Re: [Epiphany] Re: "I feel lucky" preference on Address bar

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpeseng tin it>]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 01:31, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> Marcelo E. Magallon writes:
> > 
> >  Now I ask myself what'd happen
> >  if I tell her that she can type something in the location bar and
> >  that'd trigger a google search.  My guess is she'd keep clicking on the
> >  "google" button on the toolbar.  Face it: keyword search is an
> >  "advanced" feature (just like smart bookmarks).  There are zero UI
> >  hints about its existance.
> 
> In my OpenApplet, I use a tooltip when the user mouses over the text entry 
> thats pops up the following text: 
> 
> "Enter a web address to open, or phrase to search for in your files and on 
> the web." 
> 
> The text entry also has a label marked "Open:". 
> 
> Epiphany could use a similar tip [1] and label. This would definately help 
> the discoverability of this feature. 
> 
> > 
> >  > I'm not saying this should be disabled by default.. 
> > 
> >  FWIW, I am.  I'm feeling lucky is a horrible default.  It has
> >  non-predictable non-defined behaviour.  Futhermore, the user can't
> >  override the computer's choice. 
> > 
> 
> I'm somewhat mixed on this. The main reason i've stood so firmly on keeping 
> the current behavior is two fold: 
> 
> 1) google search is already available from the bookmarks bar.
> 2) I sort of like the url-less ui it creates. (Instead of knowing a specific 
> address, you can just type text that gives you the closes (sic?) match ) 
> 
> I fully agree that a pref here is overkill. It seems that the arguments 
> presented here focus more on people's dislike of the default, and would find 
> google search more useful (and so instead of asking us to change the 
> default, in true open source fashion they ask for a pref). I have to admit 
> to being somewhat perplexed as it seems that most of the users who are 
> complaining are those who would be most likely to use a bookmarks toolbar 
> which includes a default google search smartbookmark. 
> 
> Anyway I am open to endorsing a change in the default if it is decided that 
> this is better for our target user base (of which I claim no one on this 
> list is probably part of [2]) but of course the final decision is up to 
> marco. 
> 
> dave

For the record mpt seem to agree we should have a normal google search
too.

Marco