Re: What in practice I want to happen ...

You want to make a very simple browser for users not really used to
computers and your proposal seems quite ok for that, but while using
galeon today, I realized there was a point that wasn't addressed yet for
this goal (or that I missed).
What will you do for all these mozilla dialogs which moreover are often
untranslated ? ie, while browsing today, I got this "you are switching
from a secured area to a non secured one", but the text was much longer
and prolly not really understandable for "normal" users (especially if
they don't speak english). This one is ok because they can click on ok
and their "browsing experience" goes on without problems.
But let's consider the certificate dialog where you can choose to accept
it temporarily, reject it or accept it always. There is a very long text
with this dialog, and the user has to make a choice. I'm quite sure some
users will be frightened by this dialog, and won't know what to do
because they will fear to break something. 

I don't say that a simple browser isn't achievable because of that, I
just point out an important issue (imo) which will have to be solved if
(or when) we decide to go that way


Christophe


Le mar 15/10/2002 à 11:40, [email protected] a écrit :
> Ok so now I posted the abstract rationale.
> These are the things I want to happen for 2.0 to match my vision more. Feature
> freeze is not far (2 weeks), so it's probably worth getting decisions soon.
> 
> - Removal of web developers specific features. I want consoles to be removed
> from the ui (can still accessible with javascript: ...). If it's useful
> to avoid a fork of this part we can keep Page source in the menu. After
> all IE is used for web pages development and it's this way (I think).
> It would make a lot more sense to have a separate galeon-webdev package
> ihmo that would add these functionalities and others mozilla already provides.
> Prolly too later for the freeze unless someone want to work on it.
> - Removal of galeon specific sessions handling. We will obviously keep to
> support gnome session.
> - Simplification of mime handling. The start point is the interface I have
> with the just-vfs option. I would be fine if it's added a way to select
> another gnome vfs handler from a list (maybe a checkbox or a button with
> another dialog), esp if this avoid a fork of this part. 
> I cant promise I'll hack it though. Two weeks are not much and I have to
> be able to get out a release also.
> - The applications page is an UI mess. I think support for legacy mailers
> in the ui should be dropped (It's really too confusing... clear from the
> bug reports we are getting). I'm not sure about external downloader support.
> Mime types editor will be remove for the prvious point.
> 
> To make a decision I think we really need a matching list from Ricardo and
> Philip. And obviously their position about these points I did.
> 
> Marco
> 
> 
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