[sugar] Patch to make Browse annoy me less.

[Yamandu Ploskonka]

pray pardon my ignorance.

talking of Browser annoyances :-)

Is ad filtering to happen at the server level, or is there a way to 
implement it on the XO?  I vote for server (one fix for all), especially 
if there is a simple mechanism that can update such filter info directly 
from the teacher XO without needing to mess with the XS itself.

Then it wouldn't be a "sugar" problem but XS's :-)

Yet it would be nice Browser didn't have to load the standard nonsense 
that comes along with too many pages these days

Yama

Eben Eliason wrote:
> Just a high level take on these patches...
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Cortland Setlow
> <cortland.setlow at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patch does three things, and I'll be happy if even one makes it in to
>> Browse.
>>
>> It causes ctrl-l (lowercase L) to put focus on the address bar like in all
>> other browsers that do not make me angry.
>>     
>
> Sounds good to me.  Adherence to well known shortcuts is usually a
> win, and this is a basic feature we didn't have before, as far as I
> know.  I suppose the mnemonic is "location".
>
>   
>> It causes ctrl-d to do what ctrl-l used to do, namely do a
>> screenshot-bookmark.  This is the standard bookmark key.   Pressing ctrl-d
>> more times will show/hide the bookmark toolbar, so if you accidentally show
>> it you can get rid of the large and obnoxious thing.  Ctrl-b will also
>> show/hide it, cause why not?
>>     
>
> Anyone care to explain the mnemonic for Ctrl-d?  Again, keeping to the
> standards can't really be a bad thing.  I'm unsure about overloading
> the shortcut with the bar toggle, though.  I might instead offer that
> alt-ctrl-d could make be added for making a bookmark "silently"
> (without revealing the tray, if it's hidden).  I think it's better to
> keep the notion of creating a bookmark and toggling the bookmark tray
> independent.  In my browser, command-shift-B toggles the bookmark bar,
> but I can't see a reason to require the extra shift modifier (is that
> a standard elsewhere?).  The shortcut for this is currently
> ctrl-space, I think...if we make ctrl-b serve this purpose we should
> remove the other shortcut.
>
>   
>> It causes ctrl-i to show the URI of the page instead of the title,
>> temporarily.  Good for checking that one isn't being fished.
>>     
>
> This is a pretty interesting idea, and a very nice addition to the
> concept of the combined URL/address bar.  If you're up to it, I would
> appreciate it if you could try out another related idea which I've
> been thinking about.  I think it would also make sense to reveal the
> URI whenever the cursor is within the entry, so that it's possible to
> select all or part of it, or position the cursor in a meaningful way
> when clicking into it.
>
> I think that we could certainly make use of most of this with the
> changes/additions described above!  Thanks for your efforts!
>
> - Eben
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