Hi; On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 10:57 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > Unfortunately, I think we have lost the battle to get Epiphany installed > as the default browser on popular Linux distributions. The Firefox brand > was just something that they couldn't do without. > > So, how do the Epiphany developers see their role now? Is Epiphany now > just a way to show what Firefox should do, or are you motivated by the > needs of the few users who do use it, via the few distros that default > to it? > I find epiphany an essential work tool -- as my second browser.
I think that developers should keep working on making it faster, cleaner and more configurable. Using myself and my work habits as an example. First, when I want to explore the Internet, play, listen to music or watch a video I use FireFox. Its slower but gives me loads of features. I find my Firefox bookmarks chocked full of sites that I only occasionally return to, sometimes never, but save 'just in case'. However, when I get down to work I use Epiphany. It's fast and efficient. I keep the sites I *need* handy in its bookmarks (I use the bookmark editor a lot as a favourites list). It's clean. By that I mean, little eye candy to distract me from the info I am looking for, small boarders, one toolbar ( I do wish it was more configurable ). Easy to copy and paste. I also wish it was easier to add and remove features and plugins so that I could keep it slim and trim -- but based on what *I* need. Each to his own, as it were. My bookmarks in Epiphany are reduced to the minimum I need to complete a project plus some basic constant sites like Linux google. I do wish, someone would figure an easy ( one or two click ) way to transfer or copy individual bookmarks from FireFox to Epiphany and back. Then I could trim down or beef up my Epiphany bookmarks for each project(s) and use the FireFox bookmarks as an accessable repository. Also, it should be possible to more closely integrate external programs into the Epiphany toolbar. I mean the Evo components, memos or notes for quick pasting from the Internet etc. It shouldn't be necessary to rebuild existing applications, but it would be nice to have a launch icon or shortcut key on the toolbar or in the menu that can be added or removed and configured by the user. I haven't thought it through, but surely the Gnome 'family' can make any small code changes in other applications to enhance integration. If I could have the above, Epiphany would certainly become my "Work Desktop'. P.S. More complete documentation would be nice. I keep finding Epiphany features, tips and techniques by accident that I never knew existed. The features, tips and techniques are a good thing. Not knowing about them is a bad thing. -- Regards Bill _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
