Re: Epiphany Homepage

["Luis Villa" <luis tieguy org>]

On 9/9/06, Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com> wrote:
> --- Luca Cavalli <luca cavalli gmail com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 17:33 +0100, Joachim Noreiko
> > wrote:
> > > > Another option could be to create a
> > > > Gnome start page just
> > > > for the purpose of using it as home page in
> > > > Epiphany.
> > >
> > > Hmmm... maybe.
> > > But don't most distros overwrite that anyway?
> > Ubuntu
> > > certainly provides a home page (not sure if it
> > puts it
> > > into Epi as well as Firefox, but logically it
> > should).
> > >
> > > I don't think it's worth the effort of something
> > else
> > > to maintain on our site.
> > >
> >
> > Well, just because Ubuntu, or any other distro,
> > override GNOME defaults,
> > it is not a good reason to not have them. This was
> > the same for splash
> > screen (I can remember a discussion about that a
> > couple of releases
> > ago). Not all distros overwrite GNOME defaults and
> > not all users install
> > precompiled packages. GNOME should take care also of
> > these users.
> > Ciao,
>
> Have I said before how much I dislike the distro model
> and how much difficulty it causes us? ... oh yeah,
> nearly every day ;)
>
> Anyway, yes, point taken.
>
> Can we simply use a part of the w.g.o site already
> planned for in the proposed new structure?
> If not, would this home page be something a visitor to
> w.g.o can access? ie, is it something we must add to
> the structure, or does it remain separate? And what's
> a good stable URL?

It blows my mind that anyone would think about replacing the most
useful homepage on the internet (google) with a page that will be
useful to our users *once*, in the *best case* scenario.

Now, if someone talked to google about creating something like:
http://www.google.com/firefox

That might be both useful to our users and good for our marketing.
That probably needs to be something discussed carefully with the board
before it happens, though.

Luis