## Rosenrot Rosenrot is a small browser forked from an earlier version of [rose](https://github.com/mini-rose/rose). It has some additional quality of life improvements tailored to my (@NunoSempere) tastes and setup, and detailed installation instructions for Ubuntu 20.04. ![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NunoSempere/rosenrot-browser/master/screenshots/7-hello-world-search.png) ![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NunoSempere/rosenrot-browser/master/screenshots/6-hello-world.png) ### Installation You can see detailed instructions [here](./user-scripts/ubuntu-20.04/install-with-dependencies.sh), for Ubuntu 20.04 in particular—though they should generalize easily to other distributions. Or a video installing rosenrot in a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine [here](https://video.nunosempere.com/w/t3oAvJLPHTSAMViQ6zbwTV). The general steps are to install dependencies, and then ``` make build make install # or sudo make install ``` ### Usage After building: ``` ./rose ``` After installing: ``` rose ``` You can also create a rose.desktop file so that it will show up in your desktop environment. You can see this documented [here](./user-scripts/ubuntu-20.04/install-with-dependencies.sh). ### Features - Tabs, cookies, caching - Minimal ui, autohiding elements - ~464L core code (the rose.c file) - Customize appearance of the browser through css - Built-in rose-mklink script for in-shell static links - Optional adblocking through [wyebadblock](https://github.com/jun7/wyebadblock) - Max number of tabs (by default 8), configurable. - Plugin system, seeded with: - Libre redirect: Redirect annoying websites to open source frontends - Readability: Strip webpages of unnecessary elements for ease of reading with a custom shortcut - Custom style: Override the css of predetermined websites - Stand in plugin: Mimick function definitions which do nothing for the above plugins so that they can be quickly removed You can see some screenshots in the [screenshots](./screenshots) folder. ## Relationship with [rose](https://github.com/mini-rose/rose) - Rose is a minimal browser based on webkit2gtk. Previously, it described itself as aiming to be a "basement for creating your own browser using [the] gtk and webkit libraries". - Rosenrot is my (@NunoSempere's) fork from rose. It has accumulated quality of life features/cruft that I like, like a "readability" plugin that simplifies annoying websites like [Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-18/matt-levine-s-money-stuff-credit-suisse-was-a-reverse-meme-stock). It also incorporates ad-blocking. - Rosenrot is also a song by the German hardcore rock band [Rammstein](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af59U2BRRAU). ### Contribute - Contribute upstream to [github.com/mini-rose/rose](https://github.com/mini-rose/) for core functionality changes. - Contribute here for quality of life improvements, by sending a pull request on Github. ### Cool things I just found out that you can inspect a GTK application with the GTK explorer if you set a certain command-line variable. Try this with `make inspect`. ### Known bugs/gotchas. - [ ] Doesn't work with when Spanish is selected as the language, for some reason. - [ ] At some point, I tried to install libsoup-3 and borked some unknown installation option/paths. So now I need to run rose with `GIO_MODULE_DIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/ /bin/rose` (or put `export GIO_MODULE_DIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/` in my .bashrc). This won't affect new users though, just double checked on a fresh machine. - [ ] By default the searchbar is pretty gigantic. I've made this so because I'm a bit myopic, but also work with my laptop in a laptop stand. Anyways, if you are a more normal person you can change this in the style.css. - [ ] The style.css usage isn't updated until installation. This is because by default rose uses the theme located in /usr/share/themes/rose/style.css, and that file isn't updated until make install. ### To do #### Quality of life: - [ ] Add css for js alerts - [x] Add custom alert whose css can be customized - [ ] Debug problems, e.g., this version is non-blocking. - [ ] Figure out better way to have plugins - [ ] Double check newtab/next-tab behavior - [ ] Document creating new applications, e.g., as in [Asana for Linux](https://git.nunosempere.com/NunoSempere/asana-for-linux) - [ ] Add list of similar projects: #### Maintenance - [ ] Set [`webkit_web_context_set_sandbox_enabled`](), as recommended [here]() - [ ] Use something other than Whatsapp as an example syslink. - [ ] Fix bug about distorted audio. Maybe related to [this pipewire issue]()? - [ ] Upgrade to GTK-4 / Webkitgtk 6.0? Will take a fair amount of time, since these are not available on Ubuntu 20.04. #### Previously done - [x] Add a shortcut for hiding the search tab. => Already exists: Ctrl+K - [x] Find out what each of the css elements refers to. => done, see make inspect - [x] Figure out if downloading files is doable. => it is - [x] Look at using relative rather than absolute paths for configuration. => now makefile is a bit smarter - [x] Streamline installation a bit - [x] Substitute paths in makefile - [x] Create cache directory automatically - [x] Add an installation video walkthrough. Done, [here](https://video.nunosempere.com/w/t3oAvJLPHTSAMViQ6zbwTV) - [x] Document `stand_in.c` better - [x] Use a makefile. - [x] Add clean, uninstall to makefile - [x] Mask user agent - [x] Launch with more than one tab from command line - [x] Figure out merge with upstream - [x] String substitution on uri in order to redirect to better frontends. - [x] Present "standard" browser keybindings as an alternative. - [x] Fix zoom in new tab - [x] Reader mode - [x] Add reader mode to config.def. - [x] Make tab bar slightly prettier. - [x] Add "open in new window" functionality. - Useful for opening links in new tab when clicking on them and selecting that option - And for actually opening links with the href new_tab option. - Links: [1](), [2](), [3](), [4]()