qutebrowser/doc/TODO

Before 0.1
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- Check BUGS
- Docs
    - Manpage
    - Website
    - FAQ
- Single-instance and multi-window
- Tests for URL detection and fix corner cases
- Maybe test under other platforms
- Autosave feature (against segfaults/...)
- Save tabs feature
- More dwb keybindings
- Use  :open engine searchterm   syntax for searching
- ssl-strict=ask
- Use argparse and do something like click for command arguments, then we can
  have flags etc.
- Implement some optional stuff from http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/
  (especially filename with Content-Disposition: inline)
- Icon
- Use profiler to check what uses most CPU -> probably add config cache

New big features
================

- Per domain settings
- RequestPolicy
- Plugin architecture
    Adblock?
    RequestPolicy
    Ghostery/Disconnect?
    NoScript
    Certificate Patrol
    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-google-redirects/ccenmflbeofaceccfhhggbagkblihpoh
- session handling / saving
- multi window (see notes)
- IPC, like dwb -x (see notes)
- Bookmarks
- Internationalization
- more completions (URLs, ...)
- proper webpage history
- proper widget for debug logs, with filtering etc.
- maybe FakeWebView which acts like a WebView in a tab but isn't, to open any
  widget?

Downloads
=========

- Download to default filename if only path is given
- Remember last path for prompt, if explicitely set.
- re-ask instead of killing download if path is invalid
- open files

Improvements / minor features
=============================

- Add pylint checker to warn on open() without encoding.
- We should have something like utils.debug.qenum_key for QFlags.
- Honour icognito mode for cookies etc.
- Make sure commands in config are _complete_
- Config should check for unknown sections

- We should use a different config file for keybindings for the following
  reasons:

  - Special chars in keychains make it hard to bind those.
  - The concept of "default keys get re-added" is confusing when using
    keychains as the left-hand-side. But when using it as the RHS, binding
    multiple keybindings to the same command gets tricky.

- Print keybinding for command in completion [konubinix]
- "go up in the URL path" mapped to gu for example [egan]
- command which closes other tabs in a direction [egan]
- Distinction between :q and :wq, add ZZ and ZQ shortcuts.
- set_toggle to toggle setting between two states
- Customizable statusbar
    - SSL-symbol in statusbar?
- Ask whether to close when downloads are running or maybe if form fields are
  unsubmitted (book page 187)
- Keychain completion in statusbar like dwb
- Commandline argument to delete config
- Settings dialog/page (iggy is working on qute:settings)
- Tab groups (tagging/filtering for displayed tabs)
- Save cookies in Netscape format so it can be used by wget. (see notes)
- Zoom with ctrl + mousewheel
- debug-Command for set loglevel/RAM capacity
- reload config command
    - config changed signals for sections (optimization)
- Display metavars for command arguments in input bar.
- count support for special keys
- set-as-default argument/command (to set qute as system default browser)
- Enable disk caching (see notes)
- clear cookies command
- keybind/aliases should have completion for commands/arguments
- Hiding scrollbars
- Ctrl+A/X to increase/decrease last number in URL
- Add more element-selection-detection code (with options?) (see notes)
- somehow unfocus elements (hide blinking cursor) when insert mode is left?
- Copy link location on crash mail should not copy mailto:
- Drag&Drop of tabs to other windows
- Multi-line statusbar or own widget for long messages?
- :messages command to view past messages
- :%! like feature to pipe current page through a filter.
- Add FIFOHandler based on asyncio
- Lazy tab loading
- Add command shortcuts to command completion

hints
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- bindings for prev/next hint
- more intelligent clicking (end of textfields)
- filter close hints when it's the same link
- ignore keypresses shortly after link following
- uppercase hint chars without requiring upper case to type (easier to
  distinguish)

style
=====

- Use list models for completion and a proxy model which converts them to a
  tree?
- Stuff under scripts/ (especially generate_doc and run_checks) could use a
  rewrite.

dwb keybindings to possibly implement
=====================================

window
------

wh
Go back in a new window (command win_hist_back, aliases: winback, wba).

wl
Go forward in a new window (command win_hist_forward, aliases: winforward, wfo).

wB
Show Bookmarks, open bookmark in a new window (command win_bookmarks, aliases: winmarks).

wb[:graph:]
Open quickmark in a new window (command win_quickmark, aliases: winqmarks).

wf
Show hints, open link in a new window. (command hints_win, aliases: winhints, whi).

;R
Rapid hint mode, each matching hint opens a new window. (command hints_rapid_win, aliases: wrhints, wrhi).

wp
Paste from clipboard and load in a new window (command paste_nw, aliases: winpaste).

wP
Paste from primary selection and load in a new window (command paste_primary_nw, aliases: winppaste).

W
Next navigation action will be opened in a new window (command new_win).

wo
Open url in a new instance (command: winopen, aliases: wopen, w).


Bookmarks/quickmarks
--------------------

M
Add a bookmark (command bookmark, aliases: bmark, bma).

gb
Show Bookmarks (command bookmarks, aliases: bmarks, bmas).

gB
Show Bookmarks, open bookmark in a new tab (command tab_bookmarks, aliases: tabmarks).

tab-handling
------------

gt
Show all open tabs. (command buffers, aliases: bu).

[n]C-P
Protect tab [n]. Closing this tab must be confirmed (command protect, aliases: prot).

[n]xd
Lock tab [n]. Locking a tab will lock this tab to the current domain, it’s not possible to navigate to another domain until unlocked. lock_domain, aliases: dlock).

[n]xu
Lock tab [n]. Locking a tab will lock this tab to the current uri, it’s not possible to navigate to another uri until unlocked. lock_uri, aliases: ulock).

Blacklisting
------------

tsh
Toggle scripts for current host permanently (command toggle_scripts_host, aliases: hscript).

tsu
Toggle scripts for current url permanently (command toggle_scripts_uri, aliases: uscript).

tth
Toggle scripts for current host temporarily (command toggle_scripts_host_tmp, aliases: thscript).

ttu
Toggle scripts for current url temporarily (command toggle_scripts_uri_tmp, aliases: tuscript).

ph
Toggle plugins for current host permanently (command toggle_plugins_host, aliases: hplugin).

pu
Toggle plugins for current url permanently (command toggle_plugins_uri, aliases: uplugin).

pth
Toggle plugins for current host temporarily (command toggle_plugins_host_tmp, aliases: thplugin).

ptu
Toggle plugins for current url temporarily (command toggle_plugins_uri_tmp, aliases: tuplugin).

CC
Allow persistent cookie for the current website. The domain will be saved in cookies.allow. Cookies that are allowed by the cookies.allow whitelist are stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dwb/$profilename/cookies. (command allow_cookie, aliases: cookie).

CS
Allow session cookie for the current website. The domain will be saved in cookies_session.allow. This is only useful if cookies-store-policy is set to never, see cookies-store-policy for details. (command allow_session_cookie, aliases: scookie).

CT
Allow session cookies for the current website temporarily. Only first party cookies are allowed. The domain is not saved to a whitelist and the cookies will not be saved persitently. (command allow_session_cookie_tmp, aliases: tcookie).


Show
----

Sb
Show bookmarks (command show_bookmarks, aliases: sbookmarks).

Sq
Show quickmarks (command show_quickmarks, aliases: squickmarks).

Sh
Show history (command show_history, aliases: shistory).

Sk
Show keys (command show_keys, aliases: skeys).

Ss
Show settings (command show_settings, aliases: ssettings).

eu
Show and execute userscripts (command execute_userscript).

Sd
Show download (command show_downloads, aliases: sdownloads).


Other
-----

[n]gc
Clear tab n or of current tab, clears the history of the tab and loads about:blank. (command clear_tab, aliases: clear).

th
Go back in a new tab (command tab_hist_back, aliases: tabback, tba).

tl
Go forward in a new tab (command tab_hist_forward, aliases: tabforward, tfo).

c/
Find forward, ignore case (command find_forward_ic, alias: iffind).

c?
Find backward, ignore case (command find_backward_ic, alias ibfind).

[n]R
Reload tab n or current tab if n is omitted without using any cached data (command reload_bypass_cache, aliases: refull).

ZZ
Save current session and exit (command save_session, aliases: wq).

gZZ
Save current session with name and exit (command save_named_session, aliases: wqn).

gf
Toggle "view source" (command view_source, aliases: source, so).

gs
Add a searchengine. Textfields can be chosen with tab and a keyword must be specified. The first defined searchengine will be the default searchengine. The keyword can be used in all open commands, e.g. :open <keyword> <searchterm> (command save_search_field, aliases: search).

C-p
Toggle proxy (command proxy).

V
Next navigation action will be opened in a new tab (command new_tab).

g.
Toggle hidden files when browsing local filesystem. (command open_editor, aliases: editor).

F11
Toggle fullscreen (command fullscreen, aliases: fs).

F12
Toggle presentation mode. (command presentation_mode, aliases: present).

xx
Toggle visibility of tabbar and statusbar. (command toggle_bars, aliases: bars).

xt
Toggle visibility of tabbar. (command toggle_tabbar, aliases: tbar).

xb
Toggle visibility of statusbar. (command toggle_statusbar, aliases: sbar).

xv
Toggle visibility of a tab. (command visible, aliases: vis).

unbound
Execute a javascript snippet (command execute_javascript, aliases: exja, js).

unbound
Toggle a boolean setting from commandline (command toggle_setting, aliases: toggle, tog).

unbound
Load a html string. This command is mainly intended for use in userscripts (command load_html).

unbound
Load a html string in a new tab. This command is mainly intended for use in userscripts (command load_html_tab).

unbound
Execute a javascript snippet that uses the the internal javascript api. This command only works if the javascript interface is enabled, i.e. if there are scripts in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dwb/userscripts that use the api or if dwb is started with -S/--enable-scripts (command eval).

Tab (S-Tab)
In normal mode Tab shows the next (previous) shortcut, that matches the currently entered keysequence. When opening a url, the next (previous) item in command history, bookmarks or history will be completed. In hint mode the next (previous) hint will get focus. Tab also completes settings and shortcut-settings. When initiating a download, full paths (downloads and spawning programs) and binaries (spawning programs) in PATH will be completed. In command mode tab will complete builtin commands and urls if the command accepts an url.



henk's thoughts
===============

1. Power to the user! Protect privacy!
Things the browser should only do with explicit consent from the user, if
applicable the user should be able to choose which protocol/host/port triplets
to white/blacklist:

- load/run executable code, like js, flash, java applets, ... (think NoScript)
- requests to other domains, ports or using a different protocol than what the
  user requested (think RequestPolicy)
- accept cookies
- storing/saving/caching things, e.g. open tabs ("session"), cookies, page
  contents, browsing/download history, form data, ...
- send referrer
- disclose any (presence, type, version, settings, capabilities, etc.)
  information about OS, browser, installed fonts, plugins, addons, etc.

2. Be efficient!
I tend to leave a lot of tabs open and nobody can deny that some websites
simply suck, so the browser should, unless told otherwise by the user:

- load tabs only when needed
- run code in tabs only when needed, i.e. when the tab is currently being
  used/viewed (background tabs doing some JS magic even when they are not being
  used can create a lot of unnecessary load on the machine)
- finish requests to the domain the user requested (e.g. www.example.org)
  before doing any requests to other subdomains (e.g. images.example.org) and
  finish those before doing requests to thirdparty domains (e.g. example.com)

3. Be stable!
- one site should not make the complete browser crash, only that site's tab