I recently asked about this. Let me paste the relevant conversations for you. Sorry I know this is long guys, Just wanted to put this in here so we don't all have to repeat ourselves.
Brendan Read on for copied messages: Message: 1 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:27:52 -0500 From: Brendan Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: epiphany tab functionality To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain Hi. I generally love epiphany but there is one real show stopper for me. I cannot tell epiphany to force new windows into a new tab. I feel like this is a required option, especially given the varied user base that epiphany has. Maybe I'm just missing something, but as far as I can tell there is no where to define this. Does anyone know about how I could change that / if not, is it possible to include as an option for the next release? For the record, I'm using 2.14.3. Also, Epiphany tabs will not ctrl+tab or ctrl+shift+tab cycle. I am quite used to this as most gnome apps support this functionality, is it possible to get that into Epiphany as well? I'd love to fill out a feature request if that is the next step for these things... Just thought I'd check here first. Thanks! Message: 1 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:19:25 +0200 From: Stefan Stuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: epiphany tab functionality To: Brendan Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain fre, 25 08 2006 kl. 16:27 -0500, skrev Brendan Martens: > Also, Epiphany tabs will not ctrl+tab or ctrl+shift+tab cycle. I am > quite used to this as most gnome apps support this functionality, is it > possible to get that into Epiphany as well? You can use my "Tab Key Tab Navigate" extension for this. It's available at http://www.sstuhr.dk/epiphany-extensions/ Also; which true GNOME applications support this (without the use of extensions/plugins)? Stefan Thanks for your feedback. Indeed this is not the first time that the subject has been brought up. Epiphany doesn't have a way to force popup windows into tabs (if I recall correctly, this decision was made in the early days because it could break proper functioning of some web sites). However, you can block popups and unhide them if you encounter a blocked popup that you want to see. Also, you can tell Epiphany to open pages that are requested by another process in a new tab, you can do this by going into the Preferred Applications preference window and selecting the corresponding radio button. regards, -- Reinout van Schouwen *** student of Artifical Intelligence email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** mobile phone: +31-6-44360778 www.vanschouwen.info *** help mee met GNOME vertalen: nl.gnome.org Popups should never be forced into new tabs - new windows should be able to. That is, normal links and forms with target="_blank" could go to a new tab instead, while javascripts window.open is not modified. Firefox has had this functionality for a very long time, and I've never seen it break anything. There just is no functional difference between the two: in both cases the new window/tab gains focus, so it's not hidden like with middle click. And well, it just works since it is essentially the same thing: two tabs in one or two windows. -- Stoffe Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:23:11 -0500 From: Brendan Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: epiphany tab functionality To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain I understand that pop ups should not be placed in tabs, obviously. I speak only of new windows. I understand that gnome shoots to be simple, and just "do what the user wants" out of the box. But sometimes (imagine this) different users want different things! Epiphany should allow users that want to to force new windows into new tabs instead. I believe this has been at least an extension available in Firefox. Which behavior is default, I don't care, that is perfect question for the usability arguments, but please let those of us that want it to work a certain way choose that! Sorry if that is a bit of a rant... But it stems from a genuine desire for Epiphany to be better! For ^tabbing I guess if that is against the gnome HIG, obviously that is how it should be. But thanks for that extension Stefan! Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work, I have no /.gnome2/epiphany/plugins directory! I tried creating it, and the extension did nothing? I run Dapper... Can you point me in the right direction here? Thank you all for reading and caring about this! On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:30:25 -0500 > From: Steve Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Force new windows to tabs? "Highlight All" on search? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hi Guys, > > First of all, thanks for Epiphany. I like the Gnome integration, the > memory footprint, and the fact that it is a browser by the > Unix/Linux/BSD community, for the Unix/Linux/BSD community, unlike > some > other browser makers who are becoming increasingly difficult to deal > with. > > Anyway, I'm migrating to Epiphany and there are a couple of features > I'm > missing. I'm hoping that I'm just not looking in the right place. > > I'd like to be able to force anything that would normally open in a > new > window to open in a tab in the current window. > > Also, I find it quite handy to be able to have all instances of my > search term highlighted when I do a find (ctrl-f). > > Thanks for any assistance, > Steve Bergman > _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
