Epiphany 0.6.1
- From: Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpeseng tin it>
- To: gnome-announce-list gnome org
- Cc: release-team gnome org, desktop-devel-list gnome org, epiphany mozdev org
- Subject: Epiphany 0.6.1
- Date: 18 May 2003 21:37:02 +0200
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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