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author | Aqua-sama <aqua@iserlohn-fortress.net> | 2018-09-19 23:35:43 +0200 |
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committer | Aqua-sama <aqua@iserlohn-fortress.net> | 2018-09-19 23:35:43 +0200 |
commit | 2c20acb1981fc8fbd884dbece2a1115ca37732d2 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/Usage/CommandLine.md b/doc/Usage/CommandLine.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c532ce --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/Usage/CommandLine.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +## Command-line options + +### General +* `-h`, `--help`: Display this help. +* `-v`, `--version`: Display version information. +* `--build`: Display build branch and commit. +* `-c`, `--config`: Set configuration file. +* `--no-remote`: Don't check for other instances when starting. + +### Tweaking configuration +You can overwrite options at runtime using the option path as a command line +parameter. diff --git a/doc/Usage/Configuration.md b/doc/Usage/Configuration.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3bf55b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/Usage/Configuration.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +## Configuration + +The Configuration is loaded from _~/.config/smolbote/smolbote.cfg_. Most +settings are only loaded on launch. + +For a full list of settings, check `--help`. + +### Browser (group: browser) + +### Main Window (group: mainwindow) +A main window contains one or more subwindows. + +### Subwindow (group: window) +A subwindow contains multiple tabs and functions similarly to a tab group. + +### Navigation bar (group: navigation) +The navigation bar is the toolbar that holds the history, reload and home +buttons, as well as the address bar. It can be made movable through the +navigation.movable option. + +### Address bar (group: addressbar) + +### Filter (group: filter) + +### Plugins (group: plugins) +Plugins a way of extending smolbote's functionality using the Qt plugin system. +They are not to be confused with NPAPI/PPAPI or WebExtension plugins. + +To enable a plugin either copy it or symlink it in the plugins.path location, +or set its absolute path as the plugins.path. + +### Profiles (group: profile) +A Profile is a collection of settings, policies, scripts, cookies, cache and +history. Profiles can be used to isolate pages from each other. + +Each window has a default profile it uses when opening new tabs. This can be +set by the profile.default option, and can be changed from the window's menu. +Additionally, tabs can have their profiles individually changed from their page +menu. + +Because profiles store all their data separately, you can log in into the same +site with a different account from each profile. However, links opened into new +tabs will still use the subwindow's default profile. For example, you can set a +profile to hold login information for a site, but all new tabs opened from that +site would still be using the default off-the-record profile. + +Profile definitions are stored in the profiles.path location. To create a new +profile, create a profile-id.profile file in that location. + +### Bookmarks (group: bookmarks) + +### Downloads (group: downloads) + diff --git a/doc/Usage/Profile.md b/doc/Usage/Profile.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d205a86 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/Usage/Profile.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Profiles are read from profile.path + +## Settings + +- otr (defaults to true) - is this profile off-the-record +- name (defaults to the configuration file name) +- search (defaults to profile.search) - search engine url +- homepage (defaults to profile.homepage) +- newtab (defaults to profile.newtab) + +### Properties +Key is property name; value is property value + +### Attributes +see QWebEngineSetting::WebAttribute for list of IDs. +Key is attribute id; value is attribute value (true/false) + diff --git a/doc/Usage/Session.md b/doc/Usage/Session.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3018253 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/Usage/Session.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +## Session format +A session is a single window, which contains a list of subwindows. + +Each subwindow has a profile (profile id), and a list of tabs. + +Each tab has a profile (profile id) and url. + +~~~json +{ + "subwindows": [ + { + "profile": "<profile id>", + "tabs": [ + { + "profile": "<profile id>", + "url": "<url>" + }, + { + ... + } + ] + } + ] +} + +~~~ + +## --session +This command-line option causes the browser to load the specified json file. + |