Re: 3.18 big release and future plans

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro igalia com>]

El dom, 04-10-2015 a las 01:53 -0300, Bastián Díaz escribió:
> As you know, websites are dynamic and sometimes execute processes
> that 
> closing the web browser,  allow data loss. A warning helps prevent 
> accidental errors. Moreover, you are right, I think it also greatly 
> influences the workflow imposed by other web browsers.

Ah, well normally I would say the site is broken in that case, but most
of these sites probably work properly in other browsers. This is
usually our fault: see 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722032 and 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139090

I don't think we can have the warning you request, since it conflicts
badly with restored session state: you would get the warning every time
you close your browser unless you close all tabs first (something I
never do; I don't think I'm atypical).

> Is that really so?. For years I use fedora and perform clean 
> installations. I remember in F22 to install the plugin manually, like
> F23 beta testing(gnome).
> However, my point is the low visibility of the plugin in gnome
> -software 
> (easiest method of package management for new users). The only
> visible 
> plugin (recommended?) Is the Java plugin (iced-tea). Is this a
> appdata 
> issue on epiphany or evince?

How do you install Fedora? If you're installing Fedora Workstation with
the advertised live image, it's included by default since F22: https://
git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/comps.git/commit/?id=c02af66820aa5dfb36e4324f
525eabbb5e9f71b9

There are other ways to install Fedora though, which don't get you to
the same result....

> For other issues, is not a nuisance to write reports for
> improvement?.
> - Pin Epiphany tabs
> - Reading view
> - Webextensión API

You can file one for reading view, just please mark it as Enhancement
level severity.

See also:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735050
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730029 (which I renamed just
now)

> I also noticed that there is some suspicion in the incorporation of
> new 
> icons (functions) in the headerbar. Therefore, does the possibility
> of a 
> button is out to "add bookmarks"?

Well, I don't want peripherally-related features to show up there.
Firefox has Pocket and Smile up there now, and if you install
extensions you might have AdBlock Plus, Privacy Badger, HTTPS
Everywhere, color icons that look completely out of place... sure
Firefox lets you remove the buttons, but it's a bad user experience and
I think I'd rather have extensions that think they're getting a button
simply get a menu item instead.

So yeah, we have a high standard for adding stuff to the header bar.
But an add bookmark button is frequently-requested core functionality;
that passes the test IMO. Firefox has done that quite well so something
similar to theirs would be welcome.

> , O include a progress bar similar to 
> the new file progress operations from nautilus?

Not sure quite what you mean. I like the subtle progress bar we have
right now, if you're talking about page loads.

Michael