On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:07 -0400, Donald Fischer wrote: > Hi, > > Here's why I think this simple change makes sense: > > * More useful to users. The vast majority of the time when Fedora > users are launching a new browser, they're looking to do something on > the web, not to read the operating system release notes. Thus, we've > proposed to put search front-and-center. Isn't the search already on the search bar that defaults in firefox? > * Fedora-tuned search features. For example, we can make it easy to > search for Creative Commons licensed content, a feature that should be > especially interesting and relevant to Fedora users. Likewise, we > could make it easy to search within, or highlight results from, > certain sites likely to be more relevant to Fedora users (such as > Fedora documentation, user discussion lists, and community forums). This sounds good. > To try this out, there's only one small change required in the > distribution itself, which is to swap the default URL in the browser > configuration to http://start.fedoraproject.org. This switch is a > time-sensitive issue with respect to Test2, since we'd like to field > this in at least one and ideally two test releases before deciding to > release it in a final Fedora version. I'm not trying to be snide but is there a reason you waited until the eleventh-hour before test2 went out to ask about this? > * Internationalization of the hosted start page and search results > pages is certainly doable, just as with the local release notes. doable, but not done? > * Red Hat will supply the server infrastructure and bandwidth > required for this project. Red Hat will? or will fedora's infrastructure provide it? Who will control it? What, if any, software is required server-side to facilitate this? > * For users without Internet connectivity, we could do something > fancy to avoid showing an error message, though that would be more > than upstream Firefox does. In fact we have prototyped modifications > to Firefox to achieve this, but our conclusion was that the additional > complexity is not justified. Using a web browser without access to > the web seems to be a corner case and one in which a warning message > is appropriate! In the offline case, local release notes would still > be available from the default bookmarks toolbar. Tuning offline > behavior is an area that we could look at further in conjunction with > the community. It's not just w/o internet access. It is with limited/controlled internet access, too. Remember, it's not just the possibility of the page not loading, it's the possibility of the whole thing stalling out waiting 2 minutes or more for a dns resolution that ISN'T going to come. -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
