PATCH - HOME URL and profiles

[Dawit A.]

On Friday 17 September 2004 22:31, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday 17 September 2004 06:31, Dawit A. wrote:
> > Any suggestions, comments, feedback, opposition, support, icecream, cake
> > and cookies are all welcome...
>
> my 0.02 follows:
>
> having the Profile Name edittable _above_ the list of profiles while all
> the other items are below probably isn't great. it should be moved down
> below with the other items.
>
> it would be great if the "Save URLs in profile" actually noted which URL
> was being saved. in fact, it would be nice to just have it as an edittable
> field so that it's obviously what is happening. currently one has to grok
> that it's going to suck in the current URL from the window you called this
> dialog from.

The main problem with this is that if your profile has multiple tabs, then we 
are talking about multiple URLs not a single one. As such having a single URL 
entry box does not make sense. Another problem is that putting the URL will 
unduly influence people into thinking that that specific URL, just like the 
HOME URL, will get saved instead of the whatever happens to be visible at the 
time they click on Settings->Save View Profile "..." without coming into this 
dialog box...

> why is Home URL optional (a checkbox?). would leaving the text edit blank
> be good enough to denot "none"?

Very simple. From experience I know that people want to disable the option, 
but not loose the last URL they typed. That way one can temporarily disable 
and reenable the option without loosing the previous URL.

> when selecting "Save profile <foo>" from the menu, it shouldn't show the
> list of other profiles.
>
> speaking of management the Delete and Rename buttons could be made to work
> on all profiles with the proper heuristics, such as making "Delete" mean
> "if it's a local file, remove the corresponding .desktop file, otherwise
> create a Hidden=true desktop file in the home directory" ... as it stands,
> it's not apparent to the user at all why she can delete/rename some, but
> not others
>
> "VIew Profiles" as a term isn't very expressive and makes it sound like it
> should be in the View menu. perhaps a new terminology would be in order.
>
> probably more than you were looking for, but... heh..

Yes, I have no problems with all the suggestions you make here with the 
exception of Save URL stuff. If there are no objections, I can for sure 
change the order of things and all the cosmetic stuff . However, I wanted 
this to be specifically about the Home URL issue and nothing else. I am 
afraid if things start going in different tangents, people might start piling 
up all the features and/or changes they had in mind. I have neither the time 
nor the inclination to handle all of that...

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Regards,
Dawit A.
"Preach what you practice, practice what you preach"