Bookmarks and searches (was: Fwd: what is the reason for not making epiphany the default browser?)

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hello William,

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, William Case wrote:

> For me, Bookmarks is epiphany.  The Bookmark icon is on my panel and I
> use it to launch into the web.

Nice to hear. The Epiphany bookmarks editor was given its own toplevel 
launcher with this scenario in mind, but not many people seem to use it 
that way.

> sourceforge etc.).  I prefer to read my downloaded HTML manuals and 
> other documents in epiphany.  So, how can I establish rules that do 
> one or the other?

Although you could change the association for HTML files on your local 
disk to another browser, it is not possible in the bookmarks editor to 
have some bookmarks open in another browser than Epiphany. If/when 
bookmarks are abstracted to a desktop-wide concept then this might 
change.

> enter search item in bookmark, bookmark starts epiphany and 
> immediately searches the web.  Don't even have to see the epiphany 
> window until the search is completed.

Have you tried the deskbar-applet yet? I think it mostly does what you 
describe here.

> * On the bookmark, a one click epiphany launch.  In gnome, I have
>   every thing set up so the cursor hover = focus, click = launch.
>   Now, I have to pause in the bookmark and remember to double click.

Hmm, someone with more insight in the code than I have should be able to 
say whether it is feasible to honor the 1-click-activate pref in the 
bookmarks editor... (how would you select multiple items?)

> * The demensions and position that I set for the bookmark, when I use
>   it as the desktop launch engine alone, are never retained from
>   launch to launch.

This might be a bug, please use bugzilla.gnome.org to report it. Thanks 
:-) If you have any other questions or feedback, don't hesitate to post 
it!

regards,

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