WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 1, Afternoon

After num-num tapas for lunch (and some chocolatey cake), we got back to the agenda, with Jon presenting the design for the Web application, successor (in spirit, and perhaps in code) to Epiphany.

• Andy did the initial work on adding new language features to JavaScriptCore (let and const, as used heavily in gnome-shell)
• Martin and Gustavo worked on a way to automate running the WebKitGTK tests with test fonts, and are working on making all the tests automated, and reproduceable
• Philippe fixed fullscreen support in the HTML5 YouTube player
• Dan fixed the broken security status in Epiphany
• Carlos worked on the WebKit2 support for windowed plugins, and the WebKit side of favicons support
• Philippe, Martin and yours truly discussed sharing of fullscreen media controls (UI and behaviour) between WebKitGTK, Totem and Sushi, as well as a way to make fullscreening smoother.

I hear they didn't finish all the beers for Igalia's 10th anniversary party...

WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 1, morning

After landing in (not so sunny) A Coruña yesterday, we started bright and early today with the WebKitGTK+ hackfest agenda.

We've got most of the topics pinned, as listed on the wiki. If you have more topics to add to the discussion, feel free to drop by #webkit-gtk-hackfest on GIMPNet IRC, and try to drum up interest in somebody championing your topic.

It looks like we could get some pretty cool demos done by the end of this week!

ObexFTP in GNOME, (non-)update

If you've tried to use ObexFTP browsing (browsing files on mobile phones over Bluetooth) in GNOME in recent times, and didn't get a good experience from it (crashes, or very unreliable browsing), those problems are known, and due to the architecture used to implement the functionality.

If you want to help make ObexFTP browsing good again, please try to convince one of your coder friends to help port the existing code to use the "gobex" library that the obexd D-Bus service uses.

Unless somebody steps up in the GNOME 3.4 timeframe, I will disable the access to the functionality in gnome-bluetooth. The brokenness makes us look very bad, and the files are still available through other (cabled) means in most cases.