Hello Martin, Op vrijdag 01-06-2007 om 22:24 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Martin Grondin:
> I would say having the homepage open on every tab without any option > to turn that behavior off is a "bad thing" as you force a chunk of > your users to try and relearn a browser they may not even use > consistently (let's face it, most of us don't use Linux all the > time). Well, Epiphany is not the only browser available on Linux. ;-) Having said that, there exists a "blank new tab" extension that might just be what you're looking for. However, the site that used to host it returns a 404 now. I'm trying to find out if people still have it lying around on their harddisk somewhere so we can offer it again on the 3rd party extensions page. > Also, again, this is the only browser I've seen that has this > behavior. That in itself isn't an argument IMHO, if Epiphany just emulated other browsers' behaviour there wouldn't be much point to it, would there? > I guess one can ask: What does a user open a new tab in this fashion > for most of the time? To visit their homepage again, or to enter in a > URI? One could also ask: What's the point of setting a homepage if it isn't loaded whenever a new tab or window is opened? > As I had said before, also, I asked several people to go to cnn.com > after opening a new tab. Every single one of them opened the new tab > (Ctrl+T or File -> New Tab) and just went on to typing 'cnn.com'. None > of them clicked into the location bar or hit "ctrl+L". By asking the question in this way, you already implied to those people that they should first open a tab and then go to cnn.com. I wonder what would happen if you asked them to enter cnn.com in the address bar and make it open in a new tab? Now I'm fully aware that Ctrl+Enter or middle clicking the Go button isn't exactly the obvious way to do it. (Then again, people have to learn Ctrl+T at some point, too.) Perhaps the Go button should have a dropdown like the Back/Forward buttons with a 'in New Tab' option? (just an idea). > On another note I'll be honest. My homepage is set to google.com. When > I open a new tab in epiphany I STILL hilight the location bar and type > in google.com without thinking. It's just second nature to type in my > destination when I open a new tab. Simply try entering a search term in the address bar some time, you may be surprised! :-) > Given the scope of users I would say the simplest thing to do would to > make it a an option that can simply be toggled on or off. Have you read Havoc Pennington's essay on "please unbreak me" preferences? If you haven't, please do: http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.html > Yes, the concept of a homepage is not very useful. Still, many people > continue to use it :) I guess that's why we didn't just dump it altogether yet ;) regards, -- Reinout van Schouwen _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
