gnome-find: older news

June 28th, 2000 - v0.6 released.

This release fixes a handful of bugs, includes a number of improvements, and now features an interface to the "locate" command.

Fixes:

Some dialogs did not properly handle the close/delete signal sent by the window manager, which could lead to a crash.
Portability fixes (using stpcpy(), GNU regexp, and FNM_CASEFOLD).
argc was less by one for the -ok action, causing a tripped assert.

Improvements:

File properties dialog is now contained in a notebook, instead of a new/separate window for each file.
File properties dialog now also shows stats on symlinks as well as the file it points to, if any.
If printing file details is selected (-wls), they are printed into a clist with separate columns for each file stat. The list is sortable by clicking on the column title.
The error window in the results dialog can be togged to be shown or hidden, instead of only being shown.
For the -ok action, use a GNOME dialog to ask yes/no/cancel.

Additions:

An interface to the locate command.

If no major problems come up, there's a good chance that the next release should be the final 1.0 release!

June 19th, 2000 - v0.5 released.

Surprisingly, no bugs were reported since 0.4, so this release basically includes a number of new features, user interface improvements, and documentation. A brief summary of additions are:

Searching for filenames using regular expressions (-regex and -iregex).
Handles "~" for home directories.
File archiving commands on search results.
Support for searching on specific file system types (-fstype).
Tearoff menus.
Searching for files containing a specific string of text.
Manually entering and executing a search command.
Preference settings for temporary directory and shell.
Executing a specified shell command on search results.
HTML documentation, GNOME help, and user manual.

We're getting pretty close to a final 1.0 release, so test out this version thoroughly!

June 5th, 2000 - v0.4 released.

This release fixes a minor bug, and adds a number of new features.

Fix:

If the advanced search button is selected, but no options actually are, a segmentation fault resulted.

Additions:

Implemented support for the remaining advanced search options (-mode, -user, -group, -uid, -gid, -nouser, -nogroup, -size, -type, -xtype, -empty, -inum, and -links).
German translation (Kai Lahmann).
Korean translation (Kang JeongHee).
New command line options, "--info", to print detailed info about the binary (e.g., compile/link info).
(Optional) runtime debugging code, valid only if "--enable-debug" was specified when running configure.
Preferences settings for all toolbars (e.g., icons only, text only, both); saving/restoring window sizes; and file operation commands to execute from the results window.
Implement executing file operation commands from the results window (e.g., open, delete, copy, print, execute).

May 22nd, 2000 - v0.3 released.

This release fixes a few bugs, and has some additional advanced search options implemented.

Fixes:

Small memory leak if gnome-find.glade is not found in the current, starting directory.
The gnome-find.spec[.in] file actually builds the RPM file now.
If printing file details to a window, the value of the files found number in the results dialog was always zero.
Use common routines in code for advanced search options to reduce repeated code.
Seg fault if "Clear Search" was done after either of the multi-file or multi-directory dialogs has been created, but not both.

Additions:

Set the minimized window icon.
Spanish translation (Joel Barrios).
Russion translation (Valek Filippov).
Implemented searching using boolean tests for atime, ctime, and mtime (-amin, -atime, -anewer, -cmin, -ctime, -cnewer, -mmin, -mtime, and -mnewer options).

May 15th, 2000 - v0.2 released.

This release adds new features and implementation, including:

Enabling the GNOME progress bar, so that progress indication is shown to the user while a long-running search is running.
All of the "Options" and "Actions" for advanced searches.
Multi-file and multi-directory searching.

May 09th, 2000 - v0.1 released.

Initial release.

Unlike other 0.1 releases, gnome-find actually works, and has a clear roadmap on what needs to be finished before a final 1.0 release. See the TODO file in the source distribution on what needs to be done.

This release features "basic" searching and multiple windows. Future releases will include incremental features for advanced search options, file operations on files found in the search results, and more.