nswarup14/browse-activity

An activity to browse the internet; WebKit2 on GTK+ on Sugar Toolkit.

What is this?

Browse is a web browser activity for the Sugar desktop.

How to use?

Browse is part of the Sugar desktop and is always included. Please refer to;

• How to Get Sugar on sugarlabs.org,
• How to use Sugar, and;
• How to use Browse.

How to upgrade?

On Sugar desktop systems;

• use My Settings, Software Update, or;
• use Browse to open activities.sugarlabs.org, search for Browse, then download.

How to integrate?

On Debian and Ubuntu systems;

apt install sugar-browse-activity

On Fedora systems;

dnf install sugar-browse

Browse depends on Python, Sugar Toolkit, D-Bus, Cairo, Telepathy, GTK+ 3, Pango, Rsvg, Soup, Evince and WebKit. Unusually, Browse also depends on glib-compile-schemas to compile a Gio.Settings schema.

Browse is started by Sugar.

Browse is packaged by Linux distributions;

• Debian package sugar-browse-activity,
• Ubuntu package sugar-browse-activity, and;
• Fedora package sugar-browse.

How to develop?

• setup a development environment for Sugar desktop,
• clone this repository,
• edit source files,
• test in Terminal by typing sugar-activity .

APIs

Code inside Browse depends on several APIs, including;

• PyGObject API Reference, and;
• Sugar Toolkit API.

Branch master

The master branch targets an environment with latest stable release of Sugar, with dependencies on latest stable release of Fedora and Debian distributions.

Branch not-webkit2

The not-webkit2 branch is a backport of features and bug fixes from the master branch for ongoing maintenance of the activity on Fedora 18 systems which don't have well-functioning WebKit2 packages.