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

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Evandro,

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:

> Maybe the widget for "Search the web" would look more like something 
> you can click on if it looked like other Gtk buttons. Something like a 
> button that says "Search the web" where the words "Search the web" 
> are.

Currently, smart bookmark links get the same "button highlight" on 
mouseover as other toolbar items. I don't know whether it would be good, 
also in aestethical respect, to change this to always look like a 
button.

> Where GNOM is what the user entered and changes dynamically, as he 
> types the missing E for example. :)

Then the size of the button would have to grow with each letter the user 
types. That would cause a very inquiet interface.

> going away when you click it. The bar would say something like "Type a
> Web address or a search term here".

The problem with this is that the address bar should always reflect the 
current page address, so it has no room for such text.

> I never understood the purpose of the "Go" button. To be honest I 
> think it only serves to slow people down, as they might think they 
> have to click it instead of just typing 'Enter'.

I have seen people type addresses and then reaching for the mouse to 
click Go. But this is a chicken-and-egg problem, do they do this because 
the button leads them to, or is the idea of pressing Enter really that 
hard to come up with?

regards,

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