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## Rosenrot
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A small browser forked from [rose](https://github.com/mini-rose/rose).
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- Rose is a minimal browser based on webkit2gtk which aims to be a "basement for creating your own browser using [the] gtk and webkit libraries".
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- Rosenrot is my fork from rose. It has accumulated 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).
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- Rosenrot is also a song by the German hardcore rock band [Rammstein](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af59U2BRRAU).
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You can see some screenshots in the [screenshots](./screenshots) folder.
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### Features
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- tabs, cookies, caching
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- minimal ui, autohiding elements
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- ~467L core code (the rose.c file)
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- custom gtk and websites css
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- builtin rose-mklink script for in-shell static links
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- A few quality of life improvements.
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- Optional adblocking through [wyebadblock](https://github.com/jun7/wyebadblock)
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- Plugin system:
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- Libre redirect: Redirect annoying websites to open source frontends
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- Readability: Strip webpages of unnecessary elements for ease of reading with a custom shortcut
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- Custom style: Override the css of predetermined websites
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- Stand in plugin: Mimick function definitions which do nothing for the above plugins so that they can be quickly removed
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### Installation
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Install dependencies, then:
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```
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make build
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make install # or sudo make install
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```
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You can also see more detailed instructions [here](./user-scripts/ubuntu-20.04/install-with-dependencies.sh), for Ubuntu 20.04 in particular—though they should generalize trivially. Or a video installing rosenrot in a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine [here](https://video.nunosempere.com/w/t3oAvJLPHTSAMViQ6zbwTV).
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### 👐 Contribute
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- Contribute upstream to [github.com/mini-rose/rose](https://github.com/mini-rose/) for core functionality changes.
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- Contribute here for quality of life improvements, by sending a pull request on Github.
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### To do
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- [ ] Look at using relative rather than absolute paths
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- [ ] Add css for js alerts
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- [ ] Figure out if downloading files is doable.
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- [ ] Figure out better way to have plugins
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- [ ] Double check newtab/next-tab behavior
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- [ ] Find out what each of the css elements refers to.
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- [ ] Use something other than Whatsapp as an example syslink.
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- [ ] Set [`webkit_web_context_set_sandbox_enabled`](<https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/2.36.8/WebKitWebContext.html#webkit-web-context-set-sandbox-enabled>), as recommended [here](<https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2022/11/04/stop-using-qtwebkit/>)
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- [ ] Fix bug about distorted audio. Maybe related to [this pipewire issue](<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1547>)?
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Done:
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- [x] Streamline installation a bit
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- [x] Substitute paths in makefile
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- [x] Create cache directory automatically
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- [x] Add an installation video walkthrough. Done, [here](https://video.nunosempere.com/w/t3oAvJLPHTSAMViQ6zbwTV)
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- [x] Document `stand_in.c` better
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- [x] Use a makefile.
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- [x] Add clean, uninstall to makefile
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- [x] Mask user agent
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- [x] Launch with more than one tab from command line
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- [x] Figure out merge with upstream
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- [x] String substitution on uri in order to redirect to better frontends.
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- [x] Present "standard" browser keybindings as an alternative.
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- [x] Fix zoom in new tab
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- [x] Reader mode
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- [x] Add reader mode to config.def.
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- [x] Make tab bar slightly prettier.
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- [x] Add "open in new window" functionality.
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- Useful for opening links in new tab when clicking on them and selecting that option
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- And for actually opening links with the href new_tab option.
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- Links: [1](<https://docs.gtk.org/gobject/func.signal_connect.html>), [2](<https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/2.37.90/signal.AutomationSession.create-web-view.html>), [3](<https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/2.26.0/WebKitWebView.html#WebKitWebView-create>), [4](<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40180757/webkit2gtk-get-new-window-link>)
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### Known bugs
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- [ ] Doesn't work with when Spanish is selected as the language, for some reason.
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