Galeon 1.3 "move tab to" and revisiting the menubar show/hide

Hello,

After a couple of days using 1.3, I'm still OK with it, although I do find
it slightly less useful than 1.2: could I possibly ask about the status of
these 2 small features?

1. Ability to show the menu bar when sites disable it (what was
shift-ctrl-m in 1.2). This was discussed back in August, and I understand
the point Tommi made about the GNOME HIG (i.e. not letting the user break
the interface by accident) which makes sense. However, it seems to me that
there is a (fairly simple?) solution to this: have the menu option
present, but disabled normally (possibly override-able via a GConf key if
you're an advanced user) but if a site kills off menu bars via Javascript,
the option is then enabled so that we (poor users) can "unbreak" the site.
Any comments?

2. Another small feature I miss in Galeon 1.3 is the "move tab to..."
feature, especially with the plethora of sites that spew pointless new
windows everywhere (I would like to wring the neck of some site owners who
think that every other link should have a target='_blank'...). We have
"move tab left" and "move tab right" but (AFAICT) no way to move tabs to
another window, which I miss.


For both these things (along with the thing I mentioned the other day
about being able to open a link in a new tab/window using mouse gesture
down/up), it would be useful to know whether for each one, it is:

a) a feature that has just been "lost" and will probably get built back in
sooner or later?

b) a feature that has been removed (or not put back in 1.3) for a specific
reason (e.g. HIG compliance or some other constraint) and will not be
reimplemented or accepted as a patch?

c) a feature which would probably be accepted as a patch, but which Galeon
'core' developers are unlikely to get round to re-implementing in the
forseeable future?

d) something else?



Also, have any developers by chance got a list showing features that were
in 1.2 but not in 1.3, with a status as above (i.e. a, b, c, d with
comments)? I'm sure it would be useful to everyone who keeps wondering
where feature 'x' has gone and whether it's likely to return, and/or
whether they can help make it return.

I'm not an experienced developer in C or GTK, but if for the features I'm
missing myself, I know that you nice guys would be a) willing to accept
patches reimplementing them, and b) willing/able to give some brief
pointers/help then I will try to find a bit of time to help out.

Thanks,

Tim


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