Re: extension for Konqueror-style search shortcuts, and other comments

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Sander,

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sander van Loon wrote:

> Unfortunately, when I try to download the extension posted as attachment
> "Bookmark-Keywords extension (rev. 3)" it can't be opened with Archive
> Manager: "could not open attachment.cgi".

That's strange, I can reproduce that. Anyone know what's going on??

> I just tried deskbar-applet, but I don't think I really like it.

You must be the first I hear saying that! :]

> Concerning the tab scrolling limitation in GTK, are the GTK developers
> planning on fixing this?

You should ask them, not us. As far as I know their priorities lie 
elsewhere at the moment.

> don't even read the tab titles, what is important for me is that I can 
> quickly switch between tabs.

Well, you can, by using the Tabs menu or the Alt+<number> shortcut.

> http://www.xs4all.nl/~vanlonen/epiphany_toolbareditor.png Practically
> this is how Konqueror does it, quite simple if you ask me.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not convinced this is a better 
design. For instance, why is it 'simple' that the *vertical* ordering of 
items in the list in the Konqueror toolbar editor defines the 
*horizontal* order on the toolbar?

> are talking about usability experts, doesn't GNOME have usability
> experts helping with the project?

Matthew and Bryan are regular posters on this list, they are usability 
professionals. Marco, who started this whole project, did so to create a 
simple, Human Interface Guidelines-compliant browser. So although we may 
not always get it exactly right, there's plenty of usability-awareness 
on this project :-)


regards,

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