioning system (requires pygtk 1.99.13).

19-Aug-2002
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Added 'processes' module, based on code in Archive, which makes controlling
subprocesses easier.

14-Aug-2002
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Bugfix: Changing the keys lost any builtin shortcuts (Gtk behaviour has
        changed since 1.2).

08-Aug-2002
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Trap exceptions when activating menu items and report nicely.

07-Aug-2002
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Bugfix: Remember to call drop_finish() after a drag-and-drop operation.

05-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.2)
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Renamed XDSLoader module to 'loading' (like 'saving').
Added 'mime' module for installing extra MIME information.
Bugfix: XDSLoader didn't handle the drag-drop signal, and so only worked for
        widgets with their own implementation!

31-Jul-2002
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Show local variables in report_exception, and allow expressions to be
evaluated in the context of any frame.
Added StringSaver class.

25-Jul-2002
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Added applet module for creating ROX panel applets.

24-Jul-2002
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Bugfix: saving code didn't cope with missing images (reported by Musus Umbra).

21-Jul-2002
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If 'gtk2' isn't available, see if 'gtk' is actually the 2.0 version.
Added save_set_permissions to Saveable interface, allowing the default
save_to_file to preserve file permissions.
Changes to XDSLoader: xds_load_from_stream(name, type, stream)
replaces the old xds_load_data(data).
Loading files from remote filers works now.
Added much improved exception reporting system.

19-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.1)
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Added support for translations.

18-Jul-2002
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License change to the LGPL (allows commercial programs to use this library).
Added AbortSave exception.

14-Jul-2002
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Saveable.save_to_file() should raise an exception when saving fails, rather
than returning 0. The return value is now ignored (note that raising an
exception will still work with 1.9.0).
toplevel_unref() ignores any arguments, so it is easier to use as a signal
handler.

12-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.0)
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First release for Gtk+-2.0.