From dougkearns at gmail.com Thu Oct 1 01:04:05 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:04:05 +1000 Subject: [Vimperator] Some notes about moving to Hg In-Reply-To: <20090926061644.GB17313@jg> References: <20090926061644.GB17313@jg> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910010104s26d2b5e9ub66e85494673fc27@mail.gmail.com> Any Zsh users will want to update their completion script with this one: http://selenic.com/repo/hg-stable/raw-file/tip/contrib/zsh_completion The one in the Zsh repo is ancient - I'm not sure how they're being synched. Doug From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Thu Oct 1 05:33:40 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:33:40 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] license header Message-ID: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> Hi, I am in the process of reviewing all source files and changing the license headers in each file to MIT, retaining the current Copyright (c) ... string. >From what I shortly gathered on the internet (but those infos can often be wrong), GPL requires a short notice, MIT doesn't. So, I'd like to remove ALL license headers and just keep lines like: Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Kris ... Would that be ok for the devs, and -- Ted usually knows quite a lot about legal things -- is there some legal differences, or is it absolutely ok, to just include the License once in a seperate file? -- Martin From now at bitwi.se Thu Oct 1 06:24:23 2009 From: now at bitwi.se (Nikolai Weibull) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:24:23 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> Message-ID: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 14:33, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: > Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Kris ... > > Would that be ok for the devs, and -- Ted usually knows quite > a lot about legal things -- is there some legal differences, > or is it absolutely ok, to just include the License once > in a seperate file? Can he perhaps also clarify if a Copyright line is required? (The one above is not legal, as far as I understand, as ?(c)? isn?t recognized as a Copyright symbol. It should be either ?Copyright ? or ?? ?. And, as far as I understand, only the year of the most recent change is required. And, as far as I understand, a year range, like the one above, isn?t valid. And, as far as I understand, under current law, everything is under an assumed copyright anyway. Of course, that won?t apply in countries where current copyright law isn?t recognize, but my guess is that that won?t matter anyway.) From ted at tedpavlic.com Thu Oct 1 07:51:38 2009 From: ted at tedpavlic.com (Ted Pavlic) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:51:38 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <4e0a90ed0910010751o6546f72cne613adee872fe790@mail.gmail.com> I'm not an authority on these things. I just do a lot of written publishing, and I'm borrowing from what I know about that area. Here's my understanding: (i) In most of the world, copyright is implicit. In fact, it's nearly impossible to put something in "public domain." The best you can do is make your copyright explicit and release it for everything under the sun (where you have to list exactly what everything under the sun is/are). (ii) The word "Copyright" carries all the weight. "(c)" is just provided as a convenience for those who think it should be there. Alternatively, a circled "c" carries the same weight as "copyright", but I like to keep things in 7-bit ASCII whenever possible (for portability). (iii) Only the most recent year is required, certainly, but it is good to *list* the others for historical convenience. It is certainly a good idea to keep record of them so that 2003 work of yours that looks like 2005 work of someone else's doesn't get claimed as being stolen when you erase the 2003 and replace it with a 2009. (iv) Year ranges don't mean anything. You have to make the years explicit. However, by (iii), it is sometimes sufficient only to list the oldest and newest years. If space isn't an issue, list every year where a change has been made (e.g., when a change is made to a particular file, update the year list in that particular file; the lists don't have to agree across all files). So my recommendation (where the optional "(c)" is provided here for style reasons, but it can be omitted for style reasons) is... Copyright (c) 2003, 2004, 2007 by (author list...) This work is licensed for reuse under an MIT license. Details are given in the LICENSE.txt file included with this file. or something similar to that. Remember that the issue isn't holding onto your rights. The issue is convincing someone else that you'll let them reuse your work. So do your best at communicating that you are OK with reuse. If someone isn't sure, they'll contact the authors and verify. --Ted > Can he perhaps also clarify if a Copyright line is required? ?(The one > above is not legal, as far as I understand, as ?(c)? isn?t recognized > as a Copyright symbol. ?It should be either ?Copyright ? > or ?? ?. ?And, as far as I understand, only the year of > the most recent change is required. ?And, as far as I understand, a > year range, like the one above, isn?t valid. ?And, as far as I > understand, under current law, everything is under an assumed > copyright anyway. ?Of course, that won?t apply in countries where > current copyright law isn?t recognize, but my guess is that that won?t > matter anyway.) -- Ted Pavlic From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Thu Oct 1 07:54:39 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:54:39 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <4e0a90ed0910010751o6546f72cne613adee872fe790@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4e0a90ed0910010751o6546f72cne613adee872fe790@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4AC4C2AF.4000306@vimperator.org> On 10/01/2009 04:51 PM, Ted Pavlic wrote: > Copyright (c) 2003, 2004, 2007 by (author list...) > This work is licensed for reuse under an MIT license. Details are > given in the LICENSE.txt file included with this file. Yeah, something like that would also be my preferred header. Thanks also for the other clarification. From gary.katsevman at gmail.com Thu Oct 1 08:01:12 2009 From: gary.katsevman at gmail.com (Gary Katsevman) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:01:12 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <97265dfa0910010801r38d7f16dl726729415d112342@mail.gmail.com> The WIPO Copyright Treaty pronounced computer programs as literary works while the UCC and the Berne convention state that a work is automatically copyrighted to the author throughout his life, unless other arrangements has been made. Thus it is not needed to have a copyright notice unless the copyright extends beyond the author's life or to show copyright in places where the UCC and the Berne conventions dont apply, though, it is probably good to keep it. The only way to get something to the public domain is when releasing a work stating that the work is released from copyright and released under the public domain, or something like that. Ted made a pretty nice summary of some of the other things I wanted to say. Also, wikipedia has a whole bunch of reading material if anyone is interested on finding out more and double check everything. ------------------------ Gary Katsevman Computer Science Undergraduate Northeastern University gkatsev at ccs.neu.edu gkatsev.com On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 09:24, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 14:33, Martin Stubenschrott > wrote: > >> Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Kris ... >> >> Would that be ok for the devs, and -- Ted usually knows quite >> a lot about legal things -- is there some legal differences, >> or is it absolutely ok, to just include the License once >> in a seperate file? > > Can he perhaps also clarify if a Copyright line is required? ?(The one > above is not legal, as far as I understand, as ?(c)? isn?t recognized > as a Copyright symbol. ?It should be either ?Copyright ? > or ?? ?. ?And, as far as I understand, only the year of > the most recent change is required. ?And, as far as I understand, a > year range, like the one above, isn?t valid. ?And, as far as I > understand, under current law, everything is under an assumed > copyright anyway. ?Of course, that won?t apply in countries where > current copyright law isn?t recognize, but my guess is that that won?t > matter anyway.) > _______________________________________________ > Vimperator mailing list > Vimperator at mozdev.org > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/vimperator > From now at bitwi.se Thu Oct 1 08:03:16 2009 From: now at bitwi.se (Nikolai Weibull) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:03:16 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <4e0a90ed0910010751o6546f72cne613adee872fe790@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4e0a90ed0910010751o6546f72cne613adee872fe790@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 16:51, Ted Pavlic wrote: > (iii) Only the most recent year is required, certainly, but it is good > to *list* the others for historical convenience. It is certainly a > good idea to keep record of them so that 2003 work of yours that looks > like 2005 work of someone else's doesn't get claimed as being stolen > when you erase the 2003 and replace it with a 2009. Couldn?t one argue that revision control lets you ignore previous years, as you can easily regenerate the file?s contents at any given point in the past? > Remember that the issue isn't holding onto your rights. The issue is > convincing someone else that you'll let them reuse your work. So do > your best at communicating that you are OK with reuse. If someone > isn't sure, they'll contact the authors and verify. Yes, precisely. This is the twist that many seem to miss. /You/ have all the power and all you?re doing is sharing it with someone else, should they want it. Still, it?s always nice to know when someone is interested in your work and a Copyright/license inquiry will tell you, the author, that someone is about to use your work. From ted at tedpavlic.com Thu Oct 1 08:05:21 2009 From: ted at tedpavlic.com (Ted Pavlic) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:05:21 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] Some notes about moving to Hg In-Reply-To: <644fc65e0910010104s26d2b5e9ub66e85494673fc27@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090926061644.GB17313@jg> <644fc65e0910010104s26d2b5e9ub66e85494673fc27@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4e0a90ed0910010805w1d2b17e9y7e56669fc3a2e3dd@mail.gmail.com> > one: http://selenic.com/repo/hg-stable/raw-file/tip/contrib/zsh_completion On that note, people should look through the "contrib" folder for other nice tools. You'll find a bash completion script (and some vim support, IIRC). One nice thing about the (bash) git completion script is that it includes a function for stylizing your PS1 prompt that gives you information about the state of the repository (e.g., branch, whether it's dirty or not, etc.). I don't think it's included in the hg completion script, but there are some similar projects for hg. Unfortunately, I think they have a bigger performance hit on your PS1 generation than the git solution (partly because the structure of the .git directory is not meant to be as hidden/encapsulated as the .hg structure). --Ted -- Ted Pavlic From dougkearns at gmail.com Thu Oct 1 08:49:29 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 01:49:29 +1000 Subject: [Vimperator] Some notes about moving to Hg In-Reply-To: <4e0a90ed0910010805w1d2b17e9y7e56669fc3a2e3dd@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090926061644.GB17313@jg> <644fc65e0910010104s26d2b5e9ub66e85494673fc27@mail.gmail.com> <4e0a90ed0910010805w1d2b17e9y7e56669fc3a2e3dd@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910010849q3c2669e7k517e1259bce3351e@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Ted Pavlic wrote: > One nice thing about the (bash) git completion script is that it > includes a function for stylizing your PS1 prompt that gives you > information about the state of the repository (e.g., branch, whether > it's dirty or not, etc.). Likewise, Zsh includes this functionality for a dozen or so VCSs via the vcs_info module. I've found this to be very useful. Doug From maglione.k at gmail.com Thu Oct 1 09:42:41 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:42:41 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091001164241.GR18792@jg> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 02:33:40PM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >I am in the process of reviewing all source files and changing >the license headers in each file to MIT, retaining the current >Copyright (c) ... string. I generally use: /* ?2009 Kris Maglione * See LICENSE file for license details. */ "Available under the terms of the MIT license" would probably be a good addition. The license doesn't need to appear in the source file, so long as it's actually distributed with it. That means in XPIs, too. -- Kris Maglione ?Did God have a mother?? Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask. --Michio Kaku From now at bitwi.se Thu Oct 1 12:36:05 2009 From: now at bitwi.se (Nikolai Weibull) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 21:36:05 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <20091001164241.GR18792@jg> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <20091001164241.GR18792@jg> Message-ID: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 18:42, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 02:33:40PM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: > /* ?2009 Kris Maglione > ?* See LICENSE file for license details. > ?*/ > "Available under the terms of the MIT license" would probably be a good > addition. The license doesn't need to appear in the source file, so long as > it's actually distributed with it. That means in XPIs, too. Just to clarify, including the license with the source files and ditribution is just a convenience for people who may want to use it, not to protect YOUR rights. From maglione.k at gmail.com Thu Oct 1 12:45:22 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:45:22 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <20091001164241.GR18792@jg> Message-ID: <20091001194522.GU18792@jg> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:36:05PM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote: >On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 18:42, Kris Maglione wrote: >> "Available under the terms of the MIT license" would probably be a good >> addition. The license doesn't need to appear in the source file, so long as >> it's actually distributed with it. That means in XPIs, too. > >Just to clarify, including the license with the source files and >ditribution is just a convenience for people who may want to use it, >not to protect YOUR rights. Not quite. The license itself requires that it be included with the source: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. -- Kris Maglione If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there. --Ken Thompson From now at bitwi.se Thu Oct 1 13:35:00 2009 From: now at bitwi.se (Nikolai Weibull) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 22:35:00 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <20091001194522.GU18792@jg> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <20091001164241.GR18792@jg> <20091001194522.GU18792@jg> Message-ID: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 21:45, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:36:05PM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 18:42, Kris Maglione wrote: >>> "Available under the terms of the MIT license" would probably be a good >>> addition. The license doesn't need to appear in the source file, so long >>> as >>> it's actually distributed with it. That means in XPIs, too. >> Just to clarify, including the license with the source files and >> ditribution is just a convenience for people who may want to use it, >> not to protect YOUR rights. > Not quite. The license itself requires that it be included with the source: > > ? ?The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included > in ? ?all copies or substantial portions of the Software. Hm, true, yet I would assume that this refers to copies other than the owner?s ?original copy?. Either way, it?s of course sensible to include the license. From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Fri Oct 2 15:40:27 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:40:27 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> I finally moved all files to the new-style license headers. Some notes: 1.) I used // for the comments as I think that looks nicer than the /* ... */ contruct in this case 2.) I also used Copyright (c) instead of the "official" copyright symbol for the same reason as 1.) 3.) Some files were missing copyright information, I have added them from memory, please change if i made some mistake. 4.) I used 2006-2009 style like notation, as the lines would become REALLY long in a few years if I listed every year specially. The first year should note when the file was first created though. 5.) For now, all files just have one author. However, when people do work more on any one than just fixing a few small bugs, they may want to add themselves there. Although again, this could become a space problem, when more than 10 people are listed there. Maybe the AUTHORS file is also ok therefore. 6.) I removed the (spurious) copyright information from CSS files, I don't really think they are required there. We should probably do the same for .xul files as well. 7.) In general, I made all license headers look the same. Please try to follow this style, even if your personal preference varies. If you have a good argument for a style change, discuss it here, and then change ALL files. Since I can't currently build vimperator fully with docs, can you - Doug - release 2.2 on addons.mozilla.org (and don't forget to change the license there, if you are asked)? I think it is ready now. -- Martin From maglione.k at gmail.com Fri Oct 2 16:17:34 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 19:17:34 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091002231734.GX18792@jg> On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 12:40:27AM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >3.) Some files were missing copyright information, I have > added them from memory, please change if i made > some mistake. hg blame >6.) I removed the (spurious) copyright information from CSS > files, I don't really think they are required there. > We should probably do the same for .xul files as well. It's not spurious, especially in the CSS file. Even if it's trivial, it's an artistic work and thus intellectual property. >Since I can't currently build vimperator fully with docs, >can you - Doug - release 2.2 on addons.mozilla.org (and don't >forget to change the license there, if you are asked)? >I think it is ready now. I haven't been able to build the docs in months, despite my efforts... -- Kris Maglione We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth From maglione.k at gmail.com Fri Oct 2 16:21:13 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 19:21:13 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <20091002231734.GX18792@jg> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> <20091002231734.GX18792@jg> Message-ID: <20091002232113.GY18792@jg> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 07:17:34PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 12:40:27AM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >> 3.) Some files were missing copyright information, I have >> added them from memory, please change if i made >> some mistake. > > hg blame Ok, hg blame lies, especially given that git lacks explicit rename tracking. Daniel owns just about everything now. So, hg log, too. -- Kris Maglione Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges and it causes end-user and administrator frustration. --Ray Ozzie From maglione.k at gmail.com Fri Oct 2 16:43:47 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 19:43:47 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091002234347.GZ18792@jg> On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 12:40:27AM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >I finally moved all files to the new-style license headers. diff --git a/vimperator/NEWS b/vimperator/NEWS --- a/vimperator/NEWS +++ b/vimperator/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2009-XX-XX: * version 2.2a1pre + * IMPORTANT: Vimperator is from now on ONLY licensed unter the MIT + license, if you need a GPL, LGPL or MPL version, please use Vimperator 2.1 * IMPORTANT: Map.flags has been replaced with individual properties. Mappings defined in plugins with mappings.add will need to be updated. ................................... I really don't think the latter part of that message is necessary. There's no appreciable difference between sublicensing an MIT licensed file under the GPL and licensing it directly under the GPL. As the FSF agrees, I don't a need for such a notice. -- Kris Maglione If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. --Edsger W. Dijkstra From dougkearns at gmail.com Fri Oct 2 21:36:01 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:36:01 +1000 Subject: [Vimperator] Building documentation (was Re: license header) Message-ID: <644fc65e0910022136g5c3dddadxc87a9d7d80647cad@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 12:40:27AM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >> Since I can't currently build vimperator fully with docs, >> can you - Doug - release 2.2 on addons.mozilla.org (and don't >> forget to change the license there, if you are asked)? >> I think it is ready now. > > I haven't been able to build the docs in months, despite my efforts... It builds from a clean checkout with Asciidoc 8.4.5 (8.4 is a requirement) for me. As your efforts are usually reasonable I can't hazard a guess as to the problem. Any ideas? Asciidoc hating aside... Doug From dougkearns at gmail.com Fri Oct 2 21:37:57 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:37:57 +1000 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <20091002231734.GX18792@jg> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> <20091002231734.GX18792@jg> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910022137y7498106ei456eeeb4cb14c8d9@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 12:40:27AM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >> 6.) I removed the (spurious) copyright information from CSS >> ? files, I don't really think they are required there. >> ? We should probably do the same for .xul files as well. > > It's not spurious, especially in the CSS file. Even if it's trivial, it's an > artistic work and thus intellectual property. +1, if we really care about this topic. :) Doug From dougkearns at gmail.com Fri Oct 2 21:41:04 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:41:04 +1000 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <20090918143341.GA12114@jg.domain_not_set.invalid> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AB29788.1040106@vimperator.org> <20090917202355.GA29410@jg.domain_not_set.invalid> <4AB2B593.8050404@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0909171926k2021fc74od32d2acf531b9447@mail.gmail.com> <20090918143341.GA12114@jg.domain_not_set.invalid> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910022141i6739c6f1ka29f15e36f54254@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:26:56PM +1000, Doug Kearns wrote: >> >> However, I do think multiple licenses and code 'ownership' by >> individual developers is just plain silly. > > Like it or not, that's how copyright law works in most country. When you > publish a piece of code, you own it, unless you explicitly disclaim > copyright, and then only in certain jurisdictions. All legalese aside, that's the problem though isn't it? The "pieces of code" are being defined as (new?) files not commits and commits are surely the unit of work. When is a contributor supposed to be added to the list for a given file? What defines a significant enough contribution? It's all unnecessarily messy. Using yourself as an example, you're listed for 4 files, other files you're mostly responsible for have no header, and the rest list Martin. I'm personally indifferent, at best, and have historically simply copied headers across and 'assigned' copyright to Martin - not that that probably bears any scrutiny. Most of the files should, by any measure, list at least a few contributors. In my experience these headers almost never reflect reality anyway. Is there no satisfactory way to simply point at the AUTHORS file? I assume no one can be bothered with a separate entity. Forgive my disdain, son of a lawyer and all that... Doug From dougkearns at gmail.com Fri Oct 2 22:47:13 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:47:13 +1000 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910022247h9114d59v1ea12609f5c10261@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: > 4.) I used 2006-2009 style like notation, as the lines > ? ?would become REALLY long in a few years if I listed > ? ?every year specially. The first year should note > ? ?when the file was first created though. Didn't Ted claim that year ranges were pointless? If so, it's not about what looks pretty but what's meaningful. ;-) Doug From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sat Oct 3 00:38:53 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:38:53 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <644fc65e0910022247h9114d59v1ea12609f5c10261@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910022247h9114d59v1ea12609f5c10261@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4AC6FF8D.70209@vimperator.org> On 10/03/2009 07:47 AM, Doug Kearns wrote: > Didn't Ted claim that year ranges were pointless? If so, it's not > about what looks pretty but what's meaningful. ;-) He pointed out, that just the last year is really relevant, but the others "don't hurt". From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sat Oct 3 00:44:34 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:44:34 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Building documentation (was Re: license header) In-Reply-To: <644fc65e0910022136g5c3dddadxc87a9d7d80647cad@mail.gmail.com> References: <644fc65e0910022136g5c3dddadxc87a9d7d80647cad@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4AC700E2.4010606@vimperator.org> On 10/03/2009 06:36 AM, Doug Kearns wrote: > It builds from a clean checkout with Asciidoc 8.4.5 (8.4 is a > requirement) for me. As your efforts are usually reasonable I can't > hazard a guess as to the problem. Any ideas? Asciidoc hating aside... For me it's just laziness, as there is no asciidoc 8.4 in Jaunty, but in Karmic which will be released in 3 weeks there is. So in future, I should be able to build the xpis for public release again myself again. From dougkearns at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 01:34:15 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 18:34:15 +1000 Subject: [Vimperator] Building documentation (was Re: license header) In-Reply-To: <4AC700E2.4010606@vimperator.org> References: <644fc65e0910022136g5c3dddadxc87a9d7d80647cad@mail.gmail.com> <4AC700E2.4010606@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910030134w2dc45b54s689fecae7452c47a@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: > On 10/03/2009 06:36 AM, Doug Kearns wrote: > >> It builds from a clean checkout with Asciidoc 8.4.5 (8.4 is a >> requirement) for me. ?As your efforts are usually reasonable I can't >> hazard a guess as to the problem. ?Any ideas? Asciidoc hating aside... > > For me it's just laziness, as there is no asciidoc 8.4 in Jaunty, > but in Karmic which will be released in 3 weeks there is. > So in future, I should be able to build the xpis for public release > again myself again. I think this may take laziness to previously unscaled heights. Doug From nemolivier at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 03:27:36 2009 From: nemolivier at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Olivier_Gu=E9ry?=) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 12:27:36 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] moving config to standard XDG Message-ID: <5c2c86e70910030327u1f4f83d3h5b50cb95918f914e@mail.gmail.com> Hello, While switching to google-code (and v 2.2) can?t you think about using the freedesktop standard XDG for config files (id est on standard config using the usual .config/{vimperator, liberator}) as most project do?? Info here?: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs Regards, Olivier. PS?:?realy like vim do the same thing. -- [Message tap? sur un clavier B?po : http://www.bepo.fr ] http://soubresauts.net From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sat Oct 3 03:47:33 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:47:33 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] moving config to standard XDG In-Reply-To: <5c2c86e70910030327u1f4f83d3h5b50cb95918f914e@mail.gmail.com> References: <5c2c86e70910030327u1f4f83d3h5b50cb95918f914e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4AC72BC5.30106@vimperator.org> On 10/03/2009 12:27 PM, Olivier Gu?ry wrote: > While switching to google-code (and v 2.2) can?t you think about using > the freedesktop standard XDG for config files (id est on standard > config using the usual .config/{vimperator, liberator}) as most > project do ? We thought about it, and actually all devs agree, it's a good thing. It's however, not that easy to do it right (respecting the environment variables, and to make it really platform specific on windows and mac as well (they need other special directories), etc.). I am not saying, it's difficult, but just work. If you can write a patch for it, chances for the change will be significantly higher though :) And 2.2 being out nearly of the door, it's unlikely we'll do it now, but at least for Vimperator 3, I think it would be a good idea. > PS : realy like vim do the same thing. Well, /me too (and also mplayer and other "older" apps), but I think that something "modern" like XDG will never come to those apps :( From gary.katsevman at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 06:23:26 2009 From: gary.katsevman at gmail.com (Gary Katsevman) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 09:23:26 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <4AC6FF8D.70209@vimperator.org> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910022247h9114d59v1ea12609f5c10261@mail.gmail.com> <4AC6FF8D.70209@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <97265dfa0910030623y704da6c6p87c3188da3940b59@mail.gmail.com> so, perhaps do a date range for the previous years and have the current year seperatly? 2006-2008 2009? ------------------------ Gary Katsevman Computer Science Undergraduate Northeastern University gkatsev at ccs.neu.edu gkatsev.com On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 03:38, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: > On 10/03/2009 07:47 AM, Doug Kearns wrote: > >> Didn't Ted claim that year ranges were pointless? ?If so, it's not >> about what looks pretty but what's meaningful. ;-) > > > He pointed out, that just the last year is really relevant, > but the others "don't hurt". > _______________________________________________ > Vimperator mailing list > Vimperator at mozdev.org > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/vimperator > From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sat Oct 3 12:24:56 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:24:56 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> Google sites is progressing quite well, but I want your input. Look at http://test.vimperator.org/vimperator - and click through all 4 sub pages: 1.) Bugs: While I usually do not like iframes, it does make sense to include the list of current project-specific bugs inline. It actually looks better than I initially though, although when google code finally will release an API, we might redo a new google gadget, which just lists the bugs without the additional "vimperator-labs" header. NOTE: I know that the link is to the current wiki page currently, that's just because there are no bugs yet, and i wanted some entries to show, so it resembles more the final design. Usually I don't like links automatically opening new tabs. But should the "Report new bug" link in the "Bugs" section do that (and actually all links which do not retain the left navigation menu?) 2.) Scripts: While similar, I do think that having 2 iframes here is probably an overkill, especially since we have few color schemes anyway. The idea is to just have one iframe and list both plugins as well as colorschemes in one iframe. I just let the 2-iframe solution on the page for now for people to comment on. 3.) Screenshots: Well, needs some new and sexy screenshots, but otherwise will probably just stay as it is. *Maybe* we should do 3-4 thumbnails on that page which will expand when clicked on. 4.) Wiki: Right now it links directly to the vimp-labs GC page, in order to see how that would work without an iframe. It might be a good idea to make it just look like the "Bugs" section, so that the left navigation menu will always be preserved. 5.) Developer Info Is that the best name for this section (which needs updating), or do you have better ideas? -- Martin PS: Please also have a quick look through the homepage. Are there any serious things which I need to change? Because if not, I think I'll clone the vimperator (sub-)pages to muttator/xulmus, and then we could make the trac bug tracker read only, and I'll send Kris a db dump and hope he finds a simple way to import the issues. From dougkearns at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 14:25:30 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:25:30 +1100 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910031425o46c6d5a7q72ad62d82e80ddb6@mail.gmail.com> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: > Google sites is progressing quite well, but I want your input. I was taught that if you can't say something nice... Doug From zhang.zhengquan at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 15:32:04 2009 From: zhang.zhengquan at gmail.com (Zhengquan Zhang) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:32:04 -0500 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab Message-ID: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> Hello vimperator users, I would like to know if I can open the link in the next tab rather than in the last tab. I searched and found a plugin called 'next tab'; I don't want to add additional plugin if vimperator can internally do it. Thanks a lot, -- Zhengquan From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sat Oct 3 15:34:19 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:34:19 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 12:32 AM, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Hello vimperator users, > I would like to know if I can open the link in the next tab rather > than in the last tab. I searched and found a plugin called 'next tab'; > I don't want to add additional plugin if vimperator can internally do it. > > Thanks a lot, Firefox 3.6 includes this functionality by default, but I already find it highly annoying (although I loved the idea, when i first saw it at google chrome). From zhang.zhengquan at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 15:40:23 2009 From: zhang.zhengquan at gmail.com (Zhengquan Zhang) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:40:23 -0500 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <128a87f00910031540q1cc6f287k8ae95893b8aac071@mail.gmail.com> 2009/10/3 Martin Stubenschrott : > On 10/04/2009 12:32 AM, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> Hello vimperator users, >> I would like to know if I can open the link in the next tab rather >> than in the last tab. I searched and found a plugin called 'next tab'; >> I don't want to add additional plugin if vimperator can internally do it. >> >> Thanks a lot, > > > Firefox 3.6 includes this functionality by default, but I already find > it highly annoying (although I loved the idea, when i first saw it > at google chrome). Often I like to have tabs with similar contents together(often because I opened links on one page); But if the new tabs get opened in the last tab. I wonder if experienced vimperator users can share some idea on how to have tabs with similar contents together. I was able to customize firefox to open link in the next tab via tab mix plus. But Now I have abandoned the plugin since it is not very compatible with vimperator when I last tried. Thanks for any ideas. > _______________________________________________ > Vimperator mailing list > Vimperator at mozdev.org > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/vimperator > -- Zhengquan From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sat Oct 3 15:46:32 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:46:32 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <128a87f00910031540q1cc6f287k8ae95893b8aac071@mail.gmail.com> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> <128a87f00910031540q1cc6f287k8ae95893b8aac071@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4AC7D448.9020001@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 12:40 AM, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Often I like to have tabs with similar contents together(often because > I opened links on one page); But if the new tabs get opened in the > last tab. I wonder if experienced vimperator users can share some idea > on how to have tabs with similar contents together. Maybe we have a completely different work style, but my first 10-15 tabs just consist of my most often viewed urls. E.g. Facebook: If I open a link from there, opening that next to the facebook tab "ruins" the layout. If all those links open to the end, I can still have my imaginary line, where all tabs to the left of tab xyz should not be deleted, and all tabs right to them are just temporary tabs and should be read and later closed. I know that might not help you, but this observation might also fit others usage pattern and why i personally think, opening to the far right is superior. > I was able to > customize firefox to open link in the next tab via tab mix plus. But > Now I have abandoned the plugin since it is not very compatible with > vimperator when I last tried. That should be fixed now, unless you use vimperator's tab numbering feature (default off anyway). From zhang.zhengquan at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 15:58:22 2009 From: zhang.zhengquan at gmail.com (Zhengquan Zhang) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:58:22 -0500 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <4AC7D448.9020001@vimperator.org> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> <128a87f00910031540q1cc6f287k8ae95893b8aac071@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D448.9020001@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <128a87f00910031558s107ca728ue0f724c902bc7115@mail.gmail.com> 2009/10/3 Martin Stubenschrott : > On 10/04/2009 12:40 AM, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> Often I like to have tabs with similar contents together(often because >> I opened links on one page); But if the new tabs get opened in the >> last tab. I wonder if experienced vimperator users can share some idea >> on how to have tabs with similar contents together. > > > > Maybe we have a completely different work style, but my first 10-15 tabs Yes indeed. I was thinking what I was doing is not on the efficient side. > just consist of my most often viewed urls. E.g. Facebook: If I open a link > from there, opening that next to the facebook tab "ruins" the layout. If > all those links open to the end, I can still have my imaginary line, where > all tabs to the left of tab xyz should not be deleted, and all tabs right > to them are just temporary tabs and should be read and later closed. What you are doing looks great to me. I use wikipedia a lot and maybe on one page I need to open multiple links and once they go to the far right, practically I don't know how to get there. But if they go next tab I can simply read it and close it and return to where I was reading. > > I know that might not help you, but this observation might also fit others > usage pattern and why i personally think, opening to the far right is > superior. It helps. But Can you suggest some ways to go to the far right tab I just opened? and If I finish reading the tab, can I go back to the original tab easily? > >> I was able to >> customize firefox to open link in the next tab via tab mix plus. But >> Now I have abandoned the plugin since it is not very compatible with >> vimperator when I last tried. > > That should be fixed now, unless you use vimperator's tab numbering > feature (default off anyway). Yes I use the numbering because I like to switch to tab fast. Thanks a lot, -- Zhengquan From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sat Oct 3 16:04:06 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:04:06 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <128a87f00910031558s107ca728ue0f724c902bc7115@mail.gmail.com> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> <128a87f00910031540q1cc6f287k8ae95893b8aac071@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D448.9020001@vimperator.org> <128a87f00910031558s107ca728ue0f724c902bc7115@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4AC7D866.7050807@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 12:58 AM, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> Maybe we have a completely different work style, but my first 10-15 tabs > > Yes indeed. I was thinking what I was doing is not on the efficient side. I wouldn't say that, just because it's "different" doesn't mean, yours isn't efficient as well. > It helps. But Can you suggest some ways to go to the far right tab I > just opened? and If I finish reading the tab, can I go back to the > original tab easily? g$ goes to the last tab. Ctrl-^ will go back to the one opened. BUT if you delete the last one, i think we currently mess up the ctrl-^ stack. > Yes I use the numbering because I like to switch to tab fast. You might also try the "b" mapping: b gmail will go to the tab with "gmail" in the title. Of course it might not work so good if you have lots of similar tabs open. From nemolivier at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 16:48:33 2009 From: nemolivier at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Olivier_Gu=E9ry?=) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:48:33 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] moving config to standard XDG In-Reply-To: <4AC72BC5.30106@vimperator.org> References: <5c2c86e70910030327u1f4f83d3h5b50cb95918f914e@mail.gmail.com> <4AC72BC5.30106@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <5c2c86e70910031648w4d17e442u2ee64cd3cbb6022@mail.gmail.com> 2009/10/3 Martin Stubenschrott : > On 10/03/2009 12:27 PM, Olivier Gu?ry wrote: > >> While switching to google-code (and v 2.2) can?t you think about using >> the freedesktop standard XDG for config files (id est on standard >> config using the usual .config/{vimperator, liberator}) as most >> project do ? > > > We thought about it, and actually all devs agree, it's a good thing. > It's however, not that easy to do it right (respecting the environment > variables, and to make it really platform specific on windows and > mac as well (they need other special directories), etc.). > I am not saying, it's difficult, but just work. > If you can write a patch > for it, chances for the change will be significantly higher though :) Since I?m only a physiotherapist I only can promisse a free massage (here, in Paris, France) as a bounty to the one who will wrote the patch ;o) > And 2.2 being out nearly of the door, it's unlikely we'll do it > now, but at least for Vimperator 3, I think it would be a good idea. > >> PS : realy like vim do the same thing. > > > Well, /me too (and also mplayer and other "older" apps), but I > think that something "modern" like XDG will never come to those > apps :( Yes, please, vim and mplayer?! (on the vim maling list it was proposed years ago and nothing since it). Cheers, Olivier. -- [Message tap? sur un clavier B?po : http://www.bepo.fr ] http://soubresauts.net From maglione.k at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 20:05:20 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 23:05:20 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 09:24:56PM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >Usually I don't like links automatically opening new tabs. But should the >"Report new bug" link in the "Bugs" section do that (and actually all links >which do not retain the left navigation menu?) No. For such a basic and necessary function of the site, no, that would make people (like me) upset. Alternatively, you might just link to another iframe. That would be fine (Google is rife with iframes, if you haven't noticed). >2.) Scripts: >While similar, I do think that having 2 iframes here is probably an overkill, >especially since we have few color schemes anyway. The idea is to just >have one iframe and list both plugins as well as colorschemes in one iframe. >I just let the 2-iframe solution on the page for now for people to comment on. Two iframes, overkill, yes. Two pages would be better. A gadget would be better still (except that gadgets don't work from elinks). >3.) Screenshots: >Well, needs some new and sexy screenshots, but otherwise will probably >just stay as it is. *Maybe* we should do 3-4 thumbnails on that page which >will expand when clicked on. We have newer screenshots than *that*, at least. Even the *Wikipedia* page has newer screenshots than that. >4.) Wiki: >Right now it links directly to the vimp-labs GC page, in order to see how >that would work without an iframe. It might be a good idea to make it just >look like the "Bugs" section, so that the left navigation menu will always >be preserved. The GC wiki page would be alright if you added a navigation sidebar to it. The only problem is that sidebar links shouldn't really link to pages without the sidebar. It needs an "External link" icon if it's to stay that way. >5.) Developer Info >Is that the best name for this section (which needs updating), >or do you have better ideas? The name works, I suppose, but it's not all applicable only to devs. I'd prefer something like "Contributing", and then only listing info on submitting patches, earning commit access, code style, etc. The GC page explains the checkout procedure. -- Kris Maglione FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. --Ambrose Bierce From maglione.k at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 20:06:14 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 23:06:14 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <644fc65e0910031425o46c6d5a7q72ad62d82e80ddb6@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910031425o46c6d5a7q72ad62d82e80ddb6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20091004030614.GB31402@jg> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 08:25:30AM +1100, Doug Kearns wrote: >On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Martin Stubenschrott > wrote: >> Google sites is progressing quite well, but I want your input. > >I was taught that if you can't say something nice... Dissent is my job, not yours. Stay off my turf. -- Kris Maglione Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. From maglione.k at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 20:10:34 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 23:10:34 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091004031034.GC31402@jg> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 12:34:19AM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >Firefox 3.6 includes this functionality by default, but I already find >it highly annoying (although I loved the idea, when i first saw it >at google chrome). Are you serious? Every time I use a stock version of Firefox, and a new tab opens 10 tabs to the right of the current one, I want to kick some Mozilla dev. What kind of sense is that? P.S. Just about every tab tweaking extension includes this feature. Try Tab Control or Tab Kit (not Tab Mix+, which isn't compatible with Vimperator). -- Kris Maglione The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases. --Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy From dougkearns at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 23:01:41 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 17:01:41 +1100 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: > Google sites is progressing quite well, but I want your input. Well I'm still pre-coffee but I'm really struggling to see the point of this separate website. It's confusing to me and I'm supposed to have a vague idea what's going on. The introductory text could easily be included in the GC project summary page. The Bugs, Scripts and Wikis pages do little other than confusingly frame or redirect to the relevant GC pages and the Blog page could really be scrapped - has anyone ever posted anything of note to it? The Screenshots and Developer Info pages could be moved to the wiki too. If this was being done with a view to presenting a beautiful user-orientated website with lots of features not available via the GC page then fair enough. However, to be kind it's U-G-L-Y and it ain't got no alibi (with apologies to Fishbone). I'm not suggesting GC is ideal but I'd think the website had to be much, much, better to even justify its existence. Doug From fb at intoxicatedmind.net Sat Oct 3 23:09:00 2009 From: fb at intoxicatedmind.net (Frank Blendinger) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:09:00 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <20091004031034.GC31402@jg> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> <20091004031034.GC31402@jg> Message-ID: <20091004060900.GO24441@intoxicatedmind.net> Hi. On Sat 2009-10-03 23:10, Kris Maglione proclaimed: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 12:34:19AM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >> Firefox 3.6 includes this functionality by default, but I already find >> it highly annoying (although I loved the idea, when i first saw it >> at google chrome). > > Are you serious? Every time I use a stock version of Firefox, and a new > tab opens 10 tabs to the right of the current one, I want to kick some > Mozilla dev. What kind of sense is that? I completely agree. Having the new tab close to the current one is 95% of the time the thing I want. For the other 5% I use this mapping to move the new tab to the end: map :tabmove > P.S. Just about every tab tweaking extension includes this feature. Try > Tab Control or Tab Kit (not Tab Mix+, which isn't compatible with > Vimperator). There is also "Tabs Open Relative", which does only what its name suggests. Greetings, Frank -- Frank Blendinger | fb(at)intoxicatedmind.net | GPG: 0x0BF2FE7A Fingerprint: BB64 F2B8 DFD8 BF90 0F2E 892B 72CF 7A41 0BF2 FE7A -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sun Oct 4 03:34:43 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:34:43 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <20091004031034.GC31402@jg> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> <20091004031034.GC31402@jg> Message-ID: <4AC87A43.9010500@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 05:10 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > Are you serious? Every time I use a stock version of Firefox, > and a new tab opens 10 tabs to the right of the current one, I > want to kick some Mozilla dev. What kind of sense is that? I am dead serious. But as I said, I use tabs as kind of a combination of bookmarks and "window" management. From dougkearns at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 04:10:45 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 22:10:45 +1100 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <4AC87A43.9010500@vimperator.org> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> <20091004031034.GC31402@jg> <4AC87A43.9010500@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910040410w32d2b579ha5016a4a6e824d57@mail.gmail.com> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: > On 10/04/2009 05:10 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > >> Are you serious? Every time I use a stock version of Firefox, >> and a new tab opens 10 tabs to the right of the current one, I >> want to kick some Mozilla dev. What kind of sense is that? > > > I am dead serious. But as I said, I use tabs as kind of a combination > of bookmarks and "window" management. Have you tried Prism? Doug From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sun Oct 4 04:11:27 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:11:27 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 08:01 AM, Doug Kearns wrote: > Well I'm still pre-coffee but I'm really struggling to see the point of > this separate website. Not the web site should be seperate, the GC pages should be. And *one* of the main reasons is, that "normal" users should always be able to do 90% of their vimperator related surfing with showing vimperator.org as the domain. > The introductory text could easily be included in the GC project summary > page. For all projects? I know that right now the introductory text is quite similar for vimperator, muttator and xulmus, but that might change and could focus more on the individual features. But apart from that, we could not list the different "Features" of all apps on the GC project summary page. > The Bugs, Scripts and Wikis pages do little other than > confusingly frame or redirect to the relevant GC pages why confusingly? Sorry, but just take the GC page alone. Would it be clear that for finding plugins, you have to go to "Issues" (not plugins or scripts), and then filter manually for Type:Plugin? > and the Blog page > could really be scrapped - has anyone ever posted anything of note to > it? We do post new releases there, including the relevant ChangeLog, so yes, that is interesting to the end-user I guess. The new intro page http://test.vimperator.org even lists the last 3 entries automatically, making it much easier to see what's going on in vimperator land. > The Screenshots and Developer Info pages could be moved to the wiki > too. Without some "clever" filtering on our side, if the user just clicks "wiki" on the GC page, he will get 3 entries "screenshots", 3 entries "FAQ" etc. (when we finally add more content to muttator/xulmus - BUT that's not the point, they should and will be improved). > If this was being done with a view to presenting a beautiful > user-orientated website with lots of features not available via the GC > page then fair enough. However, to be kind it's U-G-L-Y and it ain't > got no alibi (with apologies to Fishbone). As Kris said, with writing a google gadget (once GC offers an API, and they even said that they are already working on that, so just a matter of time), one could do a very nicely integrated bug and wiki tracker directly in our homepage. With the current iframe idea, one would have the (a little ugly, i agree) double header, but it's not THAT ugly. > I'm not suggesting GC is ideal but I'd think the website had to be much, > much, better to even justify its existence. I am not discussing that point. IF there was just vimperator (and not muttator, xulmus, ...) we might argue, but the single GC as we settled now is really not meant to present multiple projects nicely. From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sun Oct 4 04:20:18 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:20:18 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <644fc65e0910040410w32d2b579ha5016a4a6e824d57@mail.gmail.com> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> <20091004031034.GC31402@jg> <4AC87A43.9010500@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910040410w32d2b579ha5016a4a6e824d57@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4AC884F2.1060200@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 01:10 PM, Doug Kearns wrote: > Have you tried Prism? No and while the idea is nice, I think tabs in a browser just resembling the "max" mode of many window managers is nice as well. Also Prism has 2 more disadvantages: a) could not b face anymore to go to facebook (ok one could hack something into a window manager, but probably not with "b" but winkey+b or something like that) b) It's not just web apps which i keep open all the time but also sites like: http://code.google.com/p/vimperator-labs/source/list Does that make a good top level window? I doubt it Anyway, I should probably just look for a better RSS reader, which would do away with probably half of my always-open-windows. Does anybody know a good one? I use thunderbird muttator for it, but unfortunately it has an old-school "one entry is one message" style display which sucks if you want to read lots of those messages. Actually I'd like something to resemble the current "planet" like display of rss feeds. E.g. http://planet.mozilla.org/ which is one of those "always open tabs" for me. From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sun Oct 4 04:41:07 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:41:07 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <4AC884F2.1060200@vimperator.org> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> <20091004031034.GC31402@jg> <4AC87A43.9010500@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910040410w32d2b579ha5016a4a6e824d57@mail.gmail.com> <4AC884F2.1060200@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <4AC889D3.2090701@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 01:20 PM, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: > Anyway, I should probably just look for a better RSS reader, > which would do away with probably half of my always-open-windows. > Does anybody know a good one? To answer that myself: I just tried Google reader under Chromium, and there it rocks (even with j/k key bindings for next/prev message). Under Firefox 3.6 it is just dog slow (also others report that), maybe I shall just use that, so i have the same feeds at work and at home. But still. Somebody has another suggestion? From maglione.k at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 08:08:15 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:08:15 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091004150815.GD31402@jg> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:11:27PM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >> The introductory text could easily be included in the GC project summary >> page. > >For all projects? I know that right now the introductory text is quite similar >for vimperator, muttator and xulmus, but that might change and could focus >more on the individual features. But apart from that, we could not list >the different "Features" of all apps on the GC project summary page. Wiki. >> The Bugs, Scripts and Wikis pages do little other than >> confusingly frame or redirect to the relevant GC pages > >why confusingly? Sorry, but just take the GC page alone. Would it be clear >that for finding plugins, you have to go to "Issues" (not plugins or scripts), >and then filter manually for Type:Plugin? It is a bit confusing, especially when they "break out" of the navigation pane. The frames aren't that confusing, just a bit odd. >> and the Blog page >> could really be scrapped - has anyone ever posted anything of note to >> it? I don't think it's right to call it a blog. News, perhaps. >Without some "clever" filtering on our side, if the user just clicks "wiki" >on the GC page, he will get 3 entries "screenshots", 3 entries "FAQ" etc. >(when we finally add more content to muttator/xulmus - BUT that's not the point, >they should and will be improved). No clever necessary. You can choose the initial page for the wiki tab. Simple. Which brings me to a point: why have you hidden the tabs in favor of links on the front page? Part of the appeal of Google Code is that it has a simple, consistent interface across all projects. Not only is it fairly well designed, but it makes navigation to other parts of the project easy from wherever you are, and it gives you an indication of which part of the project you're on. Now, the links are in what is, ostesnsibly, the external links section. I really can't think of a good reason for this. It's annoying. P.S. The links section needs a link to the amo page. >> If this was being done with a view to presenting a beautiful >> user-orientated website with lots of features not available via the GC >> page then fair enough. However, to be kind it's U-G-L-Y and it ain't >> got no alibi (with apologies to Fishbone). > >As Kris said, with writing a google gadget (once GC offers an API, and they even >said that they are already working on that, so just a matter of time), one >could do a very nicely integrated bug and wiki tracker directly in our >homepage. With the current iframe idea, one would have the (a little ugly, i agree) >double header, but it's not THAT ugly. Fuck the API. Just XHR the issues list. >> I'm not suggesting GC is ideal but I'd think the website had to be much, > >> much, better to even justify its existence. > >I am not discussing that point. IF there was just vimperator (and not muttator, >xulmus, ...) we might argue, but the single GC as we settled now is really not >meant to present multiple projects nicely. Wiki. -- Kris Maglione A program is portable to the extent that it can be easily moved to a new computing environment with much less effort than would be required to write it afresh. --W. Stan Brown From maglione.k at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 08:13:04 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:13:04 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <4AC884F2.1060200@vimperator.org> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> <20091004031034.GC31402@jg> <4AC87A43.9010500@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910040410w32d2b579ha5016a4a6e824d57@mail.gmail.com> <4AC884F2.1060200@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091004151304.GE31402@jg> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:20:18PM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >Anyway, I should probably just look for a better RSS reader, >which would do away with probably half of my always-open-windows. >Does anybody know a good one? I use thunderbird muttator for >it, but unfortunately it has an old-school "one entry is one >message" style display which sucks if you want to read lots >of those messages. That's the way to go really. Nice and organized, unmessy. Goodness all around. At any rate, there's always Google reader and FF's builtin support (but the latter doesn't coalesce feeds, obviously, so is of minimal benefit). I don't keep those things open in frames. It's just as easy to open a new tab when I need them. -- Kris Maglione Oh, come *on*. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion. --Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett From dougkearns at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 08:14:26 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 02:14:26 +1100 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910040814m1bad6354k6b3654523a0ecbb8@mail.gmail.com> > On 10/04/2009 08:01 AM, Doug Kearns wrote: > >> Well I'm still pre-coffee but I'm really struggling to see the point of >> this separate website. > > Not the web site should be seperate, the GC pages should be. And *one* of > the main reasons is, that "normal" users should always be able to do > 90% of their vimperator related surfing with showing vimperator.org as > the domain. Why on earth is that important, let alone one the main reasons? So vanity is driving the web split? I fail to see why "seeing" http://code.google.com/p/vimperator-labs/ is undesirable. To be frank I sometimes think the project has ideas above its station - it's just a browser add-on. The whole premise that people are spending vast amounts of time cruising the Vimperator website(s) (while admiring the URL) is a nonsense. I'd wager a significant bet that most "normal" users don't spend any time on the website and those that do are more than capable of driving GC. In my experience, the "normal" user installs from AMO and waits to prompted for an update - that's it. Of the dozen or so Vimperator users I've come across "in the wild" (IT workers all) not a single one even used plugins and their RC file usage didn't extend past the occasional :mkv. >> The introductory text could easily be included in the GC project summary >> page. > > For all projects? I know that right now the introductory text is quite similar > for vimperator, muttator and xulmus, but that might change and could focus > more on the individual features. But apart from that, we could not list > the different "Features" of all apps on the GC project summary page. So use the wiki to elaborate if it's required. Besides, the features are listed again on AMO and ASC and I think the projects are much better presented there for the 'normal' user than they've ever been on our development sites anyway. Hmmm, there seems to be someone's ugly mug on the AMO site now though. For the love of god, why? :( >> The Bugs, Scripts and Wikis pages do little other than >> confusingly frame or redirect to the relevant GC pages > > why confusingly? Sorry, but just take the GC page alone. Would it be clear > that for finding plugins, you have to go to "Issues" (not plugins or scripts), > and then filter manually for Type:Plugin? Sure, just provide a link to the filtered view. What's so hard about that? I don't see why framing the whole GC tracker page on another site, pages deep, is so much clearer than providing a direct link to it. Almost all of the plugins and scripts are hosted outside the tracker anyway, at the coderepos site. >> and the Blog page >> could really be scrapped - has anyone ever posted anything of note to >> it? > > We do post new releases there, including the relevant ChangeLog, so yes, > that is interesting to the end-user I guess. The new intro page > http://test.vimperator.org even lists the last 3 entries automatically, > making it much easier to see what's going on in vimperator land. I really think anyone interested is either on the ML, IRC or following via other means anyway but I might be wrong. >> The Screenshots and Developer Info pages could be moved to the wiki >> too. > > Without some "clever" filtering on our side, if the user just clicks "wiki" > on the GC page, he will get 3 entries "screenshots", 3 entries "FAQ" etc. > (when we finally add more content to muttator/xulmus - BUT that's not the point, > they should and will be improved). By whom and when? In a year no one even bothered to sort out the last wiki. I fail to see why selecting "Vimperator FAQ" over "Muttator FAQ" is beyond our user base if required. >> If this was being done with a view to presenting a beautiful >> user-orientated website with lots of features not available via the GC >> page then fair enough. ?However, to be kind it's U-G-L-Y and it ain't >> got no alibi (with apologies to Fishbone). > > As Kris said, with writing a google gadget (once GC offers an API, and they even > said that they are already working on that, so just a matter of time), one > could do a very nicely integrated bug and wiki tracker directly in our > homepage. What magic does this API offer that we don't already have access too? Anyway I still think it's largely a waste of time. > With the current iframe idea, one would have the (a little ugly, i agree) > double header, but it's not THAT ugly. True, it is missing a Geocities banner. :P >> I'm not suggesting GC is ideal but I'd think the website had to be much, > >> much, better to even justify its existence. > > I am not discussing that point. I'm glad you're open to differing opinion. ;-) > IF there was just vimperator (and not muttator, > xulmus, ...) we might argue, but the single GC as we settled now is really not > meant to present multiple projects nicely. I'm not opposed to a website I'm just opposed to having essentially two of them. If you're serious we should really do it properly and host a decent, fully integrated, website with interesting content. Doug From maglione.k at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 08:20:52 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:20:52 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <644fc65e0910040410w32d2b579ha5016a4a6e824d57@mail.gmail.com> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> <20091004031034.GC31402@jg> <4AC87A43.9010500@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910040410w32d2b579ha5016a4a6e824d57@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20091004152052.GF31402@jg> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 10:10:45PM +1100, Doug Kearns wrote: >> I am dead serious. But as I said, I use tabs as kind of a combination >> of bookmarks and "window" management. > >Have you tried Prism? I'd rather just use surf or uzbl and ditch the whole gecko slowness, bloat, and single-huge-instanceness. -- Kris Maglione A program is portable to the extent that it can be easily moved to a new computing environment with much less effort than would be required to write it afresh. --W. Stan Brown From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sun Oct 4 08:26:14 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:26:14 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] open tab in the next tab In-Reply-To: <20091004151304.GE31402@jg> References: <128a87f00910031532n250dc345i19b797270d9030c3@mail.gmail.com> <4AC7D16B.1080606@vimperator.org> <20091004031034.GC31402@jg> <4AC87A43.9010500@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910040410w32d2b579ha5016a4a6e824d57@mail.gmail.com> <4AC884F2.1060200@vimperator.org> <20091004151304.GE31402@jg> Message-ID: <4AC8BE96.3090300@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 05:13 PM, Kris Maglione wrote: > At any rate, there's always Google reader Jup, and actually it works quite well apart from a few embedded videos not showing. BUT with google reader being even one more app which should be open constantly, the need to either use Prism or to open links at the end becomes even more important. E.g. let's say you have this tab arangment: |GMail|Google reader|Facebook||...| it is always clear for me, where i can find my "important" tabs, but if GMail e.g. opened a few links between gmail and google reader, and then i open a few google reader pages the layout quickly ends up like this: |GMail|random1|random2|Google reader|random3|random4|Facebook||...| But yeah, Prism would probably solve that issue, but when web apps become even more and more popuplar, i don't know if i like the "burdon" of prismifying 10-15 web apps, just to have a window manager tab for them instead of a browser tab. From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sun Oct 4 09:13:28 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:13:28 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <20091004150815.GD31402@jg> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> <20091004150815.GD31402@jg> Message-ID: <4AC8C9A8.70003@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 05:08 PM, Kris Maglione wrote: > Wiki. See comment at the end... > I don't think it's right to call it a blog. News, perhaps. I thought about that, although when calling it "News" I should probably list it at the Top of the navigation menu, and I didn't think it was that important. Therefore I called it "Blog" but I'll just remove it altogether from the navigation pane, since the last 3 (adjustable) blog/news entries are always shown in "Home" anyway - even with a link to all posts. > No clever necessary. You can choose the initial page for the > wiki tab. Simple. Well this would just change the workflow of selecting a specific wiki page from: Vimperator->Wiki->actual wiki page to Wiki->Vimperator->actual wiki page. I prefer the first. > Which brings me to a point: why have you hidden the tabs in > favor of links on the front page? One reason is still that nobody (not even devs) should need to navigate within the GC tab navigation. E.g. the expected workflow for new users getting source code changes is: 1.) :open google vimperator -> should hopefully list you vimperator.org, currently it actually lists the wikipedia page first! 2.) click vimperator to open the vimperator project 3.) Click "source code" just below the "Download" button People surfing there often, will have the direct link to the source code highly ranked in there awesomebar results anyway. But more important: With the iframe-approach of embedding relevant pages into vimperator.org pages, it just looked odd to have that navigation there, and this was a simple idea to minimize the GC user interface. > Now, the links are in what is, ostesnsibly, the > external links section. I really can't think of a good reason > for this. It's annoying. I put them in the external section so they CAN be access when really needed, but it shouldn't be needed often. > P.S. The links section needs a link to the amo page. Sounds like a good idea, but again, then it should be 3 links. Even though muttator and xulmus probably have 1/100th market share of vimperator, the fact that we have currently 3 projects should always be considered - it always appears to me that you (and especially Doug) seem to forget that. > Fuck the API. Just XHR the issues list. And parsing the DOM/html code manually? Google gadgets actually makes it very simple to get the source code from other pages: http://sites.google.com/a/vimperator.org/www/vimperator/scripts should have (=should, since google gadgets seem to have a too long cache by default) a 3rd "Test:" list view of just the issue list
, but - as expected - it doesn't work without all the boilerplate javascript, etc. Or do you probably mean just parsing the DOM and manually extracting/building the relevant issue texts? Without a stable API that just cries for being often broken, but I just might have misunderstood what you mean by XmlHttpRequest... >>> I'm not suggesting GC is ideal but I'd think the website had to be much, >> >>> much, better to even justify its existence. >> >>I am not discussing that point. IF there was just vimperator (and not muttator, >>xulmus, ...) we might argue, but the single GC as we settled now is really not >>meant to present multiple projects nicely. > > Wiki. You seem to like using wiki pages for everything but that does not solve the problem that a project like vimperator labs should have a clear and logical navigation which can be hard archieved, since you cannot even change/add tabs to the GC navigation pane. From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sun Oct 4 09:53:13 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:53:13 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <644fc65e0910040814m1bad6354k6b3654523a0ecbb8@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910040814m1bad6354k6b3654523a0ecbb8@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4AC8D2F9.4070702@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 05:14 PM, Doug Kearns wrote: >> Not the web site should be seperate, the GC pages should be. And *one* of >> the main reasons is, that "normal" users should always be able to do >> 90% of their vimperator related surfing with showing vimperator.org as >> the domain. > > Why on earth is that important, let alone one the main reasons? So > vanity is driving the web split? You might not believe me, but I am vain - atypical for geeks but at least my girlfriend also says that about me. Anyways, you forget one thing: The thing I want to achieve is NOT a web split, just the contrary. Everything should be doable from one interface (the vimperator.org) and the GC pages are meant as an internal helper tool to achieve that. > To be frank I sometimes think the project has ideas above its station - > it's just a browser add-on. The whole premise that people are spending > vast amounts of time cruising the Vimperator website(s) (while admiring > the URL) is a nonsense. I'd wager a significant bet that most "normal" > users don't spend any time on the website and those that do are more > than capable of driving GC. I agree with you there, and that's how the vimperator.org page is designed: Usecase1: the guy knowing what vimperator is, just wanting to download it: Go there, look for vimperator, but also see we do some other nice projects but continue to the vimperator project page anyway. See the big fat yellow download button, download it. Usecase2: Somebody just heard first about vimperator and wants to learn more: Google vimperator, and opens vimperator.org. Continues to vimperator. Reads the text there, looks at some screenshots, reads the feature list and downloads it. Usecase3: someone heard of a strange music player addon called xulmus: Googles it -> finds vimperator.org. Continues to /xulmus subpage, reads the text as well, downloads it. Usecase4: Someone using vimperator for quite some time, wants to contribute: He finds vimperator.org, finds the "Contribute" link in the navigation pane, reads the text, fetches the source code with the instructions THERE (and not from the GC page), and starts sending patches. Usecase5: Somebody thinks muttator needs another feature: Finds vimperator.org, navigates to muttator, sees the "Bugs" section. Quickly sees if the feature is already requested, but since it isn't he follows the "Request new feature" link there and already has a nice proper new pre-filled GC issue. Usecase6: Somebody just reinstalled vimperator on a new machine, and now he wants a few of his loved plugins back: Navigate to vimperator.org->Select "scripts" and he already sees all scripts which work with vimperator. Of course there might be a few use cases which would fit GC better, e.g. Usecase7: Ted Pavlic wants to create a new wiki about correct copyright :) But even that would not be harder with the vimperator.org is the control center to do anything vimperator related. > In my experience, the "normal" user installs from AMO and waits to > prompted for an update - that's it. Of the dozen or so Vimperator users > I've come across "in the wild" (IT workers all) not a single one even > used plugins and their RC file usage didn't extend past the occasional > :mkv. And? I don't think the "normal" new developer will find it hard to find what he wants from vimp.org and "old" developers neither, or could just bookmark a deeplink to a very specific GC page anyway, if really needed. > Hmmm, there seems to be someone's ugly > mug on the AMO site now though. For the love of god, why? :( If you mean "face" with "mug" (I had to look it up, and it seems "mug" has tons of collocial meanings apart from the obvious "cup"): AMo suggest to add a picture of oneself to the developer's page, so "the users can build a deeper connection to the project" or something like that, bla bla... :) > Sure, just provide a link to the filtered view. What's so hard about > that? I don't see why framing the whole GC tracker page on another > site, pages deep, is so much clearer than providing a direct link to it. For some actions like "report new bug" I exactly do that. But usually a bug display is used to >>> The Screenshots and Developer Info pages could be moved to the wiki >>> too. Then everything is just *somewhere*. I mean, shouldn't a proper project page have a clear usability concept instead of just being one big wiki? (even with a few links from the project homepage it's still not something with a proper, logical navigation). > By whom and when? In a year no one even bothered to sort out the last > wiki. I fail to see why selecting "Vimperator FAQ" over "Muttator FAQ" > is beyond our user base if required. If we go your route of having everything as a wiki, we'd quickly add up to 30 or more (unfiltered) wiki pages and apart from that, it's still very unlogical to me, that i have to go to the Wiki tab just to find screenshots. > What magic does this API offer that we don't already have access too? > Anyway I still think it's largely a waste of time. It would give me a list of bugs in (hopefully) JSON (or in XML or whatever) and is supposed to be stable for a few years (instead of always changing HTML output). And that gives you an easy way to integrate the *data* from google code into our homepage - as it was always meant to be. E.g. when listing plugins, we could have a list like ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- flashblock.js | Kris Maglione Download | More info ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- vimperator.vim| Doug Kearns Download | More info ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- which would not be possible with the GC UI alone, as it's display of attachments sucks. >> With the current iframe idea, one would have the (a little ugly, i agree) >> double header, but it's not THAT ugly. > > True, it is missing a Geocities banner. :P Ah, good idea :) Unfortunately geocities has closed its doors a few months ago ;( >> I am not discussing that point. > I'm glad you're open to differing opinion. ;-) :) > I'm not opposed to a website I'm just opposed to having essentially two > of them. If you're serious we should really do it properly and host a > decent, fully integrated, website with interesting content. I never wanted two web sites. What if I went the github way? Then it wouldn't be a problem to have vimp.org and the github repository/issue tracker? The website is vimperator.org. The GC page is just our internal "backend" to provide/store some data which can't be done in google sites. From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sun Oct 4 10:13:20 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:13:20 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> Message-ID: <4AC8D7B0.3090000@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 05:05 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > Alternatively, you might > just link to another iframe. That would be fine (Google is rife > with iframes, if you haven't noticed). Yeah, I noticed that. I still don't like them, as sometimes they might appear not belonging the the page (e.g. a selection does not work across iframes), but I think they mostly went that way for security concerns. > A gadget > would be better still (except that gadgets don't work from > elinks). Just out of curiosity: How many modern pages do work with elinks? I can't imagine google reader or facebook or youtube ;) working well with it. >>3.) Screenshots: >>Well, needs some new and sexy screenshots, but otherwise will probably >>just stay as it is. *Maybe* we should do 3-4 thumbnails on that page which >>will expand when clicked on. > > We have newer screenshots than *that*, at least. Even the > *Wikipedia* page has newer screenshots than that. Yeah. But for the screenshots I have decided that it will be the best to remove that subpage completely, and I will just add a

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below the Features where I'll add 3-4 screenshot thumbnails which expand when being clicked on. >>5.) Developer Info >>Is that the best name for this section (which needs updating), >>or do you have better ideas? > > The name works, I suppose, but it's not all applicable only to > devs. I'd prefer something like "Contributing", and then only > listing info on submitting patches, earning commit access, code > style, etc. The GC page explains the checkout procedure. But the user/developer should not need to go to the GC page, having the most important info directly in one page is much better. So that a new developer can just start hacking after reading that one page. From maglione.k at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 10:46:06 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 13:46:06 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4AC8D7B0.3090000@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> <4AC8D7B0.3090000@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091004174606.GG31402@jg> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 07:13:20PM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >> A gadget >> would be better still (except that gadgets don't work from >> elinks). > > >Just out of curiosity: How many modern pages do work with elinks? >I can't imagine google reader or facebook or youtube ;) working >well with it. I don't care about Google Reader or Facebook. An issue tracker should work in text mode. Google Code works fine with elinks and links. Google Mail's plain html view does the same. Although, I may be overstating the matter. elinks supports JS, so it probably supports some gadgets. >Yeah. But for the screenshots I have decided that it will be the best to >remove that subpage completely, and I will just add a

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>below the Features where I'll add 3-4 screenshot thumbnails which >expand when being clicked on. The screenshot on amo desparately needs to be updated too. It shows the (ugly) devmo page, which is bad enough, and an horrendously outdated version of Vimperator, with no particularly interesting features visible, to make things worse. >> The name works, I suppose, but it's not all applicable only to >> devs. I'd prefer something like "Contributing", and then only >> listing info on submitting patches, earning commit access, code >> style, etc. The GC page explains the checkout procedure. > >But the user/developer should not need to go to the GC page, having >the most important info directly in one page is much better. So that >a new developer can just start hacking after reading that one page. But, and I repeat myself, Google Code provides an elegant, consistent, and familiar interface to developers. There's no reason to discourage them from using it. That's who it's for: developers. It's there to make our lives easier. Why are you so intent on hiding it? -- Kris Maglione I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother, and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine. --Charles Darwin From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sun Oct 4 11:07:44 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:07:44 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <20091004174606.GG31402@jg> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> <4AC8D7B0.3090000@vimperator.org> <20091004174606.GG31402@jg> Message-ID: <4AC8E470.7020502@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 07:46 PM, Kris Maglione wrote: > The screenshot on amo desparately needs to be updated too Sure. Once I find time to make new screenshots under a window manager which has sexy looking title bars (probably metacity with the fantastic new wave theme), I'll update all of those screenshots as well (probabaly also a few from wikipedia). > But, and I repeat myself, Google Code provides an elegant, > consistent, and familiar interface to developers. There's no > reason to discourage them from using it. That's who it's for: > developers. It's there to make our lives easier. Why are you so > intent on hiding it? Since a single place (=vimperator.org) for users and developers who care about vimperator was just so appealing. The main motivation for hiding was just to make the iframe'd GC pages look better inside vimperator.org. The second reason was that i don't want people to "accidentally" see the downloads page and having complaints like "I can't install the addon from there" (you know, that GC bug serving the wrong content type). But ok, I'll add back the GC tabs since you and Doug (=the most important developers) both want them. From maglione.k at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 11:25:23 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 14:25:23 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4AC8E470.7020502@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> <4AC8D7B0.3090000@vimperator.org> <20091004174606.GG31402@jg> <4AC8E470.7020502@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091004182523.GH31402@jg> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 08:07:44PM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >Sure. Once I find time to make new screenshots under a window >manager which has sexy looking title bars (probably metacity with >the fantastic new wave theme), I'll update all >of those screenshots as well (probabaly also a few from wikipedia). Nobody cares about the titlebars. Just upload one without the titlebars. One from Wikipedia even. Or one of the myriad other recent ones that aren't ancient and don't look aweful. I can't imagine it takes much longer than it does to type a reply to this message. >Since a single place (=vimperator.org) for users and developers >who care about vimperator was just so appealing. Well, unless that single place can match Google Code in utility and consistency (which it can't), I don't see the point in breaking the latter. >(you know, that GC bug serving the wrong content >type). I don't especially mind the downloads tab being hidden. Featured downloads appear in their proper place on the front page, anyway. An "Install" link to the amo page would at least ameliorate that problem, anyway. Or just stick a gadget on the front page that uses InstallTrigger to install them. >But ok, I'll add back the GC tabs since you and Doug (=the most >important developers) both want them. Thank you. -- Kris Maglione A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower. --John Osterhout From ted at tedpavlic.com Sun Oct 4 12:17:37 2009 From: ted at tedpavlic.com (Ted Pavlic) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:17:37 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <644fc65e0910022247h9114d59v1ea12609f5c10261@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910022247h9114d59v1ea12609f5c10261@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4e0a90ed0910041217w5c8d5f69o4ec2194d57dee12c@mail.gmail.com> >> 4.) I used 2006-2009 style like notation, as the lines >> ? ?would become REALLY long in a few years if I listed >> ? ?every year specially. The first year should note >> ? ?when the file was first created though. > > Didn't Ted claim that year ranges were pointless? ?If so, it's not > about what looks pretty but what's meaningful. ;-) OK. So replace "2006-2009" with "2006, 2009". I think the meaning of that phrase is clear and serves the same purpose. --Ted -- Ted Pavlic From ted at tedpavlic.com Sun Oct 4 12:20:43 2009 From: ted at tedpavlic.com (Ted Pavlic) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:20:43 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <4AC6FF8D.70209@vimperator.org> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910022247h9114d59v1ea12609f5c10261@mail.gmail.com> <4AC6FF8D.70209@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <4e0a90ed0910041220y60c4d813w84d397c55015ebe4@mail.gmail.com> >> Didn't Ted claim that year ranges were pointless? ?If so, it's not >> about what looks pretty but what's meaningful. ;-) > > He pointed out, that just the last year is really relevant, > but the others "don't hurt". I meant to imply that there's no sylistic agreement on what a "range" looks like. That is, I think most people would agree it's... YEAR1(en dash)YEAR2 However, implementing an "en dash" with 7-bit ASCII is problematic. More importantly, when you say "2004--2009", it's not clear whether you mean "2004 and 2009" or "2004, 2006, 2009" or "2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009"... etc. However, comma-delimited lists are well understood. I was saying that if you want to have the same impact as a range, use a comma-delimited list with just the first year and the last year. --Ted -- Ted Pavlic From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Sun Oct 4 12:35:55 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:35:55 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <4e0a90ed0910041217w5c8d5f69o4ec2194d57dee12c@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910022247h9114d59v1ea12609f5c10261@mail.gmail.com> <4e0a90ed0910041217w5c8d5f69o4ec2194d57dee12c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4AC8F91B.4010304@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 09:17 PM, Ted Pavlic wrote: > OK. So replace "2006-2009" with "2006, 2009". I think the meaning of > that phrase is clear and serves the same purpose. No, for me, the later means that I was on a beach drinking cocktails during the years 2007 and 2008, while the former means, in any/most of the years between 2006 and 2009 was work done. Anyway, since only the last year has an impact anyway, I like the former better. Maybe we can just say 1983-2009 like Windows 7 at some time ;) From maglione.k at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 12:47:37 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:47:37 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] license header In-Reply-To: <4AC8F91B.4010304@vimperator.org> References: <4AC4A1A4.3030208@vimperator.org> <4AC6815B.4050604@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910022247h9114d59v1ea12609f5c10261@mail.gmail.com> <4e0a90ed0910041217w5c8d5f69o4ec2194d57dee12c@mail.gmail.com> <4AC8F91B.4010304@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091004194737.GI31402@jg> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 09:35:55PM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >On 10/04/2009 09:17 PM, Ted Pavlic wrote: > >> OK. So replace "2006-2009" with "2006, 2009". I think the meaning of >> that phrase is clear and serves the same purpose. > > >No, for me, the later means that I was on a beach drinking cocktails during >the years 2007 and 2008, while the former means, in any/most of the years >between 2006 and 2009 was work done. > >Anyway, since only the last year has an impact anyway, I like the former >better. Maybe we can just say 1983-2009 like Windows 7 at some time ;) The first year is required. Years after that are optional. -- Kris Maglione The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. --Edsger W. Dijkstra From maglione.k at gmail.com Mon Oct 5 01:57:53 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 04:57:53 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4AB4A9A8.7000203@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AB401DC.2000803@vimperator.org> <20090918223320.GD3621@jg.domain_not_set.invalid> <4AB4A9A8.7000203@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091005085753.GK31402@jg> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51:36AM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >> You can still HTTP POST them with curl or an HTTP capable >> scripting language. Send me an sqlite dump of the trac DB and >> I'll transfer them. > >Wow, that'd be great! I thought about that shortly myself, but >thought that creating such a script will take longer than >a manual transfer, especially if we also care about comments >and attachments. But on the other hand, a semi manual approach >would also be ok, so such a script would not need to be >perfect. Ok, mostly done. The issues and comments are all in (some of them twice, and in the wrong issues... typos). I'll do the attachments tomorrow. It turns out that Google is anal retentive about accepting POSTs of such things. The only hard part was getting them not to choke. -- Kris Maglione UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. --Dennis Ritchie From maxauthority at vimperator.org Mon Oct 5 03:01:28 2009 From: maxauthority at vimperator.org (Stubenschrott, Martin) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:01:28 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <20091005085753.GK31402@jg> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AB401DC.2000803@vimperator.org> <20090918223320.GD3621@jg.domain_not_set.invalid> <4AB4A9A8.7000203@vimperator.org> <20091005085753.GK31402@jg> Message-ID: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > Ok, mostly done. The issues and comments are all in (some of them twice, and > in the wrong issues... typos). I'll do the attachments tomorrow. It turns > out that Google is anal retentive about accepting POSTs of such things. The > only hard part was getting them not to choke. Awesome! Thanks a lot for the import. But am I missing something? It seems, that enhancements, color schemes and plugins were imported, but not the bugs? From keyur at paperandmore.com Mon Oct 5 09:21:44 2009 From: keyur at paperandmore.com (Keyur Shah) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:21:44 -0700 Subject: [Vimperator] Doesn't load up anymore Message-ID: Hello, Thanks for the wonderful software. Vimperator was working fine for me, until recently. It would not load up with firefox and would only be available upon restarting the computer. Now, it does not load up at all. I have created new profiles, uninstalled and reinstalled firefox, restarted the computer, and no luck. I've removed all extensions in case of conflict, but nothing seems to make vimperator come back. I don't get the status bar on the bottom, and firefox loads up as if vimperator doesn't exist. I'm on Windows XP and using Firefox 3.5.3 Any ideas on what could be causing this? Thanks in advance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maxauthority at vimperator.org Mon Oct 5 10:02:03 2009 From: maxauthority at vimperator.org (Stubenschrott, Martin) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:02:03 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Doesn't load up anymore In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Keyur Shah wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for the wonderful software. Vimperator was working fine for me, until > recently. It would not load up with firefox and would only be available upon > restarting the computer. Now, it does not load up at all. I have created new > profiles, uninstalled and reinstalled firefox, restarted the computer, and > no luck. I've removed all extensions in case of conflict, but nothing seems > to make vimperator come back. I don't get the status bar on the bottom, and > firefox loads up as if vimperator doesn't exist. I'm on Windows XP and using > Firefox 3.5.3 > > Any ideas on what could be causing this? Are there any errors in the error console? From blair.craft at gmail.com Mon Oct 5 10:10:11 2009 From: blair.craft at gmail.com (Blair Craft) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:10:11 -0700 Subject: [Vimperator] TypeError: sh is null Message-ID: <7C6A5CEB-CC24-4FE1-8B75-052F234E5442@gmail.com> I'm getting the following error in the Vimperator status bar when I open a new window: Processing keypress event: TypeError: sh is null I'm running Vimperator 2.1 in Firefox 3.5.3 on a Mac running MacOS 10.6. I've got a clean .vimperatorrc and have removed all plugins. The error seems to happen on all ex commands (:open, :tabopen, etc.) but non-ex commands (gg, gt, etc.) seem to work fine and it only happens in the new window; the original window continues to work flawlessly. I've searched the mailing list as well as Google and come up with nothing. Any help would be appreciated. Blair. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From keyur at paperandmore.com Mon Oct 5 11:43:26 2009 From: keyur at paperandmore.com (Keyur Shah) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 11:43:26 -0700 Subject: [Vimperator] Doesn't load up anymore Message-ID: Unfortunately, the only error that the error console reports is: Warning: Unknown property 'zoom'. Declaration dropped. Source File: http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Line: 1 I also use Roboform, which i thought maybe causing the issue since it automatically installs an adapter in firefox, but i uninstalled roboform entireley, and no luck. is there any other logging that can be configured to see other errors? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Mon Oct 5 16:14:08 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:14:08 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <20091004174606.GG31402@jg> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> <4AC8D7B0.3090000@vimperator.org> <20091004174606.GG31402@jg> Message-ID: <4ACA7DC0.6060707@vimperator.org> On 10/04/2009 07:46 PM, Kris Maglione wrote: >>Yeah. But for the screenshots I have decided that it will be the best to >>remove that subpage completely, and I will just add a

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>>below the Features where I'll add 3-4 screenshot thumbnails which >>expand when being clicked on. That is available now on http://test.vimperator.org/vimperator and seems to be much better than the separate screenshots page. I just don't know if the screenshots should be above the feature list or below. But 2 things learnt: 1.) The gnome screenshot tool is quite nice (I always used "import" until now): It can automatically add a nice (for me at least) drop shadow to taken screenshots, so no need to fire up gimp or use imagemagick manually afterwords - awsome! 2.) Google sites "insert image" feature is very nice too. After uploading the image, I could just select "small/medium/large/orginal size", and since I clicked "medium" it seems google automatically caches/sends some thumbnails to the main page, and automatically links to the full image when clicked. So I could add 3 modern looking and up to date screenshots in a mere 5 minutes, instead of at least 3 times as much when doing all this process of adding drop shadows and image thumbnails manually. From maglione.k at gmail.com Mon Oct 5 16:32:47 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:32:47 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4ACA7DC0.6060707@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> <4AC8D7B0.3090000@vimperator.org> <20091004174606.GG31402@jg> <4ACA7DC0.6060707@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091005233247.GM31402@jg> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 01:14:08AM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >1.) The gnome screenshot tool is quite nice (I always used "import" until >now): It can automatically add a nice (for me at least) drop shadow to >taken screenshots, so no need to fire up gimp or use imagemagick manually >afterwords - awsome! Gimp can take its own screenshots. import is ImageMagick, and ImageMagick knows about pipes. Neither of them depend on 36 Gnome libraries, although Gimp comes close. >So I could add 3 modern looking and up to date screenshots in a mere 5 >minutes, instead of at least 3 times as much when doing all this process >of adding drop shadows and image thumbnails manually. I can't imagine it would take you that long to do it manually. Gimp can do it all easily enough. A 3-minute script could do it even easier, if it became a habit. -- Kris Maglione If C gives you enough rope to hang yourself, C++ gives you enough rope to bind and gag your neighbourhood, rig the sails in a small ship and still have enough rope left to hang yourself from the yardarm. --Anonymous From nemolivier at gmail.com Mon Oct 5 16:33:35 2009 From: nemolivier at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Olivier_Gu=E9ry?=) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 01:33:35 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4ACA7DC0.6060707@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> <4AC8D7B0.3090000@vimperator.org> <20091004174606.GG31402@jg> <4ACA7DC0.6060707@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <5c2c86e70910051633o66f6d2cexa77874dd0d59c4e2@mail.gmail.com> 2009/10/6 Martin Stubenschrott : > On 10/04/2009 07:46 PM, Kris Maglione wrote: > >>>Yeah. But for the screenshots I have decided that it will be the best to >>>remove that subpage completely, and I will just add a

Screenshots

>>>below the Features where I'll add 3-4 screenshot thumbnails which >>>expand when being clicked on. Not realy related, but on this page : http://test.vimperator.org/vimperator/bugs the link to the french tutorial is wrond (we change the name of the site?!) Please use this one :?http://bepo.fr/wiki/Vimperator (yes, I can also wait for the real new-wiki to be on line, but I?m gonne forget !) Olivier. -- [Message tap? sur un clavier B?po : http://www.bepo.fr ] http://soubresauts.net From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Mon Oct 5 16:40:24 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:40:24 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <20091005233247.GM31402@jg> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> <4AC8D7B0.3090000@vimperator.org> <20091004174606.GG31402@jg> <4ACA7DC0.6060707@vimperator.org> <20091005233247.GM31402@jg> Message-ID: <4ACA83E8.3000108@vimperator.org> On 10/06/2009 01:32 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > I can't imagine it would take you that long to do it manually. > Gimp can do it all easily enough. A 3-minute script could do it > even easier, if it became a habit. If it comes a habit, then of course using some proper imagemagik (or similar) usage is of course even faster, but that's the point: How often do i need to make screenshots with drop shadows? Twice a year? How often do I use gimp? Once a year? And when I need to do new screenshots in e.g. half a year, I am sure I have forgotten the magic imagemagick magic ;) Even if I wrote a script, I am sure I would have forgotten, that I have such a script :) I know, I get old, 2 years ago I am very sure I wouldn't be crazy about a gnome tool but would defend good-old command line tools... From stubenschrott at vimperator.org Mon Oct 5 16:44:26 2009 From: stubenschrott at vimperator.org (Martin Stubenschrott) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:44:26 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <5c2c86e70910051633o66f6d2cexa77874dd0d59c4e2@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> <4AC8D7B0.3090000@vimperator.org> <20091004174606.GG31402@jg> <4ACA7DC0.6060707@vimperator.org> <5c2c86e70910051633o66f6d2cexa77874dd0d59c4e2@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4ACA84DA.30501@vimperator.org> On 10/06/2009 01:33 AM, Olivier Gu?ry wrote: > Not realy related, but on this page : http://test.vimperator.org/vimperator/bugs > the link to the french tutorial is wrond (we change the name of the site !) > Please use this one : http://bepo.fr/wiki/Vimperator > > (yes, I can also wait for the real new-wiki to be on line, but I?m > gonne forget !) Thanks, updated! And yeah, I'll finish the google gadgets with the correct href within this week. It's sad that I haven't found out how to "programmatically" add parameters to google gadgets, there only seem to be UserPrefs which the user needs to set by themselves. mygadget.xml?query=project:vimperator would be nice, but i don't think that works. From maglione.k at gmail.com Mon Oct 5 16:47:44 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:47:44 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4ACA83E8.3000108@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> <4AC8D7B0.3090000@vimperator.org> <20091004174606.GG31402@jg> <4ACA7DC0.6060707@vimperator.org> <20091005233247.GM31402@jg> <4ACA83E8.3000108@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <20091005234744.GN31402@jg> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 01:40:24AM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: >If it comes a habit, then of course using some proper imagemagik >(or similar) usage is of course even faster, but that's the point: >How often do i need to make screenshots with drop shadows? >Twice a year? How often do I use gimp? Once a year? How hard is it to add a drop shadow to a screenshot in Gimp? It took me 30 seconds to do the whole deal a minute ago, and I don't add drop shows to anything. Ever. At any rate, perhaps if you had a script, you'd update the screenshots more often. How old was that amo screenshot? I'd venture to guess ~2 years. -- Kris Maglione One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this. --Friedrich Nietzsche From maglione.k at gmail.com Mon Oct 5 20:59:26 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 23:59:26 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AB401DC.2000803@vimperator.org> <20090918223320.GD3621@jg.domain_not_set.invalid> <4AB4A9A8.7000203@vimperator.org> <20091005085753.GK31402@jg> Message-ID: <20091006035926.GO31402@jg> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 12:01:28PM +0200, Stubenschrott, Martin wrote: >On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: >> Ok, mostly done. The issues and comments are all in (some of them twice, and >> in the wrong issues... typos). I'll do the attachments tomorrow. It turns >> out that Google is anal retentive about accepting POSTs of such things. The >> only hard part was getting them not to choke. > >Awesome! Thanks a lot for the import. > >But am I missing something? It seems, that enhancements, color schemes >and plugins were imported, but not the bugs? Yep, it seems another typo snuck into my last refactoring. It's really easy to make typos when you're fighting with a bitchy HTTP server. *shakes a fist at Google* Anyway, I need a tarball of the trac attachments directory. -- Kris Maglione Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage. Those who manage what they do not understand. --Putt's Law From dougkearns at gmail.com Mon Oct 5 22:54:37 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:54:37 +1100 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <20091005234744.GN31402@jg> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <20091004030520.GA31402@jg> <4AC8D7B0.3090000@vimperator.org> <20091004174606.GG31402@jg> <4ACA7DC0.6060707@vimperator.org> <20091005233247.GM31402@jg> <4ACA83E8.3000108@vimperator.org> <20091005234744.GN31402@jg> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910052254y174b6b91p888f02b4b863fae6@mail.gmail.com> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > How old was that amo screenshot? I'd venture to guess ~2 years. ...and the rest. It was raised prior to the 0.5 release but, even after all that waiting, we end up with an ugly title bar anyway. You know, it's the whinging I can't stand. ;-) Doug From dougkearns at gmail.com Wed Oct 7 04:54:04 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:54:04 +1100 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <4AC8D2F9.4070702@vimperator.org> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910040814m1bad6354k6b3654523a0ecbb8@mail.gmail.com> <4AC8D2F9.4070702@vimperator.org> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910070454v2620954as88d19c9e106cee2c@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: > On 10/04/2009 05:14 PM, Doug Kearns wrote: > You might not believe me, but I am vain - atypical for geeks but at > least my girlfriend also says that about me. Nice to have that on the record. ;-) >> To be frank I sometimes think the project has ideas above its station - >> it's just a browser add-on. ?The whole premise that people are spending >> vast amounts of time cruising the Vimperator website(s) (while admiring >> the URL) is a nonsense. ?I'd wager a significant bet that most "normal" >> users don't spend any time on the website and those that do are more >> than capable of driving GC. > > I agree with you there, and that's how the vimperator.org page is > designed: s|vimperator.org|code.google.com/p/vimperator-labs/| and Bob's your uncle. > And? I don't think the "normal" new developer will find it hard to find > what he wants from vimp.org and "old" developers neither, or could just > bookmark a deeplink to a very specific GC page anyway, if really needed. I think most users would simply bypass the website for GC once they discover the ruse. > If we go your route of having everything as a wiki, we'd quickly add up > to 30 or more (unfiltered) wiki pages and apart from that, it's still > very unlogical to me, that i have to go to the Wiki tab just to find > screenshots. What's this "unfiltered" business? A wiki is just a website, I don't understand your pathological hatred of the things. Were you attacked by a small feral wiki as a child? > I never wanted two web sites. What if I went the github way? Then it > wouldn't be a problem to have vimp.org and the github repository/issue > tracker? Presumably you'd have stuck it in an IFRAME. I wouldn't really care if there was a wiki, a bug tracker and a repo all at different sites doing a single job, but you've selected a pretty good integrated solution then wrapped it needlessly because it offends your sense of 'style'. > The website is vimperator.org. The GC page is just our > internal "backend" to provide/store some data which can't be done in > google sites. There's nothing internal about it, it's freeballing for all the world to see... Doug PS. On a related note vimperator.org is a bit of a mess at the moment. For example, there's missing logos from the home page and downloads are broken according to Daniel. There was even a couple of complaints about not being able to download Muttator on IRC yesterday and I didn't think anyone used it - shame on me. ;-) From maxauthority at vimperator.org Wed Oct 7 05:12:20 2009 From: maxauthority at vimperator.org (Stubenschrott, Martin) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:12:20 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <644fc65e0910070454v2620954as88d19c9e106cee2c@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910040814m1bad6354k6b3654523a0ecbb8@mail.gmail.com> <4AC8D2F9.4070702@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910070454v2620954as88d19c9e106cee2c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Doug Kearns wrote: > That is very very different to me. (Informal) use cases just means, that people think about how software is being used and not just blindly implement things without thinking about requirements. UML on the other is much too formalized and mainly for big business IMHO. > I think most users would simply bypass the website for GC once they > discover the ruse. s/users/developers/ and yes, people who often file bugs, etc. can of course use GC directly, since they know what they are doing anyway (hopefully). I am not sure, however, if a person who hast just written his first plugin knows how to add that *properly* to the issue tracker, when just given GC - but I know your answer will be "wiki page" ;) > What's this "unfiltered" business? ?A wiki is just a website. Wiki is for me: http://code.google.com/p/vimperator-labs/w/list and this includes a big pile of unrelated things (the FAQ of muttator is in the same list as e.g. a simple howto for xulmus) - therefore grouping by project is the least thing we should do. all other things are wiki pages, > PS. On a related note vimperator.org is a bit of a mess at the moment. > For example, there's missing logos from the home page and downloads are > broken according to Daniel. ?There was even a couple of complaints about > not being able to download Muttator on IRC yesterday and I didn't think > anyone used it - shame on me. ;-) I know, but (www.)vimperator.org will point to the google sites pages in a few days anyway, just finishing the last bits. And hey, cool @muttator. I do think and hope that now that TB3 is soon to be released (beta 1 is out now) that more people will also use muttator. From dougkearns at gmail.com Wed Oct 7 06:32:10 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 00:32:10 +1100 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910040814m1bad6354k6b3654523a0ecbb8@mail.gmail.com> <4AC8D2F9.4070702@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910070454v2620954as88d19c9e106cee2c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910070632g53a0d0fcj1fbdebc01380dc32@mail.gmail.com> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Stubenschrott, Martin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Doug Kearns wrote: >> What's this "unfiltered" business? A wiki is just a website. > > Wiki is for me: http://code.google.com/p/vimperator-labs/w/list > > and this includes a big pile of unrelated things (the FAQ of muttator is in > the same list as e.g. a simple howto for xulmus) - therefore grouping by > project is the least thing we should do. That's just the default wiki index page, replace it with a better organised TOC page if you like. Besides, your point of entry to the wiki would most likely be a link from the Summary page anyway. Doug From maxauthority at vimperator.org Wed Oct 7 07:14:41 2009 From: maxauthority at vimperator.org (Stubenschrott, Martin) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:14:41 +0200 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <644fc65e0910070632g53a0d0fcj1fbdebc01380dc32@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910040814m1bad6354k6b3654523a0ecbb8@mail.gmail.com> <4AC8D2F9.4070702@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910070454v2620954as88d19c9e106cee2c@mail.gmail.com> <644fc65e0910070632g53a0d0fcj1fbdebc01380dc32@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Doug Kearns wrote: > That's just the default wiki index page, replace it with a better > organised TOC page if you like. It's still the argument, that I think homepage->muttator->wiki is much more logical than homepage->wiki->muttator Especially if we think about the future, which makes new projects not likely but possible. > ?Besides, your point of entry to the > wiki would most likely be a link from the Summary page anyway. Right, BUT only showing the entries the user is interested. I mean, why should the user see a muttator FAQ, if he (just like you) don't care about muttator at all and just likes his favorite questions about vimperator answered? From dougkearns at gmail.com Wed Oct 7 08:11:19 2009 From: dougkearns at gmail.com (Doug Kearns) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 02:11:19 +1100 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: References: <4AAA635B.4040208@vimperator.org> <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910040814m1bad6354k6b3654523a0ecbb8@mail.gmail.com> <4AC8D2F9.4070702@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910070454v2620954as88d19c9e106cee2c@mail.gmail.com> <644fc65e0910070632g53a0d0fcj1fbdebc01380dc32@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <644fc65e0910070811r646324d4ybb21ff1c85a3a27c@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Stubenschrott, Martin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Doug Kearns wrote: >> That's just the default wiki index page, replace it with a better >> organised TOC page if you like. > > It's still the argument, that I think > homepage->muttator->wiki > is much more logical than > homepage->wiki->muttator Any of summary->wiki-homepage->muttator or summary->muttator or wiki-hompage->muttator (selecting the wiki tab) would be available. > Especially if we think about the future, which makes new projects not likely but > possible. So it's essentially irrelevant for now. We've already been through two websites, trackers and VCSs in two and a half years. I don't see why this should be expected to be the last. It'll be lucky to last the year. :) >> Besides, your point of entry to the >> wiki would most likely be a link from the Summary page anyway. > > Right, BUT only showing the entries the user is interested. I mean, why should > the user see a muttator FAQ, if he (just like you) don't care about muttator > at all and just likes his favorite questions about vimperator answered? I won't. It could be exactly like the web site you're proposing with collapsible menus in a sidebar. I'd never see it because I'd never expand the muttator menu nor visit the muttator sub-section. I don't see a significant difference, if any at all. And if I hide the sidebar I don't even have to see the word "Muttator". E.g. http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/GettingStarted Doug From maglione.k at gmail.com Wed Oct 7 17:24:42 2009 From: maglione.k at gmail.com (Kris Maglione) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:24:42 -0400 Subject: [Vimperator] Moving vimperator.org In-Reply-To: <644fc65e0910070811r646324d4ybb21ff1c85a3a27c@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AC7A508.8060400@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910032301v299aa4fbkcdafed8baf410633@mail.gmail.com> <4AC882DF.2020906@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910040814m1bad6354k6b3654523a0ecbb8@mail.gmail.com> <4AC8D2F9.4070702@vimperator.org> <644fc65e0910070454v2620954as88d19c9e106cee2c@mail.gmail.com> <644fc65e0910070632g53a0d0fcj1fbdebc01380dc32@mail.gmail.com> <644fc65e0910070811r646324d4ybb21ff1c85a3a27c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20091008002442.GR31402@jg> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 02:11:19AM +1100, Doug Kearns wrote: >On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Stubenschrott, Martin wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Doug Kearns wrote: >>> That's just the default wiki index page, replace it with a better >>> organised TOC page if you like. >> >> It's still the argument, that I think >> homepage->muttator->wiki >> is much more logical than >> homepage->wiki->muttator > >Any of summary->wiki-homepage->muttator or summary->muttator or >wiki-hompage->muttator (selecting the wiki tab) would be available. This is getting absurd. If I see one more arrow, I think I'm going to snap and kill you all, really. At any rate, we need to get this settled. Here's what I think we can all agree on: * We need to get this resolved as soon as possible. We're all wasting our time implementing things that are bound to change and arguing about it in the mean time. Moreover, vimperator.org is going to disappear very soon and is currently largely inaccurate in its content. * The current situation is untenable. The iframes are confusing, ugly, and very apparently hacky. They break the back button, they break bookmarks, they don't add anything. * Yes, we can replace them with a gadgets. This, of course, creates its own problems. They would be a nightmare to develop and to maintain. They would invariably present accessability issues. They would hide an already simple, familiar, and widely used interface which is already designed and maintained by a large team of world class programmers, system administrators, and user interface designers. The best bet in that circumstance would be to XHR the actual web page and isolate the elements we actually need (jQuery makes this trivial). Unfortunately, that would only work from code.google.com; the only off-site solution is to wait for Google to support the