Re: A change in direction for Epiphany?

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Matthew,

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Matthew Thomas wrote:

> Firefox *already does this* to get buttons and (more challengingly) menu
> items in the right places for the Mac version, so don't think they won't
> do it for Gnome.

Yes, so I've heard. All the better if they do this for GNOME too.

> That's true. You'd get native-looking controls (finally!), and you'd get
> some speed improvement, but people don't seem to care quite as much
> about those things on Gnome-based OSes as they do on Mac OS X.

Unfortunately so, I might add ;)

> *   Use error pages instead of alerts. Safari 2.0 does this, MSIE for

Error pages are in cvs now!

Are there bug#'s for your other suggestions?

>    Windows does this, Gecko can do this, but Firefox doesn't. Provide
>    an "Easy Reading Mode" toggle that simultaneously sets a bundled
>    user style sheet (in addition to that entered in the prefs) plus a
>    minimum font size.

This is closely related to a11y work. That area is *so* unclear. The 
Mozilla trunk may or may not include a11y fixes from the Sun Beijing 
team, and there's no one (not even after repeated requests on the 
a11y-list) providing feedback on how to improve epiphany's a11y. :-(

> *   Provide an Activity window

Isn't this the same thing as the Page Info extension?

> *   Get a cool icon. Not one that's a wild non-sequitur, like -- say --

How about the foot-e on the epiphany homepage?
It would probably need hand editing to look good at small sizes.

> *   Not so important because most distributors override it, but ...
>    Choose a default home page that *doesn't steal focus* when you're
>    trying to enter an URL in the window you just opened. Gah!

Christian, how about this?

> And that's before we even get to Gnome-specific stuff. For example,
> implement a panel applet -- present even when Epiphany isn't running --

I think Nigel Tao's deskbar and bookmark applets could be expanded to 
provide such functionality. I'd look into it if I didn't have to finish 
a thesis...

regards,

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Reinout van Schouwen