Will Rekonq be Updated for the LTS?

[SteveRiley]

And while on the topic - and excuse me if I'm posting in the wrong thread - has anyone had any issues with Rekonq and cookies? Specifically with Facebook, of all things. It seems that every time I click on a link in FB it logs me out

Known bug; fix will arrive in KDE 4.8.4.

http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=101924
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299590

[mdye]

Sigh. Naturally. Well, that clears that up I guess - thanks!

[wrender]

I agree that Rekonq being updated for the full life span is unreasonable.

Though I think it would be reasonable to update Rekonq to a 1.0 release state that is solid as you mentioned without requiring the user to backport it. Beyond that it makes sense for it to evolve past and leave behind the current libs/dependencies that ship with KDE 4.8.x to keep up with KDE mainline and future Kubuntu releases.

What do you guys think?

[sumski]

They (Rekonq devs) tend to bump requirements as soon as they can. For 0.10 (1.0?) this will probably be KDE 4.9.x, and hopefully not QT5. So that will give as the chance to use Rekonq alongside Kubuntu backports PPA.

[Stosskraft]

The KDE Goodies PPA contains updated versions of several KDE/Kubuntu applications. For example, rekonq-git was just compiled today.

Do you have more information about this PPA? How safe is it? I would like to learn more about what is adds, sounds like a good way to keep a LTS up to date?

Thank you

[claydoh]

Do you have more information about this PPA? How safe is it? I would like to learn more about what is adds, sounds like a good way to keep a LTS up to date?

Thank you

Asa PPA is a personal package archive, you have to trust the source. most kubuntu updates begin in their ppa's before making it into the regular archives if that is where they are intended to eventually be.

http://claydoh.com/kubuntu-and-its-repositories/

Sent from my phone

[SteveRiley]

Do you have more information about this PPA? How safe is it? I would like to learn more about what is adds, sounds like a good way to keep a LTS up to date?

Sumski is a long-time member of the KDE community and is a regular participant on KFN. I've been using packages from his PPAs for many months without incident. I'd say he's trustworthy.

[OneLine]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
--> rekonq 0.9.2. SRU? : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ku...ay/006124.html
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--> rekonq 0.9.2 for precise testing: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ku...ne/006180.html

Harald Sitter
Fri Jun 8 22:55:58 UTC 2012

rekonq 0.9.2 for precise will shortly be available in
ppa:kubuntu-ppa/ppa for pre-SRU testing.

I looked at the diff and most of the changes are either of
documentation/l10n nature or fixing regressions in .1, so I am going
to try get it through SRU verification for precise. Any preliminary
feedback is thus greatly appreciated.

HS

The SRU is: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

Once an Ubuntu release has been completed and published, updates for it are only released under certain circumstances, and must follow a special procedure called a "stable release update" or SRU...

When the Kubuntu 12.10 is out there is an opportunity to make a backport request: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

What are Backports

When Ubuntu releases a new version of its OS every 6 months, that release is largely frozen in time. While the software that is part of that release will get bug fixes and security patches, new major releases of software and the new features that come with them will not be available.

That’s where Ubuntu Backports comes in. Backports offers a way to selectively provide newer versions of software for older Ubuntu releases. Most commonly, the Backports team will provide new versions of standalone applications which can be safely updated without impacting the rest of the system...
...
Requesting New Backports

If you would like to request a new backport, please see our documentation on the backport process.

[sumski]

http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=...65253829c28894

rekonq 0.9.80

rekonq 1.0 tech preview!

- started the bug fix run

[SteveRiley]

/me awaits with bated breath!

(Unlike fish, of course, who often loiter about the lakes with baited breath. I bet those worms taste really skanky.)

[sumski]

Changelog:

1.0 - sync: sync bookmarks (just them for now) with google and with opera services.
- Fancy bookmarking: store (and share) infos about bookmarks via nepomuk.
- rekonq pages visual improvements
-Favorites page: drag & drop added (as requested), ability to reload preview (down left button changed)
- Bookmarks page: rewamped
- History page: faster load showing just 2 days as default + history search feature in the page
- Downloads page: initial notifications on what is happening to the downloaded file + search feature
- Settings improvements: added "privacy" and "advanced" widgets + options about.
- Default search engine check. If user has not a default search engine set, rekonq inform him.
- Included tab history when cloning a tab via the "clone tab" action
- adblock improvements: better adblock settings widget, letting users decide with 1 click what adblock subscriptions use
- adblock icon in the urlbar triggering a new dialog letting users to unblock/show blocked/hided elements
- new action to block (and hide) images

Steve, they forgot to mention the font (maybe it's covered with rekonq pages visual improvements)

[SteveRiley]

Steve, they forgot to mention the font (maybe it's covered with rekonq pages visual improvements)

Heh, you're right! Well I guess I'll have to set up a login script to keep purging that silly font.

For those going at what we're discussing... Someone on Rekonq decided it would be a good idea to bundle a font into the .deb, one that it uses for all its in-window (but not in-web-page) text. For example, a portion of my history list from the other day:



This is the font:

steve@t520:~$ locate -i nunito
/usr/share/kde4/apps/rekonq/fonts/Nunito-Regular.ttf

Sumski and I were PM'ing about this the other day. We concur that it is an especially ugly creature Curiously, the file fails to appear in lsof while Rekonq is running. You can easily delete it and Rekonq revert to your system's default font for in-window text. But, of course, it'll come back the next time Rekonq is upgraded. Ah, well.

[sumski]

I thought about not packaging it, but i decided i won't deviate from upstream, as much ugly it is.

[wrender]

Does the 1.0 release work with KDE 4.8.x libraries? or does it require KDE 4.9.x ?

[sumski]

0.9.80 works with 4.8.x, so 1.0 will also probably work