Meme time again! (but I'm skipping the pimp name thingy)

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored. You'd like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring. You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please. Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with. Your risk of cheating is 100%. You are not suited for a monogamous relationship. You think of marriage something you've always wanted... though you haven't really thought about it. In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You'll do anything for love, but you won't fall for it easily.

I guess a couple of true stuff in there. E.g. I don't like people addicted to cigarettes. Smokers are not free... and it definitely is true that I don't fall easily. Which makes the 100% risk of cheating interesting, since it's so hard for me to find someone I really like... ;-)

... even when Axel Beckert thinks otherwise.

I've been the maintainer of galeon for quite some time, including the bumpy switch from GTK 1.x to GTK 2.x

There are a couple things to note: Many of the stuff you are complaining about is mostly the old "I need more features" mistake. Features do not increase usability (or as you called it "ergonomy") by sheer quantity. I've seen users get totally confused by the amount of options they have to decide upon. Even I had trouble understanding the exact thing you meant with "a new tab opens at the end of the list instead after the current tab" (since I think my tabs open that way when I click on links...). If you find a way to make these distinctions between "tabs opened by clicking on the new tab icon" and "tabs opened by clicking on links" and the difference in behavious clear for novice users, you would have done a miracle (in ergonomy).

There was so much wrong with Galeon 1.2, and I'm happy to be rid of it.

E.g. I can't agree with your speed complaints. For me galeon 1.3 is a lot faster than galeon 1.2 - there are many situation where galeon 1.2 performs really bad (apart from changes in mozilla). Note that the gtk theme engine has an effect on performance. Choose a lightweight engine and it will be much faster. This applied to GTK 1, too - except that very few people chose a heavyweight engine. So just don't use grandcanyon or similar engines.

Then you are complaining about the focus issues in galeon, which have improved a lot, and are to blame on mozilla embedding. Just because galeon 1.2 uses an anicent mozilla doesn't make them galeon 1.3s fault.

On the missing preferences in the dialog: so what? I never open the preferences dialog anyway. I don't even remember where it is! If you want additional preferences, get gTweakUI. You can enable detacheable menubars (I've never used them), detacheable menus and the old gtk 1 way of changing keybindings by moving the mouse over the menu entry easily (but I think this is available in the normal gnome settings, too).

In the galeon menu of gtweakui you can change the tab location, too. And I bet you are welcome to provide patches if you find anything else missing.

The Ctrl+U behavious works for me exactly as you requested it. Maybe you should choose Emacs-Style keybindings when you want Emacs-style keybindings.

You can drop hyperlinks of a page onto itself. Drop them onto the tab an they will open in the current window.

The search window opens very quickly for me. There are some cases where typeahead-find is indeed annoying (like searching the same term in several pages; with typeahead you have to retype it). For me it's Ctrl+F and start typing. A "search in current page" widget would be so useless... and slow! If I have to type anyway, why should I use my mouse to go to the widget?

As for the tabs menu - I rarely have that many tabs, I could easily do without the tabs menu. Having more tabs than I can see is the point where I need to clean up... (just like having more applications open than desktops)

Oh, and I do want my "empty new tabs" to open at the end of the list. This is much more predictable. I would often be annoyed by your preferred behaviour...

Having *one* network proxy setting for your desktop makes much more sense than having one for each application. You are of course welcome to write a proxy chooser applet if there is none. (Yes, this will affect galeon without a restart). Oh, and you can reach the proxy settings via the gnome menu with two clicks and no waiting for the galeon preferences dialog.

But please stop requesting feature overload for the dialogs. This is an old discussion and has been done with. Sometimes you just have to accept that many people have a different opinion, and maybe adopt to the new situation. Otherwise your applications would still terminate when you press Ctrl+C...

Now for my favourite drawback on your list: "the spinner is no more themeable" (the icons are, just choose a Gnome icon theme...) - oh my god! This is going to kill me.