Alhena 5.2.6
The gestation of 5.2.6 is over. New features include optional link icons (so you can visually indentify gemini, http, mailto and data links) and the ability to embed text and images via data urls. Who knew? There's also more than the usual number of small bug fixes.
FWIW and whatnot.
Edit to add: I found a somewhat annoying bug with link icons and the Bookmark and History pages so 5.2.7 is out.
Aug 11 · 2 months ago · 👍 Tomi
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☯️ fairlygoodthanks · Aug 11 at 17:32:
Had a play with this the other day. Looks really good!
i am still kinda waiting for a better scrolling experience on linuxmobile. touch drag would be amazing or at least an option to make the scrollbar a bit wider to fit my thumb... anyway, thank you for all your efforts!
🦎 bluesman [OP/mod] · Sep 02 at 15:22:
@me Thanks! Did you ever try the touch scrolling on older versions of Alhena? Basically, you could press and hold the top or bottom of the page to start scrolling. I removed it because it interfered with selecting text on the desktop but I could probably revive it as an option.
An optional wider scrollbar might be doable as well. I'll look into it.
🦎 bluesman [OP/mod] · Sep 02 at 18:08:
@me I added a "Big Scrollbar" option. I didn't want to make it too wide as it seems useful on the desktop as well. If you build from source, the changes have been pushed. Otherwise, it will be in version 2.3.1 when that gets released (probably within the week).
Let me know how that works.
"Big Scrollbar" is way better, thanks!
push and hold as we had once is annoying, please dont bring it back. imagine using alhena on your smartphone with the thumb, then you know what i miss (of corse i understand if it is technically not solvable yet)
wait, i just checked how lagrange on android is handling it since we can easy scroll with the thumb when touch the page. i think its solved wit timing.
click(touch) & move = scrolling
loooong click(touch) = select text
🦎 bluesman [OP/mod] · Sep 03 at 20:31:
I'll investigate that again. It's been long enough that I can't remember what I tried before. It's too bad the OS can't emulate mouse wheel events like the track pad on a laptop.
🦎 bluesman [OP/mod] · Sep 03 at 22:59:
@me Hey, I think I'm on to something. Hopefully I'll have something to test soon (I'm "emulating" with a mouse so we'll see if it pans out).
🦎 bluesman [OP/mod] · Sep 03 at 23:52:
@me If you build from source, try the "Drag To Scroll" option and let me know if it works for you. If you press and hold for more than 500 ms, you're back to text selection mode.
yea... holy sh**... now we are talking, finally... amazing, this works.. time for screenshots and promoting it to my bubble... thank you, thank you, thank you 😘
there is a bug (should i write on github?)... after commenting someones post, it selects text while thumb scrolling, as something would not release anymore..
a simple refresh fixes it for now..
🦎 bluesman [OP/mod] · Sep 05 at 20:18:
Good to know! I'll probably do an official release soon since there's really nothing else pending.
🦎 bluesman [OP/mod] · Sep 05 at 20:20:
@me Just saw the bug post. What do you mean by "after commenting"? Hopefully I can reproduce or make an educated guess about what's happening.
i will let you know all the situations when i can reproduce it all for sure.
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