Re: Suggestion for default toolbar settings

["Michael M." <debian writemoore net>]

Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> Currently if I freshly install epiphany I get a two toolbars
>
> * Toolbar 1
> Back | Forward | Stop | Reload | Home | History | Bookmarks | Smaller |
> Larger | GNOME Foot for progress
>
> * Toolbar 2
> Web Adress | Go
>
> Two toolbars by default is using up a large piece of precious screen
> real estate. Furthermore many of the functions of the first toolbar are
> hardly used and simply can confuse first time users. My proposal is to
> have just one toolbar just like firefox.
>
> I.e.
> Back | Forward | Stop | Reload | Web Address | Go | GNOME Foot for
> progress
>
> What do you all think about this? In my opinion it fits with the GNOME
> philosophy to keep things simple.

The one thing I have found a bit annoying with Epiphany is that Toolbar 
1 is not efficient with space.  I use "icons only" rather than icons + 
text, because using that makes the toolbar shorter (top to bottom) and I 
know what the icons mean without needing the text labels to remind me. 
The toolbar is half empty with the default icon set.  That's a lot of 
wasted space.  I don't want to add a bunch of other icons I don't need 
just to fill up the blank space.  I would rather be able to move 
something I find useful to that space, like a few smart search boxes or 
a bookmark group.

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Michael M. -- Portland, OR -- USA
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