Re: Shelling Epiphany | The problems of shell-level tabs

2011-03-20 Thread Alexandre Mazari
Hi Filip, Thanks for your feedback. Le dimanche 20 mars 2011 à 18:51 +0100, Filip Štědronský a écrit : > > I think it's a really interesting idea, similar windows could be > > grouped and 'tabbed' and the tabs themselves could be implemented > > directly inside the window titlebar. If done correc

Re: Shelling Epiphany

2011-03-20 Thread Alexandre Mazari
Hi Robert, Thanks for your idea. > I think that's an excellent idea, but I think in order to make it > actually work in reality, you would first need to do something like > Gimp's Autocrop tool, where it cuts off solid-color margins from all > four sides, and THEN show the top left quadrant of wh

Re: Shelling Epiphany

2011-03-20 Thread Alexandre Mazari
Hi Luke, Thanks for your feedback. > > I'm not a shell designer but for what it's worth, Windows 7 does > something like this with IE and it's awful. It's impossible to > distinguish between different windows and different tabs and as soon as > you get a few sites open (7 or more in my case) the

Re: Shelling Epiphany | The problems of shell-level tabs

2011-03-20 Thread Filip Štědronský
> I think it's a really interesting idea, similar windows could be > grouped and 'tabbed' and the tabs themselves could be implemented > directly inside the window titlebar. If done correctly, it would save > every app ever from having to reimplement tabs over and over and over. > It sounds to me l

Re: Shelling Epiphany

2011-03-20 Thread Alexandre Mazari
Le vendredi 18 mars 2011 à 14:37 +, Allan Day a écrit : > Alexandre Mazari wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I recently joined the Epiphany effort thanks to my awesome employer > > letting me contribute to this lean and mean browser. > > Whoop! > > > I am particularly interested in the integra

Shelling Epiphany

2011-03-20 Thread Alexandre Mazari
Hi Everyone, I recently joined the Epiphany effort thanks to my awesome employer letting me contribute to this lean and mean browser. I am particularly interested in the integration of the Web with the desktop, and think ephy has strong advantages in that regard. Indeed, being a non-multi-platfor

Re: Shelling Epiphany

2011-03-20 Thread Alexandre Mazari
> > That said, I'm of the opinion > > that tabs don't make a huge amount of sense in the context of the shell. > > > > I am of the opinion that'd require adding some kind of windows > grouping/tabbing ala fluxbox. Is it something you guys and girls > consider as fitting in g-s ? > I'd love to

Re: Shelling Epiphany

2011-03-19 Thread Robert Park
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Luke Morton wrote: > A possible solution for the thumbnails is to crop and scale a portion of > the window contents (probably the top left quadrant) so a snippet of the > sites content is more easily recognisable--the same way you'd crop and > scale a photo to jus

Re: Shelling Epiphany

2011-03-19 Thread Maciej Marcin Piechotka
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:23 +0100, Alexandre Mazari wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I recently joined the Epiphany effort thanks to my awesome employer > letting me contribute to this lean and mean browser. > I am particularly interested in the integration of the Web with the > desktop, and think ephy h

Re: Shelling Epiphany

2011-03-18 Thread Luke Morton
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:37 +, Allan Day wrote: > Alexandre Mazari wrote: > > = Let the user switch to a specific epiphany's opened site using g-s > > facilities = > > I am using the term site here, instead of tab, because it is not really > > clear we should to keep the tabs management in ephy

Re: Shelling Epiphany

2011-03-18 Thread Robert Park
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Juergen Mangler wrote: > This idea is about 5000 years old. I guess you have to implement it > yourself, if you want to ever see it. Maybe I'll just give up on gnome shell and go back to Fluxbox ;-) -- http://exolucere.ca ___

Re: Shelling Epiphany

2011-03-18 Thread Juergen Mangler
This idea is about 5000 years old. I guess you have to implement it yourself, if you want to ever see it. On 03/18/2011 05:02 PM, Robert Park wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Allan Day wrote: = Let the user switch to a specific epiphany's opened site using g-s facilities = I am using t

Re: Shelling Epiphany

2011-03-18 Thread Robert Park
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Allan Day wrote: >> = Let the user switch to a specific epiphany's opened site using g-s >> facilities = >> I am using the term site here, instead of tab, because it is not really >> clear we should to keep the tabs management in ephy IMHO. >> Tabs and notebooks ar

Re: Shelling Epiphany

2011-03-18 Thread Allan Day
Alexandre Mazari wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I recently joined the Epiphany effort thanks to my awesome employer > letting me contribute to this lean and mean browser. Whoop! > I am particularly interested in the integration of the Web with the > desktop, and think ephy has strong advantages in th