090212 midori-0.1.2 and WebKit-r40738 [VL 6.0]

[caitlyn]

kd1di has packaged Midori, a WebKit based web browser, and WebKit itself, for VL 6.0.

Package:  midori-0.1.2-i586-1vl60.tlz
MD5:  0528ebe15e89d86b1b965d7ae7760753
Package Size:  231K
Installed Size:  430K

Sources:  http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-6.0/source/testing/net/midori

Code:

midori: midori (lightweight web browser.)
midori: lightweight web surfing using webkit engine.
midori:
midori:
midori:
midori:
midori:
midori: License: LGPL
midori: Authors: Christian Dywan
midori: Website: http://software.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html

Package:  WebKit-r40738-i586-1vl60.tlz
MD5:  d7c22604bebe6d0c3fb36100daa4aef2
Package Size:  3.00 MB
Installed Size: 13.09 MB

Sources:  http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-6.0/source/testing/net/WebKit

Code:

WebKit: WebKit (open source web browser engine)
WebKit: WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name
WebKit: of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by
WebKit: Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's
WebKit: HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS
WebKit: libraries from KDE.
WebKit:
WebKit: License: LGPL/BSD
WebKit: Authors: webkit developement team.
WebKit: Website: http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html

After testing these packages please stop back here and let us know how they work for you.

[stretchedthin]

Installed midori all seemed fine, browsed some sites watched some yahoo video, but it will not accept keyboard input to any text boxs. Example, in google search I can't enter any search info into the textbox. Tried textboxs in yahoo, facebook and the vector linux forum as well, just can't enter any text. I can ,however, enter text into the address bar at the top.
I can't even paste text into a forms textbox. Otherwise it is a nice fast little browser, but that's kind of a crucial function.
Ken

[kc1di]

Installed midori all seemed fine, browsed some sites watched some yahoo video, but it will not accept keyboard input to any text boxs. Example, in google search I can't enter any search info into the textbox. Tried textboxs in yahoo, facebook and the vector linux forum as well, just can't enter any text. I can ,however, enter text into the address bar at the top.
I can't even paste text into a forms textbox. Otherwise it is a nice fast little browser, but that's kind of a crucial function.
Ken

Hi Ken,
I've checked the build and it seems to be ok , it may be a midori bug, i've notified them of the bug and will wait and see what they say.
Dave

[M0E-lnx]

Same bug seen here.... Browser is looking great though...

One side note... the menu entry for midory does not have an icon... other than that, it works (with the exception of the mentioned text-input bug)

[kc1di]

Hi M0E-lnx,

The Icon will show up after a reboot at least it did here. same thing with claws mail. I'll look into it though
Have a good weekend ,
Dave

[M0E-lnx]

Ahh... did not know that... maybe the icon-theme needs to be refreshed and it only happens when you reboot or log out/in again... at any rate... mediri seems a lot better than the last version I tried.

It'd be nice to have the inputboxes actualy take input though

[rbistolfi]

I have found that the keyboard input bug is related to WebKit rather than midori.
I tried Kazehakaze, which can use gecko or webkit as engine per user selection, and I experienced the same bug while using the webkit engine.

[kc1di]

Hi,

Yes I have found that also.. I'm hoping a new build of webkit which I'm working on as I type might resolve the issue.  one can only hope. Thanks for the heads up
Dave

[tomh38]

Midori could be the Next Big Thing.  I really like it.

Thanks to kd1di for packaging and caitlyn for repomanaging and posting.

Tom

[M0E-lnx]

Hi,

Yes I have found that also.. I'm hoping a new build of webkit which I'm working on as I type might resolve the issue.  one can only hope. Thanks for the heads up
Dave

I just managed to get it to build.
Here is the secret.
You need to rebuild icu4c
Use webkitgtk rather than webkit. The webkit nightly builds have a lot of unnecessary stuff, webkitgtk provides what midori needs
add the latest libsoup and libproxy for cookie support.

[kc1di]

Hi,

Yes I have found that also.. I'm hoping a new build of webkit which I'm working on as I type might resolve the issue.  one can only hope. Thanks for the heads up
Dave

I just managed to get it to build.
Here is the secret.
You need to rebuild icu4c
Use webkitgtk rather than webkit. The webkit nightly builds have a lot of unnecessary stuff, webkitgtk provides what midori needs
add the latest libsoup and libproxy for cookie support.

Thanks for the tip Moe,
I was just playing with it yesterday but haven't had the time to really get into it. 
Will as soon as I can though.
What did you do different to Icu4c? 

Will you upload your webkit build? or do you want me to try and rebuild it here ?
if you want me to could you send your build script for me to compare too
Thanks,
Dave

[M0E-lnx]

The config didn't really change in the icu4c package... I really dont understand why the one in the repos now doesn't work, but it just doesn't. The linker keeps failing with it.

Here is my script for the icu4c package http://nopaste.com/p/akVdtyqgu
Here is the one for webkit http://nopaste.com/p/aLIQLXNy5

You can build them all if you want. I didn't want to step on your toes since you stared working on this one.

[kc1di]

Thanks I'll get on it as soon as I can.
Time seems to be at premium this week though..
 

[kc1di]

The config didn't really change in the icu4c package... I really dont understand why the one in the repos now doesn't work, but it just doesn't. The linker keeps failing with it.

Here is my script for the icu4c package http://nopaste.com/p/akVdtyqgu
Here is the one for webkit http://nopaste.com/p/aLIQLXNy5

You can build them all if you want. I didn't want to step on your toes since you stared working on this one.

Hi again Moe,

Still getting a make error here don't know what I'm doing wrong. 
will keep trying. 
But for the those that are desiring to use midori it may be better if your build works to just up load it.
what do you think?
Dave

[M0E-lnx]

Ok.. I will upload mine.
I had no errors at all, and I've tested them on my 2 computers @ home + one at work, they seem fine.