[Dillo-dev] Alternate bookmarks interface
Benjamin Johnson
Here's my latest patch if anyone's interested. As nice as the bookmarks
DPI is, I personally prefer a more traditional interface (and since
Windows doesn't run DPI anyway, I had a good excuse to code one).
The patch itself is here:
http://dillo-win32.sourceforge.net/patches/31-bookmarks.diff
Some basics:
- Clicking on the bookmarks button now displays the bookmarks menu.
- Unclassified bookmarks are displayed at the bottom of the bookmarks
menu; other sections are displayed as submenus.
- Right-clicking a bookmark or section (submenu) lets you edit that
bookmark or section.
- Middle-clicking a bookmark opens it in a new window or tab, depending
on your preferences. (I may also add the ability to middle-click a
section to open all the bookmarks in separate tabs.)
Right now the code's a little rough around the edges, and the "Bookmark
this ____" right-click option doesn't work (the bookmarks menu itself is
fine), but it seems to be fairly stable if you want to try it out and let
me know what you think.
Cheers,
~Benjamin
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Roger
>on your preferences. (I may also add the ability to middle-click a
>section to open all the bookmarks in separate tabs.)
Personally, I like the middle-click in Seamonkey browser, opens the pasted URL.
(Downside, anything in the paste buffer gets opened in the browser on click.)
From what I'm seeing with the latest version of Seamonkey-2.3.3, everything
(ie. addons, passwords, ...) is now opening in a browser tab/window instead of
a widget/applet. Which is how I think it should be. The only downside that I
see with dpid, it's not easy to upgrade, quit & start dillo. One first needs
to kill dpid and all dpi processes before restarting an upgraded Dillo.
--
Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
Benjamin Johnson
>> - Middle-clicking a bookmark opens it in a new window or tab,
>> depending
>> on your preferences. (I may also add the ability to middle-click a
>> section to open all the bookmarks in separate tabs.)
>
> Personally, I like the middle-click in Seamonkey browser, opens the
> pasted URL.
> (Downside, anything in the paste buffer gets opened in the browser on
> click.)
I'm not sure what that has to do with the quoted text...
> From what I'm seeing with the latest version of Seamonkey-2.3.3,
> everything
> (ie. addons, passwords, ...) is now opening in a browser tab/window
> instead of
> a widget/applet. Which is how I think it should be. The only downside
> that I
> see with dpid, it's not easy to upgrade, quit & start dillo. One first
> needs
> to kill dpid and all dpi processes before restarting an upgraded Dillo.
Does Seamonkey open it as a webpage, or is it a widget interface displayed
in a browser tab? For example, Opera's bookmark manager is the latter:
http://screenshots.oahermes.com/opera/large_2_opera_bookmarks_manager.png
Personally, I think that just because you're developing a web browser,
doesn't mean everything has to be a web page. In many cases, a
traditional dialog interface works better. It's easier to figure out,
because of standardized widgets and layouts, and it's a bit faster as well
-- compare adding a bookmark in the DPI to my interface.
(It also uses less code; more than half the lines in my patch are just
removing the bookmarks DPI.)
Anyway, all I'm saying is try it out and see how you like it -- you may be
pleasantly surprised.
Cheers,
~Benjamin
Roger
>in a browser tab? For example, Opera's bookmark manager is the latter:
> http://screenshots.oahermes.com/opera/large_2_opera_bookmarks_manager.png
Seamonkey's .config, and now addons and passwords all look like dillos
bookmarks. Looks like a regular HTML page.
Opera's bookmarks, appears like files imo.
--
Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
Benjamin Johnson
> Seamonkey's .config, and now addons and passwords all look like dillos
> bookmarks. Looks like a regular HTML page.
That sounds like terrible design to me, although at least Seamonkey
has JavaScript, which kind of makes up for the limitations of HTML
forms.
The one thing bookmarks.dpi really has on the menu interface is it's
easy to bulk-move bookmarks to a new section, and even then that
wouldn't be too hard to do with a traditional dialog. Actually, with
a dialog you could just drag-and-drop.
Side note: my memory usage now (with one tab open to Gmail) is 7,912K,
and dillo.exe is about 1,308K after stripping + UPX, still small
enough to fit on a floppy disk. That's with bookmarks, downloads,
cookies, HTTPS, printing, etc. all enabled and compiled in. Just
thought I'd share :-)
~Benjamin
Benjamin Johnson
I've fixed some bugs in the bookmarks code, and changed it so bookmarks
load on-demand rather than at startup. This keeps the browser startup
fast and saves some memory, at the expense of making the first bookmarks
operation slightly slower.
I also added a new feature -- middle-clicking a section title will open
all the bookmarks in that section in background tabs. (It exposes some
interesting networking/rendering behavior, since apparently the engine
doesn't expect to handle that many simultaneous requests.)
Here's the patch again if anyone wants to try it:
http://dillo-win32.sourceforge.net/patches/31-bookmarks.diff
~Benjamin
Diego .
Do not compile in linux (fail trying to compile bookmarks.dpi. I
compile it removing bookmarks lines from dpi/Makefile )
The menus do not trim bookmarks titles so you can have menus with long text.
You do not see submenus with long text because go out the screen. FLTK problem?
But it is interesting. (It is like in first versions of dillo)
The bookmarks.dpi is better to work with various entries at same time.
I will prefer a winDPI code instead of reimplement every dpi inside
dillo. How can we do it?
Diego.
PD:sorry for my bad english.
2011/9/13, Benjamin Johnson <obeythe...@gmail.com>: