Re: [Epiphany] Bookmarks

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo debian org>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:54:35AM -0400, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

 > I'm working on epiphany for two reason: I like to try to improve the
 > usability of web browsers and I want to provide the best possible
 > browser for GNOME. I guess that explain my interest.

 Ouch there.  I usually try to avoid commenting on some of Epiphany's
 design decisions (i.e. yours) mostly because I don't agree with them
 *and* because I think this is your project and as long as you are the
 one doing the hard work, you are going to program whatever you want to
 program.  But when you start arguing that your intention is to give
 every GNOME user the best experience out there, you are not programming
 for you anymore, you know?  You are programming for a bunch of users
 which *do* have different ideas regarding what's usable and what's not.
 And trying to argue that that's not the case is self-deceiving.

 Separating the bookmark manager from epiphany is not only a good idea
 from a programming point of view *and* a Unix point of view (this *is*
 Unix, no matter how hard people try to deny it), but it is also a good
 idea from a usability point of view.  There is no single solution that
 can satisfy every user out there.  Not even 90% of them.  Aim for 50%,
 and you might be on the right track.  It's the same as with the
 download manager.  I was disappointed when I read that someone is
 working on a download thing for Epiphany.  What's so fundamentally
 wrong with GTM that can't be fixed?  Bandwidth is a shared resource,
 having a single application that can manage bandwidth is a good thing.

 Marcelo