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@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ 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. +## Why + +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. + ## How 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. @@ -72,7 +76,11 @@ To change color, open them in a text editor (inkscape et al. will spew metadata ### Running -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. +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`. + +## Contributing + +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. ## Usable Technology Certificate @@ -80,8 +88,8 @@ To run it inside the command line, run `python -m utab`. It will start running a 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 +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. |