On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, William Trenker wrote:
How do I tell exactly which sub-version of Dillo is running? I was running Dillo 0.7.1 and it crashed when I tried to save a bookmark. I wanted to be sure I had the latest Dillo before reporting the problem. I see that Dillo 0.7.1 has two sub-versions, 0.7.1.1 anmd 0.7.1.2. When I downloaded and extracted the latest tarball the resulting executable only shows 0.7.1 for the --version option.
If you have the 0.7.1.2 tarball, you have the rigth one! The 0.7.1.2 version fixes the bookmark crash problems. If you still experience crashes with it, you've found a BUG so please report us howto reproduce it in order to fix it. Now, provided that I haven't received complaints in the past days (and there're a few thousand downloads), crashes may be due to a compiler or libraries problem...
My requests are both based on my experience with the Opera browser. First, is it difficult to change Dillo so that I can copy-and-paste text from the browser window?
We have a dillo doing copy&paste in the CVS!, but it needs some testing and fixing because it crashes very often. Most probably the next release will have the feature.
I find it very handy to copy text from a web page to paste into a document, or an email, or whatever. Second, I really find Opera's mouse gestures for going forward and back very handy. To go to the previous page (back) you hold down the right mouse button and click the left button. To go forward you hold down the left mouse button and click the right button. With a little practice you can move back and forth between pages very quickly.
Currently you can use "," and "." or "Backspace" and "Alt+Backspace" as back and forward shortcuts. Those are in the keyboard, I know, but they may help you in the meanwhile. Finally, the main reason for not incorporating new features is lack of manpower. The main developers are buried under a list with lots of high priority tasks (for instance my list has more than 30 items appart from the area I decided to work now!). Patches would be a lot easier to integrate if their authors took the time to do the toilsome task of checking them against the respective SPECS and RFCs, but most of the time they don't.
Thanks for a great browser!
:-) Cheers Jorge.-