- I was never fond of Mozilla using a tree rather than a list as its pref panel selector, and I'm sad that it's been carried over to Phoenix. There's only a total of 10 panels, so there's no need to hide four of them under Advanced. I believe it can be difficult for users to discover that Advanced can be expanded since it is also a panel itself.
- What's 'Reject popup windows' doing in Advanced rather than JavaScript?
- IMHO the confusion caused by combining list-based panel selection with tab-based in the Themes and Extensions panel outweighs the convenience of a one item shorter panel list. Are extensions and themes really related enough to warrant this?
Various comments on the pref dialog
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Re: Various comments on the pref dialog
jonasj wrote:
- IMHO the confusion caused by combining list-based panel selection with tab-based in the Themes and Extensions panel outweighs the convenience of a one item shorter panel list. Are extensions and themes really related enough to warrant this?
I agree that the Themes and Extensions panel should be split into two separate panels.
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Re: Various comments on the pref dialog
jonasj wrote:<snip>
- I was never fond of Mozilla using a tree rather than a list as its pref panel selector, and I'm sad that it's been carried over to Phoenix.
Expedience. The longerterm plan was, and I think still is, to go to catagory icons rather than a tree.
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Yeah, something like Galeon2's prefs panel would be great. See http://galeon.sourceforge.net/graphics/ ... 2prefs.png
Of course, a good graphist is needed for this, but this'd be really cool, and much much more user-friendly.
Of course, a good graphist is needed for this, but this'd be really cool, and much much more user-friendly.
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asa wrote:Expedience. The longerterm plan was, and I think still is, to go to catagory icons rather than a tree.
w00t! Phoenix rules!
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Re: Various comments on the pref dialog
jonasj wrote:
- What's 'Reject popup windows' doing in Advanced rather than JavaScript?
I'm so glad somebody else finds that annoying or curious. It's something I grumble about everytime I look for the option, but never remember to mention here as a RFE.
I also agree with your first comment about not needing to have things hidden under Advanced. I can understand the desire to hide potentially confusing options under Advanced so new users don't get too overwhelmed by the options, but I don't think there are enough options overall to warrant burying things.
I'm probably just bitter that I keep having to expand the Advanced tree and then expand the Tabbed Browsing tree just to change a single option back and forth sometimes...
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jonasj wrote:w00t! Phoenix rules!
Pretty far away from "This browser sucks", eh?
Welcome home Jonas.
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djst wrote:jonasj wrote:w00t! Phoenix rules!
Pretty far away from "This browser sucks", eh?
Yeah... but this is a different browser. :-)
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Re: Various comments on the pref dialog
asa wrote: The longerterm plan was, and I think still is, to go to catagory icons rather than a tree.
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The icons in Galeon2 definitely look cooler, but I don't really see that they add clarity. I guess if you don't have a lot of categories, they'd work OK.
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Stefan wrote:It confuses the hell out of me since I still also use Mozilla.
But I can adapt I guess
Yeah, it should change in Mozilla too.
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Stefan wrote:Sir Rufus wrote:On another note, how do people feel about Preferences being in the Tools menu, a la IE, rather than under Edit? Haven't made up my mind on this one, personally.
It confuses the hell out of me since I still also use Mozilla.
But I can adapt I guess
I think it's unintuitive and annoying. I don't see how preferences is a tool, and I'm used to finding it under edit.
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Sir Rufus wrote:On another note, how do people feel about Preferences being in the Tools menu, a la IE, rather than under Edit? Haven't made up my mind on this one, personally.
It doesn't really matter to me, since every Windows program puts it in a different place. This is something I love about Mac OS X; the preferences are forced to be under the Application menu [not to start an OS war or anything].
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