Re: What people are really doing on the Web




Hi Matthew,

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

Some ideas for how Epiphany could make these things easier:
*   Better integration of Web pages, bookmarks, and feeds.
*   Spell-check.
*   Let people save a half-written Weblog post (an entire Web page with
    a half-filled-out form) as a draft that they can return to later.
*   Include Preview buttons for partially-downloaded music files in the
    download manager.
*   Include a financial search engine (such as Google Finance) in the
    default set of search engines.
*   Let people easily associate Weblogs with address book entries and
    buddy list entries.

Thank you for your input.

Of the beforementioned ideas, the spell check functionality is closest to being implemented. The UI isn't finished yet [1] and probably won't be ready for 2.16. However it is quite possible that there will be GConf key(s) to enable spell checking for various languages; an extension could put a (preliminary) GUI on that. (Anyone who's willing to help code this, consider yourself invited to!)

"Better integration of Web pages, bookmarks, and feeds" sounds cool, but what would it mean in practice? Should the RSS extension be polished up and integrated into the core? (I'm not against this, as weblogs/RSS feeds become an ever more integral part of the web browsing experience.)

Your idea about saving partly-completed forms is related to bug 118452 [2] except that the recovery function should have an UI instead of just kicking in, in case of starting up after a crash. I have a gut feeling that it should be possible to connect the contents of a web form to a (temporary) sticky note or something similar, that's retained in cases where the form isn't submitted.

For as long as we don't have seamless Nautilus integration for downloads, the preview function might be a good idea. Dieguito was recently hacking on the download manager interface, maybe he knows if this is possible/easy to do?

About the financial search engine: how well does this localize? The 'Search the web' smart bookmark can be included because Google is available in most languages and regions, but I wouldn't know about financial search engines. Google finance is just US English at this moment, as far as I can see.

With regard to "address book entries and buddy list entries", we'd have to know first what is the authorative source of address and buddy data. E-D-S? Gaim? Contacts maybe?

As always, keep filing bugs where you see them :-)



[1] For the other readers, on the list, Matthew has already given some UI ideas on http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/FeatureDesign/Spellchecking

[2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118452


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