Followup two on Axel Beckerts trashing of Galeon and Gnome.

Please, never claim again that kazekahase as a good UI. It's sooo stupid.

Just a few examples:

• close tab icon in the toolbar on the very left
• preferences icon in the toolbar (I want to work, not toy around with my preferences!)
• No default keybinding for view source, view source opens in the back
• user level setting is useless, as shown by nautilus. Everone wants to punish himself by seeing all the options he has (and doesn't understand)
• two search fields wasting screen real estate (I already hate the one in firefox up there...
• Default encoding: arabic, autodetection disabled according to prefs.
• Font settings let me choose the arabic fonts first...
• Fixed tab width not using my screen efficiently ("GNOM") is all fitting on the tab label, thats a total waste!
• Key bindings dialog is a PITA. Am I supposed to read all of them? Why would you want to sort them alphabetically?
• Why do I have a "switch proxy" checkbox in the menu when I don't have a proxy?

Oh come on, this is ridiculous.

Btw, we had the "user levels" discussion on the Galeon lists long ago. But e.g. nautilus tried that and it didn't work. So the Galeon developers decided not to repeat that mistake.

You may be right and I noticed again, why I don't want a web browser which is that heavily tied into a desktop environment - But since there was no better browser than Galeon I used it.

Don't tell me that it makes more sense to you to setup stuff like Emacs- vs. windows-style keybindings in every single application you use. That is just stupid, sorry.

On dropping links onto your current window:

I know that, but it's just awkyard that I have to target the tab if I just could move the mouse just a few pixels off al drop the link. Ever thought, why mouse gestures are so efficient? Because you don't have to target anything small, you just use the same move whereever you are. It's just the same here.

I would be so annoyed by this behaviour, because I would accidentially switch pages all the time. No, if I really need to drop a link onto the current tab to bypass this 'target=' value (whoa, that happens all the time, doesn't it?) dropping to the tab label is just fine.

Also I don't like mouse gestures. When they were introduced in Galeon I tried them, but I never got a hang for them. And in general they are not faster in my opinion. They lack interim feedback IMHO. Apart from using the mouse usually is quite slow anyway... I consider mouse gestures to be another big hype.

On extended preferences like in gconf:

Don't tell me that in a blog posting. Tell me that in the Galeon preferences menu!

No! Don't tell people that there are more options. Don't make them waste time by investigating what they could do, just let them use the browser... And those who bother to read the README will discover /usr/share/doc/galeon-common/README.ExtraPrefs.gz

I load about 50 (internal and external) web pages when I log in.

Oh my god. I would DIE if I had to work that way!