Re: Changes in galeon 1.3 over mozilla compiled with gtk2

Ricardo Fernández Pascual <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:55:01 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
El sáb, 11-10-2003 a las 20:50, Lindsay Haisley escribió:
> Thus spake Crispin Flowerday on Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:39:23PM CDT
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > *  The "Clear location" toolbar widgit/button is gone. 
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110350
> 
> OK, cool.  Someone has filed a formal bug on this.  I'll simply raise my
> hand and vote "yes" on restoring this feature.
>  
> > 
> > > *  The "Find entry" toolbar widgit/button is also gone, another small but
> > >    one of my favorite galeon convenience features.  Several more mouse
> > >    clicks in different places are now required to find text in a page.
> > 
> > Doesn't mozilla's type-ahead-find (or whatever it is called) solve this
> > problem? Just press '/' and start searching when the focus is in the web
> > page.
> > 
> > If that doesn't solve your needs, you probably want to file an
> > enhancement request in bugzilla.
> 
> Thanks!  This is apparently new in the lastest versions of mozilla, so I
> didn't know about it.  It isn't in galeon 1.2.5 (Debian testing) which I'm
> using on my other desktop box.  It pretty much solves the problem, and
> requires fewer keystrokes than using the find box, although it looks as if
> the ability to switch case-sensitive searches on and off is missing -
> sometimes useful when looking for acronyms.  I can live with that.
> 
> > 
> > > *  Text entry fields in smart bookmarks aren't persistent and the fields 
> > >    are cleared on each use cycle.  I much preferred them to retain text so
> > >    that, for instance, I could use the google smart bookmark, to perform a
> > >    series of related look-ups, even if I were browsing a referenced page
> > >    rather than at a google results page.
> > 
> > You could use the smart bookmark history, IIRC we couldn't think of a
> > decent use-case for preserving the text, although tko may remember why
> > exactly it didn't get back in.
> 
> The "Enable smart bookkmarks history" checkbox is available in the galeon
> 1.2 general preferences dialog, where there's a dialog page on general
> bookmark preferences.  I can't find any comprable page in the galeon 1.3.9
> preferences dialog set, nor is such an option available on a per-bookmark
> basis in the Bookmarks Editor or Bookmarks Properties dialogs.

That setting is not in the UI. Enable it modifying the following key
with gconf-editor: /apps/galeon/Browsing/Bookmarks/smart_bm_history

See the file README.Extraprefs for more options which are not exposed in
the UI.


-- 
Ricardo Fernández Pascual
[email protected]
Murcia. España.




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