Opera 7.20 Beta 1 for Linux Intel available
Espen Sand
Opera 7.20 Beta 1 for Linux Intel is now available for download.
Download at:
http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/intel-linux/426-20030703-7.20-B1/
The file below describes what package to select.
http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/intel-linux/426-20030703-7.20-B1/whatpackage.html
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Changelog since 7.11.
------------------------
This changelog is mostly Linux specific, except for the three first
sections below and BIDI support mentioned in the Font section.
JavaScript:
- Speed optimizations.
M2
- Improved and more methods for authentication.
- Non blocking trash delete.
- Allow composing an e-mail to multiple receivers by selecting "Compose" on a
folder in the contact list.
- A number of bug fixes.
Hotlist:
- Fixed some DnD problems in the hotlist: 1. A drop in flat mode below
list entries would add item to parent folder. 2. Opera will now
autoexpand folders in flat mode as well.
- When creating a hotlist folder let the new folder be inside the parent
folder when the parent folder is open, otherwise put the new folder on
the same level as the parent folder.
- Fixed a save-bookmarks-as-html problem. Urls must be resolved before saved.
- Never import bookmarks into the trash folder
- Never add new folder or bookmark inside trash folder
- Fixed some sorting problems.
- Fixed a bookmark parser problem that prevented old bookmark files
(pre version 6) from being imported.
Images:
- Faster and less memory-consuming image handling
Fonts:
- BIDI support.
- Various minor improvements in font handling
- Support for unicode characters outside plane 0 - currently only for
Xft fonts
- Support for Arabic shaping/joining of unicode characters U+0621 - U+06D3
Skinning:
- Support for CPU friendly Windows-like skin
Trusted applications:
- Fixed some problems with generic applications: Append address at
end of application name if there are no flags specifiers.
- Support for specifying trusted protocols and programs in the preferences
dialog box.
- Support for letting trusted applications run in a terminal.
External applications:
- Fixed some problems with external mailer. The mailto link passed to
the client could be empty depending on the format flag.
Drag and drop:
- Support for accepting DnD from remote applications (using xdnd)
and dragging to other applications. Opera supports url and text drags.
- Added support for transforming a dragged filename "file://localhost/..."
to "file:/..." Some programs like xmms use the latter. The option must be
set in opera6.ini
[User Prefs]
Localhost In DnD=0|1 (1 is default)
- Added support for disabling link drags (preference setting)
- Added support for disabling hotlist item drags (preference setting)
[User Prefs]
Enable Drag=3 (default)
1=links
2=bookmarks
3=links and bookmarks
Command line arguments and startup:
- Remote commands will now work properly even when there is no Opera
instance is running.
- Fixed a problem when starting opera from a remote machine while
another instance was running on the locale machine. In some cases
the locale instance would be activated.
- The language can again be specified with the '-language' argument
- Support for an alternative ~/.opera directory. Use the '-personaldir'
argument with the path to the alternative directory.
- Fixed a problem that caused the selected session file (not the
automatically saved) not to be read on startup when the start
dialog was not shown.
- Opera will now print a warning message (in the terminal) if it
can not find a language file at all (Opera will exit after this).
Plugins:
- Cleanup in plug-in listing related to file type. A plug-in could
be listed several times and for file types it should not have been
associated with.
- Enabled support for -debugplugin command line argument and better
error handling of plug-ins
Keyboard and mouse:
- Releasing Alt will now try to activate the close-cycler action
(same as what releasing Ctrl does). Alt-PageDown and Alt-PageUp
should work as expected after this.
- Support for the Menu button again (will open context sensitive menus)
- Added support for "Map Meta Button To Alt Button" (for those that
use a keyboard where the Alt button generates a Meta key event)
An entry must be added to opera6.ini to activate:
[User Prefs]
Map Meta Button To Alt Button=0|1 (0 is default)
- Support for using the Meta button as a part of shortcuts.
The button must generate the Meta or Meta_L code.
- Fixed two crash problems replated to editing keyboard files.
- Fixed a problem that made if difficult to press-down, show-dropdown-list,
move-mouse, release-mouse and actually activate the list entry
that was under the mouse.
Menus:
- Added support for "Execute program" action
- Improved the algorithm that assigns accelerators to a popup menu.
It could make duplicates depending on the menu structure.
- The menubar will be updated once the language is changed from the
preference dialog box.
Download:
- Fixed a problem that caused direct download to show the "Save as"
dialog box.
- Fixed problems in the download dialog box (could not open file
first time after viewer was changed etc)
- Added support for "Pass web address directly to application" in
file type dialog box.
- Fixed some problems with the saved folder location. It was lost when
it should not have been when using the download dialog.
- Fixed a problem that caused the file selector to start with the saved
save-directory even in file-open mode.
Windows:
- The saved windows sizes in session files were in some cases wrong. This
would cause problem when normalizing a maximized window after a session
was loaded. The window could be opened outsize the visible workspace.
- Top level windows will now not open outsize or partly outside the visible
desktop area. This could happen with certain window managers.
- Improved the cascading of top level windows. It could be difficult to
understand a new window has been opened because it opened right above
the current window.
Dialogs:
- Fixed a dialog problem that could lead to a crash. If many modal dialogs
were opened at the same time the parent relationship could be corrupted.
- Save "Show hidden files" and "detail mode" of the file selector in
opera6.ini so that the dialog layout is remembered.
Sound:
- Enabled support for more sound actions (startup and m2)
Misc:
- Experimental support for IPv6
- Improved progress information handling when loading pages in order
to reduce the CPU load.
- Added support for WM_WINDOW_ROLE property.
- Some lists the the UI that should not be user sortable are now locked.
- Added support for animated clicks in push buttons. Animation is used when
<space> has been pressed.
- Added support for saving a modified page order to the session file
(as what happens when the page tab order is modified by drag and drop)
- Added support for opening a page next to the current active tab.
- Support for not displaying page address in window title by using an
opera6.ini setting:
[User Prefs]
Show Address In Caption=0|1 (1 is default)
- Stricter parsing of ini files containing actions to allow arguments
with reserved ini-file keywords
- Made the server property dialog box simpler to use when adding a new server
- Moved handling of "Clear disk cache", "Clear visited history"
and "Clear typed in history" actions to allow
Enjoy,
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Toby A Inkster
> Opera 7.20 Beta 1 for Linux Intel is now available for download.
I've not tried it yet, but just to say I am already mightily impressed by
the simultaneous (well, OK, about a 2 hour gap) beta releases on Linux and
Windows.
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Edward Piecewicz
> Hi all,
>
> Opera 7.20 Beta 1 for Linux Intel is now available for download.
The splash screen that appears in Help/About Opera, displays "Version 6.0".
Build 426.
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Ville Herva
> Hi all,
>
> Opera 7.20 Beta 1 for Linux Intel is now available for download.
>
> Download at:
> http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/intel-linux/426-20030703-7.20-B1/
Still dies instantly when closing a window.
The symptoms are the same: a bunch of X errors:
X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 2
Major opcode: 45
Resource id: 0x2a00e83
and segfault.
I won't bother you with the backtrace since the 7.11 one didn't seem
to interest you (and I bet it's still more or less the same trace.)
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Ville Herva
> Espen Sand wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Opera 7.20 Beta 1 for Linux Intel is now available for download.
> >
> > Download at:
> > http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/intel-linux/426-20030703-7.20-B1/
>
> Still dies instantly when closing a window.
>
> The symptoms are the same: a bunch of X errors:
>
> X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 2
> Major opcode: 45
> Resource id: 0x2a00e83
>
> and segfault.
>
> I won't bother you with the backtrace since the 7.11 one didn't seem
> to interest you (and I bet it's still more or less the same trace.)
For the record:
Enable Xft Fonts=0
and removing all the xft fonts from opera6.ini does not help.
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Jamie Jones
Toby A Inkster <UseTheAddr...@deadspam.com>
wrote in newsgroup opera.linux:
> I've not tried it yet, but just to say I am already mightily impressed by
> the simultaneous (well, OK, about a 2 hour gap) beta releases on Linux and
> Windows.
But still 6.12 on FreeBSD :-(
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Jamie Jones
> Hi all,
>
> Opera 7.20 Beta 1 for Linux Intel is now available for download.
We still can't tile over multiple lines the "open windows bar" and
the "personal bar". PLEASE bring that bacx!
Espen Sand
> On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:35:48 +0200, Espen Sand <esp...@online.no> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Opera 7.20 Beta 1 for Linux Intel is now available for download.
>
>
> The splash screen that appears in Help/About Opera, displays "Version
> 6.0". Build 426.
The splash screen should now have been there at all. Will be removed in
the next release. You can remove it now by deleting
/usr/share/opera/images/splash.png
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Espen Sand
> Espen Sand wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Opera 7.20 Beta 1 for Linux Intel is now available for download.
>>
>>Download at:
>>http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/intel-linux/426-20030703-7.20-B1/
>
>
> Still dies instantly when closing a window.
>
> The symptoms are the same: a bunch of X errors:
>
> X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 2
> Major opcode: 45
> Resource id: 0x2a00e83
>
> and segfault.
>
> I won't bother you with the backtrace since the 7.11 one didn't seem
> to interest you (and I bet it's still more or less the same trace.)
The problem is that this is most likely related to the X-server you use.
No one here has the problem. When you say "closing a window", do you mean
a toplevel window or just a page inside the toplevel window? Does it
happen if you close an empty page that has no open document in it?
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