Re: Galeon and raised windows

[Christian Jaeger <christian.jaeger@sl.ethz.ch>]

At 8:51 Uhr +0200 23.07.2002, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> This seems to be an ongoing Mozilla / gecko bug.  Suggest you check out
> Mozilla's bugzilla for related bugs.

Thanks, I have found the (many) bug reports on those window 
raise/focus problems (sadly, most people don't state exactly whether 
they are talking about raise or focus). There is also a possible fix 
through prefs.js 
('user_pref("mozilla.widget.raise-on-setfocus",false);') but funnily 
before editing this file I now don't see the problem anymore anyway?!

> Try tabbed browsing.  "Open windows in tabs" and "Insert new tab after
> current tab".  Even over a slow dialup link, I can browse a page, open
> links, and they'll be (usually) loaded by the time I go to look at them.
> All without disturbing my current window.  Galeon rocks!

Some time ago I decided to ditch tabs because I'm already used to 
handling windows; this still holds true: how do you close tabs with 
the keyboard (like I can close a windowmaker window with meta-F4; -> 
seems that Ctl-w works -- but does it also when the url bar has the 
focus?...), how do you swap between the two most recent tabs (and the 
3 most recent and so on, the stuff you can do in the window manager 
with meta-tab-tab).

For tabbing to be generally useful, it must be standardized, so that 
all applications behave the same. See, I have already given up on 
Ctl-w since it's not really available everywhere and use meta-F4 
instead. The window manager guarantees me that it will work. For 
example, xchat uses Ctl-[1-9] for switching tabs (which is not the 
same as the meta-tab thingie, though), why not galeon as well?

Also strangely, the "Insert new tab after current tab" setting 
doesn't seem to have any effect, middle-click always opens the new 
tab after the current and without bringing it to the foreground 
(that's going a bit too far into the backgrounding direction :-)).

Well I'm happy again now that the bug seems to have gone meditating
Thanks,
Christian.


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