KompoZer 0.8a2
By Kazé on Wednesday, April 8 2009, 12:01 - Permalink
A little step forward. This new alpha should solve ~50% of all bugs that have been reported for KompoZer 0.8a1, among which:
- broken cut/copy (!)
- missing toolbar icons and other bugs in the CSS editor
- “getIntPref” error in the font preferences window
- non-working “View > HTML source” menu item
Ongoing work
There are still a lot of bugs to fix, that should keep me busy for some time. At least, this release should be decently usable on recent GNU/Linux distros: KompoZer 0.7 crashes with GTK 2.14, KompoZer 0.8 doesn't. Overall, KompoZer 0.8 is much more stable than Nvu 1.0 or KompoZer 0.7.
The next big item on my TODO-list is the site manager. The current one doesn’t work any more with remote files: please use this site manager with local folders only, and use an FTP client to publish your files. I’ll do my best to implement a DreamWeaver-like dual view (local/remote) as soon as possible.
Some work has to be done on the DOM sidebar, it definitely requires some code optimization and bugfixes. I also plan to link the CSS tree to the CSS editor, i.e. double-clicking on a CSS rule should open the CSS editor on the selected rule. However, and though I love this DOM panel (especially to visualize the effect of Alt+arrows keyboard shortcuts), it’s not a high-priority item: if it’s not ready for the final 0.8 release, I could still disable it.
Quite a few users complain about the lack of a “source” tab. I’m afraid that’s the very last item in my TODO-list: Nvu’s pseudo syntax highlighting requires to patch the core quite heavily, so I’ll work on all the current bugs before trying to re-implement this source tab. I might use SeaMonkey Composer’s source tab in the next alpha release — i.e. without any syntax highlighting. Meanwhile, please give the new source dock a try: spend a few minutes to get used to the keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Enter, Alt+arrows), use the status bar or the DOM panel to select an element, you’ll see it can be a very efficient way to work on the source.
Downloads
You can grab KompoZer 0.8a2 here:
kompozer-0.8a2-win32.zip (Windows™ archive)
kompozer-0.8a2-mac-universal.dmg (MacOS X™ disk image)
kompozer-0.8a2-gcc4-i686.tar.gz (GNU/Linux archive)
The MacOS X version is now a proper disk image, many thanks to Bobo and Ragnaar for their help! Since it’s a universal binary, KompoZer 0.8a2 runs much faster on Intel Macs than Nvu 1.0 or KompoZer 0.7 (which were PPC builds).
If you use KompoZer 0.7, remember you’ll have to backup/erase your existing KompoZer profile before installing KompoZer 0.8a2. Don’t try to install any langpack yet, they need to be updated for this version.
Contribute
It’s an alpha release. There will be bugs, please report them in the SourceForge tracker or in one of these forums:
If you want to contribute to this project, you can ping me on the #kompozer chan.
Comments
Great news, Kazé! Thanks for you work!
Fantastic! Thank you for your herculean efforts.
Thanks for the updates (to say what's been fixed and changed) as well as your continued work on Kompozer.
Your efforts are REALLY appreciated,
Many thanks. You are doing the work I most need to complete my desktop. Thank you!
Can not run 0.8a2 (neither 0.7.10) on Fedora 10 64bit. I already installed many 32bit packages to fix dependency problem. But when I execute kompozer at command line, no errors and kompozer wouldn't start.
It's wonderful to see things moving forward again :-)
Thanks for making 0.8a2 available for Macs. I've been using Claris Home Page since 1997 and Kompozer since 0.7.1 or so. What I see I like - it's much faster at opening my huge (about 200K) family tree HTML file.
Please bring back source view as soon as possible, even without color coding.
@DarkRanger
I’m afraid I can’t help you with this, please use Fedora’s support forum. KompoZer 0.8 has been reported to work on the latest Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Mandriva, ZenWalk and Wolvix distros — I’d be very surprised if it didn’t work with Fedora 10.
EDIT: KompoZer 0.8 has just been reported to work on Fedora 10.
@Dan Knight
There’s already a working “Source” mode in my latest builds (SeaMonkey-like, no syntax highlighting). It requires some ironing before I can commit it to the SVN tree, but the alpha3 will definitely have this mode — along with an improved site manager, hopefully.
Hello there. i be very, very much gracefull if you can tell me how install it on mandriva one 2009... cause i download the tar.gz archive, but i don't know how to install it, besides i'm a recent user of linux systems.
other thing, my native language is spanish, so i'm sorry if my words are bad :/
thanks again, i be waiting by an answer :)
pedro.
Pedro: please use MozillaHispano or the Mandriva support forum, you’ll get some help there.
You can also ping me on the #kompozer chan if you wish, but my Spanish is limited. ;-)
LOVE the new Editor - keep it!
Thanks for the improvements! Great to see this project is moving forward. I also need a version for amd64 -- is there a problem compiling for this platform?
Dave
Dave: if you’re familiar the build documentation for Gecko 1.8.1 applications, building KompoZer on amd64 should be exactly the same as building on x86. The code is available on the SVN repository:
svn checkout https://kompozer.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kompozer/trunk/mozillaThe only tricky point with these alpha versions is that some chromes aren’t registered properly, so you’ll have to comment out all lines in the
dist/bin/chrome/app-chrome.manifestfile after the first run.Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!
Just spent a couple of hours trying out 0.8a2. Seems to work fine on openSUSE 11.1 (64bit).
Must admit to finding it more difficult to use without the 'source' tab (glad to hear you are working on it!). Tried using the source dock, but changes were not always saved.
Keep up the good work.
I've also just spent a couple hours trying this new version out, so far it works great. I used your version 7 to make our family website. Good Job and keep it up!
Thanks, Tony
Thank you for kompozer.
Ad i want to report about one bug.
Sometimes, mostly if I make Insert->Image picture on page don't displayed, only the borders, but if I close and open page again - it's shown.
And if make Insert->Image in preview windows picture not shown.
I have ubuntu 8.10.
Thank you again. :)
Fujjj: yes, it’s a known problem of KompoZer 0.8. This typically happens when you insert an image in a blank page, in which case you get the following notice in the JavaScript console:
Security Error: Content at about:strictblank may not load or link to file:///home/kaze/Documents/kaze-80x80.png.I’ll work on this bug (and all the other ones) during the beta-stage. At the moment I’m still struggling with the site manager. ;-)
Hey Kaze das ist echt unglaublich! Aber!
Bitte mach Kompozer ein wenig mehr wie DREAMWEAVER. Die Vorschläge die Dreamweaver macht sind einfach WOW. Und erleichtern eine MENGE.
Und der CODE muss auberer geschrieben werden! Dann ist alles perfekt!
Hey Kaze your work is unbelivable! But please make kompozer more like dreamweaver! The CODE must be more cleaner than before.
Choco: ich versuche ja schon, KompoZer näher von DreamWeaver zu bringen — siehe z.B. das neue SiteManager oder das Quelltext-Dock. Es gibt aber einen großen Unteschied zwischen DreamWeaver und KompoZer: das este ist ein Text-Editor, das zweite gar nicht. Es gibt schon ein paar Möglichkeiten, um KompoZer mit einem guten Text-Editor zu bauen. Wenn ich einen Vertrag dafür hätte, würde ich sofort KompoZer an einem Komodo-Basis bauen! Vielleicht wird auch Bespin eine gute Alternative werden — mal sehen.
Ich würde auch lieber einen sauberen Quelltext haben. Das ist leider nicht einfach, besonders mit Gecko 1.8.1; mit KompoZer 0.9 (Gecko 1.9.1) werde ich daran arbeiten können. Ich habe aber eine Erweiterung gemacht, die dir damit helfen könnte. ;-)
I’m trying to make KompoZer more like DreamWeaver in some aspects (e.g. site manager, split mode) but including a decent text editor in KompoZer isn’t easy. Hire me for one year to rebuild KompoZer on a Komodo basis and I’ll kill DreamWeaver!
I sure hate the way KompoZer reformats the HTML source but I can’t do much about it at the moment; that’s planned for the KompoZer 0.9, though. Meanwhile, you might want to try this workaround. ;-)
Just this: THANKS.
I love Kompozer. It's my favorite wordprocessor :-)
I'm very interested about doing the Fedora packaging. I looked for the 0.8a2 sources but not success. Could you point me to those, please?
BTW: don't know if you are aware about but seems OpenSuSE guys did a strong patching work maybe you could reuse.
I confess I mainly use KompoZer as a word processor, too. ;-)
So far, building KompoZer 0.8 is quite tricky because of some chrome registration problems. I’ve been working on this, it looks like it’s been solved on my side but Derevko (Debian maintainer) just reported a related error on the latest SVN revision. *sigh*
You can still have a look at the SVN repository if you want to get ready for the upcoming 0.8a3 release:
I wasn’t aware of that. I’ll have a look, thanks!
Je viens de lancer une cle USB avec Ubuntu 9.04 (i386), sur un vieux micro (512MO) sans DD. Et ça marche!
J'utilise Kompozer 7.XX sur mon PC XP habituel.
Je ne connais rien à Unix et je ne comprends pas comment on installe un logiciel sous Ubuntu. Meme pour les add-ons de Firefox ça ne marche pas. Apparemment il faut les installer depuis un raccourci Ajouter/Supprimer dans "Accessoires" et pas dans Firefox lui-meme.
Il y a bien Kompozer de proposé dans "Ajouter/Supprimer" mais il s'agit de la version 071.
Il me semble qu'elle ne marche pas dans cette version d'Ubuntu, d'aprés les commentaires sur kazhack.org.
Je vais essayer, mais si je veux la 8.02 que dois je faire aprés le telechargement? Decompacter? Et puis? Où mettre les fichiers décompactés? Que faire?
Ou faut il que je passe par le raccourci "Source de mise à jour"? Et que dois je indiquer?
Kompozer me sert bien pour éditer les pages web sauvegardées, virer les pubs et les scripts et qelques images, et mettre quelques commentaires.
Je n'ai pas de site internet et ne sait pas ce qu'il faudrait faire pour en simuler un sur mon disque USB ou réseau local -adresse du genre smb://mshome/MonDisqueReseau- mais je me débrouille en faisant Save et ça marche.
le plus embetant c'est qu'entre micros les blancs deviennent %20 etc... et que les images que je laisse ne sont pas automatiquement en local mais j'ai renoncé à regler le probleme.
En attendant j'utilise Kompozer sur 3 micros comme editeur Html et je suis satisfait ; donc merci.
Y a t il un tutoriel pour presque nul expliquant l'usage des feuilles CSS? Je suppose que c'est pratique, surtout pour accommoder les sites que je fréquente souvent. Pourrais je récuperer des feuilles CSS, les modifier légèrement, et m'en servir ensuite?
Et y a t il un ordre pour supprimer tous les scripts d'une page d'un seul coup?
Si vous pouvez me répondre, envoyez moi un mail pour me prévenir zdrive (at)mailbidon.com , Kompozer marche suffisamment bien pour moi pour que je ne vienne pas souvent sur votre site. La rançon du travail bien fait en somme.
Cordialement et merci encore.
Pour toutes les difficultés rencontrées avec KompoZer, il existe un forum francophone assez actif ici:
http://www.geckozone.org/forum/view...
ou il ya déjà pas mal de réponses, des liens vers des tutos , etc...
After the DreamWeaver-like dual view (local/remote) side bar is in place, there will be little reason for anyone not to use Kompozer instead of DreamWeaver. It's what 95% of users need! Edit the page localy and then publish when done. Unfortunately, Dreamweaver makes this simple and I don't know of anything other than Kompozer + gFtp (or similar) that is as good for basic web site creation. This two program approach will however make steer people away.
Keep up the great work.