Re: More decisions on bugs

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 19:47, Christian Persch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> my opinions on those bugs:
> 
> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 20:16, Piers Cornwell wrote:
> > Following on from the last set, heres some more bugs that are easy to resolve but we need to make decision on:
> > 

Piers, sorry for the delay ... blame my real life ;)

> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117650
> > Ctrl+Enter in location bar
> Punt.

I dont think mainteinance cost is worth the number of people will
benefit of it. So I agree.

> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108143
> > Ability to open all bms in topic at once
> Punt.

I think we should do this with bookmarks toolbars. I think the current
active tab should be "overwritten" and the others opened near it. This
is consistent also with dnd behavior.

I much more doubious about "overwriting" all tabs. Even assuming it's
intuitive it's not hard to click the item by mistake and lose content of
all your tabs.
(Anyone with access to safari knows how it works there exactly ?)

> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119857
> > Quit doesn't ask for confirmation
> 
> On the one hand, it'd be pretty annoying to ask for confirmation on tab
> close, but on the other hand there's a severe dataloss problem here...
> not sure what I think. Maybe if we could detect that a web form has been
> filled in but not submitted yet, we could ask for confirmation, but not
> in other circumstances.
> -> postpone decision

I think the patch Christian is working on is ok. (ask when user filled a
form).

> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118539
> > Auto-highlight smartbookmark fields
> Firebird does this on linux too (although they don't overwrite
> middle-click paste buffer). The only thing I'm concerned about is the
> middle click paste buffer... but I guess people should just learn to use
> explicit copy/paste (C-C/C-V); most people don't know about middle click
> anyway probably.
> I'm in favour of implementing this before feature freeze.

I tend to think this should be at least consistent with address bar.
Though in this case double click -> select word could be more useful.

So I dont think we should do autoselect unless we do it for address
entry. IHMO the alternatives are double click select all/keep it as is.
Dave what do you think ?

Marco