Re: [Epiphany] Statusbar

[Igor Lev <hyperf earthlink net>]

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:49, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > Hmm - for presentations I use MS powerpoint ...
> 
> Well, with presentations I mean showing a web site to several people.
> That's the only way I've seen it used. I'm not pretending to say that's the way it's used/should
> be used, dont have enough data to say it.
> 
> >I use full-screen mode purely to take advantage of the fact I have a
> >large display and don't like scrolling if I don't have to. In this case
> >it make no sense to not have the statusbar.
> 
> I used a few times fullscreen to have larger display too and I hate to
> have the statusbar there ... I'd have to turn it have to gain screen
> aestate, but that would be slow and I'd prolly never use fullscreen at
> that point.
> I enable it only for sites that I know to pass some time reading. The
> only use I make of statusbar is seeing the links addresses, which is not
> that useful in such situations.
> Basically to convince me to switch mode, there should be enough
> difference between the two modes, otherwise I'd just never do it.
> 
> Yeah these are just impressions, feelings, not very useful. Maybe
> someone other has more interesting things to say ;)
> 
> Marco

I am actually personally interested in a full screen mode. I am involved
in a pervasive computing project in a university right now and we were
looking at using Epiphany as a possible kiosk UI. However, right now we
are generally looking at any embeddable HTML rendering/browser type
software that we would be able to strip of any status/navigation/tool
bars and just keep the HTML rendering behavior. It seems pretty
intuitive to use something like gtkHTML or even embed the mozilla
rendering in some way. However, the actual UI part is a very small part
of the project and we were hoping to use something as close to
off-the-shelf as possible, therefore the interest in a browser. The
reason Epiphany seemed interesting was for it's low bloat, and hopefully
ease of modification. The problem is that my group is not really
proficient in GTK programming. I would personally love to delve into epi
code but think that I would mess up more things then I could fix. So
getting back on track :) I would say that a full screen mode with
configurable display of ALL the toolbars would be immensely useful to
people like me and my colleagues. 
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-Igor