Just a brief update to previous post. I tried following discussion and “suggestions” there and implemented a sort of “mix” of them. I’m quite satisfied from results. A screenshot will let everything being simpler:
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So, what happened here:
results are (no more than) 10 now. In 0.8 they are no more than 8. You have all sites matching, but the ones “startingWith” are considered more relevant and are listed before. The other relevance criteria (number and last date of visits) are anyway considered and help listing history items.
Compare this screenshot with actual implementation and with first proposal to have a clear idea about.

I tested it all the morning and it really seems “matching” better my needs. So I’m probably going on submitting a review request for.
Last chance to submit comments about

You may be scared a bit I’m blogging so much in this period and you are probably right
But there is an easy explanation for this: holidays!!!
So, working on my preferred browser, I found a couple of bugs/wishes on b.k.o. complaining about our awesome urlbar (c) suggestions mechanism. If you never used rekonq, run installing it and try digiting something in the urlbar. I’m attaching here a picture of suggestions for the word “kde”.

I decided to follow patterns suggested reading reports and I worked an hour about: here is the result.

This is basically the result of 3 commit:

1. Invert PreviewList item order, showing icon, text (url), preview
2. Change suggestions order to: History, Bookmarks, Search & Browse, suggestions
3. Improve site selection by searching just on sites that “startsWith” the typed text

Just let me explain last (first two are self evident): can you see “planetkde.org” result on first screenshot? Do you think an user typing “kde” is searching for a site containing the string “kde” or just for those sites starting with the typed string?

So, what do you think about? What’s the best suggestion mechanism?

My wife has a netbook I sometimes “steal” to have a tiny and light pc at work. (My 13 inches need at least a bag, my wife’s netbook stays… everywhere).
At work we have an http proxy that I have to set to browse and I usually forget to reset when I go back home
So, my wife cannot browse with and cannot easily fix the problem herself.
So, my question is: do you have two different network sharing the same proxy settings? Do you know something sharing? Do you know networks enabling/disabling their proxy to access the net? I don’t.
Hence, the idea and the proposal: can our network management code save/set proxy settings together with network (ip, mask, route, dns) ones?

Yes, it seems I’m actually blogging just to announce releases. Free time is a dream in this period for me and I usual relax just on the sofa in front of the tv or reading/writing code
Anyway, as titled, time for the first bugfix release in the 0.8 rekonq browser series: 0.8.1!
You’ll find there a dozen of bugs fixed and hopefully all the translations available. In fact I learnt the existence of the releaseme script, a useful tool to release KDE software. Thanks to the i18n guy pointing that out to me (Burkhard?) and to stikonas and apachelogger on IRC for any help to let it work as desired.
While I’m not sure there will be a 0.8.2 (it depends on the bugfixes “0.8 compatible” available), I’d like to say that everything is going well for next feature release (with web apps support, refactored user agent & download management code and obviously… sync) and you’ll see a first “technologic preview” of it (I ever dreamt to say it!!!) just at the end of this month!

So, have a nice day. And enjoy rekonq!

Here we are, finally! After a long, hard and busy bugfixing period, we finally fixed all the stopper bugs for the first 0.8 stable release. If you live under the rocks and you really don’t know yet what rekonq is, just click here and here or here and… to take a look about by yourself!
We can proudly say that rekonq 0.8 when used against the new shining QtWebKit 2.2.0 is an HUGE improvement compared to the previous release.
As said in the first blog of the 0.8 release series, it comes with these new features:

• AdBlock: Third Party rules support
• custom urlbar context menu (paste & go action, …)
• set editable
• restore tab’s history
• UI changes (in rekonq menu)
• quit closes app (and added option to close window by closing last tab)
• use KParts to view page source
• “click” mechanism to manage favorites
• “Do Not Track” feature
• history, time first visit added
• Tab messages using KMessageWidget
• improved drag’n'drop
• vi style navigation (optional)
• ctrl + number favorites shortcuts
• SSL UIs rewamped

About this last feature, I’d like to give some clarifications about the security advisory reported here.
While rekonq was affected (as every KDE app using KSSL) from CVE-2011-3365 (KSSL), fixed now in the KDE SC 4.7.x branch, CVE-2011-3366 (rekonq) is about code coming from our new SSL UI, that has been (obviously) fixed BEFORE 0.8 release (and so it has never been really released: neither 0.7 nor 0.8 are affected).

Last note: never as in this release, people reporting bugs, giving us feedback and comments has been important. So, an huge THANKS to all you, people. This is YOUR release!

So, what are you waiting here yet? Download, compile, package, share, install, use, browse, have fun!! And if you like this release, you’ll be astonished from the incredible new features we are preparing for the next rekonq!
Stay tuned.