<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jani Monoses</b> <<a href="mailto:jani.monoses@gmail.com">jani.monoses@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
><br>> A more light-weight browser would address this issue. However, one must<br>> ask why doesn't Ubuntu simply do the same - use Firefox for browsing<br>> their documentation? If one can answer this, they can understand why we
<br>> too are following in those foot step.<br><br>Ubuntu does not use Firefox bacause GNOME docs are not HTML.<br><br>> It would be no problem at all to launch firefox for external links. It<br>> would also be possible to stylize these links in some way to show the
<br>> users they are an external link. We were going to do this for the<br>> "Xubuntu Welcome Centre".<br><br>It's the same problem on older systems as you mentined above. People will not know<br>why clicking on a link suddenly starts loading another app. Besides the time to load that
<br>you mentioned there will be an UI inconsistency as well.</blockquote><div><br>Wouldn't simply placing a browser icon in front of an external link be sufficient to notify the user that a browser is going to be launched? And you could also add a tooltip that says "Open link in browser".
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Jani<br><br><br>--<br>xubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">
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