Re: Some thoughts for the future

From: John Summerfied (debian_at_herakles.homelinux.org)
Date: 06/30/05

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    Mike McCarty wrote:
    > John Summerfied wrote:
    >
    >> . m a r c o s a u g u s t o wrote:
    >>
    >>>
    >>> It'll be so easy for linux os to be "the OS" in earth
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> That would not be good. We need the diversity of alternatives, of
    >> competition. What happened to IE after MS "won" the browser war?
    >> Nothing. It's only now, after Firefox et al have had tabs for years
    >> that MS is thinking of maybe adding this feature sometime.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    > I agree with the sentiment about diversity. No one size fits all. I like
    > the
    > way Firefox is more adaptable than IE. More of the features can be
    > "customized". But you know something? Not all features even deserve
    > to exist. IMO, tabbed browsing is one of them. Not the best feature ever
    > dreamed up. I'd like all the features to be configurable, even disableable.
    > It would be nice NOT TO HAVE TABS AT ALL.
    >
    > So, it seems to me, that your own prejudices are showing a little bit. IMO,
    > IE is better than Firefox in this respect. OTOH, Firefox does allow one,
    > sort of, to turn tabs off.

    Nothing forces you to use them. OTOH I regularly (most days) read
    www.theregister.co.uk (www.theregister.com and www.theregister.ca for
    North Americans). open the home page, then middle-click all the
    interesting items.

    I then start reading the first to load, middle-click any interesting
    links and so on until I'm done.

    Right now I have 42 windows open spread over 18 desktops, several
    browsers have several tabs - one has 15, but I often have more, and most
    konsoles also have several.
    >
    > However, I can specify the "default search engine" to be
    > either "Google" or "Ask Jeeves", but I cannot specify "none". I can specify
    > where to open the search tab, but I cannot specify "no search tab".

    The search tab is the first thing I turn off.

    You can have endless fun stuffing round with the Mozilla family of
    browsers in about:config. Probably, you can even get no search engine.

    >
    > As a more general comment, it seems to me that all options which are
    > configurable should be disableable. For example, I have a mouse with
    > a wheel, and the wheel is also "clickable". I find that I can configure
    > the third button to do any of several things, but "nothing" is not one of
    > them.
    I could certainly make it do nothing in some contexts, but I don't see
    how that would be useful.

    For example, I use KDE, If I middle-click the desktop, the default
    behaviour is to open a window list. I _can_ change that to do nothing.

    If you feel strongly that you should be able to turn off selected mouse
    clicks, by all means file a bug report and be prepared to argue your case.

    >
    > I'm not trying to dump on Firefox. I like it. It's more configurable than
    > IE. But IMO not configurable enough. I find that I'm frequently
    > accidentally doing things with the mouse because I can't just disable
    > "features".

    If you have special accessibility requirements, I suggest you take it up
    with the developers of your preferred desktop. Probably, if you can make
    a good case you will get a sympathetic hearing. 

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Cheers
John
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