Re: [Galeon-devel] Go button

[Amit J. P. <am...@le...>]

Alan Bailward wrote to me on Saturday [10 February 2001]:
| 
| The only reason I like the middle mouse = bookmarks, is because I'm too lazy to
| move the mouse up to the menu (and it also respects Fitts' law, in that the
| easiest place to move the mouse to is where you already are).  But I also like
| the ability to paste with the middle mouse button :)  Maybe an option to move
| the bookmarks menu down onto the main toolbar (a la mozilla)?
| 

I just keep all the bookmarks I actually want to access often in a
Toolbar folder.  So my layout is:

   [ File Edit View Settings Bookmarks Go Help         ]  <- menu
   [ < > O H X [100]Z [ http://www.google.com/       ] ]  <- toolbar
   [ Google: [      ] Games Linux Search Daily New     ]  <- my bookmarks

Each of the items in the toolbar folder is itself a folder (except for
the Google search box), so in essence, I have six bookmarks menus
instead of one, and five of them are closer to the content window than
the main toolbar.  It's really handy -- I like it much better than
using a single bookmarks menu, and these days I rarely use the one on
the menubar.  To add a bookmark is easy too -- I can drag it into
one of the folders on the toolbar instead of using the slightly
cumbersome Bookmarks -> Add to -> (some number of levels of nesting).

So I'd argue that an option to put the bookmarks menu on the main
toolbar is unnecessary -- you can already do one better, by moving
each of your commonly used bookmarks / bookmark folders into a toolbar
folder, and then setting the "Create toolbar?" flag on the toolbar
folder.

I've actually been thinking about making image bookmarks with URLs
like javascript:back(), and then I could replace the main toolbar.
:-)  However, it seems that image buttons don't support PNG alpha
levels?  Sorry, I'm getting off-topic.


    - Amit



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Amit J. Patel