In article <1264116152.1688.290.ca...@duiker>,
John-Mark Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> A couple of regressions resulting from merging gtkmain to trunk:
> 1) Save complete's Inventory file is saved to the wrong location
> 2) The positioning of nsgtk's throbber annoys me
> 3) Middle click to open a link in a new tab no longer works.
Does anyone use nsgtk? Last night, I ran it after checking I could
still build trunk on the Linux computer. I barely loaded a few pages
in it, but there were several obvious issues:
1. Broken middle click
Middle click doesn't open in new tab or new window any more.
2. Broken toolbar icons
After following a link and the page completes loading, the
toolbar icon for stop was still available and the icon for
reload was greyed out. (They should be the other way round
by that point.)
3. Text size
I'm not sure exactly why, but the text size seemed really
large.
4. URL completion behaviour
If you select an item in the URL completion list, you have
to press return once to put the URL into the URL bar, and
then again to launch the URL. This is contrary to every
other browser I've used and even NetSurf on other platforms.
5. Broken URL bar display
If you type a URL into the URL bar, it returns immediately
to show the URL of the previous page. Then, once the new
page is loaded, the URL bar is updated with a new URL.
6. Status bar / scrollbar furniture
The feature where the status bar and horizontal bar share
the same vertical space (status bar on the left and
scrollbar on the right) has been regressed at some point in
nsgtk. NetSurf's other front ends (RISC OS, AmigaOS, BeOS
and Framebuffer) have this screen space saving layout.
7. Mad default window size
The first time you run nsgtk (no previous choices file), the
browser window is really narrow. This makes the welcome
page look really bunched up (especially with the large
text), which is not the best first impression.
8. Jerky scrolling
Scrolling any longish page is really jerky. If you scroll
down a long page, you get a little bit of smooth scrolling,
then a long pause, then a big jump, then a little bit of
smooth scrolling again before another pause and jump etc.
It's most obvious when dragging the scrollbar, but other
scrolling methods like scroll wheel show the same.
--
Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
