Re: Fwd: what is the reason for not making epiphany the default browser?

[Crispin Flowerday <gnome flowerday cx>]

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:09 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:50 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> > Hi Lee,
> > 
> > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> > 
> > > Alt-D does not put the focus in the location bar like on 
> > > Firefox/IE/Mozilla.  This will annoy people.
> > 
> > GNOME applications have Ctrl+L for this purpose. Using Alt+D is a 
> > mistake, since it overrides menu accelerators. In German, for instance, 
> > the File menu is called _Datei, activated with Alt+D.
> 
> You can't make users constantly change the keystrokes they are used to
> using for common tasks, that work on every other OS and browser they
> use.  Users will rightfully consider this a BUG.

You don't explain how to solve the problem of the conflict with the
German file menu. Without explaining how you would solve that alt+d
can't be added as a shortcut....

Personally I have _never_ used alt+d to get to the location entry in any
browser, looking at IE it isn't at all clear that that is what it does.
Perhaps it works in IE as the German A_ddress text is translated to
something else with a different accel ?

Crispin