Re: roadmap discussion

[Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists epiphany rawuncut elitemail org>]

* Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org> [Nov 15, 2004 01:20]:
>  * Should Epiphany be able to natively run firefox extensions? Is this
>    even possible?

Probably difficult to implement/get right.  Firefox extensions can do so
much with XUL it's not even funny.  As the Epiphany interface is largely
GTK-based, a lot would probably simply not work out.

>  * Can the Bookmarks menu be replaced by a Bookmarks panel applet?

Interesting, but perhaps the menu-bar of GNOME applications should be
replaced by a panel applet as it is?  Like Mac OS and KDE (if they
didn't remove it from KDE again).  Saves some real-estate, but is
perhaps kind of weird.

>  * Will we be able to use nautilus metadata (emblems for example) in the
>    forseeable future?

For what?

>  * What user visible enhancement(s) can we provide that emphasizes again
>    that Epiphany is crucial to GNOME, as opposed to
>    Firefox-with-GTK-impersonation?

Bookmarks.  This should be top-priority.  It's time that some real
gifted UI people sat down and figured out what makes a good bookmarking
system.  Peter Harvey's ideas are great, but are they the final word?
Probably not.  Get this right and people will see a reason to use
Epiphany.  I use firefox for one reason atm:  keyword bookmarks.  Plus
del.icio.us is pretty nice as well.
	nikolai

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