From: Thomas L. <ta...@ec...> - 2001-12-14 12:45:40
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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! -- Thomas Leonard http://rox.sourceforge.net ta...@ec... ta...@us... |