Hi I've just upgraded to Epiphany 1.7.2 in Ubuntu Breezy.
For the first time, I've noticed caret browsing mode after I accidentally clicked on a web page. For me, this was unexpected, and made browsing the page (a long thread on Slashdot.org) suboptimal. It also did not help that there were effectively now two current scroll positions, so when I tried to scroll with the mouse after having already scrolled down some amount with the keyboard, it jumped back upwards! (I see this as a bug rather than a feature.) After Googling, I discovered there is a keyboard shortcut, F7, to exit the caret browsing mode, but this was certainly not obvious. I have also recently switched to using a Microsoft Multimedia keyboard which makes F-keys difficult to use, so I would rather any such shortcut used some combination of Control, Alt, and Shift if necessary. (Moving away from F-keys seems to be a general trend in GNOME, Apple, and Microsoft designed user interfaces.) I would expect the Escape key to exit from such a mode if it was initially disabled but then enabled it by clicking inside a page. This is a function I've come to expect the Escape key to perform in many applications. I also note that Escape exits from the new type-ahead bar, and find this works very well. Am I correct in assuming this feature is now enabled by default in Epiphany? Would it be practical to cause the Escape key to exit from caret browsing mode? Are there any other ways we could easily exit it? _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
