Re: [Epiphany] missing usability features in 0.7

[Mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 19:36, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 20:29, Mike wrote:
> > I will comment on the bugs later, but just a couple of points
> > 
> > On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 08:29, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 01:34, Mike wrote:
> > > > After my return from my journey to cvs hell I've got epiphany working
> > > > again.
> > > > 
> > > > However two of my most fave features have disappeared
> > > > 
> > > > 1. open popups in tabs (please can I have it back)
> > > > a lot of sites dont work if you turn off popups entirely.
> > > 
> > > I think the right solution for this is #111930.
> > > 
> > 
> > The advantage with the "popups in tabs" feature is that if you dont want
> > to block the site, the popups dont interfere with your browsing and you
> > can then look at them at leisure.
> 
> Maybe there is yet another better solution then ...
> Open popups in tabs doesnt seem to work well as anti popup solution, at
> least judging by the few people that use it and by people that keep to
> ask blocking. Maybe because people use tabs for other things and having
> popups there is annoying ? (just a weird guess).
> I'm not really opposed to a let's make popups less annoying solution
> instead of blocking. But having two ways to do it is an overkill ...

I suppose this cames down a lot to the old thing that people will
complain about something they dont like, but will stay silent about what
they like.

> > > > 2. preference to open new pages as blank (very often used feature)
> > > 
> > > See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113045.
> > > 
> > > Marco
> > > 
> > 
> > To tell te truth, sometimes you will want a duplicate and sometimes a
> > blank page - so you dont want a fixed preference for this.
> > 
> > Under a unix system highlighting the location bar text is not really a
> > solution, because then you lose the clipboard selection.
> > 
> > An example of this is 
> > your reading a web-page and someone posts a link in text (ie: not a
> > clickable link)
> > So in the previous system, select text, click new tab, middle click,
> > return.
> > 
> > This is not as easy with the idea that only a copy should be made.
> 
> If your only problem is having the location empty, see:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115136
> 
> It's very likely the location will be empty in both cases in next
> releases.
> 
> Marco
> 
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