[Dillo-dev]Bookmarks, Tabs
Hi all, I've got 2 questions to ask: 1)- I was on the list back in January, and amongst other things, I mentioned that I'd consider it a huge improvement if the bookmarks DPI were made to allow for a nested hierarchy of sections. Jorge and Thorben pointed out that it wasn't a priority at the time, and that I should write it myself if I wanted it. Unfortunately, I too had things to be doing back then, but about a month ago, I set about doing some work on such a thing. -It is written in Perl, rather than C; it seemed a good choice due to all the text manipulation, etc. This might be considered a problem if Dillo is being used on platforms where Perl isn't (readily) available, but AFAICT the Windows version of Dillo is a purely 3rd party thing that isn't directly supported by the project, and Perl for Windows does *exist*... I don't know if there'd be any other issues with this decision though. -I moved much of the Dillo-DPI specific stuff into a separate file, hoping to make it a Perl Module, but I know nothing about how that works (and I can't get the Camel book ATM because I'm broke) and couldn't understand the relevant man page, so I don't think it turned out how modules are supposed to. I mention this because it could maybe end up useable by any other Perl-based DPIs that get written. -It currently uses the "ngbm" DPI name (for "Next Generation BookMarks"), and uses ngbm.txt for the bookmarks file, to avoid breaking the existing bookmarks program. That's because it's not ready yet. -It *does* implement the nested sections stuff I wanted that the current bm dpi doesn't, with a file format that's backwards compatible with the current one- so you can get it to read your existing bm.txt file. -BUT I only worked on it for about a day, and much of that was spent trying to figure out how it was supposed to communicate, so it still doesn't have much of the important functionality, such as actually adding or modifying any bookmarks or sections. Also, as I was hacking away a lot to try to get it to work at all, there's a lot of commented-out debug stuff, and much of the notes and comments are probably wrong now (I don't think I fixed them whilst I was changing the code and the design). I didn't want to go quietly working away at it for ages and then find that actually someone else was quietly working away at the same thing, for example (also the DPI handling stuff got incredibly frustrating, which put me off doing any more for a while). Unfortunately, I kept forgetting to do *anything else* about it because I had other things to think about :P SO: Would this be of any interest to the project in whatever way? I figure I could (a) post the existing code, get a bit of feedback and then do some more work on it, or (b) give the code to the project and let someone else take it over from me. (or (c) I could just keep it to myself...) 2)-Since my high-res monitor blew up in December, I installed Frank's tabs+ frames patch, and I find it helps enormously- I don't think I could manage without it now. Unfortunately, AFAICT Frank has either left the project or gone on holiday or something (though I can't find any explanation anywhere), and the latest version on his site (which I'm using) only works with an old CVS version from November, so I'm still having to put up with the bugs that have been fixed in 0.8. Gah! I saw after 0.8 was released, someone on the list said he'd try to take on the tabs/frames patch in some way, but I didn't hear anything more about it. Is there *any* news on this whatsoever? I'd really like to be able to upgrade. Thanks in advance, Tom Barnes-Lawrence -- Signature? I have no need of signatures
El Sun, 18 Apr 2004 03:12:53 +0100 Tom Barnes-Lawrence <tomble@usermail.com> escribio:
Hi all, I've got 2 questions to ask: ... 2)-Since my high-res monitor blew up in December, I installed Frank's tabs+ frames patch, and I find it helps enormously- I don't think I could manage without it now. Unfortunately, AFAICT Frank has either left the project or gone on holiday or something (though I can't find any explanation anywhere), and the latest version on his site (which I'm using) only works with an old CVS version from November, so I'm still having to put up with the bugs that have been fixed in 0.8. Gah!
I saw after 0.8 was released, someone on the list said he'd try to take on the tabs/frames patch in some way, but I didn't hear anything more about it. Is there *any* news on this whatsoever? I'd really like to be able to upgrade.
you can: a) Use a tabed window manager so you can tab any app without suport in the app. (recommended) b) search a old mail from Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@informatik.uni-bremen.de> where it gives this url http://users.auriga.wearlab.de/~andi/dillo/dillo-frames.diff.gz for a modified and update tab+frames+about:dillo for cvs 2004 02 21 (it is work in progres [how is it going?], break the bugmeter a few [sigh] and add some not related changes) c) ask someone in the list if have a more updated patch. (i have one for cvs 2004 04 16 but is a bad gross hack not for use of 300kb of the Andreas Kemnade. So please ask it only if you do not known what you do :)
Thanks in advance, Tom Barnes-Lawrence
never mind Diego Sáenz/DarkSpirit
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