Re: epiphany-list Digest, Vol 29, Issue 16

[Brendan Martens <shrift gmail com>]

I recently asked about this. Let me paste the relevant conversations for
you. Sorry I know this is long guys, Just wanted to put this in here so
we don't all have to repeat ourselves.

Brendan

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:27:52 -0500
From: Brendan Martens <shrift gmail com>
Subject: epiphany tab functionality
To: epiphany-list gnome org
Message-ID: <1156541272 20868 9 camel shrift local cityofevanston org>
Content-Type: text/plain

Hi. I generally love epiphany but there is one real show stopper for me.
I cannot tell epiphany to force new windows into a new tab. I feel like
this is a required option, especially given the varied user base that
epiphany has. Maybe I'm just missing something, but as far as I can tell
there is no where to define this. Does anyone know about how I could
change that / if not, is it possible to include as an option for the
next release? For the record, I'm using 2.14.3.

Also, Epiphany tabs will not ctrl+tab or ctrl+shift+tab cycle. I am
quite used to this as most gnome apps support this functionality, is it
possible to get that into Epiphany as well?

I'd love to fill out a feature request if that is the next step for
these things... Just thought I'd check here first.

Thanks!





Message: 1
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:19:25 +0200
From: Stefan Stuhr <gnomelists sstuhr dk>
Subject: Re: epiphany tab functionality
To: Brendan Martens <shrift gmail com>
Cc: epiphany-list gnome org
Message-ID: <1156634365 6904 8 camel thinkpadr40>
Content-Type: text/plain

fre, 25 08 2006 kl. 16:27 -0500, skrev Brendan Martens:
> Also, Epiphany tabs will not ctrl+tab or ctrl+shift+tab cycle. I am
> quite used to this as most gnome apps support this functionality, is
it
> possible to get that into Epiphany as well?

You can use my "Tab Key Tab Navigate" extension for this. It's available
at http://www.sstuhr.dk/epiphany-extensions/

Also; which true GNOME applications support this (without the use of
extensions/plugins)?

Stefan





Thanks for your feedback. Indeed this is not the first time that the 
subject has been brought up. Epiphany doesn't have a way to force popup 
windows into tabs (if I recall correctly, this decision was made in the 
early days because it could break proper functioning of some web
sites). 
However, you can block popups and unhide them if you encounter a
blocked 
popup that you want to see. Also, you can tell Epiphany to open pages 
that are requested by another process in a new tab, you can do this by 
going into the Preferred Applications preference window and selecting 
the corresponding radio button.

regards,

-- 
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email: reinout cs vu nl    ***  mobile phone: +31-6-44360778
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Popups should never be forced into new tabs - new windows should be able
to.
That is, normal links and forms with target="_blank" could go to a new
tab
instead, while javascripts window.open is not modified.

Firefox has had this functionality for a very long time, and I've never
seen
it break anything. There just is no functional difference between the
two:
in both cases the new window/tab gains focus, so it's not hidden like
with
middle click. And well, it just works since it is essentially the same
thing: two tabs in one or two windows.

 -- Stoffe







Message: 1
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:23:11 -0500
From: Brendan Martens <shrift gmail com>
Subject: epiphany tab functionality
To: epiphany-list gnome org
Message-ID: <1156782192 5747 15 camel shrift local cityofevanston org>
Content-Type: text/plain

I understand that pop ups should not be placed in tabs, obviously. I
speak only of new windows. 

I understand that gnome shoots to be simple, and just "do what the user
wants" out of the box. But sometimes (imagine this) different users want
different things! Epiphany should allow users that want to to force new
windows into new tabs instead. I believe this has been at least an
extension available in Firefox. 

Which behavior is default, I don't care, that is perfect question for
the usability arguments, but please let those of us that want it to work
a certain way choose that!

Sorry if that is a bit of a rant... But it stems from a genuine desire
for Epiphany to be better!


For ^tabbing I guess if that is against the gnome HIG, obviously that is
how it should be. But thanks for that extension Stefan! Unfortunately it
doesn't seem to work, I have no /.gnome2/epiphany/plugins directory! I
tried creating it, and the extension did nothing? I run Dapper... Can
you point me in the right direction here?


Thank you all for reading and caring about this!


On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:00 -0400, epiphany-list-request gnome org
wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:30:25 -0500
> From: Steve Bergman <sbergman rueb com>
> Subject: Force new windows to tabs?  "Highlight All" on search?
> To: epiphany-list gnome org
> Message-ID: <1159371025 3651 14 camel localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> First of all, thanks for Epiphany.  I like the Gnome integration, the
> memory footprint, and the fact that it is a browser by the
> Unix/Linux/BSD community, for the Unix/Linux/BSD community, unlike
> some
> other browser makers who are becoming increasingly difficult to deal
> with.
> 
> Anyway, I'm migrating to Epiphany and there are a couple of features
> I'm
> missing.  I'm hoping that I'm just not looking in the right place.
> 
> I'd like to be able to force anything that would normally open in a
> new
> window to open in a tab in the current window.
> 
> Also, I find it quite handy to be able to have all instances of my
> search term highlighted when I do a find (ctrl-f).
> 
> Thanks for any assistance,
> Steve Bergman
>