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Unite Apps are coming ever closer…
By Daniel Aleksandersendaniel. Monday, September 21, 2009 10:50:45 AM
Another new snapshot for your testing pleasures! We have put a lot of work into finalizing Unite.
The biggest change comes from the Land of Marketing and Usability Testing. We are re-branding Unite Services as Unite Applications in the name of simplicity. (Apparently, no one knew what a service was.)
We still want all of you to focus on testing Unite, and ask that you leave the Sonar application running. Sonar is bundled in this snapshot, so there is no excuse for not turning it on. There are also UI changes to the default apps, so go have a look!
For Unite Application Developers (hey! you just got a new title), there are some new technical details for serving an Unite Application from your own servers. Use the new file extension .us .ua and serve it with the MIME type application/x-opera-uniteapplication. Users will get a security warning if the application is served from a non-trusted site (similar to add-ons in Competitorfox).
We are also experimenting with giving feedback on the most common crashes. This feedback page will be populated as a new tab in your session after recovering from a crash.
Known Issues
- F2 dialog in non-browser view opens tabs in background instead of foreground
- ‘Search the Web for’ from address drop-down doesn’t work
Highlights
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Unite Servicesrenamed Unite Applications - Unite Applications facelift
- Sonar bundled for this snapshot (please enable!)
- Experimental crash feedback
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WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.
Changelog
User Interface
- Fixed some uncentered icons (panel and tab close button on hover, closed tabs button)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257825 (Crash related to Opera Turbo and plugin placeholders)
- Fixed Bug DSK-261947 (Opera does not synchronize more than 9 Speed Dials)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262326 (Lacking [Addressbar button skin.attention] with blue text color)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262330 (Speed Dial shortcut doesn't work when typing number of last Speed Dial in address bar)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262954 (Clean up Error console messages for Link and Unite)
- Fixed Bug DSK-263003 (Menu not centered on hover)
- Fixed Bug DSK-263695 (URL with non-ASCII characters gets escaped when selected from the address dropdown)
- Fixed Bug DSK-264182 (Enabling Turbo for the first time should show the Turbo info page)
- Fixed Bug DSK-264666 (Link and Unite buttons duplicated in customized toolbar: Fixing broken regex)
- Fixed Bug DSK-265213 (No more disabled/attention for the Closed tabs button)
- Fixed Bug DSK-265252 (Open with in transfer panel doesn't open files with spaces)
- Fixed Bug DSK-265699 (Dialog blocks pages opened from system)
- Fixed Bug DSK-265765 (Missing line in skin.ini: Panel Mail.hover.attention = buttons/mail_attention.png)
Core
- Plugin crash fix
- Webfonts improvements
- Slight alternation to the setting that holds the interval Opera uses to check for updates
- Fixed Bug CORE-20165 (Keyboard focus set with mouse)
- Fixed Bug CORE-23957 (Streamy.com doesn't allow signup)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262190 (Updating a speed dial entry while "Work Offline" is enabled makes Opera crash)
- Fixed Bug DSK-263546 (Quick prefs shortcut produces wrong context menu)
Opera Mail
- Fixed Bug DSK-262773 (Encoding problems in mail error dialog)
- Fixed Bug DSK-265808 (Impossible to see which mail is selected when focus is on mail body)
Opera Unite
- New design for services
- Various small fixes to improve stability
- Temporarily adding the "Sonar" to the list of packaged services to aid stress tests
- Fixed a crash bug when opening a session with tabs that refer to Unite services that don't exist any more
- Fixed a crash bug when permanently deleting Unite services with open service pages
- Removing unused files from the home application
- Removing unused files from the media player
- Removed the unstable Lounge and Messenger services for now
- Fixed Bug CORE-22019 (Crash disabling and enabling Unite)
- Fixed Bug CORE-23411 (Allow root service to link and use resources from other services over http://admin.*)
- Fixed Bug CORE-23996 (Don't send service listings to ASD unless connected to the proxy)
- Fixed Bug DSK-255826 (Attention state in Unite doesn't update)
- Fixed Bug DSK-258766 (Possible to use .. or . as Address)
- Fixed Bug DSK-261172 (Opera doesn't ask for password when starting Unite if Opera hasn't completed logging off)
- Fixed Bug DSK-264985 (Double-clicking a service in the Unite services panel always opens a new tab)
- Fixed Bug DSK-265255 (Opera crashes on opening status dialog)
- Fixed Bug DSK-265283 (change unite extension to .ua and update the mime type): changing hard-coded strings to use ".ua" instead of ".us" for installation of default services
- Fixed Bug DSK-265572 (Advanced Unite settings allow to set invalid port)
- Fixed Bug DSK-265758 (Close config.xml after reading its content)
- Fixed Bug DSK-265887 (Unite button to open a service doesn't do anything)
- Fixed Bug DSK-266003 (Supporting both .ua and .us extensions for Unite)
Windows
- Fixed crashes where the Unicode layer would be loaded even on non-Win9x
- Fixed Bug DSK-264333 (Fixed font enumeration crash)
Unix
- Cancel drag mode if not started and a new window opens
- Fixed Bug DSK-258477 (Opening option list in widget freezes OS)
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Tamil # Monday, September 21, 2009 12:50:09 PM
Barraco Mármol Jerónimojerobarraco # Monday, September 21, 2009 12:53:05 PM
cool, too bad ppl don't know what a service is xDDD
i've enabled sonar, but i have 2 problemas, first, when opera starts even unite starts, every service is stopped. and now, it even removed all my services from the list and i haven't toched anything...
netwolf # Monday, September 21, 2009 12:58:16 PM
Desktop End-User License Agreement
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Copyright (C) Opera Software 1995-2009
IMPORTANT NOTE
(XP, upgrade, classic installer)
netwolf # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:06:00 PM
and I don't have the Sonar service anywhere?!
dirkthetomster # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:06:44 PM
Doliprane'Doliprane # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:07:57 PM
hogehogehoge # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:13:16 PM
http://my.opera.com/japanese/forums/topic.dml?id=277259
DSK-263100
*Bug of Font Linking. @ build 1792
http://my.opera.com/japanese/forums/topic.dml?id=145053
DSK-263202
http://img149.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=operafontlink.png
*It crashes when IME is used with Opera+FlashPlayer10. @ build 1792
http://my.opera.com/japanese/forums/topic.dml?id=266819
DSK-263089
Arguggi # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:21:06 PM
Downloading now.
hurug # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:24:06 PM
Fabio Lambertinifrem82 # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:26:26 PM
Thanks!
Sonar on and running
zoquete # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:31:57 PM
Does it mean, that g <term> does not work? :|
eonblue # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:37:56 PM
netwolf # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:43:08 PM
Originally posted by zoquete:
That still works, and it also works if you type 2 separate words in address bar (default search engine is started then).
BS-Harou # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:44:03 PM
NeOn1225neon1225 # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:44:43 PM
Sonar run
alekksander # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:49:39 PM
Z1-AV69 # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:52:20 PM
But the update of the services/apps from the last build didn't work correctly. The standard services/apps just disappeared. I did a clean install then, which worked.
Btw: Is there an easy way to reset Unite to defaults? Or at least: Which files have to be deleted before an upgrade install of new builds to get a default Unite?
arnaud lautierGrouick # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:55:56 PM
It does have a lot of folders and subfolders but still.
Rafael Luikrafaelluik # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:57:45 PM
Patkos Csabapatkoscsaba # Monday, September 21, 2009 1:58:46 PM
Akselsm # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:01:23 PM
Originally posted by zoquete:
The "Search the web for" menu item gives ?%20search as output instead of ?[space]search. That's what's wrong.
João Davidpiroxicam # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:01:24 PM
Ar1Pear1pe # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:02:34 PM
belthur # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:05:00 PM
MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:16:01 PM
Originally posted by desktopteam:
Any chance this could snowball into opera:crash/opera:crashes where i can view in one place the crashlogs I've sent to opera with a little information about them? Would be useful.Old-Nick # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:18:05 PM
Kai OckendorfOckendorf # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:30:08 PM
serious # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:32:12 PM
Galileo # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:35:50 PM
Ben Tudballtudsta # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:36:02 PM
"Here is the stuff that I have running"
Someone didn't take pride with that line.
Recommend changing to:
"Here are the applications I have running"
There is also a link to 404:
"Find more apps"
http://unite.opera.com/applications/
EricJH # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:37:13 PM
Martin RauscherHades32 # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:46:47 PM
Originally posted by desktopteam:
That's great, but actually I'm USING that "feature" ATM to have some SpeedDial entries that only show up on my work machine... Will there be some way to NOT sync some entries?
netwolf # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:49:45 PM
I don't see it in the list of installed appps on the Unite panel, and if I click the Sonar Install button, it looks as if I opened a binary file in a text editor (lots of ��`^��T�ӑ��)... (upgraded from 1778 on XP)
Fabio Lambertinifrem82 # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:49:46 PM
Tommy A. Olsentoman # Monday, September 21, 2009 2:58:58 PM
Originally posted by Hades32:
You can increase the number of items at home. Opera will not change the number of displayed speeddials anywhere. I use 3x3 at work and 2x3 at home. If I enable 3x3 at home, I see the ones I have at work.
zombie # Monday, September 21, 2009 3:01:09 PM
Juan TrebolJawbreaker # Monday, September 21, 2009 3:05:23 PM
XenoAntaresXAntares # Monday, September 21, 2009 3:12:26 PM
Originally posted by netwolf:
That's due to the fact, that the folks managing the unite.opera.com-www-server have not changed the "Content-Type:" associated with the Unite service/application files yet. They are still served as application/x-opera-uniteservice instead of application/x-opera-uniteapplication. (You can fix it yourself in the meantime eg using Proxomitron, but probably it isn't worth it – just wait till they change it on their servers.)
The migration from the term "service" to "application" also is the reason for the 404 on unite.opera.com/applications/. So no reason to be bothered. ;)))
imarooned # Monday, September 21, 2009 3:14:48 PM
In privacy settings I choose "public" and save it.
The thing is, it doesn't work. It's still not available to public and requires password :/
BTW, why did you changed layout ? In my opinion it was much nicer than new one.
Daniel Aleksandersendaniel # Monday, September 21, 2009 3:15:02 PM
Originally posted by fearphage:
Good suggestion! I have forwarded your suggestion to the appropriate dev.
Originally posted by EricJH:
It is not enabled by default. It is only included in the build for this snapshot. You will have to turn on Unite, and then enable the service manually. (Please do. We need more testing.)
Originally posted by frem82:
If you can reproduce this reliable, please file a bug with steps on how to reproduce.
Originally posted by Jawbreaker:
This was a regression discovered 10 minutes before we released the snapshot. It will be fixed.
GeekK # Monday, September 21, 2009 3:15:39 PM
Grrblt # Monday, September 21, 2009 3:34:21 PM
Now this is most likely a problem with me not understanding linux (Ubuntu 9.04 64bit), because it works when I boot windows instead. Still, if someone could give me hints it would be great. Both for testing Sonar (has "no activity") and for running live apps later on.
Dan Alexandrudantesoft # Monday, September 21, 2009 3:38:02 PM
My workaround for installing services is to download as zip, then rename as .UA (.zip.ua didn't install) and open it.
Charles SchlossChas4 # Monday, September 21, 2009 3:46:52 PM
Z1-AV69 # Monday, September 21, 2009 3:47:51 PM
Originally posted by dantesoft:
You can just drop the .zip in the Opera window.
Originally posted by netwolf:
In my case this was caused by an old MIME entry for "us". You can fix it manually: Open your operaprefs.ini, under [File Types] there should be an entry "application/x-opera-uniteapplication=2,,,,us,ua,|", but no other for "us" (search for "unite" to check). Under [File Types Extension] there should be "application/x-opera-uniteapplication=,128".
Serpher # Monday, September 21, 2009 4:18:18 PM
Eduardo Dotto Branddudabrand # Monday, September 21, 2009 4:31:53 PM
netwolf # Monday, September 21, 2009 4:33:03 PM
Sonar is installed and running now.
GroovyMicky # Monday, September 21, 2009 4:37:59 PM
When hovering over background tabs, there is about 4 or 5px error; hovering on area between two tabs makes its left tab active even when mouse cursor is on left edge of a right tab. Changing skin to 'Windows native' solves the problem, but....
Saving Chat Log produces empty file in default format. Why is there if it's not functioning?
Tools - Notes: Ctrl+F not working (even if focused in a text of a note), Edit - Find... is grayed out.
Speed Dial: Click 'Configure Speed Dial' and hover X button - notice that it is incompletely shown.
[System: Intel, WinXP_sp3]
smshUA # Monday, September 21, 2009 4:38:16 PM
New mail compose when HTML mode is default is still bugged - font not initialized well in size and typeface
Details at:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=3082754