Re: What is Epiphany's role now?

[Stefan Stuhr <gnomelists sstuhr dk>]

fre, 30 03 2007 kl. 12:54 -0400, skrev William Case:
> On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 01:25 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > On Mar 28, 2007, at 3:35 AM, William Case wrote:
> [snip]
> > > 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.
> > 
> Well, when I wrote this I had a couple of things in mind.  As suggested
> latter on in my post I would like to have Epiphany work in conjunction
> with Tomboy or Stickynotes or whatever.  I assumed that these would have
> to be set with a special set of preferences or commands or something
> that would not work exactly as the launcher on the panel.  

I, personally, can't see how launchers in the toolbar is within the
scope of a webbrowser. It would be possible to make as an Epiphany
extension, but a general toolbar button launcher should probably (and
IMHO) remain a manual-download-and-
install 3rd party extension.


> Evolution does not have a compose launcher that I know of and I keep my
> main Evolution application open in a separate workspace.  Quick access
> to my composer would allow me to post to someone while I have the
> information in front of me and/or copy and paste from a site to an email
> with the relevant info in view.  Maybe its because I am moving into old
> fartism, but I find myself bouncing back and forth between work spaces
> when writing an email to someone (maybe my short term memory is going)
> that contains copied information.

The following command line opens an empty Evolution compose e-mail
window for me:
        evolution mailto:

You can make a new launcher on your panel with that command line.


> With Epiphany taking up a great deal or full screen space I have a few
> programs I would like to open with a specific geometry while using
> epiphany.  

Is it programs you use all the time (and keep running), or is it
programs you only launches when you need them, and exits afterwards?

If it is the first, can't you use session management to launch them when
you starts your session, in the right size and position?


Stefan