SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Flip the Switch: Done.

The switch from XPFE to Toolkit has finally been made - thanks to all the contributors, most visibly Robert Kaiser, Mark Banner and Andrew Schultz. SeaMonkey trunk is now version 2.0a.

The fix for Bug 328887 has been accompanied by several changes like the activation of the NSIS installer for Windows (Bug 351917), automatic updates for Add-ons (extensions and themes, Bug 363700) and the removal of the Themes preferences pane (Bug 372856). Theme and extension management is now centralized under Tools / Add-ons. Switch Profile, also to be found under Tools, will no longer work and might be removed in the future.

For first-time Suiterunner users, the effects of Bug 329744 will show you the profile migration wizard which will setup a new SeaMonkey profile and copy most of your preferences to a new location. Your original profile will not be touched, so if anything goes wrong, nothing is lost.

The first nightly builds (Linux, Mac) will not contain all the recent changes, so you might want to wait for tomorrow's builds or build yourself from CVS.

Monday, May 21, 2007

Switch to Suiterunner imminent

According to a mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey posting by Mark Banner, the switch from XPFE to Suiterunner will probably happen this week. At the same time, the trunk version number will be updated to reflect the decision that the next release from trunk will be 2.0 (i.e. there will be no SeaMonkey 1.5).

Thursday, May 17, 2007

How It All Fits Together

Mike Schroepfer posted a diagram showing the Mozilla Platform and its building parts. The lower levels have mostly been in use for years, only Cairo/Thebes and SQLite are quite new. The top level, Toolkit, is the way where Suiterunner is going. The only things I don't know about (when it comes to SeaMonkey) are Widget and XBL. And, as you might notice, RDF is missing. It's probably deprecated and not widely used nowadays, especially in Toolkit applications.

There goes P3P

Bug 366611 effectively removes P3P from the trunk. The bug states that it was a feature that "never really took off the way it was hoped it would", not available in Firefox and disabled by default in SeaMonkey. I couldn't find where you can activate it, though. Seems I never missed it.

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Just a few bits

  • On Linux/UNIX, the GTK1 and XLIB graphics backends are gone on the trunk now that Bug 326152 is fixed.
  • the SuiteRunner builds available from [Windows] and [Mac] seem to be quite complete but not yet ready for real use (e.g. Download Manager)