Fwd: Fwd: what is the reason for not making epiphany the default browser?

[Iain * <iaingnome gmail com>]

darnit... sorry Phil

On 2/6/06, Phil Hagelberg <lists hagelb org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:32 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 18:20 +0000, Crispin Flowerday wrote:
> > > Personally I have _never_ used alt+d to get to the location entry in any
> > > browser, looking at IE it isn't at all clear that that is what it does.
> > > Perhaps it works in IE as the German A_ddress text is translated to
> > > something else with a different accel ?
> > >
> >
> > If your solution to a problem sounds like "well, we do A, then B, then
> > we just get all the users to change their behavior", it's the wrong
> > solution.
>
> Somebody's got to change their behaviour. You're suggesting that the
> habits of IE users are more important than those of people who speak the
> German language, not to mention any other languages that may use a word
> beginning with D for a menu.
>
> I'm quite glad that keeping a consistent interface across languages is a
> higher priority than copying Windows in as many ways as possible.

And given that Alt is for mnemonic accelerators in the gnome desktop
and Epiphany's aim is "Epiphany's main goal is to be integrated with
the gnome desktop," then whatever the Gnome desktop does wins over
other factors.
"We don't aim to make Epiphany usable outside Gnome. If someone will
like to use it anyway, it's just a plus."

Incidently as Firefox also handles ctrl-L as focus the locationbar I
don't see the problem.

(Not that I have any right to dictate what the project does...)
iain

[1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/documentation/manifesto.html