GTK issues
In article <50e1b7fd67tlsa(a)netsurf-browser.org>,
Michael Drake <tlsa(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
I barely loaded a few pages in it, but there were several obvious
issues:
Recent development has fixed some of these issues. Details below.
1. Broken middle click
Middle click doesn't open in new tab or new window any
more.
Fixed.
2. Broken toolbar icons
After following a link and the page completes loading, the
toolbar icon for stop was still available and the icon for
reload was greyed out. (They should be the other way round
by that point.)
Fixed.
3. Text size
I'm not sure exactly why, but the text size seemed really
large.
Not yet addressed.
4. URL completion behaviour
If you select an item in the URL completion list, you have
to press return once to put the URL into the URL bar, and
then again to launch the URL. This is contrary to every
other browser I've used and even NetSurf on other platforms.
Not yet addressed.
5. Broken URL bar display
If you type a URL into the URL bar, it returns immediately
to show the URL of the previous page. Then, once the new
page is loaded, the URL bar is updated with a new URL.
Still broken.
6. Status bar / scrollbar furniture
The feature where the status bar and horizontal bar share
the same vertical space (status bar on the left and
scrollbar on the right) has been regressed at some point in
nsgtk. NetSurf's other front ends (RISC OS, AmigaOS, BeOS
and Framebuffer) have this screen space saving layout.
Fixed and brought into line with the behaviour of the other front ends.
7. Mad default window size
The first time you run nsgtk (no previous choices file), the
browser window is really narrow. This makes the welcome
page look really bunched up (especially with the large
text), which is not the best first impression.
Fixed.
8. Jerky scrolling
Scrolling any longish page is really jerky. If you scroll
down a long page, you get a little bit of smooth scrolling,
then a long pause, then a big jump, then a little bit of
smooth scrolling again before another pause and jump etc.
It's most obvious when dragging the scrollbar, but other
scrolling methods like scroll wheel show the same.
Fixed. The problem was inefficiency in the gtk bitmap plotter.
So remaining are:
3. Text size
4. URL completion behaviour
5. Broken URL bar display
I'd say only 5 is really important for now.
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Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/