On 8/28/07, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > * 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. > > The current default page has quite a bit more than just the release > notes. And I think that continuing to provide some of that high-profile > linking to community sites and documentation is important. Yes, they're > in the toolbar, but the fact that they're in the page and with more > words than just "Planet Fedora? What's a planet?" is pretty > important. > > That said, there's no reason we couldn't do that in the online page > which also has search. Yup, I think there's a good discussion to be had here on what exactly should be on the page. Personally I'm a fan of keeping it simple, but I recognize that others will have good input. > > * There is already a link to the release notes in the default browser > > bookmarks toolbar, which is visible by default, so the content > > previously on the start page is still just one click away. We could > > explore featuring links to release notes or documentation in the start > > page itself, though keeping the start page simple and lightweight > > seems best (both for ease of use and performance reasons). > > FWIW, the current index.html is like 7.5k. So I think we can probably > have a little bit more than just a search entry and still have it be > simple and lightweight :) Sure, we haven't really optimized for the purposes of the current prototype. > > * Internationalization of the hosted start page and search results > > pages is certainly doable, just as with the local release notes. > > I think that this needs to be more than doable and really has to be a > requirement. And that if we do it, we need to have that bit up and > running and testable with test3, if not earlier (the advantage of it > being hosted is that we can change it out more easily, right?) Exactly. I don't thing translating prior to Test3 would be a problem, though we haven't actually engaged with the i18n team on this yet. > > * 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. > > While not as critical as internationalization, I do think we need to > handle this nicely. While it might seem like a corner case, something > that continues to come up is starting the desktop with a browser already > running. At which case, you didn't start a web browser, you just logged > in. And for that, you want to be able to have a nice experience even if > the network isn't up. Sure, I'm confident that we can come up with a sane behavior here, and ideally even push it upstream to Firefox so other distros and platforms benefit as well. don _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
