ROX-Lib release

Changes since 2.0.2:

General:

- Added ROX-Lib.xml file, which makes it easy to register a CVS copy of ROX-Lib with the 0launch, using '0launch --add-feed' (Thomas Leonard).

- If pygtk is found, but not gtk, give a better error (Thomas Leonard; reported by Albert).

- Double-click on a line in the stacktrace display of the debug box to
open the source code in Edit.

- Added rox.isappdir() function to test the validity of an AppDir (Stephen Watson).

- Set sys.excepthook to our graphical exception explorer so that untrapped exceptions are reported nicely.

- Don't display KeyboardInterrupt in an error box.

- Added unittests.
Support Python 2.2.

- When displaying an uncaught exception, still write it to stderr as well as opening the exception dialog box.

Translations:

- Made message in AppRun translatable (Andras Mohari).

- Include AppRun when generating translations, and rename translation function in OptionsBox to avoid confusing pygettext (reported by Andras Mohari).

- Added Hungarian translation.

- More strings marked for translation.

Current translations:

de Guido Schimmels
es Juan Carlos Jimenez Garcia
fr Vincent Lefèvre
hu Andras Mohari
it Yuri Bongiorno
pl Bart Kreska
pt_BR * Jose Carlos do Nascimento
zh_CN * cheungsiufai
zh_TW * cheungsiufai

* indicates a translation which is out-of-date.

applet:

- Added method for applets to determine the panel orientation (Stephen Watson).

filer:

- Made filer.py use 0launch if available (Thomas Leonard; requested by
Christopher Arndt).

launch: NEW

- Added launch module, which allows running programs easily using the injector, and made filer.py use 0launch if available (Thomas Leonard; requested by Christopher Arndt).

Menu:

- Changed the doc string in Menu.py to prefer the new MenuItem based method of defining menus not the old tuple method (Stephen Watson).

mime:

- Added mime.get_type_handler(), which uses the same algorithm as ROX-Filer to find the handler for a file (Ken Hayber and Thomas Leonard).

mime_handler:

- EXPERIMENTAL code for installing MIME handlers via 0launch (Stephen Watson)

- Better detection of the MIME-types/MIME-thumb location when installing type handlers (Stephen Watson).

- Improve installation of MIME type handler under Zero Install (Stephen Watson)

- Bugfix: spurious argument when installing SendTo handler under Zero Install (Stephen Watson, reported by Andras Mohari)

OptionsBox:

- Rename translation function in OptionsBox to avoid confusing pygettext.

- Make the options box use ComboBox instead of OptionMenu whenever possible. It also makes sure that the OptionMenu's initial width is large enough to display the widest item (Andras Mohari).

saving:

- When saving a file to a FAT filesystem, the chmod would fail. Log a warning instead of aborting (Thomas Leonard; reported by QS Computing).

- Save box now selects icon from same icon theme as ROX-Filer (Stephen Watson).

session: NEW

- Added rox.session module for communicating with ROX-Session.

- Use XMLRPC if the DBUS version is too old.

- Check that ROX-Session is providing the dbus service, don't just assume that it is (Stephen Watson).

settings: NEW

- Added settings module (Tony Houghton, based on code from LookAndFeel).

- Don't create bus object until constructor is called.

- rox.settings now uses rox.session to communicate with ROX-Session and the duplicate Options work has been removed from rox.session (Stephen Watson).

su:

- If 'xterm' isn't available, give a sensible error message when using the su module (Thomas Leonard; reported by Vincent Lefevre).

xxmlrpc: NEW

- Added 'xxmlrpc' module. This allows sending XML-RPC messages to other processes, via the X server.

- Extended XML-RPC code to return response values and faults to caller.

- Better error codes (NoSuchService, UnknownObject, NoSuchMethod). Cope with returning None (returns True instead). Simplified API (no need to subclass ExportedObject, call register, or use invoke).

- If a service property exists but the window it points to doesn't, then report that the service is no longer running.

- XXMLRPC call objects support the Blocker interface (so you can block
until the reply is available).

- If an XXMLRPC Call object is destroyed before the response is read then display a warning and destroy the IPC window.

Full announcement

ROX-Lib 2.0.3 (contains shared code used by other ROX applications) has
been released.

You can install it by entering this URL into AddApp:

  http://rox.sourceforge.net/2005/interfaces/ROX-Lib

To upgrade:

- Right click on the application and choose 'Versions...' from the menu.
- Click on 'Refresh all now'.
- Ensure 'Help test new versions' is selected.

For more information, including package downloads, see:

  http://localhost/desktop/ROX-Lib

Changes in 2.0.3:

Changes since 2.0.2:
General:
- Added ROX-Lib.xml file, which makes it easy to register a CVS copy of
ROX-Lib with the 0launch, using '0launch --add-feed' (Thomas Leonard).
- If pygtk is found, but not gtk, give a better error (Thomas Leonard;
reported by Albert).
- Double-click on a line in the stacktrace display of the debug box
to

  open the source code in Edit.
- Added rox.isappdir() function to test the validity of an AppDir
(Stephen Watson).
- Set sys.excepthook to our graphical exception explorer so that
untrapped exceptions are reported nicely.
- Don't display KeyboardInterrupt in an error box.
- Added unittests.

  Support Python 2.2.
- When displaying an uncaught exception, still write it to stderr as
well as opening the exception dialog box.
Translations:
- Made message in AppRun translatable (Andras Mohari).
- Include AppRun when generating translations, and rename translation
function in OptionsBox to avoid confusing pygettext (reported by Andras
Mohari).
- Added Hungarian translation.
- More strings marked for translation.
Current translations:
 de      Guido Schimmels

 es      Juan Carlos Jimenez Garcia

 fr      Vincent Lefèvre

 hu      Andras Mohari

 it      Yuri Bongiorno

 pl      Bart Kreska

 pt_BR * Jose Carlos do Nascimento

 zh_CN * cheungsiufai

 zh_TW * cheungsiufai
* indicates a translation which is out-of-date.
applet:
- Added method for applets to determine the panel orientation (Stephen
Watson).
filer:
- Made filer.py use 0launch if available (Thomas Leonard; requested
by

  Christopher Arndt).
launch: NEW
- Added launch module, which allows running programs easily using the
injector, and made filer.py use 0launch if available (Thomas Leonard;
requested by Christopher Arndt).
Menu:
- Changed the doc string in Menu.py to prefer the new MenuItem based
method of defining menus not the old tuple method (Stephen Watson).
mime:
- Added mime.get_type_handler(), which uses the same algorithm as
ROX-Filer to find the handler for a file (Ken Hayber and Thomas
Leonard).
mime_handler:
- EXPERIMENTAL code for installing MIME handlers via 0launch (Stephen
Watson)
- Better detection of the MIME-types/MIME-thumb location when installing
type handlers (Stephen Watson).
- Improve installation of MIME type handler under Zero Install (Stephen
Watson)
- Bugfix: spurious argument when installing SendTo handler under Zero
Install (Stephen Watson, reported by Andras Mohari)
OptionsBox:
- Rename translation function in OptionsBox to avoid confusing
pygettext.
- Make the options box use ComboBox instead of OptionMenu whenever
possible. It also makes sure that the OptionMenu's initial width is large
enough to display the widest item (Andras Mohari).
saving:
- When saving a file to a FAT filesystem, the chmod would fail. Log a
warning instead of aborting (Thomas Leonard; reported by QS Computing).
- Save box now selects icon from same icon theme as ROX-Filer (Stephen
Watson).
session: NEW
- Added rox.session module for communicating with ROX-Session.
- Use XMLRPC if the DBUS version is too old.
- Check that ROX-Session is providing the dbus service, don't just
assume that it is (Stephen Watson).
settings: NEW
- Added settings module (Tony Houghton, based on code from
LookAndFeel).
- Don't create bus object until constructor is called.
- rox.settings now uses rox.session to communicate with ROX-Session and
the duplicate Options work has been removed from rox.session (Stephen
Watson).
su:
- If 'xterm' isn't available, give a sensible error message when using
the su module (Thomas Leonard; reported by Vincent Lefevre).
xxmlrpc: NEW
- Added 'xxmlrpc' module. This allows sending XML-RPC messages to other
processes, via the X server.
- Extended XML-RPC code to return response values and faults to
caller.
- Better error codes (NoSuchService, UnknownObject, NoSuchMethod).  Cope
with  returning None (returns True instead).  Simplified API (no need to
subclass ExportedObject, call register, or use invoke).
- If a service property exists but the window it points to doesn't, then
report that the service is no longer running.
- XXMLRPC call objects support the Blocker interface (so you can
block

  until the reply is available).
- If an XXMLRPC Call object is destroyed before the response is read
then display a warning and destroy the IPC window.