Re: 1.3.4 wishlist (short)

[email protected] wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I just "upgraded" to 1.3.4 from 1.2.10 a week or so ago and am generally
> happy with the result with a few exceptions. I must say that from much of
> the discussion I was prepared for the worst and ready to hate it; I'm
> pleased to discover most of my fears were unfouded and this is a really
> slick browser. :)

I'm very glad to hear that. We have a lot of preconceptions to fight
against and it's good to see that they are proving flase for you.

> Now, there are XXX things I'm not sure of as bugs or wishes, so I'll list 
> them here and let someone tell me whether to file a bugzilla and what type 
> to call it. :)
> 
> 1) Bookmarks:  There's no "Add bookmark to" option anymore?!?!  So, to 
> properly position a new bookmark I need to just add it, THEN open up the 
> bookmarks editor and manually file it? Is this broken or planned?

Simply navigate the bookmark menu to the folder you want to put the new
bookmark in and then right click to bring up the bookmark context menu.
Select "Add Bookmark here" and off you go. No more need to have two
parallel menu structures.

> 2) Speaking of the bookmark editor, I'm not too fond of the current 
> dragging where the entire URL is in an opaque box---it makes it vcery hard 
> to see just where you're moving it to since it blocks all of your previous 
> entries, and the little bar is hard to find.  I would prefer just the bar, 
> actually. Also, the dropping doesn't always file properly---esp. when 
> trying to drop INTO a (unexpanded) folder.  It generally ends up outside 
> the folder rather than in it.

This is the dubious design of the gtk2 treelist at work. It's a problem
for everyone who uses the widget. Best to pester the gtk people, though
I would imagine they've heard plenty about this one already, but more
can't hurt. :-)

> 3) URL auto-completion drop-down is lacking funtionality, I think.  In 
> galeon 1.2 I could type "foo." and the drop-down list would yield 
> "foo.bar.com, foo.baz.com, foo.barred.edu, foo.manchu.org" etc., I could 
> then use the down arrow to scroll through the options to select the one I 
> want.  In galeon 1.3 it seems the only way to select from the list is to 
> use the mouse?  Is this perhaps a GTK widget issue?  It's inconvenient to 
> move from typing to the mouse and back.

Umm, WORKSFORME; admittedly with the cvs version, but the autocomplete
stuff hasn't been touched for a long time. (Ricardo, where are you? :-)

> 4) I miss the ability to SHIFT-click to download files.  Yes, the same 
> functionality is in the RIGHT-click/Download Link, but old habits die hard 
> and this has been a standard thing since Netscape 3. :)

I can't believe that we never reimplemented this in the whole life of
1.3.x. I didn't even realise it was missing; i don't seem to use
shift-click anymore these days, but I've just added it back into cvs.
Thanks for pointing it out.

> 5) I miss the printer icon in the toolbar.  Sure, one can print with 
> CTRL-P, or by selecting the File menu item, but it was nice to just be 
> able to click on the toolbar.  Is this just an oversight or a design 
> issue?

Hmm, probably an oversight. It would be trivial to implement for
ricardo, but the rest of us are rather clueless on the toolbar system,
thanks to the impenetrable nature of bonoboui. I'd consider it
consequently unlikely to happen until ricardo re-emerges from wherever
he's currently hiding. :-)

Thanks for the feedback.

--phil



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