[Tails-dev] Bookmarks persistence - help needed
Hi devs,
attached patch 0001-Added-bookmarks-preset.patch adds a Browser
bookmarks preset in tails-persistence-setup.
It creates a bookmarks folder in the persistent volume and links
files from this folder to /home/amnesia/.mozilla/firefox/default. It
needs the 0001-generate-iceweasel-profile-at-build-time.patch to be
applied to Tails (see generate Iceweasel profile at build time
discussion).
The bookmarks folder is supposed to contain the places.sqlite file
alone. If it's not there when preset is turned on, a default one
should be copied (creating an empty file won't work). I think it can
be done in the go_button_pressed method in
lib/Tails/Persistence/Step/Configure.pm, but I'm not confident with
perl. Hope someone else can do it.
Greetings
Alessandro
From 701d39c9645ecb52cddb776a0ce9ee6f4fee08a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tails developers amne...@boum.org
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 12:11:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added bookmarks preset
---
lib/Tails/Persistence/Configuration/Presets.pm | 10 ++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/Tails/Persistence/Configuration/Presets.pm b/lib/Tails/Persistence/Configuration/Presets.pm
index 5113828..5fd45da 100644
--- a/lib/Tails/Persistence/Configuration/Presets.pm
+++ b/lib/Tails/Persistence/Configuration/Presets.pm
@@ -114,6 +114,16 @@ method _build__presets {
enabled = 0,
icon_name = 'network-wired',
},
+ {
+name= $self-encoding-decode(gettext(q{Browser bookmarks})),
+description = $self-encoding-decode(gettext(
+q{Bookmarks saved in Iceweasel browser}
+)),
+destination = '/home/amnesia/.mozilla/firefox/default',
+options = [ 'source=bookmarks', link ],
+enabled = 0,
+icon_name = 'user-bookmarks',
+},
{
name= $self-encoding-decode(gettext(q{APT Packages})),
description = $self-encoding-decode(gettext(
--
1.7.10.4
From c8394e520dd15fdbf80bd1e2651a464499a4a010 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alessandro Grassi alessandro@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:09:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] generate iceweasel profile at build time
---
config/chroot_local-hooks/14-generate-iceweasel-profile | 11 +++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
create mode 100755 config/chroot_local-hooks/14-generate-iceweasel-profile
diff --git a/config/chroot_local-hooks/14-generate-iceweasel-profile b/config/chroot_local-hooks/14-generate-iceweasel-profile
new file mode 100755
index 000..d910076
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/chroot_local-hooks/14-generate-iceweasel-profile
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+#generate iceweasel profile at build time, so that it has a fixed name
+
+set -e
+apt-get --yes install xvfb
+xvfb-run iceweasel -CreateProfile default
+mv ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default ~/.mozilla/firefox/default
+sed -i s@Path=.*\.default@Path=default@ ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
+mv ~/.mozilla /etc/skel
+apt-get --yes purge xvfb
--
1.7.10.4
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Re: [Tails-dev] Tails-greeter UI redesign
On 04/10/12 21:21, a...@boum.org wrote: Hi, Some time ago, I wrote: From: a...@boum.org Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:44:15 +0200 As you have probably experienced, tails-greeter UI is far from ergonomic. Thus, some of use discussed plans to improve the situations[1]. These plans include asking for your input on UI design proposals. We will then propose 1 or 2 implementations, get them tested and see what happens. So it's time for those who care to send what you find relevant, be it suggestions about something not to forget about, proposals or user experience workflow, UI mockups or anything else. Well no answer so far... but I took some time to play on this, and have some mockups to propose. Please test! Everything is on the ticket, under the title Prototypes: https://tails.boum.org/todo/tails-greeter:_revamp_UI/ Download everything in https://tails.boum.org/todo/tails-greeter:_revamp_UI/mockups/ or better clone the git, go to the directory and: $ ./mockup.py [-v variant] [-p] I'm excited about see that! I was not able to find the mockup.py script in Tails Greeter repository. Where is it? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
[Tails-dev] Tails report for September, 2012
September, 2012 has been pretty busy for Tails. Here is a report of what happened. Releases Tails 0.13 was released on September 18th. See the announcement for more details: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.13/ The release came out one week late compared to the initial schedule. This is due to an unexpected late arrival of the updated Iceweasel ESR backported packages. The next release, labeled 0.14, should be released by the end of October. A first release candidate should be available for testing on the 9th. People == Tails has been started and successfully connected to the Tor network around 71.000 times in September. That makes a boot every 36 seconds on average. This number is an approximation from the requests made for the security announcements feed. The later is retrieved by Tails after being connected to Tor to eventually encourage users to update. 47 reports were received through WhisperBack. The forum activity went pretty crazy with 1038 new messages, 156 of them signed by Tails. Not the highest signal/noise ratio in history, though. Code A fix was merged for the slow browsing experience of the documentation available inside Tails systems. https://tails.boum.org/todo/faster_offline_documentation_browsing/ Some progress was made on the front of supporting multiple kernels, that should lead a future version of Tails to use multiple cores and more than 3GB of memory eventually, as well as fixing most of the dreaded not all memory is wiped at shutdown bug. https://tails.boum.org/todo/nx_bit/ A first attempt to tackle persistent connections in Network Manager is available for reviews. https://tails.boum.org/todo/persistence_preset_-_NM_connections/ 'Old style' PC speaker is now disabled to prevent loud, unexpected beeps. https://tails.boum.org/todo/disable_pc_speaker/ The Unsafe Web browser now disables all Iceweasel extensions. http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=commit;h=64da202 The firewall is now configured using `ferm`. https://tails.boum.org/todo/ferm/ The build process is now more likely to fail instead of letting errors slip when hooks fail. https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001634.html Tails (`devel` Git branch) is now using Tor 0.2.3. https://tails.boum.org/todo/Tor_0.2.3/ One of the new feature of Tor 0.2.3 is network stream isolation. Subsequent anonymity enhancements have been implemented and will be available in Tails 0.14. https://tails.boum.org/todo/separate_Tor_streams/ The readahead breakage resulting in a noticeable pause during startup has been fixed. https://tails.boum.org/todo/fix_background_readahead/ The Vagrant-based build system was optimized. https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001594.html Some more work has been done in improving handling of init scripts. https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001643.html The bug that made the default search engine for some languages fallback on Google has been fixed. http://tails.boum.org/bugs/languages_without_a_localized_Startpage_get_Google_by_default/ Some more build system optimization related to package installation. https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001718.html An input method for Japanese has been added and will be in Tails 0.14. https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001719.html Programs used by default to open downloaded files were often sub-optimal. The issue is now fixed. http://tails.boum.org/todo/open_mp3_with_totem_instead_of_audacity/ A bug resulting in whisperback reporting an inexistent error during the send process has been fixed. https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001621.html On the OpenPGP smartcards support front, some backports were prepared and are being tested. On-going discussions Two contributors interested in working on Tails server showed up: https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001559.html Some feedback and comments about the 'uwt' script shipped in Whonix: https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001575.html Experiments on backporting Iceweasel: https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001600.html What should be done with the system date when it's off any reasonable limit? https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001637.html Schedule for the upcoming 0.14 release: https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001647.html Block/unblock wireless devices? https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001648.html Researching best way to implement persistent browser bookmarks, with some first patches from Alessandro Grassi: https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001644.html Should Tails ship a download manager? https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-September/001670.html Should PCMCIA / ExpressCard / Firewall be deactivated?
Re: [Tails-dev] Bookmarks persistence - help needed
Hi Alessandro, On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 11:49:20AM +0100, Alessandro Grassi wrote: attached patch 0001-Added-bookmarks-preset.patch adds a Browser bookmarks preset in tails-persistence-setup. It creates a bookmarks folder in the persistent volume and links files from this folder to /home/amnesia/.mozilla/firefox/default. It needs the 0001-generate-iceweasel-profile-at-build-time.patch to be applied to Tails (see generate Iceweasel profile at build time discussion). I suggest you always send the full patch series for review. It's small enough it make sure there is no misunderstandings in which version of the previously sent patches should be used. The bookmarks folder is supposed to contain the places.sqlite file alone. If it's not there when preset is turned on, a default one should be copied (creating an empty file won't work). Having an empty file also did not work in my own tests. What worked was to have a `places.sqlite` that was a symlink. When it was pointing to a non-existent file, Iceweasel happily proceeded to create the file from the default settings. Instead of using the 'link' option of the persistence framework, how about using another directory, then? This would result in the following approach: * At build time: - create an Iceweasel profile, - create an empty `~/.mozilla/bookmarks` directory, - remove `places.sqlite` from the Iceweasel profile, - add a symlink `~/.mozilla/default/places.sqlite` pointing to `~/.mozilla/bookmarks/places.sqlite`. * When bookmarks persistence is activated: - add `~/.mozilla/bookmarks` to the set of persistent directories. Wanna try it? -- Ague pgpRRwAqKUfO2.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
Re: [Tails-dev] Bookmarks persistence - help needed
Hi, Alessandro Grassi wrote (05 Oct 2012 21:31:16 GMT) : I noticed that .po and .pot files for t-p-s should be updated, [...] Are they updated on t-p-s build, or should I do that now? Now is a bit too early, as other things might change in t-p-s until these patches are merged, and it's no great fun to resolve conflicts within PO files. And at build time is a bit too late, as it does not give translators the opportunity to do their job. So, I guess we will update the PO files once we have applied these patches. Thanks for caring about l10n! ___ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
