On 06/08/07, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > A more light-weight browser would address this issue. However, one must > > ask why doesn't Ubuntu simply do the same - use Firefox for browsing > > their documentation? If one can answer this, they can understand why we > > too are following in those foot step. > > Ubuntu does not use Firefox bacause GNOME docs are not HTML. > > > It would be no problem at all to launch firefox for external links. It > > would also be possible to stylize these links in some way to show the > > users they are an external link. We were going to do this for the > > "Xubuntu Welcome Centre". > > It's the same problem on older systems as you mentined above. People will > not know > why clicking on a link suddenly starts loading another app. Besides the > time to load that > you mentioned there will be an UI inconsistency as well.
Wouldn't simply placing a browser icon in front of an external link be sufficient to notify the user that a browser is going to be launched? And you could also add a tooltip that says "Open link in browser". Jani > > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > -- Vincent
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