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I’ve renamed my web browser project from SWB to Sunstone.

The sunstone was a translucent mineral prized by Viking navigators because it had a natural property that polarized light, making it possible to see through the haze and find the sun on a hazy day - quite common in the North Atlantic. I liked the connection to a primitive navigation tool.

Some code progress:

• Downloads are displayed in a grid form inside a popup menu with a progress bar
• I’ve added a (non-functional) bookmark editor button next to the address bar. Bookmarks should be coming fairly soon.
• If the tab bar or the command bar are hidden, those settings now persist across sessions.
• When the tab bar is hidden, the tab overview button is shown and the new tab button is hidden. You can still create a new tab from the button in the overview or from ‘Ctrl/t’. Keeps the interface cleaner.

#WebBrowser #sunstone #programming #Vala #Gtk

https://codeberg.org/jeang3nie/sunstone

Posting from Swb for the first time. Just enabled persistent cookies, so logins will persist across sessions. Some other goodies as of today:

• favicons in tab labels
• loading feedback via a spinner in the tab labels

Lots of other smaller features are underway but not finished. I did some groundwork on vertical tabs this morning, and layed out the classes for history storage.

#swb #vala #WebBrowsers