Epiphany 0.8.0 "Girlish Edition"



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 0.8.0
==============

Toolbar configuration format is changed, so your customization will be lost.
Sorry, but this will help improving future mainteinance.

Code changes

	* Replace "0" with "false" in .desktop Terminal entries
	  (Jordi Mallach)
	* Fix node signal emission to work on Freebsd and alpha
	  (Christian Persch)
	* Sync content handler api with mozilla head (Xan Lopez)
	* Remove use of acconfig.h (Marco)
	* Gconf schema cleanups (Christian Persch)
	* Remove last bits of nautilus theme support from the
	  spinner code (Christian Persch)
	* Use url/name to store topics and bookmarks in the toolbar
	  configuration. This is more manteinable but toolbar
	  settings are lost (Marco)
	* Improve bookmarks rdf format (Marco, Edd Dumbill)
	* Freeze all xml formats and update version to 1.0.
	  Bookmarks are reimported from the rdf.
	* Fix saving of smart bookmarks on the rdf (Lee Willis)
	* Very simple plugin framework, unused for now (Marco)
	* Cleanup header dependencies. Now we have a basic set
	  of independent headers that will be useful for the
	  plugins. (Marco)

Interface improvements

	* Remove ellipses from find toolbar item (Dave Bordoley)
	* Tooltip for location entry, navigation buttons,
	  go button (Christian Persch)
	* Use normal google search for keywords instead of feel
	  lucky (Marco)
	* Implement toolbar overflow menu item for bookmark
	  topics (Christian Persch)
	* Use the browser icon from gnome icon theme (Marco)
	* Ellipsise the bookmarks titles in topics menus (Christian Persch)
	* Show an alert when mozilla cant start instead of crashing (Marco)
	* Ever save bookmarks when changed (Marco)
	* Implement toolbar overflow menu item for the
	  go button (Christian Persch)
	* Show the document context menu on ctrl+f10 (Marco)
	* Fast search for bookmarks and history.
	  Pressing a key will make ephy select the first entry begining with
          that character (Xan Lopez)
	* Shorten session history menu items (Christian Persch)
	* Delete key remove personal data manager entries (Xan Lopez)
	* Higgy titles for all file pickers (Marco)

Bugfixes

	* Fix bug with location entry no more sensible on clicks (Marco)
	* Fix utf8 handling in the preferences dialog (Christian Persch)
	* Fix a lot of memory leaks (Christian Persch)
	* Add a news:// protocol handler (Marco)
	* Rewrite autocompletion selection logic (Marco)
	* Fix Tab key binding in location entry (Marco)
	* Fix page load progress update logic (Christian Persch)
	* Update the spinner when a tab is removed (Christian Persch)
	* Sync autocompletion searches color with theme changes
	  (Dave Bordoley)
	* Fall back to about:blank when first page load fails (Marco)
	* Actually show the list of fonts in preference dialog
	  entries (Marco)

Updated translations

	* ar (Arafat Medini)
	* da (Ole Laursen)
	* de (Christian Neumair)
	* en_GB (Christian Persch)
	* es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
	* ms (Hasbullah Bin Pit)
	* nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
	* pt_BR (Evandro Fernandes Giovanini)
	* ru (Valek Filippov)
	* sr (Danilo Segan)
	* sr Latn (Danilo Segan)
	* sv (Christian Rose)
	* zh_CN (Wang Jian)


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

Source code:
http://downloads.mozdev.org/epiphany/epiphany-0.8.0.tar.gz

Epiphany 0.8.0 requires Mozilla 1.3, 1.4a, 1.4 or 1.5a cvs.
The suggested version is Mozilla 1.4:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/src/mozilla-source-1.4.tar.gz

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

Enjoy.

Marco




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