this views do intersect with my own, however i do not feel that i was fairly treated. i feel as if i was treated as "the kid that nobody wants around at school" because everybody is fine as they are. what i have tried to introduce today is a feature that is a staple part of a browser, fast no-frills access to a users bookmarks. as this was met with critisism from the start, i tried the harder in order to win favour for compleating the feature. which was then met with "why should we add it when we dont know if people want it, and it might mess up our image", which i have taken the liberty of translating "we dont want to be anything like the other browsers at the detrement of our own browsers usability".
i wasnt in any way trying to be nasty or offencive. i was simply speaking my mind about the situation in hand that should never have risen its head. the least i expected was for the feature i had taken the time to create to be considered, rather than instantly dismissed. Regards, Darren On 16 Dec, 01:32, "Ben Goodger (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for taking the time to send us your thoughts. > > Chrome functions as a project at scale by maintaining a set of > development principles (some of which are outlined > here:http://dev.chromium.org/developers/contributing-code). One of these > principles is encouraging communication with each other in a > reasonable fashion. > > To be a successful member of the Chromium project, you should be > mindful of the way we work and considerate of the principles that we > think are important (such as communicating your ideas early, building > consensus, backing up your arguments with data where appropriate, > being prepared to have your ideas be challenged by your peers). Coming > in and trying to blackmail us by saying we're losing a developer if we > don't agree with you isn't going to work. > > If these values don't intersect with yours, then there may not be a > good cultural fit for you in the Chromium project. > > -Ben > > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Bizzeh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
