[rekonq] Re: new "new tab page" should be ready for merging soon.

[Andrea Diamantini]

On Wednesday 26 January 2011 01:29:47 Pierre Rossi wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Little overdue, but I think we're getting there.
> I still haven't put the closedTabs javascript bit, and there are still
> small quirks, but the "new tab page" refactoring proposal can be checked
> out here:
> 
> http://gitorious.org/~elproxy/rekonq/elproxys-rekonq/commits/hybrid
> 
> I also need to rebase this on top of current master, hopefully something
> that I could have done by tomorrow.
> 
> Since I suspect the diff  will be huge, I think everyone here who's
> considering reviewing it could start looking at the changes Benjamin and I
> made in this branch.
> 
> Here's a quick overview of these changes (lots of things are hopefully
> boring and repetitive so once you know the concepts, it should make the
> review a bit less painful):
> 
> - about: protocol (well it has to be something else than about for it to
> work, so for now it's rekonq:) requests are intercepted by the network
> access manager and replies are fed to webkit thanks to a custom reply.
> - we use the QtWebKit bridge to expose the relevant application data to the
> script engine
> - home.html is going to go away, replaced by a plain index.html skeleton
> that relies on a few JavaScript and CSS files. In the future, a theme would
> simply have to ship new js and css files along with images and that should
> be good enough.
> - Thanks to Benjamin's mockup objects, a web designer could easily work on
> the look and feel of this page, even in another browser if they so wish
> (bad designer !).
> 
> I think that's it for now, stay tuned.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Pierre

Good News :)
Work on it with calm. If things are really ok and quite ready to merge we can 
delay feature freeze 2/3 days lo let everything shine :)

Cheers,
-- 
Andrea Diamantini, adjam
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