On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 12:42, Dave Bordoley wrote: > Edd Dumbill wrote: > >I don't know if this has been discussed here before, but I think using > >the favicon for a window icon is a really bad idea. The purpose of the > >window icon is that it lets you quickly find the application you're > >looking for on a window list. If it changes all the time, you haven't a > >hope. > > > >Furthermore some software sites set their favicon to their program's > >icon. So I've been running that program and browsing the site in Ephy > >at the same time, and been unable to know which window to switch to! > > > >It's a neat hack, but I'm afraid it really reduces usability. > > > >-- Edd > > > I disagree based on experienced. In particular sights like slashdot set > a pretty decent and easy to find favicon icons. Its much easier for me > to scan the window list looking for the slashdot window, than any of the > many epiphany window i have open that default to that cool yet unhelpful > gnome foot. I'd settle for a gconf key letting me turn it off. For that matter, I'd love to turn favicon fetching off altogether, it increases network accesses and useless hits in log files. -- Edd
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