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

[Gavrila <gavrilus tiscalinet it>]

This should be forwarded in list, I'll do it

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• From: "hotmail" <silvarubenda hotmail com>
• To: "Gavrila" <gavrilus tiscalinet it>
• Subject: Re: [Epiphany] "I feel lucky" preference on Address bar
• Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:19:04 +0200

That's right, simple concepts:
Simple as posible for simple users.
"Hackable" as posible for hacker users.
All for all.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavrila" <gavrilus@tiscalinet.it>
To: <epiphany@mozdev.org>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Epiphany] "I feel lucky" preference on Address bar


> Il ven, 2003-06-27 alle 16:03, Marcelo E. Magallon ha scritto:
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 03:19:00PM +0200, Gavrila wrote:
> >
> >  > As I'm able to understand the less u can configure in Epiphany the
> >  > better it is for project aims.  Ok, that's born to provide non-expert
> >  > users a simple but powerful browser.
> >
> >  You people need to get the myth of "configurable" == "hard to use" out
> >  of your collective heads.  Google is good, but not _that_ good.  "I'm
> >  feeling lucky" _hardly_ does it for me and there _are_ people out there
> >  who don't use Google.
>
> I think you misunderstood what I wrote. Since this project born to give
> a REALLY simple but powerful browser, one of the line of devs is to not
> implement gui options to configure "tweaky" things. And that's fine for
> me, just because that's why they decided to fork from galeon. The
> question indeed I was asking is: why to negate the possibility to 'hack'
> these settings when someone is able to?
>
> I mean: the young and inexpert user, won't be able to tweak anything and
> since the gui is clean and simple it will be all "click 'n' go", but the
> expert user will know where to go to tweak and configure as his taste
> says.
>
> What do you think about this?
>
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