Re: feature request

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 17:49 +0100, Stylianos Papanastasiou wrote:
> One of the most useful firefox extensions which I sorely miss on
> epiphany is hit-a-hint
> http://users.tkk.fi/~psillanp/hah_hp/
[...]

> It is possible to try and add the extension in epiphany (v1.7.1 with
> firefox 1.0.2 - Fedora Core 3) using the about:config entry to enable
> the xpinstall but it doesn't work properly. In particular, it installs
> ok, but then pressing space or comma (to enable the hint mode)
> produces nothing; space scrolls down the page as usual and coma does
> nothing.

This does not sound like a feature request but a bug report to me.

If any XPI extension is supposed to be supported by browsers using Gecko
(like Epiphany) but it does not work, it's a bug in that browser. So
please feel free to file a bug report in bugzilla.gnome.org.

GARNOME is a GNOME distribution, it's not our duty to fix any bug in
apps shipping with GARNOME.

That said, I don't think we should even ship that extension, if it would
just work. Adding extensions by default again is the apps (and its
maintainers) duty/decision. Even more, if the extension can be installed
by a user without rebuilding anything.


> Anyway I thought it might make a fine addition to epiphany if someone
> would be interested to pick it up and add it as an epiphany extension.
[...]

Please talk to the Epiphany developers about adding features to
Epiphany.

...guenther


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