File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 0.5.0
Notes: Version 0.5.0 of FinkCommander has been released. It includes significant new features, including a package browser, which provides a Finder-like interface for viewing the files intalled on your system by a particular Fink package. If you have version 0.4.3 installed, you will need to move it to the trash before installing this version. FinkCommander is a graphical user interface for the Fink software packaging system for Mac OS X. It provides an intuitive front-end to the Fink command-line tools for downloading and installing Unix software.
Changes: The primary new feature is the package browser, which allows you to view the files that Fink has installed on your system for a selected package. The browser includes most of the functionality of a Finder window, including drag and drop and double clicking to open. You can open a new browser for an installed package via the Tools menu, the contextual menu for the package table or a toolbar item. FinkCommander now provides easy access to a package's .info and .patch files, which are used by Fink to build and install packages from source. You can open these files with commands in the File menu, by double clicking a package name or by dragging selected packages from the table to an icon. You can also copy the files by dragging them to a Finder window or the Desktop. A new item in the Tools menu opens the documentation directory for a package in a Finder window. There is also a command to do this in the contextual menu for the table. The package table now includes a sortable flag column like the one in Mail.app. Menu items to toggle flags are included in the View menu and the contextual menu for the table. Another new item in the Tools menu takes the user to the Bug Reporting page for Fink. Thanks to Mathias Meyer, FinkCommander now displays a custom dock icon when a command is running. He's also improved the appearance of some of the toolbar icons. FinkCommander Help now opens in the user's preferred browser. Because FinkCommander is now a multiple-window program, closing the main window no longer quits the application. If you close the main window, a command in the Window menu allows you to reopen it. A fixed-width font is now used in the output view. Although not as pretty as the normal system font, a fixed-width font is better for displaying text formatted for a terminal display.
