I once again failed to reply-all :-(
Begin forwarded message:
From: Tim Horton <[email protected]>
Date: October 25, 2009 11:09:01 EDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Switching from Opera: a few things I am missing
On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:35, Fabio Rosciano wrote:
Hello list,
I have been a loyal user of Opera for a few years (ever since version
5.x) but the latest poor performances convinced me to look around for
alternatives.
Since I use Gnome, Epiphany is #1 on the list, but as usual when
there's
a switch there's always things missing. Here is my list, I'd
appreciate
it if anyone can help out on any of the issues.
1) Speed Dial: apparently this is not available for Epiphany (there
is
an extension for Firefox). Just thinking out loud: do we really
need an
extension here? Can't it be done with a bit of HTML and Javascript
magic?
I don't *think* it can be done with just HTML/JS magic; there needs
to be at least a small component that talks to Epiphany to determine
what your most visited sites are; unless you were going for the
manually-set-each-tile's-location approach (I don't know how it
works in Opera, I'm only familiar with Chrome). (and, presumably,
the user would loose his settings if he cleared local browsing data,
whether you were to store selections in cookies or html5 local
storage, so this is likely just not a good idea).
2) Position of tabs: the default is "tabs on top", which is OK, but I
prefer them at the bottom. I have found the "Tabs on the left"
extension
and simply modified "notebook.set_tab_pos("GTK_POS_LEFT")" with
"notebook.set_tab_pos("GTK_POS_BOTTOM")". Unfortunately this
extension
does not get loaded with the following error:
** Message: No loader found for extension 'tabs-bottom' of type
'python'
Google does not help: can anyone reach out?
Other python based extensions fail with the same error, so it's not
my
modification's fault (I think).
I am using Epiphany 2.28.0 on Debian Sid.
Epiphany 2.28 switched to using JavaScript (using Seed) extensions.
If you send me a link to the extension you're talking about, I'll
try to port it within the next few days (the incoherent babbling in
this email is a result of the flu, which also makes writing code
somewhat slow).
3) Open recently closed tabs: this is present in Firefox (I think)
and
would be pretty awesome for people like me who click before they
think.
One of the first extensions I wrote back when we finished Seed
support for Epiphany provided a key combo which, when pressed,
brought back the most recently closed tab (and again, the next-most-
recently, in a stack-like manner).
http://jayne.hortont.com/racarr/epiphany-extensions/reopen-closed-tab-queue/
(The queue suffix is a complete lie, that wouldn't make any sense)
(Also, this extension is rather poor, and should probably be fixed
up and moved somewhere else - epiphany-extensions git?)
4) Size of tabs: is it possible to have the tabs dynamically
resized so
that they all fit in the screen width?
Thanks for any help you can give me!
--
Everything will be just tickety-boo today.
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