Dear Yong Wu, after the recent updates moblin web browser does really save my changes.. great!
if I change theme and disable the tab and status bars, even after reboot they are not shown and the theme preserved.. have some bugs been corrected? by the way thanks a lot! :) ps: I can save/create etc files in my home directory, and I could also before the updates. bye and thanks for your work! 2009/12/3 Wu, Yong <[email protected]> > Roby <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Roby <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Moblin Dev] Improve Moblin Web Browser >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Dear Yong Wu, >> thanks for the answer. >> >> I do have the ~/.mozilla/moblin-web-browser directory. >> I did try also from the about:config page, I set manually the tab bar >> autoHide to TRUE and the bar disappear, then if I close and restart the >> web >> browser it is still disabled, but if I restart moblin the tab bar appears >> again and the option is set to FALSE again.. :( >> why does this happens after reboot? can the problem be due to the fact I >> installed moblin on a SD card and it is running from it? don't think so >> but >> who knows.. >> >> > So the settings are saved when restart browser, but lost when reboot OS, > right.. It seems you have tmpfs/ramfs and those changes are not flushed to > your SD card. You could run 'mount' command from terminal to check whether > your '/home' folder is mounted on a tmpfs. Also please check whether you > could save a normal file in your home folder after system reboot. For > example, from the terminal, run 'echo This is $USER from $HOSTNAME > > $HOME/dummy'. After reboot your OS and check the $HOME/dummy file. > > Another possible reason, did you run with different user? The browser > profiles are created per each single user, not global. > > should I report this to bugzilla? >> >> thanks again for helping me bye! >> >> ps. could not try the localstore.rdf stuff as I can not find the profiles >> directory.. >> >> >> > Normally it is under > $HOME/.mozilla/moblin-web-browser/xxxx.default/localstore.rdf, in case your > profiles are already created (it is created in the 1st time browser started) > and the changes were flushed into the SD card successfully. > >> >> 2009/12/2 Wu, Yong <[email protected]> >> >> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:23:24 +0300 >> >> On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 23:59 +0800 Roby wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:19:53 +0100 >>>> From: Roby <[email protected]> >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: [Moblin Dev] Improve Moblin Web Browser >>>> Message-ID: >>>> <[email protected]> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> it was not easy at all for me to understand how to properly post >>>> impressions/suggestions/comments and so on about moblin.. I hope this is >>>> >>>> >>> the >>> >>> >>>> correct way.. >>>> >>>> I am on my eeePC 901 (9" screen) and I really like the project, but the >>>> >>>> >>> web >>> >>> >>>> browser perplexes me a little as it is not so optimized for small >>>> screens >>>> >>>> >>> as >>> >>> >>>> it could be. >>>> For example the tab and status bars are always shown by default (the >>>> first >>>> one would be better if shown only in case you have more than one tab >>>> open) >>>> and the menu bar has too big icons.. this way you waste a lot of space >>>> on >>>> the screen which is already so small!! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Thanks for the comments. All your suggestions are valid. The browser team >>> have >>> planned to make theme to be more effective for small screen. >>> >>> >>> >>>> You can disable the bars from the preferences and also change the >>>> >>>> >>> appearance >>> >>> >>>> theme to get smaller icons and more area available on the screen but if >>>> >>>> >>> you >>> >>> >>>> restart the system you lose all the changes and the web browser always >>>> >>>> >>> shows >>> >>> >>>> up with the default settings and appearance.. :( >>>> >>>> do you know if it possible to make the changes permanent to save space >>>> on >>>> the screen? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> The browser do remember your settings (via the profiles). As long as the >>> profile >>> system (~/.mozilla/moblin-web-browser) is not deleted or corrupted by >>> accident. >>> Or else, please file a bug on bugzilla.moblin.org. >>> >>> Btw, you could check the about:config values to verify your settings - >>> say, >>> to hide >>> the tab bar on single tab, please check whether 'browser.tabs.autoHide' >>> is >>> 'true'. >>> Or you could set it to true manually. (Prefs are set from about:config >>> which can >>> be invoked from the url bar). >>> >>> To hide the status bar, you could find a localstore.rdf file under your >>> profiles folder. >>> Please check whether the hidden attribute is set in the #status-bar xul >>> element. >>> >>> <RDF:Description >>> RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#status-bar" >>> hidden="true" /> >>> >>> There are other options in that file you could hack with. But the >>> standard >>> way Is to >>> use the preference dialog. >>> >>> The small-icon feature is not fully supported. We will improve it in the >>> next release. >>> Again, thanks for your feedback. >>> >>> Regards, Yong >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > [email protected] > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
