[Epiphany] Epiphany 1.1.0
- From: Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>
- To: gnome-announce-list gnome org
- Cc: release-team gnome org, epiphany mozdev org, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: [Epiphany] Epiphany 1.1.0
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:51:48 -0400
Hi,
* What is it ?
==============
Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla
rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.
* What's changed ?
==================
==============
Epiphany 1.1.0
==============
Code changes
* Remove most egg code and port to the gtk 2.3 api for toolbars and
menus (Marco, Christian)
* Cleanup gobjects using the new add_private api (Christian)
* Rewrote xbel bookmarks importer using xmlreader api (Christian)
* Use new dynamic api to create dynamic menus (Marco, Christian)
* Load default mozilla prefs from a javascript file,
this is way is possible to override defaults in about:config (Marco)
* Use gtk invisible event boxes (Christian)
* Remove deprecated g_value_set_object_take_ownership() (Christian)
* Use new gnome vfs show_url api (Christian)
* Refactor node db loading functions into a common one in
ephy-node-db. Switch to using xmlReader api. (Christian)
* Use gconf_client_notify to initialize prefs (Christian)
* Refactor initialization/automation code to ensure we dont
use dying shell (Marco)
* Use GtkIconTheme (Marco)
* Use ngettext where useful (Christian)
* New implementation of location entry using GtkComboBox (Marco)
* New downloads implementation (user interface being worked on) (Xan, Marco)
* Remove our custom implementation and use gtk api for
empty bookmarks menu (Marco, credits to Matthias Clasen for gtk implementation)
* Make the favourites menu self-updating (Christian)
* Port history and bookmarks combos to new api (Marco)
New features
* Added migration from galeon settings (Christopher James Lahey)
* Add an --import-bookmarks command line option, and really implement
the --add-bookmark one. (Christian)
* Ability to choose visible columns in bookmarks and history (Marco)
* History time filter (Marco)
* Import bookmarks from Firebird (Christian)
* Ability to import bookmarks from a custom file (Marco)
* Allow dragging of tabs to a window even when the tabs bar is not
shown. (Christian)
Interface improvements
* Simplify font selection and make it use points instead
of pixels like everything in Gnome (Marco)
* Use a line to make more clear Language/Fonts relation (Marco)
* Sync spinner with the current active tab (Marco)
* HIGgify new bookmark dialogue title (Christian)
* Special, more compact, toolbar layout for fullscreen (Marco)
* Gtk versions of the mozilla certificate prompts (from galeon)
* Use Bookmarks instead of All as label in toolbars (Marco)
* Use radio buttons for tabs menu (Marco)
* Fix spacing in a few dialogs (Marco)
* Better icons on mime dialog (Marco)
* Case insensitive bookmarks matching in autocompletion
(Marco, credits to Kristian Rietveld for rocking new widget)
* Show bookmarks at the top of autocompletion list (Marco)
* Speedup history dialog (Marco)
* Visual progress bar in downloader (Marco)
* Better encoding menu interface. Show most common/most used
entry in the menu, split the others out to a dialog. Allow
to revert to Automatic. Show current selected encoding with
radio buttons (Christian, credits to Matthew Thomas for user
interface ideas)
* Toolbar editor improvements. Show a different cursor when
hovering the items. Pickup and drop behavior. Make space
for the item instead of showing a line (Marco, credits to
Soeren Sandmann for gtk changes)
* Make location a normal entry, removing the hard to click,
vastly unused arrow for typed urls. (Marco)
* Focus bookmarks search entry by default (Ettore Perazzoli)
Bugfixes
* Enable dragging the tab from a single-tab window too (Christian)
* Do not fail if prefs.js is corrupted (Marco)
* Fix location entry losing content when editing toolbar (Christian)
* Fix directory selection persistence (Christian)
* Fix a bug that could have caused bookmarks loss with low disk (Christian)
* Save session also when closing windows (Marco)
* Make mime dialogs interrupt download on Esc, simplify the code
using response signal (Marco)
* Fix compilation on Solaris (Marco)
* Set a MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH default. (Christopher James Lahey)
* Fix a warning when printing to a file (Christian)
* Fix intermittent nautilus view activation failure (Mark McLoughlin)
* Fix downloads with authentication (Marco)
* Fix history clear, sometimes sites was not removed
completely (Marco)
* Fix some treeview model leaks (Christian, Marco)
Translations
* cs (Miloslav Trmac)
* en_GB (Christian Persch)
* fr (Eric Seigne)
* ga (Paul Duffy)
* hi (Guntupalli Karunakar)
* hu (Andras Timar)
* lt (Zygimantas Berucka)
* ml (Abel Cheung)
* mn (Sanlig Badral)
* nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
* pt_BR (Evandro Fernandes Giovanini)
* ro (Misu Moldovan)
* sk (Marcel Telka)
* sq (Laurent Dhima)
* sr.po (Danilo Segan)
* sr@Latn.po (Danilo Segan)
* sv (Christian Rose)
* ta (Dinesh Nadarajah)
* vi (Pablo Saratxaga)
* Where can I get it ?
======================
Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.1/epiphany-1.1.0.tar.gz
Epiphany 1.1.0 requires mozilla 1.4, 1.5.
The suggested version is Mozilla 1.5:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5/src/mozilla-source-1.5.tar.gz
More about dependencies and installation tips:
http://epiphany.mozdev.org/downloads.html
Enjoy.
Marco
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