Changelog for Opera 6.0 for Linux Beta 1

This document details the changes made in Opera 6.0 for Linux since TP 3.

Changelog

User interface

  • Preliminary SDI support (start with "opera -sdi")
  • Clipping of Cyrillic and other language strings in bookmark titles fixed
  • The small "active folder" mainbar icon is now read from disk
  • Possible endless loop (hang) in Language preference dialog page fixed
  • TAB order improved in the Personal toolbar
  • Non latin1 window captions should now work (provided that a usable font is used)
  • Added a workaround for document popup menus that closed themselves at once they were shown.
  • Every external application launched by Opera can now be opened in a terminal using a checkbox.
  • Loading of images will not longer lock the progress bar is images are already downloaded.
  • Improved operashow support (keyboard navigation)
  • Bookmark and contact files are now saved using a temporary file to avoid dataloss on full disks.
  • Every dialog can now be opened under the mouse (option set in pref. dialog)

Display and layout

  • Alpha blending support for UI toolbar buttons.
  • Sound support without use of NAS.
  • Better support for non-latin1 character sets. Still some problems left.
  • Improved fontswitching (bugfixes and optimization).
  • Some systems come with some not-so-goodlooking fonts. We now try to avoid them being used as default fonts.
  • Got rid of annoying TAB focus problem for file upload elements
  • Animated GIF file fixes.
  • Made JavaScript key events trigger also when backspace or delete is pressed (form elements).
  • Some zooming related fixes for form elements.
  • Various stability improvements.

Plug-in support

  • The plug-in paths are now displayed correctly (prefs > multimedia > plug-ins).
  • The choice box under "show with plug-ins" should work now (as long as the names are different).
  • games.yahoo.com should work.
  • "First applet won't run" bug fixed.
  • Premature deletion of files belonging to plug-ins fixed.
  • Problem with some mime types getting reset to default behaviour fixed.
  • opera:plugins gives more correct information.
  • Stability fixes for plug-in layer.

Fonts

  • gb2312/gbk encoded fonts should work.
  • jisx0208 encoded fonts should work.
  • ksc5601/ksx1001 encoded fonts should work.
  • Related encodings may work.

See the changelogs for the Opera 6.0 TP3.