Re: [Epiphany] Menu Cleanup

[Christian Persch <chpe stud uni-saarland de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 20:10, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> OK.  Not that I use the menus very often, but some items strike me as
> odd every time I come across them.  The items I am referring to are:
>   File
>     Send To
>         - who ever uses this?

I do; and apparently other people do too
[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119183].

>   Edit
>     Cut
>     Copy
>     Paste
>         - again, who ever uses this?
>           these are here because most editing software
>           have such menu items.  a browser isn't an editor
>           very often.  maybe it's useful for forms editing,
>           yet cluttering the menus with three menu items
>           for this?

They are [well, currently not, but that's a bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112243] available from context
menus, but iirc for a11y reasons every action has to be available by
some non-right-click-menu means too. Having them in the main menu makes
them discoverable, too.

>     -----
>     Select All
>         - has anyone ever felt that they couldn't live without
>           this one?
>     ----------
>     Find Next
>     Find Previous
>         - The Find dialog has this built in.  One always uses
>           those buttons or the Ctrl-Key shortcuts instead.

Same as above.

>   View
>     Encoding
>       ...
>         - OK, may be nice to be able to change encoding,
>           I have never done it though.  Wouldn't a dialog
>           be better suited for this?  Encoding should be set
>           in the document in any case.

Some documents don't specify any encoding, or a wrong one, so you must
be able to override it. But i agree that the encodings menu needs
improvement. I plan to redo it for 1.2, probably by making it offer only
a short list of often-selected and relevant encodings, and having a
"More..." item which will bring up a dialogue to select from the
complete set. I plan to send a proposal about this to the mailinglist
soon.

>   Go
>     Home
>         - I have, in the many, many browsers I have used,
>           never used the Home toolbar button or menu item.
>           In what way is it useful?  Is it one of those
>           "Well, all the other browsers have it so we do to"-
>           items?

I use it to clear the current tab. [My homepage is set to blank page.]

>     ----
>     Top Visits List
>         - ...or whatever it contains.  OK, this may be
>           useful, but I don't like it cluttering up the Go
>           menu like it does.  When we get a side-bar, this
>           should perhaps go there instead?

Sidebar?? I seriously don't think epiphany will have a sidebar, ever.

Regards,
	Christian