ROX patches

• ROX-Filer 1.2.0
  • Selection button.
  • Window history.
  • Permissions GUI.
  • Fix compilation warnings.
  • Option to not save thumbnails.
  • Copy/Move if newer.
• ROX-Filer 2.0.0
  • Selection button.
  • Sort button.
  • Window history.
  • Set an objects permissions graphically.
  • Directory usage in info box.
  • Display files when querying action.
• Bash 2.05a App dir support.
• Modify GTK+ file selection widgets.
• Drag and drop support in Sylpheed.

For ROX

Here are patches for ROX-Filer versions 1.2.0 (the stable release for GTK+ 1.2) and 2.0.0 (the first stable release for GTK+ 2.). I no longer produce patches for ROX-Filer since I got developer access to the CVS version.

For ROX-Filer 1.2.0

To apply these patches get the 1.2.0 release from the ROX site and:

  tar xzf rox-1.2.0.tgz
  cd rox-1.2.0
  patch -p1 < patchfile

The patches below are available in a single 12K download.

Selection button

This patch adds an icon in the toolbar. Click on it with button 1 to select all, button 2 to invert the selection. You may need to download the icon seperately and put it in ROX-Filer/pixmaps. It also re-organises the main menu to put all the selection options on a sub-menu.

3K patch file.

History

This adds a per-window history of directories visited. Click on the up button while the control key is pressed to activate. Useful when navigating symbolic links.

Also added are two menu entries for opening the previous directory (so you can bind keys to them) and a sub-menu showing the history list for the current window.

There is a global history and a menu option to show a menu of all visited directories.

Now added: the global history list is saved on exit and restored the next time the filer runs. You can set the display style and detail type for individual directories in this file.

Updated Wed 20th February 2002: added menu option to save the current filer window settings for the directory.

13K patch file.

Permissions GUI

This adds some GUI elements to the Permissions dialogue, to aid in generating the string describing the change to make.

7K patch file.

Fix compilation warnings.

This fixes some casts in gconvert.c to eliminate the compilation warnings.

2K patch file.

Option not to save thumbnails

This adds an option to prevent thumbnail images being saved. It defaults to allowing saves.

2K patch file.

Copy/Move if newer option

Option to automatically copy/move file if the source is newer than the destination.

6K patch file.

For ROX-Filer 2.0.0

To apply these patches get the 2.0.0 release from the ROX site and:

  tar xzf rox-2.0.0.tgz
  cd rox-2.0.0
  patch -p1 < patchfile

The patches are essentially unchanged from the 1.3.9 version, and can also be applied to the 1.3.10 release.

The patches below are available in a single 28K patch file. If you apply that patch then you will be running the same filer that I am. (Updated 3rd June 2003, was missing the permissions patch).

Selection button

This patch adds an icon in the toolbar. Click on it with button 1 to select all, button 2 to invert the selection.

2K patch.

Now in version 2.1.0.

Sort button

This patch adds an icon in the toolbar. Click on it with to change the sort mode for the directory.

3K patch.

Now in version 2.1.0.

Window History

This adds a per-window history of directories visited. Click on the up button while the control key is pressed to activate. Useful when navigating symbolic links.

Also added are two menu entries for opening the previous directory (so you can bind keys to them).

8K patch file.

Permissions

This adds a graphical means of setting the permissions of an object in the Info window.

5K patch file.

Now in version 2.1.0.

Directory usage in info box

When you bring up the info box for a directory this will show the total usage of the directory contents.

5K patch file.

Now in version 2.1.0.

Display files when querying action

When you are performing an action, such as copy or delete, that affects two files, and a confirm is required then data on the files is shown.

Should now be in 2.1.0.

7K patch file.

Now in version 2.1.0.

For bash

This is a patch for bash 2.05a which lets it recognise application directories. When running the patched bash use

set -o appdirs

This should also work on bash 2.05, but there is a different patch for 2.05b.

Please note that the version of the patch that was here prior to 21st December 2002 was broken. Sorry.

• 4K patch file for 2.05a.
• 4K patch file for 2.05b.

For GTK+ applicatons

See the Sylpheed patch for an example.

Updated:

• 0.1.1 Fri 01st February 2002, some improvments suggested on the rox-devel mailing list.
• 0.1.2 Wed 20th February 2002, fix when using C++ (Thomas Steinhausen), clean up temporary files.

10K archive.

Drag and drop file support for Sylpheed 0.7.0

This is an implementation of the GtkFileSelection widget modification to the Sylpheed mail client, version 0.7.0, 0.8.1 or 0.8.5.

To apply the patch, copy it to the directory above the sylpheed source, then:

cd sylpheed-0.7.0
patch -p1 < ../sylpheed-0.7.0-dnd.patch
./configure
make

(Replace 0.7.0 with the version you are patching).

• 36K patch file for 0.7.0
• 40K patch file for 0.8.1
• 40K patch file for 0.8.5

Stephen Watson webmaster@kerofin.demon.co.uk
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