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GNOME-Fx 1.0.1 "GNOME Firefox themes"

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The GNOME-Fx themes version 1.0.1 have just been released.

Changes:

  • Added specific versions for the Ubuntu Human, Industrial and Indubstrial themes
  • If small toolbar icons are used. The text "Back" appears next to the back button.
    See here.
  • Unread tabs have italic fonts. See here.

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Ubuntu GNOME theme + Human works marvelous!

I really like this. I switched from the Fx Green theme to Fx Human ad it rocks! I'm using both on plain Debian btw -- except for a minor glitch in the theme (the GNOME one), not a problem. Perfectly clean!

"Indubstrial"

Argh, the name was always meant to be a joke, and somehow it's got traction... Argh! ;-) (jdub, realising he's not logged in)

gtk fileselector

when can we see gtk-fileselector for firefox?

i have read next version of firefox (1.1 or 1.5, i can't remember) is intended to support "better integration" with gnome. what does that mean?

It's already in the trunk bui

It's already in the trunk builds...
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Download the Fedora Core 3 Fi

Download the Fedora Core 3 FireFox 1.0. It have the real GTK+2 file chooser =)

Where?

Where can I get it?

stupid

just plain stupid that text in the back button.
usually, i use the "small icons" options, because i dont have much screen space for wasting in icons and toolbars and such.. and now with the "small icons" it actually is BIGGER than with the big icons... wtf?!

Back is *not* beautiful

I know the Back button text is supposed to be a feature that makes Firefox more usable and I know that people refer to Fitt's Law to justify this change. However it looks just plain ugly and if people would actually care about Fitt's Law, they would have realized that noone uses that button anway. The Back menu entry in the right-click menu is a lot closer and no matter how large you make the Back button in the toolbar, the menu entry will always be easier to reach. Fitt's law is actually not only about the size of user interface elements but mainly about their distance from the mouse pointer.

Then lets make the feature everyone uses easy to find....

As soon as the computer starts up, what is one thing that everyone eventually does, that's right: turn the computer off, so for usability sake this is the screen you get when you turn the computer on:

[Click here to turn off computer]

Now users will never have a problem finding it ;)

who uses "back" anyway?

I've personally stopped using "back" after realising, that middle-click opens link in new tab. There is no need for back button - if page has more interesting links, just open them in tabs, then you could close originating page.
Using "Back" is painfull - I have to wait few seconds before Firefox re-renders previous page.

--
:wq

devils advocate...

I never use the right-click back button, either delete or the back button, but it is certainly big enough already

Problems with the back menu

The right click menu back is fine, but it isn't visible before you click and doesn't pop up in the same position relative to the cursor everytime: if you click near the bottom of the screen, it appears above the cursor, and if you click on an image or link by mistake it doesn't appear at all.

Alt - Cursor Left

Alt-Cursor Left is always at the same place.

Which is nicely bound to the

Which is nicely bound to the sidebuttons on Logitech MX or similar mice. :-)

One-click-back --- hopefully there's no patent on it.

text "back"?

Well I guess with a theme like this you can't really have the theme obey gnome settings. Why though would the theme override firefox settings for showing or not showing text next to icons? The same option exists in gnome and it is *not* overridden by any apps (or at least should not be). This seems more like the authors personal wish list and not really an attempt to emulate gnome anymore. Sort of lame but I guess it is his project so he can do whatever he wants.

Whatever, the real question is: for how much longer are we still going to need themes like this at all. It seems like recent firefox builds are nearly 100% integrated with gnome except the notable exception of using native icons that reflect the theme. When is this going to happen? Also, less notably, the print dialog is still not native. Once the icons get fixed however, these gnome themes for firefox will no longer be needed will they?

Paragraph 1) Do you ever use

Paragraph 1) Do you ever use Epiphany? If so you'd know that you are wrong.

Only in HEAD

Only in Epiphany HEAD it's possible to override the GNOME settings for text below/beside icons. This was added per HIG recommendation.

more of you being wrong by Anonymous George

I've used FF on Windows, but

I've used FF on Windows, but where's the need for it on Linux/Gnome when there's Epiphany?
It pretty much got everything I need. The only thing I don't yet like is the still pretty poor nested bookmarks support, but other than that, what's so great about FF anyways?

Just one example that is enough...

ctrl-k to search bar then ctrl-up/dn to select search engine.

There are other reasons as well but that one by iteslf is enough.

You can do that in epiphany

...by just adding a smart bookmark for any search engine you like. And you don't even have to go to a separate search bar, you can do it right from the location bar!

and... by Anonymous George

Premature ejaculation

"The same option exists in gnome and it is *not* overridden by any apps (or at least should not be)."

Is the the "wrong" thing you are referring to? In general (99% of all gnome apps) the show lables option is never overridden by gnome apps. You are right that I don't use epiphany but that does not make me wrong since I never mentioned epiphany.

If the GNOME-Fx theme were instead called "Epiphany-Fx" then the back thing might make more sense but it is "GNOME-FX" and forcing users to look at the "back" lable, which is *NOT* what gnome does, is wrong.

In any case, if you read my whole post (which I doubt because you obviously got really excited the second you saw an opportunity to correct me, even though *you* were wrong) I said I don't really care about GNOME-Fx firefox theming at all. My real question was about the issue of mozilla/firefox using gnome icons since they already get the theme itself 99% right.

Can I disable feature 2?

At the moment am I using the extension "Digger 0.7" which lets you dig through URLs using the Go button in the toobar.

When used with GnomeFX theme, the text "Go" is written to the right of the button.

Can this and the "Back" text be disabled?

in userChrome.css

/* don't show the back button text */
#back-button .toolbarbutton-text {
display: none !important;
}

I use it for the Industrial firefox theme.

Yes, use the ChromeEdit exten

Yes, use the ChromeEdit extension and add the following line to userChrome.css

/* Hide go button text */
#go-button .toolbarbutton-text {display: none !important}

Other neat tricks and tweeks here:
http://www.quadrone.org/graphics/customization/
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

"Disable blinking text" is a really good one for user.js

Hmmm.... This almost makes me

Hmmm.... This almost makes me want to upgrade the 0.9.3 fox in Ubuntu... I've heard about quite a few bad experiences with doing this though :(

Do I understand correct..? - You get the "back"-text next to you back arrow automagically with this theme (as well as italic unread tabs)? Or do I still have to use the hacks described in the links?

Careful with that..

...those bad things you heard about doing this were well-founded. I've tried on 3 separate systems and ended up in each case going to epiphany because I've broken Firefox :)

You get the back and the unre

You get the back and the unread tab automatically