Re: [Galeon-devel] Re: [Usability]Galeon feature implementation

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

Hi Eivind,

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Eivind Tagseth wrote:

> So you're saying that in order to upgrade from Flash 5 to Flash 6, I need
> to install the new plugin and then reboot my computer?  Since there is no

In the ideal situation, of course, the plugin would come as a package
that's loaded into some package manager frontend the operating system
provides, and the restarting is done by a package postprocessing script.

But I'm sure there can be other possibilities that wouldn't require a
reboot and still got rid of the Quit button.

> compete with these?  Galeon would probably be best off removing the download
> manager and _only_ support external managers.  And with the number of

There is a big problem with that: some sites which offer paid-for
downloads (MandrakeClub) don't accept external downloaders.

> download managers available out there, do you really think there's one
> ultimate DM among them?  It needs to be configurable.

Why? A good DM will accept dragged-and-dropped URLs, and I don't believe
that possibility is taken out of galeon2.

> operation.  If I wanted a broken shoulder I'd be using windows.  What
> happened to Shift-Left-Click though?

That's the better one, I agree :)

> In order to make this "just work", Galeon would have to reload all/bypass
> cache each and every time.  Wouldn't this be exceptionally slow?  Or would
> you rather deny the user the option of bypassing cache/proxy?

What happened to Shift-reload?

> > Its been consistently shown that an abundance of preferences makes them
> > useless.
>
> And a lack of preferences turns them over to linux.  At least they used to.

Maybe so, but GNOME != Linux...

regards,

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