Epiphany 0.6.1



Hi,

* What is it ?
==============

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla
rendering engine.
The name meaning:
"An intuitive grasp of reality through
something (as an event) usually simple and striking"

You can find more info about the project goals at:
http://epiphany.mozdev.org


* What's changed ?
==================

==============
Epiphany 0.6.1
==============

Code changes

	* Initialize mozilla prefs on startup, so changing gconf prefs while
	  epiphany is not running works again (Marco)
	* Convenience function to display help, avoid a lot
	  of code duplication (Dave Bordoley)
	* Rework prefs dialog code to use a notebook directly from glade
	  and to fit in one file (Marco)
	* Export bookmarks in rdf format, it will be more useful when
	  it's possible to import from it (Marco, Edd Dumbill)
	* Use gtk api for fullscreen (Marco)
	* Do not allow to have more than one bookmark with the same address in
	  the bookmarks collection (Xan Lopez)

New features

	* Drag and drop of links to tabs (Christian Persch)
	* Wrote the structure of the help and 30% of the contents (Dave Bordoley)
	* Security preferences (Marco)
	* Autodetect the user primary language (Marco)
	* Show a list of tabs at the bottom of tabs menu (Dave Bordoley)

Interface improvements

	* ctrl+u show page source (Marco)
	* Use address as title when the page is untitled (Christian Persch)
	* Confirmation dialog for clearing history (Jon Svendsen)
	* Improve find dialog readability, avoid vertical resizing
	  of it (Dave Bordoley, Xan Lopez)
	* Use the term Adress instead of Location as discussed
	  with docs guys (Dave Bordoley)
	* Show bookmarks icons in the toolbar only when there
	  is a specific one (Dave Bordoley)
	* Do not show empty submenus for empty topics, show
	  an "Empty" insensitive item instead (Lee Willis)
	* Some cleanups of the preferences dialog, work in progress (Marco)
	* Alphabetical sort of bookmarks menu (Xan Lopez)
	* Show the full page title in tooltip on the tab label (Christian Persch)
	* On Go->Location, show the toolbar if it's hidden, and hide it again
	  when the user finished to type (Marco)

Bugfixes

	* Remove toolbar for context menu works (Marco)
	* Insert new toolbars before the bookmarks toolbar (Marco)
	* Improve default topics, add google smart bookmark
	  to the toolbar by default (Dave Bordoley)
	* Fix menu sensitivity for the history dialog (Marco)
	* Fix leak in bookmarks importing and improve its speed.
	  This make importing large collection of bookmarks
	  actually possible  (Osma Ahvenlampi)
	* Use AM_CXX_FLAGS instead of CXX_FLAGS, make
	  life easier to packagers (Edd Dumbill)
	* Fix 64 bit problems (Jeremy Katz)
	* Middle click actions on click event, not on mouse down (Marco)
	* Fix leak of tooltips in the statusbar (Christian Persch)
	* Fix smartbookmarks and non ascii characters (Marco)
	* Fix external handlers like mailto, ftp ... (Marco)
	* Make uncategorized special topic work consistently (Xan Lopez)
	* Do not save position for browser windows (Dave Bordoley)
	* Make our string ellipsizing helper utf8 save (Christian Persch)
	* Various internationalization fixes (Christian Neumair)

Updated translations

	* cs (Miloslav Trmac)
	* da (Ole Laursen)
	* de (Christian Neumair)
	* es (Francisco Javier Fernandez)
	* ja (Takayuki KUSANO)
	* ms (Hasbullah Bin Pit)
	* pt_BR (Evandro Fernandes Giovanini)	


* Where can I get it ?
======================

Source code:
http://downloads.mozdev.org/epiphany/epiphany-0.6.1.tar.gz

Epiphany 0.6.1 requires Mozilla 1.3, 1.4a or cvs (tested until build 20030503).

More about dependecies and installation tips:
http://epiphany.mozdev.org/installation.html

Enjoy.

Marco




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