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mailing list trivia (Re: [REPOST] Re: Dillo Win32
by rogerx.oss＠gmail.com Oct. 21, 2011

Oct. 21, 2011

Thoughts) Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <20111021073336.GA12742 at local> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 07:33:36AM +0000, corvid wrote: > >I see what the problem was now with the strange little chunk of a msg. >When Roger wrote: >> [...] >> required either. >> >> From here, mintty's code is likely an excellent resource to figure how they >> worked around the Window's issues with mouse copy & pasting. > >Pipermail saw a blank line followed by "… [View More]

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Address bar keys (bug #1012)
by obeythepenguin＠gmail.com Oct. 21, 2011

Oct. 21, 2011

Rogutes Sparnuotos wrote: > Benjamin Johnson (2011-10-20 15:56):How should dillo behave when a user > binds Ctrl-A? It should perform the action bound to Ctrl-A, of course. Just to clarify, the only thing I want to change is the key bindings when the user is typing in the URL input box. Specifically, I'm talking about the CustInput::handle() function in ui.cc: http://hg.dillo.org/dillo/file/e82663b3c477/src/ui.cc#l96 Dillo intercepts several key bindings normally handled by … [View More]the input box itself. The problem is, some of these key bindings conventionally have different meanings than Dillo assigns (see below). Not all the bindings are bad. I'd keep the binding for Ctrl-L, for example, which rehighlights the input text when you're typing in the box. That's pretty intuitive, and matches the behavior of other browsers. On the other hand, most users aren't familiar with Unix command line bindings, and even those who are usually don't expect that behavior in a graphical application such as Dillo. It might be convenient, but usability isn't always about convenience; it's about doing what users *expect*. Basically, a good interface is one an unwitting mere mortal could figure out without ever reading the manual, or even thinking too hard. Joel Spolsky explains it a lot better than I do: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html > > >Having it consistent over all text inputs and configurable via> > >keysrc sounds reasonable to me. I don't know the keysrc details> > >though, so I might miss something.> >Cheers,> >JohannesHaving > input/insert mode and macros in keysrc would be interesting, if nottoo > complex. It would be interesting, but it certainly would be complex, and I'm not sure the benefits outweigh the costs. I suspect most users are probably fine with just the basic key bindings FLTK already provides. There's also the matter of consistency, not just within Dillo, but between Dillo and other FLTK applications. Part of the advantage of using a toolkit *is* the consistency; that was the original motivation behind KDE, for example. > > I was thinking just a simple boolean option in dillorc -- and turn> it > OFF by default (i.e., no Unix keys), because it's not typical GUI> > behavior, and anyone who wants it on can quite easily set it in his> or > her own dillorc.Would be a strange dillorc option. A real patch would > implement this inkeysrc :) Hard-coding is much stranger than either of those, and much uglier, too. The dillorc option would actually make sense here, because these particular bindings usually go together as a group (it seems weird to do the Unix Ctrl-A, but not the others). Though it would make more sense still just to leave well enough alone, since there's no real need to change the input box's behavior. > Somehow I failed to notice that Ctrl-A for select all is "typical GUI > behavior", perhaps I am not using GUIs enough... > [...snip...] >Here, Ctrl-A goes to the beginning of the line in all the input boxes > ("find text", "web search", <input> in forms). Ctrl-A is conventionally used for select all, and at least on Windows, FLTK binds it to select all in input boxes. It may be that FLTK uses the Unix bindings (Ctrl-A for beginning of line, Ctrl-E for end, etc.) on those platforms, in which case Dillo's hard-coding that behavior is pointless and redundant. I haven't booted into Unix in a while, so offhand I haven't checked. Now, I know there will likely never be Windows support in mainline Dillo, and so you're probably wondering why Windows' key bindings should matter to you. While Unix doesn't have any formal standards for graphical user interface design -- indeed, the X Window System was deliberately designed that way -- most toolkits tend to follow what Windows does. Windows has explicit formal standards for command names, menu layouts, shortcut keys, etc., and not only are they standardized (at least on that platform), they're also well known since roughly 97% of desktop computer users run a Windows operating system. (Microsoft also helped design Motif, if anyone remembers that -- which is kind of weird for me to say, since I was roughly two years old at the time. Moving on...) For reference, here's FLTK's human interface guidelines, which borrow "common elements from the CDE/Motif, GNOME, KDE, MacOS, and Windows environments": http://www.fltk.org/hig.php And here's a list of standard accelerator keys from Qt's documentation, which explicitly recommends following Microsoft's recommendations: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/5.0-snapshot/accelerators.html To get back on topic, what does all this mean for Dillo? My own opinion is, the toolkit designers put a lot of thought into this stuff, and probably know more about how their widgets should behave than you and I do. So personally, I don't think we should override that behavior at all unless there's a really good reason to do so. > > Although I will add, the Shift-{Left,Right} bindings in the address> > bar *have* to go. They're fine elsewhere, if a bit quirky, but in> the > address bar they interfere with text selection. Ctrl-Tab and> > Ctrl-Shift-Tab are much more logical and convenient, anyway.> ~Benjamin > Are we using different versions of dillo? Shift-{Left,Right} doesn't do > anything here. I'm talking about this block of code right here: http://hg.dillo.org/dillo/file/e82663b3c477/src/ui.cc#l117 Pressing Shift-{Left,Right} in the address bar moves between tabs, rather than selecting text as expected. (Maybe something left over from dillo2?) > For the arguments sake, how would having to press Ctrl-Shift-Tab be more > "logical and convenient" than Shift-Left? It's a matter of taste (habit). > In my opinion, both bindings have a disadvantage: Ctrl-Shift-Tab is > difficult for the fingers, Shift-Left is unusual to most people. That's > why it is configurable, isn't it?---- Rogut s Sparnuotos Well, Ctrl-Tab's nice because of the obvious mnemonic; because it's really easy to type; and (you can probably guess what's coming) because it's familiar, since lots of other browsers use it. In contrast, the Shift-{Left,Right} keys are much harder to type, especially on a cramped laptop keyboard where your fingers are right on top of each other. And of course, it's a bit weird because I (and probably most users) associate those keys with "select text," not "change tabs." Basically, what all this boils down to is that consistency is key. Yes, it may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but when faced with an unfamiliar interface, *every* user has a little mind. So anyway, there's my rant for tonight. :-) Regards & cheers, ~Benjamin [View Less]

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Dillo on Cygwin/X
by keepalive＠gmail.com Oct. 21, 2011

Oct. 21, 2011

Hello, I just gave Dillo another try on Cygwin/X11 and got it working at least partially with cygwin 1.7.9. You need to compile FLTK using Cygwin libraries and X11: ./configure --enable-cygwin --enable-x11 && make install Because the dpis are installed with ".exe" extension (eg hello.dpi.exe) they aren't found by dpid. The extension is added by automake: http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/automake/EXEEXT.html The Makefiles look like this: bookmarks_PROGRAMS = bookmarks.dpi$(EXEEXT) … [View More]

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[REPOST] Re: Dillo Win32 Thoughts
by rogerx.oss＠gmail.com Oct. 21, 2011

Oct. 21, 2011

(According to Corvid, this goody tidbit about mintty got snipped when posted to the list. Resending.) >> 2) Copy & paste work only within the displayed page and not within the >> urlfield. (Although I really miss middle button pasting in Windows.) > >The keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, respectively) should work for >both the page and URL field. > >Windows doesn't support X's select-and-middle-click mechanism. I agree >that it would be really … [View More]

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by bogus＠does.not.exist.com Oct. 21, 2011

Oct. 21, 2011

worked around the Window's issues with mouse copy & pasting. --- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/

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Address bar keys (bug #1012)
by obeythepenguin＠gmail.com Oct. 20, 2011

Oct. 20, 2011

Johannes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:16:34AM -0400, Benjamin Johnson wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> I was just wondering, could we add an option to control the address >> bar key bindings? I know they're set to behave like a Unix command >> line, which can be convenient, but it also interferes with some custom >> key bindings (as one of my users mentioned in bug #1012). >> >> I've also noticed that the address bar bindings confuse a lot of … [View More]

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view src
by obeythepenguin＠gmail.com Oct. 20, 2011

Oct. 20, 2011

Jeremy wrote: > corvid wrote: > >> I viewed source, edited the page, reloaded, and view source keeps >> showing me the old source. >> >> I thought this used to work. > > It may have worked once but my impression is that it has been like > this for quite a while. I have certainly had a note about it in my > TO-DO list for a long time. > > Regards, > Jeremy Henty Funny, the old view source dialog doesn't have that problem at all... ;-) ~Benjamin

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by bogus＠does.not.exist.com Oct. 20, 2011

Oct. 20, 2011

worked around the Window's issues with mouse copy & pasting. --- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/

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Dillo 3 on OpenBSD
by obeythepenguin＠gmail.com Oct. 20, 2011

Oct. 20, 2011

Just wanted to let you know that dillo-3.0 runs quite nicely on OpenBSD (tested with both mainline and Dillo-Win32, on OpenBSD 4.9/i386). Here are some quick build instructions for mainline if anyone wants to try it out. Note that I like to install things to my home directory, but you can remove the --prefix= and --bindir= options if you want to install it system-wide. 1. Download the Dillo and FLTK 1.3 sources to a convenient location -- I use ~/download. Note that OpenBSD doesn't … [View More]

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Address bar keys (bug #1012)
by obeythepenguin＠gmail.com Oct. 19, 2011

Oct. 19, 2011

Hi again, I was just wondering, could we add an option to control the address bar key bindings? I know they're set to behave like a Unix command line, which can be convenient, but it also interferes with some custom key bindings (as one of my users mentioned in bug #1012). I've also noticed that the address bar bindings confuse a lot of people, since they're not used to the Unix behavior. Conventionally, Ctrl-A is "select all," and other input boxes in Dillo follow that, so they aren't … [View More]

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