luakit 2012.03.25

The focus for this release has been a re-work of the Lua API to make it more human readable and Lua-like.

We also have WebKitWebInspector support for the first time and several other performance and stability improvements.

Luakit Lua API Changes:

• New wrappers for GtkVPaned/GtkHPaned widgets (construct with "vpaned" & "hpaned").
• Box widgets :pack_{start,end} methods replaced with :pack(widget [, { options }]).
• All GtkBin widgets now have a settable/gettable .child property.
• All GtkContainer widgets now have .children property. Removed :get_children methods where implemented.
• Replaced label widget :set_{alignment,padding} methods with .align and .padding properties. Set with label.align = { x = 0.5, y = 1.0 }.
• Replaced label widget :set_width method with .width int property.
• Removed notebook & entry widgets :append methods. Made :insert methods work like table.insert (append when no index arg given).
• Replaced webview widget :{get,set}_scroll_{horiz,vert} methods with .scroll table with settable/gettable .x .y .xmax .ymax .xpage_size .ypage_size properties.
• Replaced luakit.{set,get}_selection functions with .selection table with settable/gettable .primary .secondary .selection properties. Clearing selections is simple with luakit.selection.primary = nil.
• Replaced socket:add_id method with .id property.
• Renamed socket.is_plugged to .plugged.
• Replaced notebook:atindex(idx) method with notebook[idx].
• New function os.abspath(path) turns relative paths into absolute paths.
• All WebKitWebView and WebKitWebSettings properties are now set/get directly on the view instance. For example: view:set_property("enforce-96-dpi", true) is now view.enforce_96_dpi = true.
• Similarly the soup:{get,set}_property functions have been removed and properties are now set directly on the soup module.
• Replaced window:set_screen method with settable/gettable .screen property.
• Replaced window:{fullscreen,unfullscreen,maximize,unmaximize} methods with settable/gettable .fullscreen .maximized properties.
• Replaced webview:{get,set}_view_source method with .view_source property.
• Replaced luakit.webkit_{major,micro,minor}_version with concatenated "major.micro.minor" version string. Likewise with luakit.webkit_user_agent_{major,minor}_version.
• Removed luakit.get_special_dir(ATOM) function. Added small xdg module with .{cache,config,data,desktop,documents,download,..}_dir fields pointing to their respective $XDG_???_DIR paths.
• Add settable window.urgency_hint property.
• Add settable/gettable .visible property to all widgets.
• Add webview:{show,close}_inspector to show/hide the WebKitWebInspector.

Luakit Library Changes:

• Formfiller now stores form data in new Lua DSL format. To automatically convert old forms to new format use extras/convert_formfiller.rb.
• Add bookmark follow mode ;B and quickmark follow mode ;M[a-zA-Z0-9].
• Add follow.styles.upper which makes all hints upper-case and the matching process case-insensitive.
• Add multi-download follow mode ;S.
• Bugfix: when toggling noscript plugins on a page with no entry.
• Get homepage with globals.homepage in binds.lua. Allows user to edit homepage anywhere in their rc.lua.
• Several follow & formfiller bugs fixed.
• Print info() messages to stdout.
• Window .view property dynamically points to the current visible webview widget in the notebook of that window. Also caches result cutting out a huge number of unnecessary calls to the old w:get_current().
• Add "(KHTML, like Gecko)" to the default useragent to make Google Plus and other websites work with luakit out of the box.
• Reduce useragent 'identifiability', only give a luakit version if it matches the YYYY.MM.DD format.
• Added vim's :noh[lsearch] command to un-highlight the last search results.
• When follow hints are on links that span multiple lines only hint the first rect region.
• domain_props table updated to use the new view.<property-name> form.
• Store session file in xdg.data_dir. As per XDG spec: cache dir is only for non-essential files.
• Bugfix: Escape lousy.util.mkdir paths.

C Source Changes:

• New luaH_rawfield function returns 1 if given table field is non-nil.
• New token_tostring function returns the string literal for each luakit_token_t token.
• New luaH_{class,object}_property_signal functions give us simple emitting of class and object "property::name" signals.
• Use Content-Type soup header to determine the mime-type of WebkitDownload files.
• Pass luakit_token_t to widget constructor, index and newindex functions.
• Use UNUSED(arg) macro to silence compiler warnings about unused arguments.
• Refactor GObject property setting/getting functions to use luakit_token_t tokens directly. Faster lookups, cleaner code.
• Get property signal names from luakit_token_t tokens & add class property signal emitting functi
• Bugfix: Make luaH_unique_is_running ping the other instance to ensure it is running/responding. Several reports of unique.is_running() returning true when it clearly shouldn't causing luakit to quit.
• Add missing javascriptcoregtk-1.0 package after WebKitGtk+ split into two packages.
• Move more common functions, signal handlers, index and newindex properties to widgets/common.{c,h}.
• Use GOBJECT_TO_LUAKIT_WIDGET macro to convert GObject into widget_t* widget struct in all signal callbacks.
• And move the g_object_set_data call which saves the widget_t* pointer in each GObject to the luaH_widget_set_type function.
• Removed individual glib header includes (no longer supported).
• Remove the never used luaH_hasitem, luaH_isloop & luaH_isloop_check functions (from the awesomewm codebase).

Download

You can download luakit-2012.03.25 in either zip or tar formats.

You can also clone the project with Git by running:

$ git clone git://github.com/mason-larobina/luakit