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tdeio-gemini postponed

As you may already know, I have started to work on adding Gemini protocol support for the Trinity Desktop, and Konqueror in particular.

The state of affairs with tdeio-gemini is this:

Most existing bugs have been solved. The experience is pretty stable (at least for me ;-).
Konqueror provides for us nice things like bookmarks and an "Up" button.
Local files are also supported.

Current problems are:

Input support is not ready yet. This is because it turned out we cannot create a GUI through a TDEIO process, so an internal "helper" application of some sorts will have to be creted to this end.
Client certificates are not supported yet either. While the infrastructure seems to be in place, I still haven't figured out how to implement this.
Some Unicode ranges are not supported by the GUI toolkit (namely TQt), and thus they don't work in tdeio-gemini.

These problems, as well as my taking interest in several TDE menu issues, will probably mean postponing the release of tdeio-gemini 1.0.

Also, I have begun assembling a list with things to include in a next 1.1 release. For now it's a settings dialog with customization options, but if you get a cool idea don't hesitate to come in touch with me!

You can get the current revision of tdeio-gemini at my repository in TGW:

tdeio-gemini

Bug reports and feature requests are welcome!