Interviewed by CNN on 10/05/2014 11:49, Robert told the world: > > I've recently "upgraded" to FireFox v29, and I do not like the new > "dumbed-down" user interface. > > I've looked at the screenshots of SeaMonkey and they look like FireFox used > to look. > > Before I go through the motions of downloading, installing, and configuring > SeaMonkey are my primary browser I have one question: > > Will FireFox 29's new look will find its way into SeaMonkey, or will > SeaMonkey continue to allow its users to customize the UI?
1. The dev team has stated that they have no intention to overhaul the Seamonkey UI and move to an Australis-like UI. Simply stated, even if they wanted to do it (they apparently don't), it's too much work and they don't have the manpower, so they focus on other things. The only scenario I imagine where that could change is if changes in the engine engine remove functionality needed for Seamonkey's "classical" UI. I don't see it happening anytime soon in Gecko, but there's a theoretical risk of it happening a few years down the road, if the Servo project ever replaces Gecko as the main Mozilla browser engine. 2. Yes, as long as the UI remains the same, the customizability should stay the same. But there's a price to pay there. As Seamonkey and Firefox grow apart, I expect that extensions might need more tweaks to work correctly in both. Some extension authors may stop supporting Seamonkey after a while. As for Australis... I use both Seamonkey and Firefox, and also a bit of Iron, in my day-to-day browsing. So far, I haven't noticed any lost functionality in Firefox 29 -- anything I can do in SM, I can do just as easily in FF (well, except mail/news stuff. I don't use Composer at all). Yes, stuff got moved around, but I found that I don't really miss the UI elements that got removed -- I have been using right-click menus as a first choice for almost twenty years, so I don't miss the "File" menu for instance. I can't say that I'm particularly enthusiastic of the new design, but neither do I hate it. It took me all of two minutes to learn the new UI's logic, which is way less than it takes me to learn the UI for the average casual game. I simply don't have the knee-jerk rejection to change that I seem to see a lot going around. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my PalantÃr. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.26 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
