Re: What is Epiphany's role now?

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Mar 28, 2007, at 3:35 AM, William Case wrote:
> ...
> This has more do do with work style than a missing feature.  At present
> I can only add new toolbars or only add a few pre-created icons to my
> "Main Toolbar".  I would like to add one or two program launchers like
> Evo-mail, or Evo-contacts, or Evo-tasks; others might be StickyNotes or
> TomBoy. I would like to add them to the Main ToolBar so I have
> everything in a line at the top.
> ...
> First let me say, I do this already off the Gnome panel and/or the
> Workspace Switcher.  I am only thinking of ways to make things faster,
> intuitive and more efficient while working.

I'm interested in understanding this better. Why would adding 
non-Epiphany-specific things to Epiphany's toolbar be "faster, 
intuitive and more efficient" than adding them to the panel? On the 
panel they're available available all the time, even if you don't have 
an Epiphany window open; and the target area is larger, because the 
panel is against the edge of the screen.

> ...
> E.g. Suppose I could bind Wikipedia to <Ctrl><Super>W.  Then, as I work
> along in, say OpenOfficeWriter and I want to look for something in
> Wikipedia, without hardly skipping a beat, I could <Ctrl><Super>W and
> have epiphany pop open at the Wikipedia site.

Wouldn't it be nifty if Deskbar and Epiphany used the same set of 
search channels! So after adding a Wikipedia search channel, you could 
start typing your search in a search field in Epiphany's toolbar, arrow 
down to "Wikipedia" from the resulting menu, and type Enter to do the 
search in the same window (or Ctrl+Enter to open the results in a new 
window). And if you didn't have an Epiphany window open, you could do 
exactly the same thing in Deskbar.

> ...
> > > I do wish, someone would figure an easy ( one or two click ) way to
> > > transfer or copy individual bookmarks from FireFox to Epiphany and 
> > > back.
> >
> > Yes, that would be nice to have. In the mean time you can search your
> > Firefox and Epiphany bookmarks simultaneously if you use the deskbar
> > applet.
>
> Yes.  But that is not the same, keeping in mind the speed and 
> efficiency I am looking for in the above comments, I would like a 
> utility that lets me transfer individual site addresses.

The UI for this already exists: it's called the Bookmarks window. All 
that's needed now is the implementation. :-)
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424464>>

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/