[rox-devel] ROX-Filer 2.5

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

ROX-Filer 2.5 (the file manager at the core of the ROX desktop) has been
released.

You can install it with:

  $ 0alias rox http://rox.sourceforge.net/2005/interfaces/ROX-Filer

To upgrade:

- Run the command:

  $ rox --versions

- Click on 'Refresh all now'.

- Ensure 'Help test new versions' is selected.

For more information, including package downloads, see:

  http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/ROX-Filer

Changes in 2.5:


New features:

- Allow pinboard and panel icons to be locked (Dennis Tomas, suggested
  by Abrolag).

- Display extra information in properties box for desktop files (Stephen
  Watson).

- Allow setting icons in the AppInfo.xml file (Dennis Tomas). Example:

  <AppMenu>
   <Item option=3D"--options" icon=3D"gtk-preferences">...</Item>
  </AppMenu>

- Added SetIcon and UnsetIcon SOAP calls (Jonatan Liljedahl). With this
  you can have your volume manager (like ivman) set icons for the
  mounted media that represents what type of media it is (cdr, cdrw, usb
  stick, etc).

- Right-clicking on the Show/hide button now turns thumbnails on and off
  (Peter Federighi).

- Added options to change the "mount" and "umount" commands (Thomas
  Leonard).  This may be useful for using programs such as "pmount" and
  "pumount" (which allow mounting removable media without an fstab
  entry, or encrypted filesystems).

- Added a 'Manage Thumbnails' link to the Options box (Thomas Leonard).
  If 0launch isn't available, tell the user the URL of the program we
  were trying to run so they can get it themselves. Tell users about
  right-click behaviour in a tooltip (Thomas Leonard).


Changes:

- Removed separator from icon properties dialog box (Thomas Leonard).

- Updated Word MIME type for new MIME database (Keith Warno).

- When the handler for a MIME type is a symlink to a program, run the
  program using the target of the symlink rather than the link itself so
  that programs like gvim see the right name and behave correctly
  (Thomas Leonard, reported by Keith Warno).

- Use full URI, not local path, for DocBook stylesheet (P=E4r Forsling).

- When setting or clearing a globicon, redraw pinboard and panel icons
  too (Dennis Tomas).

- When loading MIME icons from the current theme only get the pathname
  from GTK, but actually load it through our own cache (Thomas Leonard).
  GTK was loading a new copy of the image each time!

- Changed name of save settings menu option to be more explicit (Stephen
  Watson).

- In many .desktop files there is no "%F" or similar parameter to the
  "Exec" entry, although the application can open files. Work around
  this problem by adding the arguments to the end of the command in this
  case (Dennis Tomas).

- Added Zero Install source interface (Thomas Leonard). Run this with
  0launch to compile against the GTK and GLib 2.4 headers (which will be
  downloaded automatically). This produces a binary that runs with these
  older versions, as well as with all later releases. Note that this has
  been somewhat superceded by the GTK-2.4 compatibility environment:

  http://0install.net/2006/interfaces/GTK-2.4.xml

- New type for XML files; "application/" rather than "text/" to match
  freedesktop.org updates (Thomas Leonard).

- Moved test for a hidden file into its own function. Allows us to
  define additional tests as to whether a file is hidden, rather than
  just the first character of the file name (Stephen Watson).

- Updated source file headers by removing the Id line, updating the
  year and clarifying the copyrights (Thomas Leonard).

- The monospace font for the list view is now configurable via a
  ViewDetails::mono-font gtkrc entry (Stephen Watson).

- When iconfiying a window, try to find space on the pinboard of the
  current screen first (Tony Houghton).

- Updated the help text for rox --help (Andras Mohari).

- Use a monospace font for the size and permissions columsn in the list
  view (Andras Mohari).


Bug fixes:

- When a panel icon's image changed, the display didn't update (Thomas
  Leonard, reported by Dennis Tomas).

- Any line in a .desktop file would be ignored if there was a blank line
  directly before it (Dennis Tomas).

- Escape " characters when generating translations for the Options.xml
  file (Andras Mohari).

- When reading the output from 'du' for the Properties box, set the
  channel's encoding to NULL to avoid errors with non-UTF-8 filenames
  (Andras Mohari).

- When running ROX-Filer for the first time ever, don't tell users that
  the Choices directory has been migrated unless they already had one.
  Also, don't bother creating symlinks to the new locations in this
  case. Other applications have had a while to catch up to the new
  system, and the message is rather confusing to new users (Thomas
  Leonard).


Translations:

- Updated Chinese Translations (Babyfai Cheung).

- Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).

- Updated French translation (Vincent Lef=E8vre).

- Updated Hungarian translation and converted to UTF-8 (Andras Mohari).

- Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).

- Updated Russian translation (Nikita E. Shalaev).

- Added Ukrainian translation (Yourko).

- Added Vietnamese translation (Xomhau Newnick).

- Updated instructions for creating a translation (reported by Yourko).

- Make sure all the help message is translatable (Stephen Watson,
  reported by Andras Mohari).


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