Re: Galeon 1.2.5 to 1.3.19 conveersion a couple of questions

stan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 08:28:45PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 05:50:48PM -0500, stan ([email protected]) wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:02:20PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 
> > > ^L focuses the navigation toolbar.  IMO this is preferable to a popup.
> > > What's your reason for favoring the latter?
> > 
> > Several:
> > 
> > 1. It opens up an input field near the center of the app, where my atention
> > is already focused.
> 
> Point.  But if you just start typing, it'll show.

Yes, I figured out that I did not have to erase what was already there.
Still it's way up top, where I only look ocasinly.
>  
> > 2. It opens up an empty input filed to paste, or type in.
> 
> ^A ^K will kill the contents, emacs bindings, if you've got 'em set.

Mmm, I'm a vi person. 
>  
> > 3. It seems more logical to me.
> 
> Wash.  I prefer fewer dialogs, most of 'em seem to paint bloody slow.

Hmm. I've never seen this one slow even on < 500MHZ machines running Gnome.
> 
> Though I can see the argument that a prompted dialog makes sense.  The
> unprompted ones are annoying as hell.  I get enough tabs/windows open
> that a given cookie or other confirmation dialog generally can't be
> correlated with the originating site.

Oh I garee on that.
>  
> > > > Also, on the older version, under the "File" Pulldown, I have the
> > > > abailty to store and return to "sessions", which are collections of
> > > > tabs. Again.  how do I acomplish this under the new version?
> > > 
> > > Under 'Bookmarks', 'Add tabs as folder' should be close, no?
> > 
> > Not close at all actually.
> 
> Care to expand?

There was a good email to this thread by another user that explains it
better than I can.



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