From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
Subject: Midnight Commander file manager 4.5.9 is out
Hello guys,
The new release of the Midnight Commander file manager is out.
New features in this release:
* GNOME camp:
- Jonathan's plugin system for New documents is in (so
GNOME applications can install a .dektop file and
the user will get a list of possible New documents
that can be created).
- Uses metadata properly to configure the desktop icons.
- Fixes the propery dialog boxes for the desktop icons
(there were actually 5 bugs hidden here).
- Better handling of the desktop icon selection (no
more grabs are kept).
- Drops on the desktop with the left button will now
*always* be LINK commands. No matter how hard you
click on those modifiers, gmc will do a link.
If you want something else, you can use MOD-1, or
use button-2 to get the "ask-me-on-drop" menu, which
will let you copy or move the files.
- The new toolbar code from Jonathan is in.
* Regular camp:
- Federico implemented a FileContext, which is a
structure that holds all the information for the
Copy/Move/Delete operations.
So, now there is no longer a global context with any
information, the information has been nicely encoded
in a structure.
This is required for two things:
- Enhance the Background code (the GNOME front
end needs this to launch multiple background
operations).
- Kill a seldom hit race condition in the
background code.
- Many bug fixes from Paul Sheer, Timur Bakeyev,
Norbert Warmuth, Federico Mena, Jonathan Blandford,
* VFS land:
- Paul Sheer has fixed a number of outstanding bugs in
the tarfs code (and in any vfs_s based file systems
as well).
- Watching files from VFs file systems that depend on
external command now works on GNOME edition.
Note that to use this new release you need gnome-libs-0.99.4.
You can get your copy from:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/
ftp://ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx/linux/local/devel
Best wishes,
Miguel.
