[rox-users] ROX-Filer 1.1.9

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

New filer release - 1.1.9 is on the web now (source and Linux-x86
binary archives at present):

        http://rox.sf.net/rox_download.php3

Rather a lot of changes this time!


Changes since 1.1.8:

New features:

- Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
  so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
  Kristian A. Rink and others).

- When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
  shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).

- Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
  opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.

- Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
  (Andras Mohari).

- Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
  icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).

- Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
  (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).

- New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
  icons and types get filled in later.

- Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
  correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.

- Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
  submenu.

- Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).

- Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.

- Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
  on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).

- Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.

- Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).

- If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
  replaced by a Restart button.

- With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
  instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).

- Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
  retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
  saved yet.

- Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
  used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).

- Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access to the
  MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can be set
  from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).

- Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip (Stephen
  Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).

- Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button. (Bernard Jungen)

- Changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras Mohari).


Internal changes:

- For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.

- Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).

- Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).

- Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.

- More code tidying (scanning, sizing, menus, panels, action windows, and
  collections!)


Bugfixes:

- Fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).

- Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.

- Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under Gtk+-2.0.

- Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
  efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...

- Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.

- When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
  it was in the displayed area before.

- When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
  on a hidden item.

- When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
  winking effect until the window actually appears.
  
- Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
  selection (Andras Mohari).

- The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
  processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
  the console (Olivier Fourdan).

- A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a width or
  height of zero (Andras Mohari).

- Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by Couderc
  Damien).

- In action windows, a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
  (requested by Graham Borland).

- 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.

- Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes (Bernard Jungen).

- Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items (Bernard
  Jungen).

- Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore (Bernard
  Jungen).

- modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
  *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000) (Bernard Jungen).


Translations:

- Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).

- Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).

- Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).

- Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a
  blank string (Andras Mohari).
  
- Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).


SOAP RPC (communication between other programs and the filer):

- Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
  the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
  easier for other programs to talk to the filer.

- Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).


Enjoy!


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