Re: Fwd: what is the reason for not making epiphany the default browser?

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 18:20 +0000, Crispin Flowerday wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:09 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:50 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> > > Hi Lee,
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Alt-D does not put the focus in the location bar like on 
> > > > Firefox/IE/Mozilla.  This will annoy people.
> > > 
> > > GNOME applications have Ctrl+L for this purpose. Using Alt+D is a 
> > > mistake, since it overrides menu accelerators. In German, for instance, 
> > > the File menu is called _Datei, activated with Alt+D.
> > 
> > You can't make users constantly change the keystrokes they are used to
> > using for common tasks, that work on every other OS and browser they
> > use.  Users will rightfully consider this a BUG.
> 
> You don't explain how to solve the problem of the conflict with the
> German file menu. Without explaining how you would solve that alt+d
> can't be added as a shortcut....
> 

Why can't we just do whatever Firefox does?  How does it handle the
German file menu?

> Personally I have _never_ used alt+d to get to the location entry in any
> browser, looking at IE it isn't at all clear that that is what it does.
> Perhaps it works in IE as the German A_ddress text is translated to
> something else with a different accel ?

It does the exact same thing in IE as Firefox.  And lots of users do use
it.

Lee