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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:47:19 +0200
From:      "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Opera 6.1 preview 1 for Linux and FreeBSD available
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I have just tried the FreeBSD version. It runs, even displays antialiased
fonts. However, I could not get plugins and Java working. Anyway, this is
good news.

Just FYI ;-)

Cheers,
JMA
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Hi all,

We have now prepared the first preview of 6.1. 
It is located at:

Intel Linux:
http://web.opera.com/download/unix/untested/intel-linux/248-20020923-6.1-P1/

Intel Freebsd:
http://web.opera.com/download/unix/untested/intel-freebsd/248-20020923-6.1-P1/

Changelog:
http://web.opera.com/download/unix/untested/intel-linux/248-20020923-6.1-P1/changelog.txt

Which Package to Select?
http://web.opera.com/download/unix/untested/intel-linux/248-20020923-6.1-P1/whatpackage.txt


Opera now uses Qt3 (see special notes below)


As you can see there are regular Linux packages and
for the first time native FreeBSD packages available. The
FreeBSD packages have been built on FreeBSD 4.6 The FreeBSD
version have the same set of features as the Linux version.


Special notes:
- This is a preview. There may be bugs or other problems we have
  not identified yet. Please report your discoveries to bugs.opera.com
  and to the lists.
- The shared builds are made with Qt 3.0.4. There is a confirmed
  binary incompatibility between Qt 3.0.5 and the rest of the
  Qt 3.0.x series. Do no use the shared version with Qt 3.0.5
- There are still font issues to be solved in the page rendering but
  we encourage you to report problems.
- Qt3x uses a modified Copy/Paste protocol. This means it is not
  100% compatible with Qt2x (and KDE2)

If you read this on the opera.beta newsgroup and want to make a 
posting regarding this package please cc it to opera.linux newsgroup 
because the Linux/UNIX team members monitor that list.

This preview is only announced on the maillist and newsgroups and has 
not been tested as much as it would have been if it had been an official 
release.



Changelog (since 6.03)

Fonts:
- Fontswitching in UI (Qt3 only)
- Interface with Qt3's new font system. There is no charset anymore.
- Better fontswitching inside documents.
- Smooth-scaled core X fonts. This will keep the X server from scaling
  the fonts (which would produce an ugly result). This is a big improvement
  for Oriental writing systems. Requires RENDER extension on both X server
  and client
- Various core bugfixes

Java:
- Opera will now use java directly. Not through a plug-in.
- Added information about Java presence in Help|Opera
- Added "Enable Java" on F12 menu
- Added Java section in preference dialog (Multimedia page)
- Window | Special | Java Console should now work.

Plugins:
- Banned (hardcoded) libnullplugin.so Causes async dns blocking on
  Mandrake 8.2
- "Plugins to Ignore" pref setting is now activated. The ignore file
  name is by default "pluginignore.ini". Opera will first look in
  the local ~/.opera directory next in the shared directory.
  The file name can be set in opera6.ini
  [Adv User Prefs]
  Plugin Ignore File=path-to-ignore-file

  The ignore file format is:
  Opera Preferences version 2.0
  ; Do not edit this file while Opera is running
  [Plugins to Ignore]
  full-path-to-plugin.so = comment
- Plug-in protection. We will now know if a plug-in crashed
  Opera during plug-in detection and give the user the choice
  not to detect plug-ins when opera is restarted.
- Added testing for invalid netscape proxy plug-in (libnpp)
  when starting Motif based plug-ins. The libnpp.so uses Qt
  and will crash Opera if it does no use the same major
  version of Qt as Opera.
- Added a new add-plugin dialog that will make it simpler to
  accept new plugins. All new plugins are placed in a list
  instead of in separate dialog boxes.
- Added a monitor that runs as a separate programs which
  will kill hanging motifwrappers on exit.

Images
- Png gamma fix. Use 0.5 instead of 0.45 (default value)
  for png images that do not contain gamma info in the file.

Copy/Paste
- Opera is now better interfaced with Gtk and KDE3. KDE2 and Qt2 based
  applications may be a problem.
- Some Copy/Paste fixes. Allows better intergation with existing programs.

Skinning:
- Improved skin handling. Less memory, more skinning and better alignment.
- Skin support in all popup menus (except for spinbox and fileselector
  popup menus).
- Skin support in dialogs. Can be disabled by a setting in opera6.ini
  Skin In Dialogs=0(x)|1
  0: Show foreground skin in dialogs
  1: Do not show foreground skin in dialogs
  Example:
  [User Prefs]
  Skin In Dialogs=1
- Made the skin path parser handle paths with '\'separators. Some button
  files contain path\to\skinfile instead of path/to/skinfile.
- Added a guard against using too large skins in the Qt 2x based version.
  It will not handle it (the X-server can crash). The limit is configurable.
  in opera6.ini
  Example:
  [User Prefs]
  ;Allows 200x200 images, default is 22500 (150x150)
  Skin Area Limit=40000
- Proper skinning of non-active banner area (in SDI mode).
- Added a SkinInstaller class that can install the skin on Qt dialogs
  where we have no access to the dialog pointer from the Qt API.
- Skin fixes (ie apply skin) for splitter between hotlist and pages.

Bookmarks:
- Do not clear bookmark menu if the menu is open when a bookmark
  change has occurred (could happen when a pixmap should be updated)
- "Add bookmark" dialog now supports selectable destination folder
  (see http://people.opera.com/espen/images/addbookmark.png)
- Bookmark Parser speedup. The loading time has been reduced with
  approx. 15%
- Delayed bookmark search in hotlist in order to catch more string
  changes in one pass. Feels faster.
- Add-bookmark dialog size is now saved and restored.
- The Modify-bookmark dialog size is now saved and restored.
- Support for rightclick popup menu inside bookmark popup menu. One can
  open the bookmark,  in a new window, open in background, edit it and
  copy/cut/paste/delete a bookmark or folder from the menu.
  (see http://people.opera.com/espen/images/bookmarkpopupmenu.png)

Shortcuts/mouse:
- Fixed a bug that caused a duplicate shortcut not to be removed
  from the list in keyboard shortcut dialog.
- Help->OperaOnTheWeb was not activated properly.
- Ctrl+Space now toggles selected entries in the boomark and contact
  views again.
- Pressing Ctrl+Alt+B or Ctrl+Alt+C will now activate the hotlist
  window if it is floating.
- Let Ctrl+Shift+Enter in the "go to" dialog box open the page
  in the background.
- Support for displaying search results in a new window or in
  the background (Shift+Enter and Ctrl+Shift+Enter) when searching
  from the search entry on the address toolbar.
- Some fixes wrt to the use of the SuperKey flag. Qt3x supports
  this key in the keyevent flags so we can simplify the code someplaces.
- "Shortcut definition file" ("User prefs") had a spelling issue. The new
  string is "Shortcut definition file", but the old will be supported
  until 7.0
- Support for half-page-scrolling. Since we have configurable shortcuts
  this was very simple since I do not have to decide what shortcuts that
  should be assigned to this feature.
- Support for panning mode (scroll up/down by just moving the mouse) or
  Anchored mouse scrolling. At the moment it is a activated by
  Ctrl+MidClick but it can be activated with the MidClick alone using a new
  pref setting:
  Extended Center Mousebutton Action=0,1(x)
  0=Activate panning (scrolling by moving the mouse)
  1=Paste text from clipboard
  Example:
  [User Prefs]
  Extended Center Mousebutton Action=0
- Pasting text with the center mouse button into the url address fields
  can now configured to clear the current text first. Either by pressing
  the control button or by this pref setting:
  Append Text On Center Mousebutton Click=0|1(x)
  0: Clear current text before pasting text into url address fields
  1: Append the pasted text
  Example:
  [User Prefs]
  Append Text On Center Mousebutton Click=0
- Window navigation (with '1'/'2' or Ctrl+Left/Ctrl+Right will no
  longer be blocked by a minimized window.
- Allow pasting a bookmark into an empty folder with the
  keyboard.
- Ctrl+W (in UNIX shortcut mode) will now also delete a single
  character word in the front of a string.
- Ctrl+Space will now toggle selection of listbox elements in
  the document when keyboard focus in on the listbox.
- Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right will now be used for cursor movement
  inside the address entry field when it has focus restoring pre 6.02
  behavior.
- Pressing F9 should move focus to the document window area even
  if the document is empty.
- Give focus to the addressbar when activating history dropdown
  by pressing 'h' in the document window.
- The Menu button on the keyboard will now activate context menus.
- Page scrolling with mouse wheel now works in the main window when the
  mouse cursor is located over the ad window.
- Fixed some shortcut problems in the transfer window and a
  lost focus problem when the transfer window was closed.
- Added Undo and Redo actions to Edit menu + and shortcuts in the
  lineedit popup menus.

Startup:
- Made it possible to open a file in the current directory on startup
  without specifying the full path.
- Modified the parsing of "-remote" commandline commands so that
  (example) "opera -remote openURL(javascript:window.open(),new-window)
  will work. The parser could not cope with the internal bracket () set.
- Fixed a problem that made it impossible to detect a running instance
  of Opera in certain windowmanagers. Enlightment and Blackbox are two
  window managers that caused this problem.
- Starting Opera with the "-nowin" flag will now bypass the startup dialog.
- Support for opening a page in background from the commandline
  Do a "opera -help" for more information.

Transfer window:
- Ensure that a list entry added to the transferwindow is made
  visible if the list is taller than the transfer window.
- Ensure transfer history is deleted even when transfer window has
  not been opened.

Cookies:
- Support for editing cookie contents (name, value, created and last
  visited time) This will only be possible in the Qt3 based version.
- After the cookiedialog box had been shown once it was possible to add
  certain cookies without updating the list in the dialog box.
- Some more layout fixes in the cookie dialog boxes in the Qt3 version.
  The multiline edit layout behavior has changed.
- Added pref. settings so that the size of the cookie editor dialog
  and the bookmark search dialog box can be saved/restored.
- Identified and fixed some nasty serverfilter problems (when saving) in
  the cookie manager code. This could cause that serverfilters were
  lost if they used certain settings.
- Support for the default state (third state) in the server filter list
  of the cookie filter in the pref box.

Privacy:
- Clear opera.win and autopera.win when deleting private data.

Print Preview:
- Do not allow to open links with midbutton when in print preview mode.
- Print preview icon is now "pushed in" in preview mode.
- Leave print preview before navigating in window history.
- Open the result in a new window or page when activating a network
  search from the search context menu when in Print Preview mode.

search.ini
- Support for configurable (read from search.ini) translations,
  dictionary, encyclopedia and currency search engines.
- Added "English -> Japanese" and "Japanese -> English" to
  web translation list.
- Encyclopedia and dictionary search types now support POST urls
- Prevent that three windows are opened when there is no active document
  window when we start a super search from the go-to (F2) dialog box.
- Internet searches will now accept search keys that are longer
  than one character.

UI and general issues:
- "Compact Toolbars = 1" is now the default pref setting. This will save
  space in various toolbars.
- Made the search engine interface a little bit more flexible wrt encodings
- Activate next/prev page failed in SDI mode when page was opened in 
background.
- Check that separators are not present at end of menus (menus can
  be configured to turn off entries).
- Support for panning (scroll page without using scrollbar)
  Activated by clicking the center mouse button on the page
- Center mouse button action (panning or paste text) is now
  configured by clicking Ctrl+MidButton on the page.
- "Link in frame" dialog
  1) Support for opening multiple links at the same time
  2) Improved removal of duplicate links (a bugfix)
  3) Popupmenu will use current fg skin (Qt3)
- Bookmark search dialog
  1) Popupmenu will use current fg skin (Qt3)
- Hide searchbar when popup windows are opened (in SDI mode).
- Moved code into printer dialog (from Print Options dialog).
- "Add panel" will now work even when hotlist area is floating.
- Changed help path in print dialog.
- Open a new window if there are only minimized windows when we
  open a page from the hotlist or the personal toolbar.
- For some reason the "High", "Medium", "Low" and "None" strings
  of the security button were left out of 6.02 They have been activated
  again.
- Under certain circumstances it was possible to activate a window without
  activating the corresponding window toolbar button.
- Added support for removing an entry in the "opera.dir" history list
  when a manually entered url could not be resolved.
- Added a guard against making it possible to open a docked hotlist window
  with a width less than 10 pixels. Too many users have reported missing
  hotlist problems because of this.
- Do not write download.dat unless the download data has changed.
  This causes unwanted disk activity on battery powered devices.
- Support for disabling special (heart) icons on personal toolbar by
  setting a flag in opera6.ini
  Normal Icons On Personal Bar=0|1(x)
  0: Show special icons on the personal bar (if supported in button.ini)
  1: Use same icons as in bookmark menu and hotlist area.
  Example:
  [User Prefs]
  Normal Icons On Personal Bar=0
- The icon of a minimized window will now always be lowered under
  the active window when in fullscreen.
- A stylechange will now trigger the handshape icon to be
  updated whereever is is used. The shape is different in
  windows and motif based styles.
- Fixed a broken time string display (for some locales)
  when receiving cookies.
- Fixed a problem that made it impossible to list more than
  2048 files in a directory.
- Do not give focus to a window when it is reloaded if it is
  not the active window (can happen when reloaded from the
  "Window list" dialog box).
- Support for trusted external URL protocols. We do not have
  a registry so the list of trusted applications must be stored
  in prefs (opera6.ini) like this:
  [Trusted Applications]
  Assign applications for protocols that are not handled by Opera
  irc=path-to-irc-client
  someprotocol=path-to-someprotocol-handler
  ...
  [User Prefs]
  TrustedExternalURLProtocols=irc,someprotocol,...
- Added some new debug options
  -debugdns Show async dns progress (see below)
  -debugjava Show java setup progress
  -debugfont Show fontswitching progress
- Added logging support for async. dns lookup. Some users report problems
  (asyndns does not work) so now we have a test tool. The logging is
  activated on startup with the command line argument "-debugdns"
- The subject and body contents of a created mailto url is now encoded
  according to spec (some mailer wants a raw mailto url)
- Some search-failure dialog fixes. Changed icon usage and improved
  focus restoration when the dialog close.
- Let the address toolbar resize itself properly depending on the
  font size (height)
- Some minor string fixes in the mailto link context menu in order
  to sync with the windows version.
- Fixed a hotclick menu problem. If text was highlighted by a
  double/triple mouse click then the copy menu would not be shown
  if the mouse was outside the selected area.
- Removed "Print Options" from file menu. The code is now inside the
  print dialog.
- Added a "My style" on the mailbar popup menu. It lets the user
  configure the buttons on the toolbar (very simplistic approach)
- Fixed a focus problem in the "Go to" dialog box. Sawfish and probably
  other window managers as well could loose keyboard focus when the
  autocompletion dropdown menu was closed.
- Let multiline tooltips in the document stay visible longer
  (proportional to the number of lines) and try to break at spaces
  between works.
- Display localized time strings in hotlist and bookmark property
  dialog boxes.
- Sort translated versions of the "Internations fonts" dropdown
  string list.
- Let the searchengine dropdown list always be at least as
  wide as required to show the widest string in the list.
- Fixed problem that caused filename with spaces to use %20 when saved.
- Links In Frame dialog could crash Opera if activated before
  document was created. Some selection changes in that dialog as well.
  Added a "Name" checkbox so that we can display the urls only in the
  dialog.
- The workspace mdi button decoration is now updated directly
  when changed in the preference dialog. No restart required.
  The window context menus now also contain a decoration submenu.
- The currency dialog will now show the value that is about to be
  converted. The value can be modified.
- The operarc and operarc.fixed will now be read from /usr/local/etc
  on the FreeBSD version.
- "My Layout" support in "View | Main bar"
- Fixed a problem that caused urls with a password to be scrambled
  before the page was opened with the url string. This happened
  only when pressing Enter in the Go-to (F2) dialog box.
- Save windows when Opera is closed from the window manager. Fixes
  This bug was only a problem when using "Show saved windows setup"

Kioskmode:
- Kioskmode is now supported. Some functions are only available in
  the registered version.


Enjoy!


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