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epiphany throws an exception at startup

Francis Moreau — 2012-04-16T18:08:56

Hello,

I'm getting a exception when starting epiphany.

Here's the trace:

GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your settings
will not be saved or shared with other applications.
terminate called after throwing an instance of
'libvoikko::setup::DictionaryException'
terminate called recursively

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.

Could anybody tell me what could be wrong ?

Thanks

LICENSE.chromium?

William Ting — 2012-05-01T08:03:35

Is there a reason why a Chromium license was imported into the repo 3 years
ago?

- William
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GSOC Introduction

William Ting — 2012-05-01T06:56:33

Hi everybody!

I was lucky enough to be selected by GNOME to work on Epiphany for Google
Summer of Code this year. I'm responsible for implementing browser
synchronization and look forward to working with you guys over the next few
months. :)

I've posted a project page here:

    http://wting.github.com/epiphany/

Feel free to comment on any items within Wiki or Trello. I will be working
on feature branches and pushing to my copy of Epiphany on GitHub, before
submitting patches to the team when I have a section finished.

I've provided some preliminary mockups of the planned interfaces:

    https://github.com/wting/epiphany/wiki/User-Interface

I look forward to any comments or suggestions.

Cheers,

William Ting
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Adblock broken after 3.4 upgrade

David Thomson — 2012-05-01T03:13:09

Hi all

I have recently upgraded epiphany (and the rest of gnome) to 3.4 on my Arch
setup.

The new epiphany is great but the adblock extension has stopped working...
any ideas?

It been a long time since I've used the internet without an adblocker I
didn't realise how many annoying ads there are!!!

cheers
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GSOC Conflict?

William Ting — 2012-04-24T05:18:27

Hi,

I'm excited to be working on Epiphany in the next few months. However I
noticed in the accepted student proposal list there were two projects both
implementing Epiphany synchronization:

   - https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/wting/8001
   -
   https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/yann_soubeyrand/11001

Will Yann and I be working together on one project or developing our
projects individually? I'm fine with either prospect, but would like some
clarification.

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gsoc proposal

calvin — 2012-04-06T15:42:15

Hi,
This is my proposal for the gsoc:

     What is your e-mail address and IRC nick?

Email: chenmingyang.ict< at >gmail.com

IRC nick: calvin

·     Do you have a web page, blog, or microblog?

Yes, this is my blog:http://blog.csdn.net/lishirui

·     What is your academic background?

I'm a graduate student in Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China. My research interests focus on computer
graphics and computer architecture (especially the memory systems).

·     What is the ultimate goal of your proposal?

Append “data sync” feature to Epiphany:

    1.Make it possible for different instances of Epiphany and Firefox to
share user data.

    2.The data includes bookmarks, history,session state and cookies

·      What components/modules will the proposed or modify or create?

We will create a sync module for the client, which will store   user data
to the server and download it from the server.

·      What benefits does your proposed work have for GNOME and its
community?

My work will append “data sync” feature for Epiphany.

·      Why are you the right person to work on this project?

I have researched much on this project. I have read much on Mozilla’s sync
service. After some study on Epiphany’s code, I have understood the overall
structure and some critical classes. In addition, having developped several
related projects, I am familiar with C and GTK+.

·      How do you plan to achieve completion of your project?

           1. The structure of our project is as follows:

            Client:

· Store

· Translate data to Firefox’s format

·  Encrypt data

·  Send record to server

· Update

·  Retrieve record from server

·  Decrypt data

· Translate data to Epiphany’s format

Server:

                   Use the Firefox sync server.

2. Steps:

·  Find out sync mechanism and implementation details of the Firefox client.

·  Read documentation and code of Epiphany to learn about the data
structure of bookmark, history, session state and cookies. Find out
corresponding “get” and “set” methods.

·  Develop the sync module.

·  Integrate the sync module into Epiphany and do integration testing.

·  Fix bugs reported by users.

·     It really helps to see a schedule with dates and important
milestones/deliveries (preferably in two weeks increments).

Week 0 – Beginning 21st of May

 Read Mozilla’s sync service documentation [1]. Look through the code of
the client’s sync part. Discuss in the mail list about details of the sync
client and server.

Week 2 - Beginning 4th of June

Read the documentation and code of Epiphany. Learn about the implementation
of funtions. Find out data structure of bookmark, history, session state
and cookies. Keep discussing with mentor and developers.

Week 4 - Beginning 18th of June

Develop the translater which traslates Epiphany’s bookmark, history,
session state and cookies data to Firefox’s format. Connect the translater
and the sync module in Firefox to make an Epiphany’s syncer.

Week 6 - Beginning 2nd of July (Includes Mid-Term)

Design the UI and integrate syncer into Epiphany.

Week 8 - Beginning 16th of July

Test and fix bugs. Deliver, ask for feedbacks.

Week 10 - Beginning 30th of July

Modify according to feedbacks.

Week 12 - Beginning 13th of August

Documentation, any left over work.

·      What will showable at mid-term?

Two clients which can sync data with each other through Firefox sync
server. Because the UI is in development, data retrieved from server will
be printed just for demonstration.

·      What are your past experiences with the open source world as a user
and as a contributor?

I have been an open source software user for several years. I like to
spread open source softwares among my friends.

·      What other relevant projects have you worked on previously and what
knowledge you gained from working on them?

     I have finished the “Component-level Power Monitoring System” project
in my lab. The system uses a GTK+-based client to monitor the realtime
change of the power. I’m familiar with GTK+, C, and Linux programming.


[1]http://docs.services.mozilla.com/


Best regards,

calvin
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ruby

Eike Dierks — 2012-04-08T01:07:31

Dear people at the epiphany list,

I'd like to suggest to bring ruby in the house.

Obviously a lot of discussion has been done about this topic,
wether we should bring this or that scripting language in here.

We have this very same topic on the freebsd list.

I want to opt for ruby
to make this a well known language within webkit

Because ruby rocks!
And I believe ruby1.9 to be somehow stable.


So let's work together,
to make ruby2 the common language
of webkit and freebsd.

Some questions concerning GSoC 2012

Phitherek_ — 2012-04-02T22:25:42

Hello,
I am a student, who is considering taking part in Google Summer of Code
2012. I have chosen your organization as probably a future mentoring
organization. I have not submitted the proposal, as I want to ask you some
questions about your expectations. I am posting this on the epiphany list,
because the idea of Epiphany Sync interested me as the project I maybe
would like to work on. And as the #epiphany channel on IRC seems dead, I
decided to try with a mailing list, as I heard they are the most commonly
used tool to communicate in bigger open source project.
1. I want to know, what time would you expect me to spend on the project (I
mean kind of schedule). The problem is, that I have my exam period when the
first period of GSoC programming starts, and as I am on my first year of
studies, this period will be very hard and I will sure have to devote much
time for it. Is it possible for me to do less coding on the start and then,
after my exam period, do more? I know, that GSoC is supposed to be a
full-time job, but I am worried that I will not manage to deal with both my
studies and GSoC. Or maybe should I wait until next year? I would be
grateful if you could give me some advice on that.
2. The requirements say, that I should know C and GTK+/GLib. I have done
some programming in C++ and I have started C in my studies, I also created
some smaller programs using GTK+ 2 (and GLib in the amount I needed it to
do simple actions in my programs, so very little in fact). I do not know if
these skills are enough and I hope, that you will give me some clue on
that. Also, I would like to know in what fields I should look for some
knowledge and learn before start of coding (I mean e.g. network in C?
ciphering algorithms?). Or maybe I should choose what to learn and how I
want to do it?
3. In your GSoC info page you say, that I should fix some minor bug before
applying. I planned to try it, but I could not build Epiphany with JHBuild.
The main problem is, that I use Arch Linux, where since some time ago the
default version of Python is Python 3 (and this is "python"), and Python 2
is executed by "python2". The buildscripts are written in Python 2, but
they all have "python" and not "python2" in the #!. This is, however, kind
of easy to fix. I got stuck when I tried to build glib and I had to remove
more and more lines in the script to work - in the end that had not worked
anyway. It was something with "parser.py". Could you help me also with that?
Ok, I know, this is quite a lot and maybe not everything in the right
place, but this is my first time I am contacting a bigger Open Source
developer community (until now, I have only been using the software and,
sometimes, take part in user' s community, but that was all. I also created
some projects on my own but, obviously, these are small projects and do not
have the community (yet?)), so I am quite confused.
I hope that you will help me.
Greetings,
-----------------------------------------
Piotr Żurek
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jhbuild error

Sakshi Bansal — 2012-04-02T11:40:36

Hello everyone,
Error during phase build of pango: ########## Error running make -j 4.
I am having this error during building jhbuild. Can anybody help me how to
fix this??
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jhbuild configuration

Sakshi Bansal — 2012-04-01T12:36:55

Hello,
I am having a problem with jhbuild build.
Error during phase configure of gudev: ########## Error running
./autogen.sh --prefix /opt/gnome --libdir '/opt/gnome/lib'
--disable-static --disable-gtk-doc  *** [29/229]
Can somebody tell me what to do???
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About data sync

calvin — 2012-03-31T18:37:35

Hi,

I'm GSoC2012 student Calvin. I'm not very clear about the motivation
for syncing session state and cookies. What function or capability can
we expect by using another machine's session state and cookie data?

And to support for data storage selection, perhaps we should let users
select a server or fill in server address when they register or login
for the sync service. Each user's account and data will just reside in
"one" of the storage severs (including Firefox's servers, UbuntuOne's
and ours (if set up finally)). Additionally, considering supporting
syncing between Epiphany and Firefox, finally all the servers will
compose a "server group" which as a whole serves Firefox and Epiphany.
Am I right?

Best regards,
Calvin

Project wiki

Xan Lopez — 2012-03-30T13:11:55

Hi,

thanks to everyone who has recently made changes to the wiki, it's
nice to see people interested in the project. I'd just like to ask one
thing: unless you are making trivial changes (correcting a typo or a
dead link, that sort of thing), please ask the Epiphany team before
committing your modifications. In particular, please do not make
large-scale redesigns of a page without consulting us first.

Cheers,

Xan

Security issue - Impossible to view the location bar

Saašha Metsärantala — 2012-03-28T23:20:57

Hello!

Using Epiphany on Debian, it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to view the location 
bar, since I visited a (now obviously) unsecure website.

Do NOT visit www.sencha.com/ or Epiphany will hang.

Restarting Epiphany, the location bar is gone and you can not get it back 
through the menu: - View - Tool bar - because they are all greyed.

I removed the

~/.gconf/apps/epiphany/

directory, but it does not solve the problem. The location bar is just 
gone!

I consider it should NEVER be possible to be unable to restore the 
location bar.

Until the bug is fixed, I will have to use another web browser.

Regards!

Saašha,
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Preferred build environment? Development branch?

William Ting — 2012-03-30T03:10:12

What is the preferred build environment for epiphany? JHBuild or from source?

I run into a few issues with JHBuild. It's not stable and the build
breaks every few hours. Usually either epiphany or one of the
dependencies are being built is updated but fails to compile cleanly.
The other issue is JHBuild always builds from the master branch. This
causes problems when I want to build an older release branch or a
feature branch.

The alternative is to build Epiphany and WebKit from source
separately, but that leads to its own problems of updating system
libraries and resolving all the dependencies manually.

If we're fixing bugs with unspecified versions, should we always be
working off the master branch? Should all new features be implemented
off master branch?

Thanks,

Doubt regarding changes on server-end files

harshali raka — 2012-03-29T13:30:59

The requirements for the project state that you need to only know
C, GTK+/Glib. So, when a person opts for some thing using sync options
changes are to be made in his home directory and they should not affect
other users on the systems. But still i had doubt that are there any
changes that are required to be made on the server-end ? Please clarify.
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indic font problem

Rudra Banerjee — 2012-03-28T13:41:56

I discussed the issue in irc, but failed to solve.
http://www.anandabazar.com is a newspaper site in bengali, an indic
language.
The rendering of the fonts in epiphany is wrong, as a screenshot
http://imagebin.org/205554 while firefox and chromium renders it
correctly as in http://imagebin.org/205555 .
I can understand this is not a epiphany problem as other pages (like
http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%
9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%8E_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC# 
is rendered correctly.
Any solution?

A clutter based Epiphany, maybe?

alex diavatis — 2012-03-28T11:48:26

Hello there,

First of all, congratulations about Epiphany 3.4, that I really like it,
specially on full screen mode, with hidden control bar.
However, I am a bit concerned about the future of Epiphany, as I don't see
it to make any impact, not even on small Distros.
While Gnome Developers do amazing things on Shell & Boxes, it seems that
they ignore the most important piece of a complete
OS, the web-browser.

I realize that Epiphany wants to be a simple and lightweight browser, but
it ends up as a poor featured browser, unusable for web surfing.
To be honest, I am not quite sure if Epiphany would catch up with Chromium
& Firefox in the near future -if ever,  and that makes me to
wonder if there is a purpose of existence for this project.

Well, you all know the critical importance of a web-browser, that nowdays
maybe is the browser that defines the OS, and not the
OS that defines the browser - and by browser I mean the whole
browser/internet experience.


Bringing on my mind some aspects ..

- Web Browse isn't a menu based App, not quite a need for GTK Widgets
- Clutter, Mutter / Shell are very closed projects
- Gnome Devs are doing Clutter
- There is already a Clutter webkit
- Shell manages the Desktop
- Google's native client approach

..I have this "maybe" is time for a Clutter based web-browser.

A full screen, (silent until you use it) web-browser  that will run always
on the top of the Desktop, a browser that even could handle Desktop
wallpapers (with online Sync), and a browser that would run HTML5 apps as a
widgets on your Desktop.

Can you imagine the possibilities and the advantages on this
approach (rhetorical question)?

I think that you own the infrastructure, and you are willing to do
innovative eye-candy things :)

Thanx,
- alex
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Epiphany and Sync (in relation to GSoC)

Chris Baines — 2012-03-20T19:47:26

Hello,

I am a student looking to participate in GSoC, I saw the Sync for
Epiphany section of http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2012/Ideas and
was quite interested. For starters, do you intend to do the sync like
Firefox and Chrome (in the browser), or to use Conduit, or something
else? I really like the ideas behind Conduit, but when I tried a
little while ago to do stuff with it, it didn't work for me...

Also, with respect to the requirements, what proficiency is required
in GTK+/Glib, I am sure I can pick up C quickly enough (I managed
using C++ last year, with little previous experience), but I have
never done anything with GTK+ or Glib?

Thanks,

Chris

Future of Epiphany

Albert Wagner — 2012-03-12T03:54:44

While reading about a bug in Epiphany 3.0.4 installed in Xubuntu 11.10,
I received the distinct impression that Epiphany is being tailored to
require the gnome shell.  I have no intention of running the gnome
shell, though I have no problem with gnome 3 apps.  Should I abandon
Epiphany?

Can a flash player be installed

Albert Wagner — 2012-03-11T19:17:04

Can a flash player be installed in Epiphany?

Topic names on tool bar

Albert Wagner — 2012-03-11T02:51:08

I am a new user.  When I attempt to get a tool bar with topic names, I
instead get simply an ellipsis and down arrow. How may I get a tool bar
with topic names?