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Unite Apps are coming ever closer…

By Daniel Aleksandersen. Monday, 21. September 2009, 10:50:45

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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

  • Unite Services renamed Unite Applications
  • Unite Applications facelift
  • Sonar bundled for this snapshot (please enable!)
  • Experimental crash feedback

Download

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)

Help us load test our Unite proxy servers with SonarIt's a new day

Comments

Tamil 21. September 2009, 12:50

:up:

Barraco Mármol Jerónimo 21. September 2009, 12:53

moar bildins!!
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 21. September 2009, 12:58

Strange beginning characters in the lic.agreement:

Desktop End-User License Agreement
________


Copyright (C) Opera Software 1995-2009

IMPORTANT NOTE

(XP, upgrade, classic installer)

netwolf 21. September 2009, 13:06

Hmm, clicking the "Find more apps" button in Unite home ( http://unite.opera.com/applications/ ) leads to

Error 404
The page you are looking for can't be found.



and I don't have the Sonar service anywhere?!

dirk 21. September 2009, 13:06

:up: :up:

Kai 21. September 2009, 13:07

thnaks lets c :smile:

hogehogehoge 21. September 2009, 13:13

*Bug of multi byte character rendering. @ build 1792
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 21. September 2009, 13:21

:up:

Downloading now.

hurug 21. September 2009, 13:24

So good. Thxs devs.

Fabio 21. September 2009, 13:26

Very Good!
Thanks!
Sonar on and running

zoquete 21. September 2009, 13:31

‘Search the Web for’ from address drop-down doesn’t work

Does it mean, that g <term> does not work? :|

eonblue 21. September 2009, 13:37

Sonar enable.

netwolf 21. September 2009, 13:43

Originally posted by zoquete:

‘Search the Web for’ from address drop-down doesn’t work

Does it mean, that g <term> does not work? :|


That still works, and it also works if you type 2 separate words in address bar (default search engine is started then).

BS-Harou 21. September 2009, 13:44

zoquete: it has to be something else the "g <term>" is working =)

NeOn1225 21. September 2009, 13:44

Thanks :D

Sonar run P:

alekksander 21. September 2009, 13:49

Thanks ! sonar will be on in a few sec. ; )

Z1-AV69 21. September 2009, 13:52

Thanks for the update, I like the new look of Unite apps better.

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 lautier 21. September 2009, 13:55

Still can't open my Media Player configuration page ><
It does have a lot of folders and subfolders but still.

Rafael Luik 21. September 2009, 13:57

Great news, I hope the Unite Applications are going to be more end-user-friendly. :yes:

patkoscsaba 21. September 2009, 13:58

:up:

Akselsm 21. September 2009, 14:01

Originally posted by zoquete:

‘Search the Web for’ from address drop-down doesn’t work


The "Search the web for" menu item gives ?%20search as output instead of ?[space]search. That's what's wrong.

João David 21. September 2009, 14:01

Thanks for the new snapshot but Unite does not work here. I am at the university with Unite enabled and I get a yellow triangle warning me that I need to restart Unite. Even after restarting Unite, it does not work. Probably it's a proxy related problem. When a colleague of mine tries to enter my unite services, he gets a warning "Device Unavailable, The device you were trying to access does not seem to be available". The curious fact is that we are one in front of the other :smile:

Ar1Pe 21. September 2009, 14:02

:D Thanks

belthur 21. September 2009, 14:05

Thanks !!!

Phred 21. September 2009, 14:16

Thanks for the surprise build!

Originally posted by desktopteam:

Experimental crash feedback

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.

Kai Ockendorf 21. September 2009, 14:30

Thx! :hat: :jester: :up: :yes:

serious 21. September 2009, 14:32

"Competitorfox" ... lol ^^

Galileo 21. September 2009, 14:35

:up: :hat:

Ben Tudball 21. September 2009, 14:36

Default text on a user's Unite homepage:
"Here is the stuff that I have running"

Someone didn't take pride with that line. :eyes:

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 21. September 2009, 14:37

Thanks for the new build. Good move to install and enable Sonar by default.:sherlock:

Martin Rauscher 21. September 2009, 14:46

Originally posted by desktopteam:

Fixed Bug DSK-261947 (Opera does not synchronize more than 9 Speed Dials)


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 21. September 2009, 14:49

Could anybody please help me enable (and install) Sonar?
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 21. September 2009, 14:49

I noticed some problem with dictionaries.I can't add new dictionaries because add new dictionary window is blank!! Help Me

Tommy A. Olsen 21. September 2009, 14:58

Originally posted by Hades32:

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?



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.

Nils S. Normann 21. September 2009, 15:01

Unite: I had two photo sharing applications running before upgrade. After upgrade only one remains.

Juan Trebol 21. September 2009, 15:05

Will the issue about the search through the address bar be fixed in the next build? It's really annoying.

XenoAntares 21. September 2009, 15:12

Originally posted by netwolf:

f I click the Sonar Install button, it looks as if I opened a binary file in a text editor (lots of ��`^��T�ӑ��)...


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 21. September 2009, 15:14

In this build I've got a problem with web server.

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 Aleksandersen 21. September 2009, 15:15

Originally posted by fearphage:

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.


Good suggestion! I have forwarded your suggestion to the appropriate dev.

Originally posted by EricJH:

Good move to install and enable Sonar by default.


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:

I can't add new dictionaries because add new dictionary window is blank!


If you can reproduce this reliable, please file a bug with steps on how to reproduce.

Originally posted by Jawbreaker:

Will the issue about the search through the address bar be fixed in the next build? It's really annoying.


This was a regression discovered 10 minutes before we released the snapshot. It will be fixed. :smile:

GeekK 21. September 2009, 15:15

Does anyone have a reproducable crash, so I could see the experimental crash window after the restart?

Grrblt 21. September 2009, 15:34

I'm having problems accessing my own unite apps. I start the filesharing app, open up http://admin.home.grrblt.operaunite.com/file_sharing/content/ and the page stops at "Sending request to...". At something hosted on this very computer!

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 Alexandru 21. September 2009, 15:38

http://unite.opera.com/ still mentions "services" everywhere.

My workaround for installing services is to download as zip, then rename as .UA (.zip.ua didn't install) and open it.

Charles Schloss 21. September 2009, 15:46

:cool:

Z1-AV69 21. September 2009, 15:47

Originally posted by dantesoft:

My workaround for installing services is to download as zip, then rename as .UA (.zip.ua didn't install) and open it.


You can just drop the .zip in the Opera window. :wink:

Originally posted by netwolf:

if I click the Sonar Install button, it looks as if I opened a binary file in a text editor (lots of ��`^��T�ӑ��)...


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 21. September 2009, 16:18

Yupi another build :D

dudabrand 21. September 2009, 16:31

Sonar up and running

netwolf 21. September 2009, 16:33

@XAntares & Z1-AV69: Thank you, removing the entry for "us" solved the problem :-)
Sonar is installed and running now.

Groovy 21. September 2009, 16:37

Some of more obvious bugs that appeared in 10.00 persist in this release:

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 21. September 2009, 16:38

Unfocused items not readable in this build: http://www.picamatic.com/view/5153304_op1/

New mail compose when HTML mode is default is still bugged - font not initialized well in size and typeface bug
Details at:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=3082754

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