Re: Ideas/Regressions

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>-- Messaggio originale --
>From: Erich Schubert <[email protected]>
>To: Marco Pesenti Gritti <[email protected]>
>Cc: Lee Willis <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Galeon-devel] Ideas/Regressions
>Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:08:51 +0200
>
>
>> > And there are so many tools... Cookie manager, Passwords, image blocker,
>> > History, Auto-Refresh, Bookmarks...
>> 
>> Bookmarks in not in Tools menu. History should be in Go menu. Auto
>> refresh is not reimplemented in g2. The real problem is Cookie Manager,
>> I'd not know where to put it and that's why I cant drop Tools menu.
>
>Just because they aren't in the tools menu doesn't make them not a tool.
>

With such a concept of tool you could define any part of galeon ui a tool.

>> As I already said. If the user want to disable js fastly a toolbar
>> button would be the correcrt implementation. Menus are not shortcuts
to
>> functionalities, toolbar buttons are.
>
>I don't agree here. Actually i rarley use toolbar buttons at all.
>The only one i use is new-tab... Toolbar buttons are for accessing the
>most often used functions. Menus should list _all_ functions.
>Toggling javascript etc. isn't a prefernce imho, but a function.
>

If toggling javascript is a function and not a preference than it should
not be in prefs dialog.

>> Really ? It's the first time I hear this.
>> Galeon was designed for the reasons are clearly stated in the manifesto.
>
>"Keep in mind that simple does not necessarily mean less powerful."
>
>"The UNIX philosophy is to design small tools that do one thing, and do
>it well."
>
>If i would want pure html rendering without these functions i would use
>light or skipstone: they use mozilla for rendering as well, and don't
>have all these features...
>

"all these features". Where damn in the manifesto I talk of features ???
Where damn in the phrases you pasted ?

>I'm not talking about pure power-users, but of not stripping galeon of
>functionality many users like.
>

You said galeon is designed for power users, and that's bullshit.
If there are still parts targeted to power users in galeon I consider them
bugs.

Marco



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