I can't help commenting on this one :-) On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:50:43PM +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >The ubuntu-devel mailing list is in the tail end of a long discussion >about whether Epiphany should be the default browser in Ubuntu. The >general consensus is in line with what I've said in #epiphany whenever >anyone was listening ;-) -- that Epiphany needs to be markedly better >than Firefox to overcome the familiarity of the Firefox name, and >currently it isn't. > >One message stood out for me as it contained several ways in which >Epiphany could easily improve. ><http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-January/ 014421.html> > >The items mentioned were (with my notes in brackets): >* a Web developer extension (okay, that's not an easy one) >* the lack of a search field in the toolbar (stop farting around > pretending that people will understand search being a bookmark) Personally I love that. I have to say it isn't intuitive, but once I found out I've been using it all the time. I know this discussion has been popping up every now and then and I'm happy that so far no search field has been added :-) >* turning off rearrangable tabs (this probably isn't necessary) Huh? Why? Are they aware that firefox 1.5 has re-arrangable tabs now? >* fixing strangely-labelled menu items, "View" > "Popup Windows" and > "Edit" > "Toolbars" (this one's partly my fault, since I promised > to spec new menus and haven't gotten around to it) >* non-ugly toolbar icons (perhaps use custom icons only if Gnome's > default icon theme is selected -- it's not the idea of using the > theme's icons that's ugly, it's the default theme that's ugly) >* Zoom Out and Zoom In buttons on the toolbar. You mean ability to add zooming as buttons rather than as a combobox? Do people use it that often? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus therning org http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. One day there will be a completely secure computer system. It will also be completely useless.
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