On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 02:19:29 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > On 15 Jan, 2006, at 1:13 AM, Peter Harvey wrote: >> ... >> The idea is that a user can have multiple window configurations >> (Fullscreen, Work, Fun, Search, etc) and switch between them. The >> configurations store all information pertinent to how the window acts, >> and changes to a configuration are used by new windows. >> >> This would obviously go after the coming release. But does it sound like >> a decent idea? >> ... > > William Case said "An Epiphany with a fully loaded toolbar, extra menu > items, extra toolbars, more features is what I am trying to avoid". And to > let him achieve that, you're proposing adding more menu items? There's > something not quite right here. :-)
Seems to me there's an easier way -- and I'm using it. It's probably just an extension of what William Case is doing. I keep a workspace switcher on my favorite panel (the one with all and only the apps I use most, including a drawer with browsers and my newsreader -- everything else I use more or less often is on another panel), with in my case a dozen spaces (several of which are usually empty). One is for the terminal on whose tabs I do email, root's work, etc.; four are for browsers; one for the newsreader; etc. Each browser always gets opened in the same workspace -- except the default browser. (For that I designate Dillo, which is quickest, and use it only for clicking on links to see whether I want to move them to a heavier-duty browser; if I don't like them, or can read and forget, I'm done.) Opera has its workspace, and its routinely opened tabs; it also functions as my bookmark hoard, so that I have them all in the one place where I can organize them the way I want. (I can't in Epiphany, not nearly.) Firefox has its workspace; Epiphany has its; and there's one kept vacant for Konqueror if I want still another for some reason. When I want to run google linux, I go to the leftmost tab on Opera, and probably end up storing bookmarks. When I want to read a web forum, or look at something I have put onto a new tab from one of the ones I follow, I go to Epiphany. When I want to get into my finances (rarely), or read my mail in a web-app which does pix (rarely), I go to Firefox. And so on. Opera, Firefox, and Epiphany are always open, with their standard tabs. (I close them occasionally to get rid of cookies.) The others stay closed, and open when I have a need. What's the point of trying to do everything with one? Big heavy browsers with lots of bells & whistles have their uses, when you want a bell or a whistle bad enough; Opera and Firefox are both good, and neither has too many tabs open to let me find the one I want. Rock-bottom lean & mean browsers have their uses; Dillo opens in a flash. Steady middle-ground browsers have their uses; Epiphany keeps good track which parts of which threads I've read on my forums, and lets me look at interesting sites they refer to. And all this is quick and easy. Seems like trying to be all things to all users is an exercise in futility. -- Beartooth Stickster, Neo-Redneck Linux Enthusiast A wanderstaff like an Elvish rope should be long, and strong, and light -- and very smooth. _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
