Thoughts on Arora

[Celeste Lyn Paul]

On Sunday 19 July 2009 12:32:35 pm Roderick B. Greening wrote:
> FUrther thoughts... arora isn't and won't be ready for prime time use this
> release - at least as a default browser. (IMO).

+1 (I don't even want to ship it on the CD)

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> > * We need to reduce the default font size on netbooks
> >   + can't use patches, so what to do?
> >   + settings dialog is all messed up: shows arial 16 as standard font,
> > trying to change that makes the dialog show dejavu sans... if I try to
> > set the size to 7 (current default for
> > kubuntu-netbook-default-settings) at least gmail gets super small, so
> > I went with 12 which gives a somewhat decent result
> > * No icons in context menu... the context menu is considerable crowded
> > (not as much as konqui's, but still), however it does not provide
> > visual guidance (namely icons) to make it more understandable
> > * at least on netbooks the bookmark bar should go away, since it
> > wastes the rare display real estate (also... what to do since we might
> > want to have the bar on desktops, so we can't patch)
> > * also on netbooks, even though the bookmark bar is to be hidden, it
> > would probably be good to provide default bookmarks to fancy sites
> > such as youtube, facebook and twitter (also, since we probably want a
> > different set of bookmarks for the desktop => unpatchable)
> > * the auto-localication fails if $LANG != locale (e.g. de_AT != de_DE
> > but still de_AT would fallback to de_DE if de_AT's locale is not
> > available ... right now not the case), if the LANG and locale do not
> > match _exactly_ the only fallback arora does is to en_US
> > * homepage needs to be patched to kubuntu.org
> > * flash-installer-recommendation needs to be implemented (possibly
> > like the media codec stuff?... though that would be for a browser evne
> > more out of context than for a media playback application I am
> > afraid)\
> > * should import konqueror bookmarks in background (providing smooth
> > transition) + should also import cookies for that matter, which of course
> > is technically a PITA... IMHO switching the default browser in general is
> > quite the PITA though :P

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Celeste Lyn Paul
KDE e.V. Board Member
KDE Usability Project
www.kde.org