Re: Updated wishlist items

"Karsten M. Self" <[email protected]> writes:
>      - Detachable menus.  Controls.  IIUC, this is a Gtk option.  It
>        would be nice to have detachable menus restored in Galeon.

As was pointed out, you can.  I recall that it used to be configurable
in the Gnome control center but the UI has been removed.  Fortunately
Gnome still has some useful options left in Gconf.

> Tabbed Browsing

Pet peeve: make the last tab draggable again!  I used to use this all
the time to combine windows in 1.2.  This is bug 108872, reported in
2003.

>   - Navigation.  Allow scrolling of tabslist *without* changing current
>     tab focus.  Allow context-action (e.g.: right click)  on tab
>     *without* changing current tab focus.  

The GTK notebook is horribly clumsy when there are more tabs that fit
in the window.  It badly needs something better than the two stupid
scrolling arrows.  Firefox provides a scroll bar, which is definitely
nicer.  But this is a toolkit problem.

>   - Global tab list:  there should be a way to list _all_ current tabs
>     in _all_ windows.

Perhaps in a dialog with a tree widget, grouped by windows?

>     Probably also want other tab management actions: close, reload,
>     move, bookmark, save (selected) as session.

I think this could also provide a good way for moving lots of tabs
between windows.

>   - Grouped tab actions.  (Related to above) The user should be able to
>     perform sensible operations on arbitrary groups of tabs.

You already can if you group the tabs into windows.  Except that there
is no way to merge windows by moving all the tabs from one into
another.  Perhaps this should be added to the Tabs menu.

>     Current actions to individually close ~100 tabs on multiple
>     windows is time consuming.  Reason for not closing the entire
>     session was to identify any stateful pages (e.g.: web forms) or
>     pages needing bookmarking.

Why not just drag the important tabs into a new window, then hit the
close buttons of the original windows?

>     Ability to group operations (close this list of tabs...) would
>     be very useful.
>
>     Note:  this calls for a significant change to or addition to the tab
>     interface.

I see two ways to achieve this without massive changes to the tab
interface: The first way applies to the case is where the target of
the operation is the contents of a single window.  The UI is largely
there already: the window can be closed, the right-click menu of the
refresh button has the appropriate option, Bookmarks/Add Tabs As
Folder is there.  Another way would be via the global tab list you
suggested: a set of tabs could be selected there and operated on.
Minimally the dialog should support moving the selected tabs into a
new window; one could then continue with the per-window operations.
For convenience other operations could also be supported directly from
the window list.

>   - If MIME types are going to be managed within GNOME, *DO* provide
>     access to the GNOME MIME type editor from within Galeon.

It seems that there is no longer any GNOME MIME type editor.  There
used to be a nice one but it got dumbed down and finally removed.  All
that is left is a lousy tab in Nautilus.

>   - Provide option to not ask for action again.  E.g.:  always save to
>     disk, or always open with application, defaults.

The problem with the "do not ask me again" option is: what if you
change your mind and want to be asked again?

-- 
	Timo Korvola		<URL:http://www.iki.fi/tkorvola>



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