this has totally missed the issue, the issue is not about user customisation, its about user experiance.
nowhere did i mention anything about customising the toolbar, and nowhere did i limit it. what i did do, was reduce the amount of time needed to navigate bookmarks, and make it obvious that chrome actually has the feature. please, i am not some stupid kid who will fall for tactics such as avoiding the question, and creating unanswerable questions. congratulations on loosing a potential developer On 16 Dec, 01:16, "Ben Goodger (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am generally supportive of allowing users to put UI elements where > they want, but I think the right context for this work is in allowing > our toolbars to be customizable, as is possible in other software, > rather than special casing this one particular issue. The end result > for you, and others who have the same preferences is the same, but the > way of getting there is much more powerful (and allows other people to > create the configurations they want, too). > > -Ben > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Darren Horrocks > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > i have recently created a patch and submitted it to codereview > >http://codereview.chromium.org/14441/show > > > the patch adds a menu button to the right of the address bar and the menu > > gives a menu of all the bookmarks within the bookmark manager and allows for > > a user to navigate to their bookmarks without the need for the bookmark bar > > or opening a new tab and then going to the bookmark button. > > > the patch was designed for generally speeding up access to the users > > bookmarks, as this is one of the most complained about missing features that > > i have heard while in offices and around the web and around irc. > > IE7 has the star button, IE6 had the old style dropdown menu, safari also > > has the old style dropdown menu as with IE6. firefox and opera also have > > similar features directly on the main interface without the need to waste > > extra screen real estate on another toolbar we dont need. > > > as this is at most a 28 pixel reduction in the width of the address bar, > > this is a far better use of the screen than 24 pixels of height in the form > > of an additional toolbar removing from the actual browser visability. > > > and as most people will only use the bookmark bar to access the "other > > bookmarks" button, this truly is wasted space. > > > Regards, > > Darren- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
