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| author |  Barrucadu <mike@barrucadu.co.uk> | 2009-04-23 22:00:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Barrucadu <mike@barrucadu.co.uk> | 2009-04-23 22:00:40 +0100 |
| commit | 96235f31822cf83b344ded4fa87a0b09916087c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 9548ed8d0333c6326ed4200784a9bac6bcc7c6e1 /README | |
| parent | 85b6cad29bff69d3ec24dd9161835e4da25b5e49 (diff) | |
Began work on FIFO control interface
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@@ -1,32 +1,2 @@ -- Uzbl. - In my opinion, any program can only be really useful if it complies to the unix philosophy. - Web browsers are frequent violators of this principle. Time to change that! - -Right now uzbl is in a very early state but here are some ideas I would like to (not) implement - -- each instance of uzbl renders 1 page (eg it's a small wrapper around webkit), no tabbing, tab previews, or speed dial things. we have window managers for that. -- simple ini config file ("profile") for keyboard, network,.. settings -- implement some basic keyboard shortcuts for going up, down, refresh etc -- listen to signals and do useful stuff when triggered. -- open up a socket file/fifo/.. so we can easily control each instance by writing things like 'uri <foo>' to /tmp/uzbl-pid -- MAYBE (if needed): 1 control application called uzblctrl or something. use this to modify the behavior of a uzbl instance (change url, refresh). use xdotool to get the window with focus. eg uzblctrl -win <id> -url <http://>. - use xbindkeys to bind keys to call uzblctrl. -- no bookmark management builtin. make your own solution. for pulling a bookmark a plaintxt-based program using dmenu would work great here. combine with uzbltcrl and xbindkeys. - uzblctrl should support an option to query the current page so you can script something to add to your bookmarks. use zenity or something to add tags. -- similar story for history. -- no ad blocking built in. use the power of /etc/hosts. though uzblctrl should support an option to list all images on a page, so you can easily pick the links to ads to add them to your /etc/hosts. (dmenu can again be great here to automate this) -- no download manager. allow user to pick wget/curl/a custom script/... -- no build in command interpreters like ubiquity. uzbl should be accessible and you should use a shell or similar. -- no "clear cookies/cache/..." menu items. rm ~/$XDG_{DATA,CACHE}_DIR/uzbl/{cache,cookies}/* - - -to figure out: -- password management. maybe an encrypted store that unlocks with an ssh key? -- how to handle hyperlinks? number them like konqueror does? - - - -For more thoughts & ideas see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67463 - -NOTE: -- My c skills are very rusty, it will take me a while to get back up to speed +Bugs: + - The control_thread function doesn't receive data all the time, and causes segfaults for some reason.
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