Re: Yet another "what-I-think-Epiphany-should-become"

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Stefan,

Op maandag 28-07-2008 om 14:08 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Stefan
Nitsche:

> hey, one can always dream. Sadly I only know PHP so I'm unable to dig in 
> and help myself.

If you know PHP, then you shouldn't have much trouble cooking very
simple patches for Epiphany. If you're interested, you could start with
"gnome-love" bugs,
see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/keyword-search.cgi?keyword=gnome-love .

> Why this and why now? Well I've thought about posting a message like 
> this for a while and when I read that Gnome 3.0 is about to come I 
> realized it was about time to make my voice heard.

Gnome 3.0 is some way off yet; however it's a good idea to have some
discussion, this list is a bit too quiet to my tastes anyway.

> Firefox 3 was released but when Epiphany-Webkit is released it will most 
> likely be my default again. What can be done to ensure this?

The WebKit backend isn't production quality yet, but you can build and
run it, if only for testing purposes.

> "Flock-but-integrated-in-Gnome-and-with-webkit". Basically give Epiphany 
> the possibility to integrate with the social sites and other web services 
> that exists on the internet. The people behind Flock have a great idea 
> but I personally don't like their execution of it.

[...]

Basically I agree with what you're suggesting here. However I feel that
by default, Epiphany (-extensions) should integrate with "freedom
respecting" online services only. That is to say, web services that
enable the owner of the data to really decide what's done with it and
what isn't.

> shortcuts in Deskbar. This a function I think should exist in the core 
> (either of Epiphany itself or in the smart bookmarks) and the process 
> should be simplified. There should perhaps even exist a few pre-defined 
> smart bookmarks and shortcuts.

Epiphany comes with one pre-defined smart bookmark for Google (yes, I
know, not exactly well-known for its privacy policy, but anyway).

Deskbar stores the shortcuts in a plain text file
~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/search-bookmarks-shortcuts.txt . There's
nothing stopping anyone to port the shortcut editor to an epiphany
extension and proposing it for inclusion in the official e-e package... 

> better description). I would like for Epiphany to always display 
> "sub-tags" as "sub-folders", a checkbox in Gconf is good enough for me. 
> Perhaps this kind of behavior could help others when migrating from a 
> folder-based bookmark structure?

This depends on the number of items with a secondary topic. Since we
want to minimize the amount of clicks required, a submenu is only used
after a certain maximum has been reached. The code behind this is some
pretty complicated set theory and I doubt if it is worth it to revisit
that.

> 3. Tab close on middle click
> Pretty self explanatory.

Won't be done by default, because of the way the GTK notebook widgets
interacts with the scrollwheel and because it would violate the HIG.
However, a third party extension was written some time ago that
implements tab-close-on-middle-click.

Thanks for your feedback!

regards,

-- 
Reinout van Schouwen