Date: 24 Sep 2002 11:54:14 -0500 From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, des@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opera 6.1 preview 1 for Linux and FreeBSD available Message-ID: <1032886455.376.56.camel@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> In-Reply-To: <20020924164719.GE251@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> References: <20020924164719.GE251@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es>
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On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 11:47, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > 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 ;-) I couldn't get it to render entry boxes correctly. Try http://www.lerctr.org/mailman/admin/macarthur1975 and see how big it renders the password field. > > Cheers, > JMA > -- > ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** > ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** > ---- > > From: Espen Sand <espen@opera.com> > To: opera-linux@opera.com > Cc: panic@opera.com > Subject: [Opera-linux] 6.1 preview 1 for Linux and FreeBSD available > Date: 23 Sep 2002 20:27:03 +0200 > > 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! > > > -- > Espen Sand > espen@opera.com > -- > Opera-linux: http://list.opera.com/mailman/listinfo/opera-linux > More lists: http://list.opera.com/mailman/listinfo/ > Unsubscribe: mailto:opera-linux-request@opera.com?subject=unsubscribe -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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