Re: Galeon 1.2.5 to 1.3.19 conveersion a couple of questions

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 06:46:53PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> >>   AFAIK this is now consistent with rest of Gnome desktop - ^O opens
> >>file. But ^L will bring you into address input line, even if surrounding
> >>toolbar is hidden (and than possibly hides it back).
> > 
> > Thanks, I tred the ^L, and it _does_ move the focus to the imput window. However,
> > this is not my desired behavior. As a mater of fact, histoicaly this was my No.1
> > selection critereia for choosing Galeon ove Mozzila.
> > 
> > Is this configurable, in some way?
> 
>    No idea. Maybe depends on what behavior you want to reach. If it is
> strictly opening dialog for entering URL, I'm afraid it's not possible.
> If it's that you don't want to see classical URLbar, but still be able
> to open URL (pretty essential to browser :) ), you can move navigation
> controls to another toolbar (leaving only URL input) (Edit/Toolbar),
> then disable it (View/Toolbar). It then pops up only on ^L, and after
> entering address goes away. Just what came over my mind, don't know, if
> that can substitute your desired behaviour, or if it even works. :) May
> be silly idea.

Well, I would still prefer that it pop up in the middle like it used to,
and I would really like to change it to ^O. Can that be remaped anyway?
Also the old way of doing this gave you an empty input filed, this leaves
that old URL in place. 
> 
> >>   Don't remember, if it's the same, but there is "Add Tabs as Folder"
> >>in the bookmarks menu, and then bookmark folders have "Open Folder in
> >>Tabs" in their context menu (I think this is even invoked when folder is
> >>double-clicked in sidebar).
> > 
> > If that provides the same functianlity, I cant figure out how to do it. The
> > functionality that "sessiosn" provides is the abilty to store one or more groups of
> > tabs, such that I can simply select a session, and wind up with several tabs each
> > open to the desired site.
> > 
> > How can I acomplish this in the new version?
> 
>    Bookmarks/Add Tabs As Folder makes folder with all currently open
> tabs saved as bookmarks in that folder. Then I close all tabs, then I
> right click on that bookmark folder newly created and say Open folder in
> Tabs. All tabs are back and shining. Looks just what you're describing. :)

Uck, at least by comparison.

What's the rationale behind removing basic functionality?
> 
> >>>And finally (for now), how do I get just text labels, and no icons in
> >>>the toolbar?
> >>
> >>   You can accomplish this globally, or just for Galeon. In
> >>gnome-ui-properties you can set toolbars style globally. Local Galeon
> >>setting is accessible only through gconf - look for
> >>"apps/galeon/Toolbar/toolbar_override_style".
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Would you be talking about gconf-editor ?
> > 
> > If so, the only setting I can find is Apps->Galeon->UI-Toolbar which I set to
> > "taxt_only", and restarted Galeon, but don't see any change.
> > Or am I using the wrong tool?
> > 
> > Thanks for the help here!
> 
>    Gconf-editor, gconftool-2, whatever you're used to.
>    Oops, my mistake, /apps/galeon/UI/Toolbar/toolbar_override_style is
> full path here. Setting to "text_only" works for me, I even don't have
> to restart Galeon (standard of well behaving Gnome apps).
>    In your mail it seems misspelled ("taxt_only"), can't that be the
> problem?

SOLVED! Yes thta was a  spelling issue. Thanks for pointing that out.

Can the 1.2 serries of Galeon possible to compile on a modern release?


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