On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 22:25 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > Hello William, > > Op maandag 26-03-2007 om 09:49 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef William > Case: > > > small boarders, one toolbar ( I do wish it was more configurable ). > > The Epiphany toolbar is very configurable and you can have more than one > of them. What configurability do you think is missing?
This has more do do with work style than a missing feature. At present I can only add new toolbars or only add a few pre-created icons to my "Main Toolbar". I would like to add one or two program launchers like Evo-mail, or Evo-contacts, or Evo-tasks; others might be StickyNotes or TomBoy. I would like to add them to the Main ToolBar so I have everything in a line at the top. I really like the 'drag and drop' to configure the toolbar though -- too bad I can't do it from anywhere rather than just the customize dialogue. In fact, if I were King, I would but my main toolbar on the same line as the Menu bar. No need to respond, I am fully aware of the gigatic programing and tradition issues involved with this suggestion. The above wish is really 'free form' thinking. > > > My bookmarks in Epiphany are reduced to the minimum I need to complete a > > project plus some basic constant sites like Linux google. > > You're aware that you can add your own smart bookmark for > google.com/linux, aren't you? :) Yes. But as I said earlier, I tend to work from the Epiphany Bookmarks Editor as a separated launcher on my panel or desktop. To explain further, I have two bash aliases I use when I am working in a terminal, 'goo' and 'gol' which I use for instant access to google via epiphany. 'goo' pops up Epiphany with Google as its home page. 'gol' calls up Epiphany with Google-Linux as its home page. I want to keep things almost that simple for maybe 9 or 10 sites that are relevant to a given project whether I am working in a terminal or not. To expand further, if I could assign sites to a global shortcut key using my Bookmarks editor, then whatever application I was working in, I could instantly get to a frequently used site. This is different from the common use of the word browse. In this case, I am not looking for anything. I know where I am going and what I want to get. E.g. Suppose I could bind Wikipedia to <Ctrl><Super>W. Then, as I work along in, say OpenOfficeWriter and I want to look for something in Wikipedia, without hardly skipping a beat, I could <Ctrl><Super>W and have epiphany pop open at the Wikipedia site. By the way, I know it can be done now with a small script and 'bind' but it would be nice to have a way to just go through the bookmark editor and add and remove shortcut keys. *I* would always use the <Ctrl><Super> as the exclusive shortcut modifier keys for my Epiphany important sites. > > > 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. > > Yes, that would be nice to have. In the mean time you can search your > Firefox and Epiphany bookmarks simultaneously if you use the deskbar > applet. > Yes. But that is not the same, keeping in mind the speed and efficiency I am looking for in the above comments, I would like a utility that lets me transfer individual site addresses. I had in mind something like the following: In many programs, for configuring, you can get a two window dialogue which shows two sets of data with a 'add' and 'remove' button between the data widows. The user can go through each data window selecting data and adding it or removing it to the other window. For Epiphany it would be a separate little program (I don't want to promote bloat) that created a two window dialogue; one window containing current Epiphany bookmarks and an other widow containing another set of bookmarks from a selected application ( say FireFox, but in a perfect world, any other Browser or a differently named Epiphany Bookmark Editor) and the user could 'add' or 'remove' back and forth. > > 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. (...) > These are not far fetched (free form) ideas. I can think of two standard programs I would like to have instant access to while I am doing serious browsing. 1) a notepad; like StickyNotes or TomBoy, and 2) my mail composer. First let me say, I do this already off the Gnome panel and/or the Workspace Switcher. I am only thinking of ways to make things faster, intuitive and more efficient while working. Quite often I am look through a site for some particular info and I come across something unrelated that I want to save for later. It would be nice to select the info and with one icon click or one button push (including modifier keys) the data is saved to StickyNote or a Tomboy File with the URL included for future reference. The long and short of it is; for info that I am going to use right away I can select, copy and paste from a web site in three quick moves. For info that I want hold or reserve for later or for another purpose or project, it takes 10 to 12 moves, clicks or button pushes. This is not a free form idea. All the elements already exist in Gnome and/or Linux; it just needs someone who knows what they are doing to bring it together. Similarly, I want instant access to my Evo compose window; others such as Task list and Calendar would be nice but not nearly as important to me while 'Work Browsing'. Again, I can do it now, but it seems slow and cluncky. I feel that if Epiphany had better integration with Evolution components I would have the perfect PIM for work. I suspect (maybe wrongly) with a little bit of tweaking on both Eiphany's developers and Evolution's developers part a smooth seamless integration could be achieved. > Free-form ideas like these can be added to I would like to see more use of the gconf-editor. I want to be able to keep Epiphany lean, mean, and fast. And, everybody works differently. I would like to have more features such as mentioned above, but at the same time be able to prune features that I don't use. In the documentation, it would be nice to have some sense of the burden that each feature puts on the speed and efficiency of Epiphany so that when pruning, I could have some idea of efficacy of removing one feature or another. N.B. I maybe making a false assumption. One of the reasons I am suggesting greater use of gconf-editor is that I assume a large preferences file and GUI would be a load speed burden. http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/Suggestions - no guarantees they will > ever become reality, though. > I didn't make these suggestion just because they are features I would like. I was responding to the OP's question "What now". I was taking a long winded way to say, keep doing what your doing. Concentrate on making Epiphany the fastest, most useful Browser out there. By useful, I mean used most often to get ordinary things done, measured by the number times it is used in a day, not necessarily measured by the number of features it has. Let FireFox have the 'playing' world. It's better at that than Internet Explorer, and has succeeded in challenging Internet Explorer for the desktop. So be it. > > 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. > > It sounds like you would be qualified for the job of documentation > writer. :-) > I'm not trying to be sarcastic here; the Epiphany project *needs* > volunteers to take tasks like this one on them! > And yes, I have been thinking that the time has come for me to give a little back. I am trying to make up my mind where in the Open Source community my writing skills (such as they are) could best be used. -- Regards Bill _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
