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It seems my Debian packages for Epilicious have worked in Ubuntu (Dapper Drake I suppose). This is purely accidental. It’s however a very nice accident This lucky coincidence doesn’t hold for Edgy Eft.

If you are lucky then you can get my Epilicious packages to work on Edgy Eft by copying (or linking) the files to /usr/lib/epiphany/2.16/extension. No guarantees, and YMMV, of course.

Related news: I’ve just updated the package of the development edge version of Epilicious.

Since it’s been some time since the 0.8 release of epilicious and I’ve been doing some work on it lately I thought it’s time for a release soon. I should be able to get around to it in a day or two.

I went over the translations and realised that they’re all going to be out of date when I make the release. Reading through the document on L10N Guidelines for Developers I considered sending a POT file to the Translation Project. I didn’t send an email for two reasons:

1. Epilicious contains 18 translatable strings. It just feels like it doesn’t belong with apps like xchat.
2. I’m still hoping I’ll be able to get it into GNOME CVS at some point as an official plugin for epiphany. Then the GNOME Translation Team would get involved but unfortunately they won’t touch it until it’s in GNOME CVS.

For now I’ve uploaded the POT file. Please, please, send me a translation!

I’ve just uploaded a Debian package that fixes Epilicious so that it works with Epiphany 2.14. It still works like a charm

Do keep in mind that I’m packaging an unreleased version of Epilicious.

I’ve just found foxylicious and AbstractMouse.com. Jippie! now let me tell you why I’m so happy about that!

I use computers at home and at work. For a long time I kept on sending mails from work to my private email address with non-work-related links to check out at home. It also happened that I sent similar mails in the other directions with work-related links I stumbled across when at home. I’m currently using Epilicious to make it easier to share bookmarks between home and work. However, I’m forced to use Windows (as well as Linux) at work, and Epiphany doesn’t run on Windows. Using foxylicious I can now get those bookmarks into FireFox as well

Lately I’ve started using several computers at work (well, really only two computers and a set of VirtualPC/VMWare images) and I want to share some pure-work bookmarks between them, here I’m talking about internal pages that are inaccessable from home–I don’t want them cluttering my bookmarks at home! This is where I’ve put AbstractMouse.com to work, using it I can share work-only bookmarks between all the machines/images

But all isn’t well. When on a Linux box, where Epiphany does run, I’m forced to use FireFox to get to the work-only bookmarks. I have two options for solving that:

1. Get both foxylicious and Epilicious to work with multiple delicious accounts, or
2. Make Epilicious work with the AbstractMouse.com server.

The former requires some lobbying of the foxylicious author (I’ve already posted a comment on his blog ). The latter would only involve getting some information from Eric of AbstractMouse (he’s interested in adding plugins for more browsers), then the rest is up to me. The problem there though is how to map between Epiphany’s topics and FireFox’s hierarchies… I prefer the former!

Read a post on epiphany-user yesterday on how a hidden location bar appears when Ctrl-L is pressed. Then it goes away again. Very nice. It also seems that the version in Debian keeps information about “Generic Postscript” printing–I don’t need to enter a2ps in the text box anymore, it’s remembered.

I just love how the irritation points in the GNOME UI just keep on disappearing