X-Git-Url: http://git.maemo.org/git/?p=browser-switch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=e0f8da7a20bd59e74bddbaccc4e8d428fa10baa4;hp=47b32600527d1c91c357aee55042953a31463201;hb=4cee1b2bdd3f056a762aa6565c07fe4ca4b032bc;hpb=9a619a53ba3f46f9cc1716a2335aca98797ce2e2

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@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 BROWSER SWITCHBOARD
+version 3.3
 
 Browser Switchboard is a program which allows you to choose which
 browser to use as the default browser. It supports MicroB, Tear,
-Fennec/Mobile Firefox, and Midori out of the box, and can also be used
-to launch MicroB without having browserd running.
+Mobile Firefox, Opera Mobile, and Midori out of the box, and can also be
+used to launch MicroB without having browserd running.  A Control Panel
+applet to choose the default browser is provided.
 
 
 Download:
@@ -22,18 +24,20 @@ You can now select the default browser by using the Browser Switchboard
 applet in the Control Panel.  Links in most applications, locally-saved
 web pages opened from the file manager, and (for Maemo 4.x) entries in
 the Web sidebar panel will open in the browser that you select as the
-default.  If you don't configure a default browser, MicroB will continue
-to be used as the default browser.
+default.  Opening the "Web" menu entry and running "browser" from the
+shell will also cause your chosen default browser to open.  If you don't
+configure a default browser, MicroB will continue to be used as the
+default browser.
 
 No matter which browser you select as the default, MicroB can always be
-opened via the Web menu entry in the applications menu (for Maemo 4.x,
-located in the Internet menu by default), or by running "browser" from
-the shell.  While MicroB is open, it will receive all links from other
-applications; closing MicroB will restore your chosen default browser.
+opened via the MicroB menu entry in the applications menu (for Maemo
+4.x, installed in the Extras menu by default), or by running "microb"
+from the shell.  While MicroB is open, it will receive all links from
+other applications; closing MicroB will restore your chosen default
+browser.
 
-Some users have reported that a restart may be necessary to ensure that
-Browser Switchboard is functioning.  If you experience trouble after
-installing the package, try rebooting your device first.
+If you experience trouble after installing the package, try rebooting
+your device.  If that fixes things, please report this as a bug.
 
 
 Configuring the Default Browser by Hand:
@@ -47,9 +51,9 @@ $ cat > $HOME/.config/browser-switchboard <<EOF
 default_browser = "your_browser"
 EOF
 
-where your_browser can be one of "tear", "microb", "fennec", "midori",
-or "other" (see below for more on the "other" option).  You can of
-course also edit the $HOME/.config/browser-switchboard file with your
+where your_browser can be one of "tear", "microb", "fennec", "opera",
+"midori" or "other" (see below for more on the "other" option).  You can
+of course also edit the $HOME/.config/browser-switchboard file with your
 favorite text editor.
 
 To restore the default behavior, just delete the config file:
@@ -64,29 +68,42 @@ Here's a more complete sample configuration file:
 # BEGIN SAMPLE CONFIG FILE
 # This is a comment
 # continuous_mode: 0 -- close after handling a request; 1 -- run
-# continuously in the background
-continuous_mode = 0
-# default_browser: "tear", "microb", "fennec", "midori", or "other"
+# continuously in the background (default)
+# On Fremantle, this is forced to 1 regardless of config setting
+continuous_mode = 1
+# default_browser: "tear", "microb", "fennec", "midori", "opera" or
+# "other"
 default_browser = "tear"
 # other_browser_cmd: If default browser is "other", what program
 # to run (%s will be replaced by URI)
 #other_browser_cmd = "some_browser %s"
+# logging: Where log output should go: "stdout", "syslog", "none"
+#logging = "stdout"
+# autostart_microb: Fremantle only: whether MicroB should be
+# prestarted in the background: 0 -- never prestart MicroB; 1 -- always
+# prestart MicroB; -1 -- only prestart MicroB when MicroB is the default
+# browser (default behavior if unset)
+#autostart_microb = 0
 # END SAMPLE CONFIG FILE
 
 Lines beginning with # characters are comments and are ignored by the
-script.
+script.  [Most options correspond directly to an option or option group
+in the configuration UI.]
 
 In continuous mode, Browser Switchboard keeps running in the background
 instead of closing after handling each request.  This saves a bit of
 startup time for each link (on my N800 running Diablo), but costs you
-about 100 KB extra memory.  Continuous mode is disabled by default; set
-continuous_mode to 1 to enable.  [This option corresponds to the
-"Optimize Browser Switchboard for" option group in the UI; "Lower memory
-usage" corresponds to continuous_mode off, while "Faster browser startup
-time" corresponds to continuous_mode on.]
-
-The "tear", "microb", "fennec", and "midori" options for default_browser
-should be self-explanatory.
+about 150 KB extra memory.  Continuous mode is enabled by default; set
+continuous_mode to 0 to enable.  On Fremantle, continuous mode is always
+enabled regardless of the value of this config setting, to provide
+better compatibility with MicroB's behavior.  [This option corresponds
+to the "Optimize Browser Switchboard for" option group in the UI; "Lower
+memory usage" corresponds to continuous_mode off, while "Faster browser
+startup time" corresponds to continuous_mode on.]
+
+The "tear", "microb", "fennec", "opera" and "midori" options for
+default_browser should be self-explanatory.  [These correspond to the
+options in the "Default browser" combo box in the UI.]
 
 If the default browser is "other", Browser Switchboard will run the
 program specified in other_browser_cmd as the default browser, with a
@@ -97,7 +114,62 @@ of typing in
 
 $ some_browser 'http://www.google.com/'
 
-at a shell.
+at a shell.  [In the UI, setting "Default brower" to "Other" activates
+the "Command (%s for URI)" setting, which corresponds to the value of
+other_browser_cmd.]
+
+The logging option controls where Browser Switchboard sends its debug
+logging output to.  You should not need to change this unless you're
+debugging Browser Switchboard, and there is no UI for this option.  The
+default option is "stdout", which means you won't see output unless you
+run Browser Switchboard from the shell.  "syslog" will send the output
+to the system log (assuming you have a syslogd set up on your device),
+and "none" disables debug logging entirely.
+
+On Fremantle only, autostart_microb controls whether MicroB is
+prestarted when the device boots and whether the MicroB browser process
+is left running when no browser windows are open.  By default, MicroB is
+prestarted (and the process left open when no browser windows are open)
+only when MicroB is set as the default browser; you can force MicroB to
+always prestart by setting autostart_microb = 1, while you can force it
+to never prestart by setting autostart_microb = 0.  [This option has no
+corresponding UI at the moment.]
+
+
+The browser-switchboard-config Command-Line Configuration Tool:
+
+A command-line configuration utility is provided to allow programs and
+scripts to query and set Browser Switchboard configuration variables.
+For example,
+
+$ browser-switchboard-config -b
+
+will display the default browser, and 
+
+$ browser-switchboard-config -s -b "opera"
+
+will set the default browser to Opera Mobile.  See the help output from
+running browser-switchboard-config with no arguments for more
+information.
+
+The primary purpose of this tool is to allow browser vendors to provide
+an option in their browsers to set themselves as the default browser,
+via something like this (shell-like pseudocode):
+
+if [ -x /usr/bin/browser-switchboard-config ]; then
+	if [ `browser-switchboard-config -b` = "mybrowser" ]; then
+		display "MyBrowser is the default browser."
+	else
+		button "Make MyBrowser the default browser"
+		action "browser-switchboard-config -s -b mybrowser"
+	fi
+else
+	display "Install Browser Switchboard to make MyBrowser the default browser"
+fi
+
+Browser vendors: setting yourself as the default browser without
+prompting the user first (via package maintainer scripts, for example)
+is strongly discouraged.
 
 
 Browser Switchboard and MicroB's browserd:
@@ -114,9 +186,9 @@ memory, but add a few seconds to MicroB's load time.
 Uninstalling Browser Switchboard:
 
 Remove the Browser Switchboard package using the Application Manager,
-and everything should be back to normal.  A reboot may be necessary for
-changes to take effect -- if you experience problems, try restarting
-your device first.
+and everything should be back to normal.  If you experience problems
+after uninstalling, try restarting your device first; if that fixes
+things, please report this as a bug.
 
 
 Compiling Browser Switchboard:
@@ -125,7 +197,7 @@ If for some reason you don't want to use the prebuilt binary package to
 install Browser Switchboard, you can compile and install by hand:
 1. You will need a copy of the SDK for your device.  Make sure the
 following packages are installed: libdbus-glib-1-dev for
-browser-switchboard; libdbus-1-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, hildon-dev,
+browser-switchboard; libdbus-1-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, libhildon1-dev,
 hildon-control-panel-dev for the config UI.
 2. Download the source tarball: browser-switchboard_X.Y.orig.tar.gz
 3. Unpack the source tarball in your SDK install:
@@ -135,12 +207,16 @@ SDK$ cd browser-switchboard-X.Y
 
 4. Compile:
 
-SDK$ make
-SDK$ make -C config-ui
+SDK$ make diablo
+SDK$ make -C config-ui diablo-plugin util
+
+(Replace "diablo" with "fremantle", "diablo-plugin" with
+"fremantle-plugin" and "util" with "fremantle-util" if compiling for
+Fremantle.
 
-(If you want the standalone config application instead of the Control
+If you want the standalone config application instead of the Control
 Panel plugin, do 
-SDK$ make -C config-ui hildon-app
+SDK$ make -C config-ui diablo-hildon-app
 instead.
 
 If you're using the Scratchbox2-based SDK+, you want
@@ -150,10 +226,14 @@ etc. as usual.)
 5. Install to a temporary directory, and tar up the result:
 
 SDK$ make DESTDIR=temp install
-SDK$ make -C config-ui install
+SDK$ make DESTDIR=temp -C config-ui install
 SDK$ cd temp
 SDK$ tar cf stuff.tar .
 
+(On Fremantle, add a
+SDK$ make DESTDIR=temp install-xsession-script
+before creating the tarball.)
+
 6. As root on your device, move files that will be replaced in the
 install process out of the way:
 
@@ -184,10 +264,10 @@ Source code is hosted in a Git (http://git-scm.com/) repository on
 git.maemo.org.  You can get a copy of the current development version by
 cloning the repository:
 
-$ git clone https://git.maemo.org/projects/browser-switch
+$ git clone http://git.maemo.org/projects/browser-switch
 
 or you can browse the source using gitweb
-(https://git.maemo.org/projects/browser-switch/?p=browser-switch;a=summary).
+(http://git.maemo.org/projects/browser-switch/?p=browser-switch;a=summary).
 
 
 Maintainer: