[rox-devel] Re: ROX-Filer 2.1.0

[Matthew W. O. <mat...@we...>]

-- Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote
(on Tuesday, 07 October 2003, 04:05 PM +0100):
> ROX-Filer 2.1.0, the start of a new developer series is out now!

Yay!! I was beginning to question myself, running a stable series of
ROX!

> Icons:
> 
> - Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
> 
> - Added icon theme selector.
> 
> - Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.

I'll make a note on the wiki that new icon themes go in the ~/.icons
directory... it took me a while to hunt that down, as the CVS snapshot
didn't mention it in the manual.

Maybe a note to the effect of "Install new icon themes in ~/.icons and
select them here" in the Options dialog could be added?

> Menus:
> 
> - Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
> 
> - Help item is only shown for applications.
> 
> - Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Allows Gimp, GQView to be added for
>   image files, etc.

I really like this last one -- it means that with my panel, I can almost
have a CDE/XFCE-like popup with most items. Would it be possible to add
it to the pinboard menu as well? Then I could drop deskmenu... ;-)

Another item -- would it be possible to throw folders into each of the
custom menu folders, and have the menu code recurse through them,
building a hierarchical menu? That could be incredibly useful...

> New features:
> 
> - Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
>   forward them explicitly.

It took me until a couple weeks ago to discover this feature; I'd always
employed a manual edit of the xml for the panel, kill the panel,
restart the panel -- just to reposition. This is nice.

> Mount points:
> 
> - New MIME type for mount points. Allows adding FreeFS, Format, etc to the
>   menu.

I like this -- makes adding eject items easy and intuitive... but...

> - Added Eject menu item for mount points (Stephen Watson).

this should make that obsolete. I'm not seeing the this menu item on my
mount points.

> Info window:
> 
> - Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission 
>   bits (Stephen Watson).

I LOVE this feature -- much easier, in my opinion, than the old method.

> - Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).

This is useful.

> - Less frame-heavy look for info box.

I like the newer, stripped down version.

> SOAP:
> 
> - New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).

Of course I like this! :-)

> Bug fixes:
> - Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
>   else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c
>   if you really need it.

I never used the option for precisely the reasons you specify.

Parting comments:

Nice work -- I didn't realize so many new features and improvements were
in the works already! Looking forward to another fun ride in the
development series!

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/