Comments on: Yes, yes! Dillo-2.0

By: Something you don’t see every day « Motho ke motho ka botho

Something you don’t see every day « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:19:15 +0000

[...] maintained in that amount of time, chances are it won’t be. This isn’t Dillo, awaiting a rebirth, or XMMS, having reached a state of Nirvana and transcending updates (and as a result being dropped [...]

By: johnraff

johnraff — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:01:01 +0000

It might be worth mentioning that Dillo has a nice built-in file browser. Put, for example, “file:///etc” in the address bar and you get a listing of the directory contents, complete with a parent-folder link. Html files (of course), plain text files and image files can all be viewed in a flash. As long as you dont’t want to edit anything it’s a much faster way of looking around than, for example, pcmanfm + leafpad + gpicview.

By: Nergui

Nergui — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:03:14 +0000

For what it’s worth, 2 of my favorite FLTK apps are alsamixergui (at least as fast as the console mixer, and with the same keyboard controls) and fldiff (graphical diff that’s much more straightforward than console diff).

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:26:04 +0000

I concur, on all points. But I also get the feeling that this is something that’s in progress, so I’m anticipating 2.1. I do like the speed and the look though.

Speaking of the look, I’ll have to get started with customizing FLTK too. I can’t think of any applications I use regularly that have FLTK underpinnings, so that’s new ground for me. But if Dillo is going to use it, and if Dillo 2.x continues to impress me, then I’ll have to pull up my socks and start learning … again. …

By: Onyros

Onyros — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:42:08 +0000

They should take some hints from the patched Dillo version, especially concerning tabs, that implementation was much superior: possibility of having the tab bar always showing, tabs loading in the background, closing tabs with a middle mouse click, etc.

One thing that I feel is quite strange, and I have tested this in parallel: the new version loads pages much, much faster. Well, strange isn’t quite the word, it’s just… so good it almost feels strange.

BTW, is there anyway one can customize FLTK’s theme? I’d like to, at least, change the font sizes in Dillo’s dialogs and address bar, because they’re much bigger than what I have setup elsewhere.