On Dec 23, 2003, at 9:04 AM, Tristan O'Tierney wrote:
1) Make the google bar tab-accessable from location bar. I'm quite sure the developers know about this, but I'm reiterating it.
yeah we know.
2) Make the navigation buttons easier to differentiate.
noted
3) Let users close tabs directly ala Safari or Galeon. Having a close button on each tab (or even a close button at all!) means if i'm feeling like a lazy mouse user i don't have to touch the keyboard. i'm not trying to say one's faster than the other, merely that one can sometimes be more useful at a given time than another.
noted.
For that matter, I just tested and the tabs just get smaller and smaller as you open more. This is a design flaw as well.
i disagree. apple uses this technique in many other places (things get smaller as you get more of them to fit more in, but not penalize you if you don't have that many items).
This all really boils down to implementing your own tab widget ala safari, and i know i use it as an example too often, but they're right in this case.
Patches are welcome ;)
6) Customize google bar. Firebird lets me add google images, imdb, dictionary, thesaurus. It's built into mozilla apparently. Maybe it works in camino too, but most users don't know where to look (i don't..). Perhaps provide a Get More... link at the bottom of the "select search mode" menu popup.
you can do this yourself, just edit the plist in the package. no need to have a UI for this.
7) Toolbar bookmark links are TINY!. I don't have magnifying glasses handy :) Most specifically i'm talking about the menu pop-downs. The text in the toolbar bookmark menu pop-downs is noticably very small compared to safari or firebird.
It's the same size text as in the bookmarks toolbar itself, FWIW. Perhaps we could make use the standard size for the menu.
8) Put import/export bookmarks where you manipulate bookmarks. I went to the new bookmarks window looking for a way to import my safari bookmarks for awhile. Took me way too long to realize it was in the Camino menu. At the very least these should be under the bookmarks menu.
I agree it should be moved, but i think having it as a button is too prominent. You're not going to be using this all the time, so why clutter up the bookmark ui with it? It used to live in the bookmarks menu, but i found that cluttering as well, since you'd have to skip over it every single time to get to what you really want -- the bookmarks. Why make the user skip over something 99.9% of the time? Better to move it out of the way. Perhaps the file menu is better?
Thanks for the feedback. Do we have bugs on the issues that I agree with?
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