From 5ff05cbcd27a97867eb09b790b3d0e6958647808 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dieter Plaetinck Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:32:22 +0200 Subject: first commit --- README | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a18e2e --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +- 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. +- 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 -url . +- 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. + +For more thoughts & ideas see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67463 \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3