Re: [Usability]Re: Galeon 2 usability

Lee Willis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Marco Pesenti Gritti <[email protected]> writes:

> > Keep the UI simple, just build a lightweight standalone app
> > "galeon-power-tools" or similar that advanced users can run to get
> > "Extra things", ie toggles for js/java etc. This can be pretty much a
> > copy 'n' paste of the options that used to be in the settings menu to
> > start with. Make it dockable in the GNOME panel and I think you'd
> > satisfy the requirements of the 80% [Of your current user base] that
> > would miss this, without impinging on the simple UI that you want
> > (Rightly) to acheive.
> > 
> > Plus you can then expand that app with whatever crack features "power
> > users" want without polluting galeon proper. As someone said it's real
> > hard to build one app that pleases two camps of people, it's easier to
> > build two apps - this way let's us not fork galeon, just appreciate
> > there are two sets of users ...
> > 
> > This would satisfy my one "problem" - I love those toggles ;)
> 
> I'm pretty sure philipl would not be happy with this. Dunno about
> ricardo.

What's the points "against" it? Purely the distribution headache?

Lee
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