• The Deskbar's time view now shows a nice calendar when you click over it and hold the mouse button.
• Tray icons will now be layouted better when new ones appear, or disappear.
• Switcher can now quit applications when you press the 'q' key in the Switcher window.
• Tracker add-ons are now only shown if they support the file type directly, or at least in a generic way - they are now ordered by their level of support, too.
• Support for undo/redo of Tracker operations (but no undelete, of course)
• The parent menu list in the lower left of a Tracker window is now fully navigable, making it much more usable.
• Numerous subtle usability improvements in the file panel.
• There is now an icon in the upper right corner representing the current directory - you can use this to drag around instead of having to open its parent for this.
• Folder attributes can now be put onto the clipboard, and pasted from there, too.
• A possible work-around for the freezing bug on some R5 systems has been found - please give feedback if it works for you.
• Improved drag&drop behaviour in Tracker.
• Network shares now get a proper icon in Tracker that differentiates them from mounted images.
• Attribute queries now automatically get more useful names for later reuse.
• Many font sensitivity issues, bug fixes and other enhancements, see the change log for a detailed list of changes

• Cut/Copy & Paste support in Tracker
• Deskbar can show the application's windows in the application menu directly
• Improved Deskbar recent item lists
• Nicer look when selecting and dragging items
• Network shares are now identified by a special icon
• Many many bug fixes and other enhancements

For a detailed list of changes, have a look at the changes log for this release.

• Cut/Copy & Paste support in Tracker
• Deskbar can show the application's windows in the application menu directly
• Improved Deskbar recent item lists
• Nicer look when selecting and dragging items
• Network shares are now identified by a special icon
• Many many bug fixes and other enhancements

For a detailed list of changes, have a look at the changes log for this release.

Note for R5 users: if BeOS hangs after a reboot (empty screen), you should return to the old Tracker by booting in safe-mode (press space during boot to access the boot menu).
In any way, this should happen only on very few systems - if you could use version 5.1.5 without any problems, you can install this one as well without worrying.

Integrations from Be. The only functional change should be: Change 58004 on 2001/07/06 by hippo@widsith When the tracker DirMenu was changed to allow building either by placing each item in order or by always placing a new item at the top, no one adjusted the function for adding the Disks Icon to the menu. This adds the appropriate functionality.

This will break PPC compatibility because we are now correctly referring to things in the "std" namespace.

Changes to Tracker:
Fixes to the Info Window's TrackingView, so that its click behaviour is identical to the info window itself, it behaves better as a popup window, and make clicking on relative links correctly resolve the target file. Also some small #ifdefs to keep things building.

Changes to Deskbar:
Fixed the Hidden-Be-Menu-When-Dragging bug by adding a Window()-Show() to match the Hide() in AttachedToWindow

Add the option "Sort Running Applications" to Deskbar's settings. When enabled, Deskbar's list of running applications is sorted alphabetically. When disabled, the list returns to chronological order.

Add the setting "Tracker Always First." When enabled, this setting ensures that Tracker's entry is always first in the list of running applications. When disabled, Tracker will be positioned according to the sort setting.

Fixes to the Info Window's TrackingView, so that its click behaviour is identical to the info window itself, it behaves better as a popup window, and make clicking on relative links correctly resolve the target file. Also some small #ifdefs to keep things building.

Previously, the menu option to quit a windowless application would show up for all applications in the Deskbar. However, Tracker will not let itself be "quit." This patch fixes this feature so that it does not display the "Quit Application" option for Tracker. When there are no Tracker windows, It simply shows the (disabled) option "No Windows," and nothing else.

Switched context menus to use asynch mode.

Changed the attribute menu in Trash windows, so that "Original Name" now appears instead of "Path" in the trash Modified the offset of the two suboptions in the settings window Fixed the wording in okToMoveStr.

Added cast to avoid mwcc signed/unsigned warning.

Made the maximum nav menu size adapt to use 1/4 of the current screen size.

Small code cleanup.

Speed up file copying by using larger copy buffers.

A fix for the navigator/titleview/IconMode/ListViewMode problem.

Added a '.' separator to the date formats.

Integrate changes from Be.

Changes to Deskbar:
Previously, the menu option to quit a windowless application would show up for all applications in the Deskbar. However, Tracker will not let itself be "quit." This patch fixes this feature so that it does not display the "Quit Application" option for Tracker. When there are no Tracker windows, It simply shows the (disabled) option "No Windows," and nothing else.

Removed the ellipsis from the "hidden" Window Decor sub-menu name and moved this sub-menu so that it will appear last (just after the Desktop Settings sub-menu). Some additional code cleanup was also done.

Add a way to quit windowless applications from the deskbar.

Small cleanup of the AddPoses check for valid threads.

This patch fixes the bug relating to all volumes desktop integration spotted by Wesley Dungan.

A patch to fix the problem where Get Info does not correctly report the size of the Trash on systems with multiple volumes (only /boot was originally counted).

If the MIME type of a file changes, the attributes menu of a window gets rebuilt. BPoseView::AttributeChanged() checks now if the changed attribute is "BEOS:TYPE" (kAttrMIMEType) and if this is the case, it calls BPoseView::RefreshMimeTypeList().

Fixed typo in an error string in OpenWithWindow.cpp.

Volumes are now separated from folders with the SortFolderNamesFirst option. The different CompareFolderNamesFirst functions are now using the same (new) Model::CompareFolderNamesFirst() function for sorting.

A fix for a bug when using ShowSelectionWhenInactive in Focus Follows Mouse mode. Previously, when you selected poses outside of the window, BPose thought its window was inactive, and would draw itself grayed out, when it should really be drawn black, as it's being selected.

In the method TSwitchMgr::CountWindows(), the loop variable "i", used to loop over items in a team-group's team-list, was accidently being incremented twice each pass through the loop. This caused windows to be missed by the Switcher.

This patch fixes the "phantom row" problem that was sometimes occuring with certain time and replicant combinations.

Remove stray printf().

Rework AddPosesTask into a consumer/producer for additional speed. Also fixes the Trash in FilePanel bug where only /boot's Trash dir's contents would be shown.

A patch to fixe the "phantom row" problem that was sometimes occuring with certain time and replicant combinations.

Change resource files to use QuickRes's new flat text format. Binaries for the beres command line tool are now included in the tree, to compile these files; to edit them, you will need to get new version of QuickRes that was just posted.

The resource flat text format has its own specific way to define symbols for resource IDs, which is different than the OpenTracker method. I have changed Deskbar over to using this, but Tracker itself still uses the old symbols with an enumeration mapping them to the new.

Allow calling PoseView::CreatePoses with a NULL resultingPose array to simplify things.

Removed unecessary/unused code including BContextMenu and ContainerWindow::SetMenuBar.

The favorites menu will now show the names of the links in the ~/config/settings/Tracker/Go dir instead of the name of their targets. Now you can have links to the same named dirs on several disks and you can give fancy names to each link. (hint: try a "ln -s / ~/config/settings/Tracker/Go/Disks")

Errors as well as warnings have been eliminated.

Fixed a bug that sometimes occured when using middle-click resize on the Size column.

When folders are created it defaults to editing the name(just like when New Folder is selected) instead of opening the folder.

Updated the middle click/double click column resize function to correctly work with all supported types of attributes.

Put the private system functions in the public header, so they can be right up with our big warning message.

This patch corrects a problem where Deskbar in vertical/compact mode would sometimes add a replicant in such a way that it was covering the clock.

A patch to make a minor adjustment to PoseView's drag scrolling logic when in List View such that the upper dragging point's bound begins at the bottom of the TitleView, not the top.

A fix for Tracker to remember whether or not a currently open Tracker window is minimized at quit and restore it to the same state on reload.

A patch to alter IconMenuItem such that it derives from PositionPassingMenuItem ; anything added to the TemplatesMenu should now automatically return the information Tracker needs to correctly position new items, as was the behavior prior to the Templates patch.

Plus highlight for the Deskbar's drag area, fixes on some coding style issues, and patches for mwcc warnings caused by implicit casting. I also matched up the version numbers in Tracker and Deskbar so that they can be properly associated with this distribution.

Fix some of the font sensitivity issues of the info window.

Now you can either double click or click with the third mouse button the column resizer in list mode to resize that column to the width of the widest element.

NavMenu sorting has been fixed along with some background tweaks and enhancements to the code.

Fixed a menu-navigating bug that appeared on PPC.

Recent changes have been brought in line with OpenTracker style guidelines.

A retrofit to keep Tracker compiling in both the BeOS tree (using the current TWalker classes) and in OpenTracker (using its own TWalker implementation for backwards compatibility with R5).

Make Tracker properly deal with attributes that aren't NULL terminated.

Fixed problem where right-click navigation through the Trash only contained the items of the boot volume's Trash.

"New Folder" has been moved to the "New" sub-menu, the templates folder has been renamed to "Tracker New Templates", and a menu item has been added to open the folder.

Items in the "New" sub-menu display the filename of the template file instead of the MimeType of the document. Useful when a template can contain different forms of data, but are of the same type. Such as a Gobe Productive document.

Reduced flicker when dragging items over Deskbar. Window-menus are no longer show when dragging stuff over the Deskbar, because they did not have any function. Holding the ctrl-key while dragging stuff over Deskbar will force the message to be sent even if the app does not support the type of file being dragged (just like ctrl-dragging over an icon does). Right-ctrl-alt-shift dragging something over Deskbar does not kill applications.

At the request of some users I have compiled in support for owner and group file attributes. You can check these out in the Attributes menu of Tracker windows that are set to show the List View.

For Deskbar, a number of related problems were fixed. All deskbar replicants that are found through the be:deskbar_item_status attribute must now have a security code that matches that of the deskbar (which is randomly generated). This prevents replicants that had this attribute set on another system from automatically loading after a reboot or when a new volume is mounted, which is a potential security risk (and a great source of confusion if such a replicant crashes the system, witness numerous accounts on beusertalk).

Deskbar tried to do live queries for disks that were mounted when it started, but this mechanism was broken (the query was deleted right after performing the initial GetNextEntry-loop). Queries for volumes that were mounted later were never live. To make this more consistent all queries are now non-live. This also prevents those queries from keeping a volume busy and therefore impossible to unmount. When a volume was unmounted, deskbar checked for the device-id under the wrong name in the notification-message, causing UnloadAddOn() never to be called.

Note: the security-code fix will require that the user re-adds all deskbar replicants to the deskbar tray the first time after running the new deskbar. After that it's business as usual.

Further notes of interest: the security code is a 64 bit integer that is created by concatenating the lower 32 bits of real_time_clock_usecs() and system_time(). It is stored in ~/config/settings/Deskbar_security_code The security code is not meant to be a "very random" number, or to be used as a 100% unique system ID. It is merely used to make significantly lower the probability of automatically loading an add-on that had its be:deskbar_item_status attribute set on another system.

Recent folders has been added.

The List View mode problem where you find yourself with an empty window scrolled all the way to the bottom has been fixed. It will now be scrolled to show at least one file.

The default starting directory for adding items to the Deskbar via the Configure Be Menu has been changed to /boot/apps.

One special feature of this update that I did not include in the binary distribution is that Tracker now supports owner, group, and access mode permission attributes, you must define OWNER_GROUP_ATTRIBUTES at compile time in order for this to take effect.