Hi Guys,
just a short notice this evening from my bed where I am sick (quiet, nothing serious): rekonq 2 alpha has been released to the wild!
You’ll find there all the code to implement the features announced in the tech preview one month ago.
So, nothing really exciting, but a nice step towards our “next generation” browser. In fact, in addition to the new features, rekonq 2 has been an attempt to re{view,organize} all rekonq codebase.
Time will say if the experiment succeded. A first nice proof of this is the native support for web applications.
So, run downloading code here or ask your preferred distro to package it. And enjoy 
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Where is it being developed? I cannot see any branch or commit about rekonq in the KDE git repository?
I believe this is it: http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fadjam%2Frekonq2.git
@Adjam But why didn’t you just create a new branch in the official rekonq repo?
Probably because he calls it an experiment.
The code change requested more than a simple branching. Also if now about 60% of the classes have been restored to their usual function.
It is in my scratch area (http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fadjam%2Frekonq2.git). I was planning to move and substitute the actual codebase just now (asking for the usual kde review). I just forgot to mention about here. Thanks for your comment about.
Even rekonq-1.2 is not available yet in kubuntu
In fact that’s really strange. I think rekonq 1.3 should be there.
I’m on the latest Ubuntu (quantal) and the rekonq version shipped with it is 1.1 (see also http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/rekonq). At http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu/pool/main/ I see that no latter version is available in the backports.
Thanks, I’m building it now.
The truth is, I’ve been looking for a Firefox replacement for some time, but there are four feature which I won’t do without in a web browser:
1) Lasspass support
2) Tree-style tabs down the side
3) Functionality to save the text of web forms (Lazarus Firefox addon)
4) Keyboard navigation such as Vimperator.
Where should I post feature requests for Rekonq?
#3 sounds like a feature for KDEWebKit
4 is kinda there already
I see that hjkl will scroll, but can one select and follow a link in rekonq from the keyboard? How?
I was in the need of a vimperator-like navigation thing for rekonq so I added such a functionallity. Check in the Advanced settings for “Enable keyboard navication using the Ctrl key”
Whenever you press the Ctrl key a series of Tags will appear over the links of the webpage, you’ll just need to press the corresponding key and rekonq will follow the link
There’s still *a lot* of room for improvements though
Hi, I can’t test this alpha version since it requires KDE 4.9, but in the previous tech preview I found a crash that i can’t test if is solved now.
When I typed something in the direction bar, if I use the mouse and click on one of the suggestions, rekonq crashed. It didn’t crash if I select the result with the cursors.
Thanks.
It’s fixed
What happened to its menu on appmenu/xbar?
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