[Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.86 Favourites View behaviour - Browse

[Tim McNamara]

2009/12/7 Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>

>  On 12/06/2009 10:28 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Am running Sugar 0.86.3.
> >
> > In general, I like how Sugar now opens the most recent item from the
> > Journal, rather than starting a brand new file. However, I think with
> Browse
> > - it's still useful for this to default to the homepage.
> >
> > Is there an easy way to make this happen?
> > Do other people agree?
> >
> > @timClicks
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> interesting question. I am not sure Browse should differ to other
> activities in that case. It presents you with the latest Browse-session,
> which is the last visited page. Firefox does the same btw.
>

Looks like a no to my second question :)


>
> Maybe you are looking for a simple way to go back to a preferred page
> (the start page for example). And maybe the answer to your question is
> more a home button - or global bookmarks that can be accessed through
> the interface? At the moment there are only session bookmarks and the
> auto completion functionality.


A home button/icon would be beneficial to me. I am interested in
others' views. From memory, FF also tends to ask whether you would like to
start from scratch or open the last open tab.

Another trend in browsers is to present 9 or so thumbnails from the most
commonly used pages.


>
> Regards,
>    Simon
>
>
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