Hi all.
The new firefox start page in hardy:
http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/
is aesthetically pleasing, and I like it, however the google search
gives me concerns:
1) search results returned using the search field of firefox (upper
right corner of the browser) are different than those returned u
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 11:21 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> The new firefox start page in hardy:
>
> http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/
>
> is aesthetically pleasing, and I like it, however the google search
> gives me concerns:
Hi,
The website also uses launchpad for bug tracking, yo
Il giorno sab, 10/05/2008 alle 12.08 +0100, James Westby ha scritto:
>
> The website also uses launchpad for bug tracking, you can file any
> bugs you like at
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+filebug
>
> where the people able to do something about it are more likely to
> see it.
> 2) country seems to be set to "UK", which can explain (1) but I don't
> like this behaviour especially because it breaks usability for non-UK
> users and creates confusion
Oh, that is pretty ugly :o
> 4) the obtained page does not have the standard google look and feel (in
> particular there is
Il giorno sab, 10/05/2008 alle 06.50 -0700, Dylan McCall ha scritto:
>
> > 5) there already is the search engine input field, and the focus is
> > shifted without conditions to the page field only after loading the
> > ubuntu page, which is rather irritating because you may already be
> > typing
Le samedi 10 mai 2008 à 16:01 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit :
> And, to get back on the issue, perhaps the page could just be made
> local.
Why do we need a special Ubuntu homepage anyway? The first thing I do
when creating an account is changing my homepage to google.com. This
practice mades me
Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> Le samedi 10 mai 2008 à 16:01 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit :
>
>> And, to get back on the issue, perhaps the page could just be made
>> local.
>>
> Why do we need a special Ubuntu homepage anyway? The first thing I do
> when creating an account is changing
Il giorno dom, 11/05/2008 alle 15.11 -0400, Blaise Alleyne ha scritto:
>
> I tend to agree. I can see the point of a start page with more
> information about Ubuntu and such, there's an argument for it... but
> even so, do we really need a custom search on that start page? What's
> the point of
