::mozilla-bonobo ::

··· What is it? ···

mozilla-bonobo is a netscape-compatible browser plugin which allows your browser to use bonobo controls to display supported mime types.

Please see the Savannah project page for mailing list information.

··· Current status ···

• 09.07.2005: mozilla-bonobo 0.4.2.1
• • Fixed a build issue with the 0.4.2 tarball by re-autotoolizing.
    
    
• 05.07.2005: mozilla-bonobo 0.4.2
• • Resolved a licensing issue with npunix.c by replacing the original MPL-licensed version with a more recent, triple-licensed (MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1) version from Mozilla 1.7.8.
  • Updated the address of the FSF in the COPYING file and in the license notices included in the source files.
    
    Nothing else has changed. (Christian Glodt)
    
    
• 13.04.2004: mozilla-bonobo 0.4.1, the "Codename: Limbo Baboon" release:
• • Use the PersistFile interface to load a file into a component if PersistStream fails. This makes the gpdf component work again (Jean Bréfort).
    
  • Fixed a non-critical 64-bit pointer issue (Christian Glodt).
    

• 02.10.2003: mozilla-bonobo 0.4.0, the "Fuego del Pantalón" release:
• • Improved bonobo component loading code (Christian Glodt)
    
  • Parameters from the embedding web page are now passed to the bonobo component (Jean Bréfort)
    
  • Bonobo components can now redirect the browser to another URL (Jean Bréfort)
    
  • Miscellaneous fixes (Christian Glodt, Jean Bréfort)
    

• 19.05.2003: mozilla-bonobo 0.3.0, the "Happy Vertical People Transporter" release:
• • Supports more bonobo components
    
  • Displays an activity bar while documents are downloaded
  • Mime types are now configurable in GConf
  • Improved resizing behaviour
    
  • Also works on Gtk+ 1.2 based Mozilla browsers (as in RedHat 9)
    

• 09.05.2003: mozilla-bonobo 0.2.0, the "Infinite Improbability" release:
• • Much better mime type handling
  • Components do no longer leave stale processes behind
    
  • Displays a "Please wait" message while documents are downloaded
    

• 06.05.2003: mozilla-bonobo 0.1.0, the "Recreational Impossibility" release:
  
• • First release
    
  • Resizing is broken in most browsers
  • Bonobo control detection is less than optimal
  • More or less usable in Mozilla-based browsers, Netscape 4.8 and Konqueror. Does not work in Opera.
    

··· CVS Access ···

mozilla-bonobo is hosted on the Gnome CVS server. The module name is "mozilla-bonobo".

··· Screen shots ···

• Mozilla displaying a postscript file using the gnome-gv control: Mozilla-ps.png
• Mozilla displaying a gcrystal file using its control: diamond.png
• Mozilla displaying a gchempaint file using its control: cholesterol.png
• Galeon displaying a text file using the AbiWord control: Galeon-Abiword.png
• Epiphany displaying a postscript file using the gnome-gv control: Epiphany-ps.png
• Galeon displaying a pdf file using the gnome-gv control: Galeon-pdf.png
• Konqueror displaying a ps file in a frame using the gnome-gv control: Konqueror-ps.png
• The Galeon view in Nautilus displaying a TIFF file in a frame using the EOG control: Nautilus-Galeon-Tiff.png
• Netscape 4.8 displaying a pdf file using the gnome-gv control: Netscape-pdf.png
• Netscape 4.8 displaying a png file using the EOG control: Netscape-png.png
• Epiphany displaying a gnumeric file using the Gnumeric control: Epiphany-gnumeric.png
• The GtkMathView-Bonobo component displaying a formula defined in MathML: gtkmathview-bonobo.png
  

··· Testing it ···

A small collection of documents is available for the purpose of testing bonobo components and mozilla-bonobo.

··· Download ···

mozilla-bonobo is available under the GNU GPL License.

Sources are available here.

Dag Wieers haskindly made available RPM packages of mozilla-bonobo for RedHat 8.0 and 9.0. These are also available from his apt-rpm repository.

Andrew Lau has created Debian packages which are included in the Debian unstable package repository. They can be installed using  apt-get install mozilla-bonobo, or alternatively downloaded and installed using dpkg.

··· Contact ···

I can be contacted at chris at mind dot lu. Contributions are welcome.

Before you write me, please consider posting to the mozilla-bonobo mailing list, so that others may benefit from the discussion.