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