ROX-Filer 2.7 released
Submitted by Thomas Leonard on Fri, 2007-11-30 19:10
Main node on rox.sourceforge.net:
Version:
2.7
The panel configuration interface has been reworked to allow for easier adding, removing and editing of panels. A new log window records file actions for reference. Support for using GNOME icon themes was improved. Various bugs were fixed.
Full announcement
ROX-Filer 2.7 (the file manager at the core of the ROX desktop) has been released. You can install it by entering this URL into AddApp: http://rox.sourceforge.net/2005/interfaces/ROX-Filer 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-Filer Changes in 2.7:The panel configuration interface has been reworked to allow for easier adding, removing and editing of panels. A new log window records file actions for reference. Support for using GNOME icon themes was improved. Various bugs were fixed.
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Where is found "Back" button
Where is found "Back" button for toolbar? It's possible to show and walk throught the navigation history?
I use numeric hot keys (1,2,3..) for navigation, and button "Up" not work for me as "Back"...
Back button
There's no back button (we had one, but it was a bit confusing having two arrows!) but there's a Recently Visited submenu from the toolbar which shows the last few directories.
Back Button
Any chance of resurrecting it? Every other file manager I know of has one, and people don't seem to get confused by it. The "Recently Visited" list is not nearly as intuitive or easy to use.
MIME types not working
Where did the mime types go?
I updated ROX Filer to version 2.7 and many mime types no longer work. For example, all Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, etc) are identified as application/octet-stream. I launched MIME-Editor and it lists several types that should glob to the file extensions. I tried adding a new type in the hope that it would work, but it didn't.
Any thoughts?
MIME types
Seems to work for me. Try putting some debug statements in xdg_mime_get_mime_type_for_file().
MIME types
They really aren't working for me either, which is very odd because all I did was upgrade to 2.7. Suddenly all my text files are 'application/octet-stream', yet contents indicate 'ASCII English text'. How can that be ? Something is wrong.
MIME types
It's me Anonymous again. This is most definitely a problem, I have installed both 2.7 and 2.6.1 side-by-side in different places, and 2.7 does not properly see MIME types while 2.6.1 sees them just fine while running at the same time on the same machine with the same config files.
I'm sticking to 2.6.1 until this is fixed.
Re: MIME types
What version of the shared MIME database are you using?
MIME types
I have no idea, how would I find this out ?
Re: MIME types
pkg-config --modversion shared-mime-infoor use your distro's package managerMIME types
Thanks for the reply, the version is 0.21
MIME Type: shared-mime-info version
I've been using 0.22 and recently upgraded to 0.23 in the hope that would fix the problem. It didn't.
Thanks for all your work.
- Peter
Shared MIME info
I have it working with 0.17, 0.19, 0.21 and 0.23 so it isn't the shared MIME info.
We should take this to either the mailing list or the bug tracker as it is getting too involved for the comments section.
Possible fix
Try the snapshot rox-filer-smw.tgz which is at rox.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ (can't post links, sorry)
It doesn't fix the problem
All unknwon_text files without suffix (e.g. *.txt),
were still shown as unknown mime-types.
Very strange, when we right-click such files and choose
the properties, it shows their contents indicate as text files.
MIME
Then I'm going to need more information than can be put here. This has to go to the mailing list.