Re: Epiphany Homepage

["Baris Cicek" <baris teamforce name tr>]

There is also financial part of that, as Google gives some amount of money
for every query done from Firefox start page (having said that if you want
to support Firefox do some search through start page).

I'd rather GNOME not to have such connections with companies product-wise.
For firefox, Google is directly related with their working area, and
having such a mutual connection put lots of power into Mozilla's hand. I
doubt that that is valid for GNOME.

So either having a search engine based start page, or directly pointing to
their page is not a good option. Maybe epiphany include a basic what's new
page with every release an point that location locally. That's what Fedora
does with default home pages.

> On 9/9/06, Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com> wrote:
> > --- Luca Cavalli <luca cavalli gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 17:33 +0100, Joachim Noreiko
> > > wrote:
> > > > > Another option could be to create a
> > > > > Gnome start page just
> > > > > for the purpose of using it as home page in
> > > > > Epiphany.
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm... maybe.
> > > > But don't most distros overwrite that anyway?
> > > Ubuntu
> > > > certainly provides a home page (not sure if it
> > > puts it
> > > > into Epi as well as Firefox, but logically it
> > > should).
> > > > I don't think it's worth the effort of something
> > > else
> > > > to maintain on our site.
> > >
> > > Well, just because Ubuntu, or any other distro,
> > > override GNOME defaults,
> > > it is not a good reason to not have them. This was
> > > the same for splash
> > > screen (I can remember a discussion about that a
> > > couple of releases
> > > ago). Not all distros overwrite GNOME defaults and
> > > not all users install
> > > precompiled packages. GNOME should take care also of
> > > these users.
> > > Ciao,
> >
> > Have I said before how much I dislike the distro model
> > and how much difficulty it causes us? ... oh yeah,
> > nearly every day ;)
> >
> > Anyway, yes, point taken.
> >
> > Can we simply use a part of the w.g.o site already
> > planned for in the proposed new structure?
> > If not, would this home page be something a visitor to
> > w.g.o can access? ie, is it something we must add to
> > the structure, or does it remain separate? And what's
> > a good stable URL?
>
> It blows my mind that anyone would think about replacing the most
> useful homepage on the internet (google) with a page that will be
> useful to our users *once*, in the *best case* scenario.
>
> Now, if someone talked to google about creating something like:
> http://www.google.com/firefox
>
> That might be both useful to our users and good for our marketing.
> That probably needs to be something discussed carefully with the board
> before it happens, though.
>
> Luis
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