Preload bookmarks

[Albéric de Pertat]

Hi,

I am trying to preload bookmarks whit the chrome=webcnoaddressbar
parameter but I can't figure out how to to it. I have managed to get
back the PersonalToolbar with an entry in the wc.css. My problem is
about making the bookmarks show up inside. I have tried to put the
places.sqlite or the bookmarks.html in a number of places (/etc/
iceweasel/profile seemed logical to me) but it won't work. Am I doing
this wrong ?

Thanks for your help and for this great piece of software

[Kai Hendry]

On 20 July 2012 18:36, Albéric de Pertat <alb...@depertat.net> wrote:
> Thanks for your help and for this great piece of software

Thanks Albéric. I usually advise clients to just have their
"bookmarks" on the homepage_url and that works. You can also specify
multi hompages and they will open in separate tabs with any luck.

I want to try make sure /etc/webc/iceweasel maps on to
https://github.com/Webconverger/iceweasel-webconverger cleanly. I know
it isn't quite the case atm (esp with the recent 'noclean' commit),
but for pure maintainability it will be.

Furthermore once git upgrades are "switched on" in a future version
your local root changes will get nuked, so please don't put bookmarks
under the toolbar. Please only modify Webconverger using the boot API,
http://webconverger.org/boot/ That way we can get everyone always on
the latest secure version of a pretty decent browser. :)

Greetings from a sunny Berlin!

[Albéric de Pertat]

Hi Kai,

Thanks for your reply. I have been banging my head all day on this and I almost feel relieved that it is not supposed to work anyway.

2012/7/23 Kai Hendry <hen...@webconverger.com>

On 20 July 2012 18:36, Albéric de Pertat <alb...@depertat.net> wrote:
> Thanks for your help and for this great piece of software

Thanks Albéric. I usually advise clients to just have their
"bookmarks" on the homepage_url and that works. You can also specify
multi hompages and they will open in separate tabs with any luck.

Well, I had thought about this at the beginning, but my kiosk won't have access to a server on its local subnet (just a modem) and I don't feel like putting such a homepage on Internet. Maybe I can squeeze the homepage somewhere on the webconverger iso but the browser won't open file:// URLs. Is there something to fiddle with in prefs.js or something ?

I want to try make sure /etc/webc/iceweasel maps on to
https://github.com/Webconverger/iceweasel-webconverger cleanly. I know
it isn't quite the case atm (esp with the recent 'noclean' commit),
but for pure maintainability it will be.

Furthermore once git upgrades are "switched on" in a future version
your local root changes will get nuked, so please don't put bookmarks
under the toolbar. Please only modify Webconverger using the boot API,
http://webconverger.org/boot/ That way we can get everyone always on
the latest secure version of a pretty decent browser. :)

 

I am relatively new to this project so I haven't got around the three-webconverger-extensions-trick yet (if that's indeed what you're talking about ;). Anyway, I'll let you know what solution I chose in the end so you can tell me if I'm doing this the right way.

Greetings from a sunny Berlin!

The same from a cloudy Ajaccio

 

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Webconverger Users" group.
To post to this group, send email to webc-...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to webc-users+...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webc-users?hl=en.

--
Albéric de Pertat

[Kai Hendry]

On 23 July 2012 20:56, Albéric de Pertat <alb...@depertat.net> wrote:
> Well, I had thought about this at the beginning, but my kiosk won't have
> access to a server on its local subnet (just a modem) and I don't feel like
> putting such a homepage on Internet. Maybe I can squeeze the homepage
> somewhere on the webconverger iso but the browser won't open file:// URLs.
> Is there something to fiddle with in prefs.js or something ?

Webconverger doesn't do file:/// homepages. You need to setup a remote
homepage I'm afraid.


Ajaccio sounds good, always wanted to visit Corsica.

[Albéric de Pertat]

2012/7/25 Kai Hendry <hen...@webconverger.com>

That's alright, I got around this with thttpd and homepage=http://localhost

 

Ajaccio sounds good, always wanted to visit Corsica.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Webconverger Users" group.
To post to this group, send email to webc-...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to webc-users+...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webc-users?hl=en.

--
Albéric de Pertat

[Kai Hendry]

On 25 July 2012 11:32, Albéric de Pertat <alb...@depertat.net> wrote:
> That's alright, I got around this with thttpd and homepage=http://localhost

Ok, but you are probably b0rking any upgrade potential hence exposing
yourself to security risks adding this complexity.

[Albéric de Pertat]

Yeah maybe so, but thttpd is not Apache ;) Plus, I am only serving a static HTML file with a frame. The kiosks will be diskless stations booting off a CDROM, so I guess it mitigates the security threat.

I am not planning on doing any upgrade for that matter. The kiosk will stay as it is for around 4 years or so.

[Kai Hendry]

On 25 July 2012 12:56, Albéric de Pertat <alb...@depertat.net> wrote:
> I am not planning on doing any upgrade for that matter. The kiosk will stay
> as it is for around 4 years or so.

Don't you think it would suck to use a 4 year old browser at some point?

Anyway, I think we'll agree to disagree here. :}

[Albéric de Pertat]

Indeed. Some people are still using IE6 ;)