Midori 0.5.5 - kindle RELEASE CANDIDATE 0.x

[brianinmaine]

Originally Posted by twobob

if you wrapped it in a rotation script., might be okay??? see bafs broswer thread for an example of how he did that with skipstone... no promises but may well work.

EDIT: Nope. gave it a go for you.

I'll look to patch based on model or go with full time rotation or offer rotation in a sub-menu...

Or something.

Man you're fast! I was just about to download! This looks great, how does it run? Faster/better than skipstone?

[twobob]

Buildroot has wayland in... and can target the arm1136jf_s processor type.

IIRC some of the newer Toolchains can build compliant code for that device too.
(the 2007q3 also obviously can but is a little bit dated now)

Deserves a revisit at some point for sure.

[twobob]

Originally Posted by brianinmaine

Man you're fast! I was just about to download! This looks great, how does it run? Faster/better than skipstone?

It's a totally different animal.

Like as in fresh and shiny new - with an active team of great developers - unlike the dead skipstone project...

Don't get me wrong baf did a great job... but yeah. on the whole. way better.

Doubtless there will be hiccups, I myself have already managed to stall it once on a stupidly complicated page..

I didn't post any screenies of the built-in addons yet or other ubernicities...
Really creamy.

with a bit of love we can probably make this revision REALLY work for us - assuming I get a bit of help on the theming...

Let me see about hacking the titles for you real quick...

[twobob]

Okay so I patched the patch (heh) and made a custom rotated version.

You can see from the diffs at the very least the changes that were made to get where we are.


I'll try a quick patch of a clean version of the source (attached) from this custom diff and see what drops out.

Hope this helps!

should know soon enough...

Gimme 10 to set this up.


EDIT:


You know it took me weeks to get my head around this codebase... months to figure out a solid way to pull all the deps and overlay them without errors... never mind the countless failed attempts to implement end-user friendly build-systems...

But...

root@dev:/usr/local/src/midori-0.5.5-rotated# patch -p1 < midori-0.5.5-kindle-rotated.patch.txt

patching file config/search
patching file midori/main.c
patching file midori/midori-browser.c
patching file midori/midori-completion.vala
patching file midori/midori-dialog.vala
patching file midori/midori-locationaction.c
patching file midori/midori-view.c
patching file wscript

however looking at that is has boiled down to just a few files that really needed touching up. That is somehow depressing...

heh.

Attached is JUST the RAW sources I build from... without my tweaks

[twobob]

hmm first obvious mistake.. /mnt/us/extensions/midori/usr/bin/toggleKeys is missing an exit:

if [ ! "$*" = "" ]; then

lipc-set-prop -s com.lab126.keyboard close com.lab126.gtkInputMethod"$PID" ;
exit
fi

[twobob]

hmm.. well whatever it is that is nerfing the custom EXIT and KEYBOARD buttons on the KT it aint the width of the screen.. cos being sideway dont help

Annoying!

[twobob]

Updated the rotation patch to remove some junk.

The keyboard toggle now appears on a submenu under the name COLOR now... (dont ask)

[brianinmaine]

Should I try to build it the way it is? I'm running out of time today and or this weekend... family first!

[twobob]

on it... building right now

EDIT: this is JUST the binary as a drop in replacement.

But it still refuses to show the extra toolbars As Far As I Can See...

Anways.. As I say TOUCH currently not supported. And this Wont rotate on a PW

EDIT: attachment removed

[twobob]

hmm no, definite inconsistencies to still be ironed out for the touch.

Icons dont show.

The rotation thing above WONT rotate a PW...

Weirdness..

I'll dig more.

Anways, enjoy the family time.

[brianinmaine]

Originally Posted by twobob

hmm no, definite inconsistencies to still be ironed out for the touch.

Icons dont show.

The rotation thing above WONT rotate a PW...

Weirdness..

I'll dig more.

Anways, enjoy the family time.

AGAIN, thanks for trying! I just installed the linux version on my regular Debian laptop, I'll try to get used to that and see how the themes are set up if I get some time. What is it you would like to know? How other people like the button placement or 'colors' or what?

[twobob]

simply how to make the icons larger would be great.

There is a large icons switch in the midori FAQ IIRC, but to be able to specifically set the size to certain pixel size would be awesome.

[brianinmaine]

There are missing icons/ warnings
The set of themed icons Midori can use is very limited. For instance icons for a new tab or the throbber are not guaranteed to be available. To fix this, install a Freedesktop.org spec compliant icon theme, such as Elementary, Faenza, Buuf or GNOME. 

if you need to set a custom path for these to be “searched in” (Kiosks and embedded devices for example): 

XDG_DATA_HOME=/path/to/location 

will add an extra path for the icons/.. directory 

Tweaking Midori on the Gtk level
If you don't have a desktop application that takes care of Gtk settings or if your interface doesn't support a particular feature, you can modify any settings easily manually by specifying them in a text file called ~/.gtkrc-2.0 or /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc: 

Use Tango as a fallback for your icon theme: 

gtk-icon-theme-name = "MySuperFancyTheme"
gtk-fallback-icon-theme = "Tango"Use a smaller toolbar: 

gtk-toolbar-icon-size = GTK_ICON_SIZE_SMALL_TOOLBAROnly for those not running a complete DE like Xfce, Elementary, etc…
There is a preference: Preferences → Browsing → Toolbar Style: Small icons

from http://midori-browser.org/faqs/

I'd have to see what icons are available? are different sizes available? Do we need to install some/ rip from debian?

[twobob]

the bundle comes with an entire tango installation in /mnt/us/extensions/midori/pixmaps/icons

Utter and complete overkill...


edit: oh and if you notice, that section on xdg was added by me

[Aeris]

WOWWWWWW! Twobob, this is fantastic!!!! Turned my kindle from a piece of crap into a full featured thing! Thank you so much!!!!

And now testing can begin

One thing: how to exit from preferences if i entered them with kewboard on, and how to exit midori in general?

Suggestion 1: maybe we could focus on the landscape mode version only, what do you think? Avoiding double effort to make interfaces looks good in both modes


Suggestion 2: user impatient like me could click around when midori is loading, making run midori istances in background or avoiding even that midori shows up... I think it would be useful to introduce an automatic "kill all midori istances" in the launch script.


I know this because after closing everything, ps aux command told me that there was a midori istance between processes. A weird thing is also that after i plugged my usb cable with midori running, in the "usb mode on" screen there was also a right click menu from midori O.o

Damn, it's so fast, I love it... And scroll bars works better than any other app. Your masterpiece. Definetly.