What is this?

Browse is a web browser activity for the Sugar desktop.

How to use?

Browse is part of the Sugar desktop and is always included. Please refer to;

• How to Get Sugar on sugarlabs.org,
• How to use Sugar, and;
• How to use Browse.

How to upgrade?

On Sugar desktop systems;

• use My Settings, Software Update, or;
• use Browse to open activities.sugarlabs.org, search for Browse, then download.

How to integrate?

On Debian and Ubuntu systems;

apt install sugar-browse-activity

On Fedora systems;

dnf install sugar-browse

Browse depends on Python, Sugar Toolkit, D-Bus, Cairo, Telepathy, GTK+ 3, Pango, Rsvg, Soup, Evince and WebKit. Unusually, Browse also depends on glib-compile-schemas to compile a Gio.Settings schema.

Browse is started by Sugar.

Browse is packaged by Linux distributions;

• Debian package sugar-browse-activity,
• Ubuntu package sugar-browse-activity, and;
• Fedora package sugar-browse.

How to develop?

• setup a development environment for Sugar desktop,
• clone this repository,
• edit source files,
• test in Terminal by typing sugar-activity .

APIs

Code inside Browse depends on several APIs, including;

• PyGObject API Reference, and;
• Sugar Toolkit API.

Branch master

The master branch targets an environment with latest stable release of Sugar, with dependencies on latest stable release of Fedora and Debian distributions.

Release tags are v204 and higher.

Branch python2

The python2 branch is a backport of features and bug fixes from the master branch for ongoing maintenance of the activity on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04 systems which don't have a Python 3 capable release of Sugar.

Release tags are v203.2 and higher, but lower than v204.

Branch not-webkit2

The not-webkit2 branch is a backport of features and bug fixes from the master branch for ongoing maintenance of the activity on Fedora 18 systems which don't have well-functioning WebKit2 packages.

Release tags are v157.5 and higher, but lower than v200.