Re: Overview

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro igalia com>]

On Fri, 2016-09-30 at 20:06 +0000, tevaum gmail com wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> My name is Estêvão and I'm volunteering to work with the overview
> (ephi-about:overview).

Hi, thanks a bunch for working on this.

> I talked to Michael Catanzaro at IRC and he gave me a lot of info on
> needs
> and designs about the overview. I started with the design
> modifications and
> he told me to check the implementation with the design team... How
> can I do
> that? Should I open a bug report and attach the screenshot?

Yeah, open a bug report with the screenshot and your patch. Mention
your patch in #gnome-design on IRC and see if anyone comments there.
Since it matches the mockup I will probably merge it after a couple
days if there is no response from designers.

> Something I found
>
> out while taking a look at the code
>
> is
>
> that
>
> the overview screen only lists the most visited sites and it's
> hardcoded in
> ephy-about-handler. My proposal is to expose a javascript object so
> that
> the overview page can load other kind of stuff to present to the
> user,
>
> like bookmarks, recent visited sites and stuff like that.
>
> What do you think about that? Is that the way to do it or is there
> any
>
> better approach?

It's probably the best way.

Michael