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File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 2.1.1

Notes:
Links can be dragged from Mozilla-type browsers. They aren't fetched yet, but you can drop them on an application that understands URIs.

Set types with extended attributes.

Properties box allows editing symlink target. Also shows the total size of directories.

New options to resize on double-click, and limit placement of iconified windows.

Fix panel problem with OpenBox.

Lots of minor bugfixes.

Changes: 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1) ~~~~~~~~~~~ Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo). Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers). 22-Jan-2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre). 21-Jan-2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Misc changes for next release. 18-Jan-2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg). 07-Jan-2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock, CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer). Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen Watson, reported on #rox). 06-Jan-2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus). 20-Dec-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson). 19-Dec-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik). 10-Dec-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen Watson). 03-Dec-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson). 02-Dec-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (Arnaud Calvo). Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen Watson). 29-Nov-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson). 23-Nov-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik). Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov). 20-Nov-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer). 17-Nov-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'. 31-Oct-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen Crouch). 26-Oct-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones for the same reason. Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported by Nils-Erik Svangård). 25-Oct-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers). Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson). 22-Oct-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement (Stephen Watson). 16-Oct-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking or opening a menu). 15-Oct-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file support not being detected (igla). 14-Oct-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney). 13-Oct 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon dialog (Stephen Watson). 09-Oct-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme). 08-Oct-2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo). Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels). Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney). Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up nicely.