Re: Crippled 1.3.4? Or stupid user error?

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 09:33, Benjamin Weste Pearre wrote:
> Hey all!
> 
>   However,
> the Screenshots page shows Galeon as it "should" be...

Which reminds me, galeon2 screenshots should be updated, they're a bit
old and not entirely accurate.


> * Where is the "Settings" menu?  Putting preferences under "Edit" was
>   a poor decision by Windows people in times of yore.  People don't
>   switch to Linux because it's the same as Windows: they switch
>   because in Linux things are done intelligently.  Also, what's this
>   "Web" menu?  All menus may as well say "Web".  It's a fucking Web
>   Browser!!!

Edit/Preferences is the GNOME standard.  So far there hasn't been any
convincing arguments explaining what would be the benefit from confusing
the heck out of the users by doing something totally different from the
rest of the GNOME.

The Web menu is a compromise to give users what they want and GNOME what
it wants.


> * Being able to enable/disable the proxy server from the Settings menu
>   was sheer brilliance, one of my favourite features, and it even was
>   partly responsible for convincing a friend of mine to give Linux a
>   try.  Is it dead, or just turned off?

The proxy settings are GNOME-wide and having such an override doesn't
appear to be worth the trouble.  There should be a panel applet for such
thing.


> * How do I tell Galeon to override stupid pages with my legible
>   fonts/colours?  This was depressingly useful.

Scratch an itch.  We accept patches.


> * Why doesn't right-clicking on the toolbar let me configure it
>   anymore?

We already have Edit/Toolbar, no one has cared enough to implement an
alternate method.  Rightly so, IMHO, rather concentrate the little
resources we have on things that matter.

It's still pretty heavily under development, much more polish is
needed.  Feel free to join in.  For the time being you can find some of
the missing stuff hidden in GConf only, see README.ExtraPrefs.


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Tommi Komulainen                                 [email protected]
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