Re: Upcoming UI changes

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro igalia com>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2016-10-11 at 18:43 +0800, 藍挺瑋 wrote:
> I think it is bad to show only the domain.

OK, enough people have complained about this aspect of the mockup that
I have no plans to implement it.

> Is it possible to keep the web page title shown in the header bar?
> Most
> desktop browsers show the title at the top of the window or using it
> as
> the window title. It will be nice if Epiphany can keep this feature
> because the URL is not always readable or useful.

I don't think so, there's not really any room for page title anymore.
Where would it go? Are page titles really important? I don't miss it at
all.

> Moving important functions such as viewing page source to the context
> menu doesn't look good to me.

Funny story: when I started using Epiphany, I thought this feature did
not exist, because other browsers have it in their context menus and I
did not think to check the window menu!

But yeah, we can definitely rethink how options are scattered between
the context menu and the hamburger menu.

> Some web pages disable the context menu
> or replacing the context menu with their own menus. If we don't
> keep> these functions in the hamburger menu, they becomes
> inaccessible to> users unless there are keyboard shortcuts bound to
> them, users
> >  remember> shortcuts, and web pages don't disable shortcuts.

On the rare sites that do override the context menu, you can always get
the Epiphany context menu with a second right-click (sans bugs) so
nothing should ever become inaccessible.

> I even think we can
> move 'Inspect Element' to the hamburger menu, so using the inspector
> on
> web pages with context menu disabled can be easier.

Inspect Element can't move because it depends on the element selected,
right? We could add a generic 'open inspector' menu item though.

Michael