2 * add support for Opera Mobile
3 * fall back to the built-in default if the user's configured default browser
5 * introduce a command-line config utility; this is mainly intended to give
6 browser vendors a way to set their browser as the default
7 * provide a description for users who don't know what MicroB is; thanks
8 Emanuele Cassioli for pointing out the need
9 * major rewrite of configuration loading/saving code
12 * make the "Web" menu entry and /usr/bin/browser open the default browser, and
13 provide a new "MicroB" menu entry and /usr/bin/microb script for launching
14 MicroB; the previous behavior was counterintuitive and difficult to discover
15 * Fremantle: fix launching and closing MicroB on Fremantle; thanks Faheem
16 Pervez and Uwe Kaminski for extensive testing
17 * Fremantle: force the Ovi Store bookmark to open in MicroB, since Ovi Store
18 doesn't load in other browsers; thanks ToJa92 of t.m.o for reporting
19 * add ability to send debug output to syslog and new config setting ("logging")
20 to control where debug output goes; thanks Faheem Pervez for the suggestion
21 * close stdin/stdout/stderr in child processes before the exec(), to make debug
22 output on stdout less noisy
23 * fix some abuses of the D-Bus API in launcher.c:launch_tear()
24 * make sure a running browserd is detected correctly on all devices so that we
25 don't try to launch another one; thanks Faheem Pervez for reporting
26 * ensure that only one browser-switchboard is active at any time
27 * update build system; we now have "diablo" and "fremantle" targets that build
28 binaries for the selected OS release
29 * link binaries with -Wl,--as-needed to eliminate unnecessary dependencies
32 * add a new, more finger-friendly GUI for Fremantle, based on work by
33 Faheem Pervez (build UI with EXTRA_CPPFLAGS=-DFREMANTLE)
34 * make sure reconfig signal (SIGHUP) doesn't interrupt dispatch of a request
35 when continuous mode is off
36 * disable autocapitalization and predictive text features for the
37 other_browser_cmd entry in the UI
38 * add support for EXTRA_CPPFLAGS in Makefiles, to allow package builds to pass
39 feature/configuration defines; add EXTRA_LDFLAGS too, just in case
42 * fix the UI so that it looks for C browser-switchboard processes to send
43 SIGHUP to, not Python browser-switchboards
44 * add support for EXTRA_CFLAGS in Makefiles, to allow package builds to pass
45 additional optimization flags
46 * replace calls to `pkg-config dbus-1` in config-ui/Makefile with calls to
47 `pkg-config libosso` instead; asking for dbus-1 was incorrect and covering
48 up a problem that caused maemo extras-devel autobuilds to fail
51 * reimplement the main browser-switchboard process in C, which leads to much
52 faster startup times and much lower memory usage
53 * implement a configuration UI, which can be used as a standalone app or as a
54 hildon-control-panel applet
55 * default to launching MicroB if no config file is found -- with a config UI,
56 it's best to keep things unchanged in a fresh install and let the user
57 configure them him/herself
58 * EXPERIMENTAL Fremantle support
61 * rename the package to browser-switchboard
62 * move the config file to $HOME/.config/browser-switchboard, and fall back
63 to the old location if no config file is found
64 * if no config file is found and Tear isn't installed, launch MicroB;
65 this avoids breaking link opening on a system with a freshly installed
66 browser-switchboard package and Tear not installed
67 * substantial documentation update
70 * Steven Luo is now the primary maintainer
71 * use a config file, /home/user/.config/browser-proxy, if available
72 * add support for launching Fennec and Midori out of the box
73 * introduce a config option default_browser for selecting the default browser
74 ("tear", "microb", "fennec", "midori", "other")
75 * add support for launching an arbitrary browser using the other_browser_cmd
77 * run maemo-invoker directly instead of /usr/bin/browser to avoid a loop when
78 /usr/bin/browser is a wrapper invoking this script
79 * add a new, private D-Bus method for a /usr/bin/browser wrapper to use to
80 launch MicroB with a URI
83 * several patches contributed by Steven Luo:
84 - only launch one window if Tear isn't already running
85 - use gobject instead of gtk+ for main loop, uses less memory
86 - use python dbus interface instead of shelling out for dbus-send
87 - add 'continuous mode' option to keep proxy running (faster response)
88 - kill browserd on exit if launched from the script
89 - add option to use MicroB by default
92 * added mime_open method used by File manager to open .html files
95 * can now manually launch MicroB/browser -- while open, it will be used instead
96 * without --print-reply, the initial launching message seems to get lost
99 * sniff for local paths, prefix with file:// (fixes feedcircuit)
102 * removed return values, added osso_browser/request namespace (fixes Pidgin)
105 * fixed wrong capitalization in dbus message