Friday, September 16, 2011

Scribefire next 1.9 & Prism

I guess it is better to use prism for certain extension's like ScribeFire. Gnome lack's a class quality application for blogging. Lot of stuff is avilable online but is older and sometime dosen't works for extensions. The other method is to install the prism ( sudo apt-get install prism ) and check for URL in firefox "convert to website option".  I got the prism extension for firefox while I did sudo apt-get for prism. If you don't have the prism extension for firefox install it. Same way install the desired extension say Scribefire. Some way bring the extension to tab or window (click Scribefire Options button on bottom left) and click "Convert Website to Application...". Copy the URL from pop-up window and cancel the window.

Scribe fire next 1.9 in fire fox tabConfigure prism for standlone extensions as explained in "Haroon's Blog". The important points in the bolg are:-

  1. XUL file used by prism (webrunner.xul) & firefox (browser.xul) as entered in chrome.manifest file.
  2. You can shift the version in install.rdf to include your prism version.
  3. The .xul URL may not work as the XUL file may not be there. In scribe fire next 1.9 we have "chrome://scribefire-next/content/scribefire.html", a html file.

For application menu entry copy the "command" from prism shortcut file(.desktop file prism placed on your desktop). You can right click and go to properties or open the .desktop file in text editor.

We can remove minor mis alignment's & visual glitches by tweaking the css files in the extension, particularly in chrome/content/skin directory.