[Epiphany] Re: 1.2 plan revisited

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:46:02AM -0400, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
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> - Certificate manager. I have to admit my mind is still shocked after
> I've seen the blinking "Please wait" when trying to install a personal
> certificate. I wanted to leave browsers hacking forever ... then I
> decided to stay because maybe we have an opportunity to fix it :P
> Seriously, Robert can you explain the status of your patch so I can try
> to make a decent plan on this ...

I've never understood certificates and never even been curious. I don't
bank online or do anything else (that I'm aware of) that would require
certificates. I've made purchases online, but I figure if somebody really
wants to get my credit info, it's not hard to get.

In other words, I have no idea about how to make this intelligible.


> - Greg recommendations
> (http://www.phys.lsu.edu/students/merchan/GNOME/Recommendations/Epiphany/).
> The icon in the entry is blocked on gtk but we talked with kris about
> it, hopefully he will be able to convince owen :)

I hope so, too.

> >The statusbar is blank, as there is no activity to report. The change
> >from the spinning arrow animation (below) indicates the page has
> >completely loaded. The progress bar has been removed.
> 
> I'm unsure about this changes. On slow connections I think it can be
> useful to have a more detailed progress feedback (like how much of the
> page have been loaded ...)

That can be done textually, assuming Mozilla aren't pure evil. Something
like:

   (blank)                   Starting blank.
   Loading url:// . . .      Getting the data.
   Loading Title . . .       Have enough to show the title.
   Rendering Title . . .     Have the data, just render the page.
   (blank)                   Back to blank, nothing going on.

If you can get percentages, they can be there too.


> >With the lock icon now on the left, the resize grip is displayed on the
> >right-hand side of the statusbar.
> 
> Is the reason to move the icon, to have the resize grip ?
> I wonder where it's more visible, left or right.

To have the grip was my reason. On a dialog, the bottom right would surely
be more visible. I suspect this is different for a RTL-reading page, where
both margins "fade away." I wonder whether it should be more visible. ;-)
It probably will be more visible as it will immediately precede RTL text
in the statusbar.

Incidently, one reason to show a resize handle - even through the window may
be resized in any direction - is illusion. Except perhaps for LTR text,
there's less for the computer to do when changing the geometry, so it
looks smoother. On X, a resize up or to the left is both a resize and a move.

Cheers,
Greg