Make site title configurable via class="site-title"
Add "link artifacts" to known defects
Increase font size in input text bars
uTab ([UuΜµ]{TAB|Tab|tab}
, pronounced you-tab, mu-tab, or microtab) is a New Tab daemon that runs on localhost to satisy your desire for cross-browser consistency of New Tabs. To enable it, read on.
I hopped from Firefox to Falkon (KDE's browser) a while ago. It doesn't offer many choices as to a new tab. The default home page is not useful, and the speed dial is buggy and slow. I miss the "Top Sites" in Firefox, which manifests your most frequently visited sites in a 8*4 matrix. So I made this.
Reluctant to squat on precious four-letter PyPI namespace, I did not upload utab to it, lest someone should foster a much better clone. Anyways, using this version of utab doesn't involve significantly more work than doing pip install.
Assuming python
== python3.6
or higher:
git clone https://git.sr.ht/~fkfd/utab
cd utab && python setup.py install
(will install deps. append --user
if desired.)These are in your user data dir. For Linux, this is typically ~user/.local/share/utab/
.
What is in the dir? On default, these:
utab/
css/
index.css
icons/
home.svg
pencil.svg
plus.svg
config.yml
index.html
site.html
sites.csv
After due consideration, I picked whichever file format I considered most efficient to write, by machine and by hand. Let's explain some of the files.
config.yml
columns: 8
rows: 4
engines:
keyword:
url: https://search.engine/?q={{query}}
# example
ddg:
url: https://duckduckgo.com/?q={{query}}
wk:
url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{query}}
default_engine: keyword
column/row
: Ezpz. Layout for your grid.engines/default_engine
: An index of your search engines plus a default pointer. To use, type /keyword query
into the search bar, e.g. /wk HTTP
will search for HTTP on English Wikipedia.sites.csv
URL | Title | Favicon src | Visits |
---|---|---|---|
site URL, mandated | site title, optional | URL or base64, optional | integer, used to rank sites from highest to lowest |
Example:
https://en.wikipedia.org,English Wikipedia,https://en.wikipedia.org/static/favicon/wikipedia.ico,3
*.html
DST (Dead Simple Template) files[1]. Anything wrapped in %
are injected with dynamic data, such as site headings.
icons/*.svg
Icons from open-iconic. MIT License.
To change color, open them in a text editor (inkscape et al. will spew metadata all over the file). Modify fill:#ffffff
to any other color in the style
attribute of <path>
.
To run it inside the command line, run python -m utab
. It will start running as a daemon, on port 64366. To start it on startup, consider putting it in .profile
or something. Then head to your web browser and switch the home page to http://localhost:64366
.
git stash
or moving your changes to another branch. In extreme cases, consult xkcd #1597.git pull
python setup.py install
utab/data/
and overwrite the old ones. Alternatively, do a backup for your sites.csv
, completely overwrite, then move that back in.<a>
artifacts below the svg icons in the bottom.There are three ways to contribute. One is bug reports in the provided scope. If so, contact fkfd at macaw dot me
. Another is feature requests. If I'm interested, I may spin up a mailing list and we collaborate. Then there's forking. This is the preferred method if you are to introduce a lot of changes. Configurability is limited by design in my version of utab, to make codebase lightweight. Fork this project and do whatever 0BSD allows (i.e. anything). Thank you.
This is a piece of Usable Technology. It supports the philosophy that fewer restrictions should be imposed on individual developers, thereby maximizing the community value. It doesn't spoil anyone's fun, because 99% of the time it's another innocent person rather than an evil corp.
License: 0BSD
Copyright: nope
Forks: welcome; features intentionally lacking to encourage them. If you have a fork, contact me so I can add it here.
[1] Don't bother looking it up. There ain't such a thing.