I'd love to see this. Long pressing on a forward/back button to open a history list is also common other platforms (e.g. it works on Safari on an iPad) so it should be familiar to many users. Thanks for offering to run this past the design team and to make this happen for 3.4.
adam On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Xan Lopez <x...@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi there, > > I spent some time today going through the other two major browsers (Chrome > and Firefox), and at first it seemed like they did not support this feature > either. Turns out they do, but you have to long-press the back/forward > buttons to get the history dropdown. Someone even suggested this for > epiphany some time ago: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649368 > > I think this would be a reasonable thing to do now given our current UI, > so I'll run it through the design team and if they agree I have no problem > getting it done before 3.4. > > Opinions? > > Xan > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Adam Dingle <a...@yorba.org> wrote: > >> I installed Epiphany 3.3.3 today and was disappointed to find that the >> history dropdown buttons on the toolbar are gone. They apparently vanished >> here: >> >> http://git.gnome.org/browse/**epiphany/commit/?id=** >> ebbb1c48197f53b98575b0cb4f6d9f**a1e4535abc<http://git.gnome.org/browse/epiphany/commit/?id=ebbb1c48197f53b98575b0cb4f6d9fa1e4535abc> >> >> I used these buttons all the time, especially the one for going back. >> When surfing through Web pages, I often follow a false lead or tangent for >> a few pages, then want to jump back a few pages to where I was before. >> Furthermore, some evil Web pages won't let you go back, and a multi-page >> back button is extremely useful for jumping back past these. >> >> Questions: >> >> 1. I know that Epiphany is evolving toward a new design ( >> http://live.gnome.org/Design/**Apps/Web<http://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Web>). >> In the new design will there be some way to jump back a few pages? >> >> 2. In general, before we remove features that existing Epiphany users may >> use and love, could we discuss the proposed changes on this mailing list? >> >> adam >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> epiphany-list mailing list >> epiphany-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/**listinfo/epiphany-list<http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list> >> > >
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