Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (54 mails)

[Sankar P <sankar.curiosity@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for top-posting, on a related note -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html
 Read the WHY section.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Sankar P <sankar.curiosity@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 13/01/10 16:07, Barry Nichols wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I completely agree, changing the homepage to www.google.co.uk is one
> > > of the first things I do after I install openSUSE.
> > >
> > > If the homepage was, as Ubuntu's is, similar to google but with some
> > > openSUSE branding, I wouldn't even consider changing it. When I had
> > > Ubuntu installed I didn't think about changing the home page.
> > >
> > >
> > > 2010/1/9 Wolfgang Rosenauer <wr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to bring up a discussion again about what the browser
> > > > startpage should be.
> > > > I'm not convinced about the current startpage itself and also its
> > > > integration into the browser (mainly Firefox in my case obviously).
> > > >
> > > > Our current startpage is:
> > > > http://www.opensuse.org/
> > > >
> > > > Compare that with other distributions and the original Firefox startpage:
> > > >
> > > > http://start.ubuntu.com/9.10/
> > > > http://www.google.de/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
> > > > (this is where it ends up from a mozilla.com redirect)
> > > > http://start.fedoraproject.org/
> > > >
> > > > I agree with all the others that a global web search should be on that
> > > > startpage and it should be pretty simple.
> > > > Our current startpage only invites people to change it anyway IMHO.
> > > >
> > > > What do others think about it?
> > > >
> > > > From a technical perspective I'm planning to change the Firefox
> > > > startpage to load a local document which decides what page to load
> > > > dependent on the online status because currently only an error page is
> > > > displayed if Firefox is started offline with the current start page. I'm
> > > > mentioning that explicitely because it would be nice if someone could
> > > > design a page which should be shown when offline.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Wolfgang
> >
> > Christ!
> >
> > I missed the original from Wolfgang.
> >
> > For chrissake, Wolfgang, what are you- a paid employee of Google and
> > will get a commission from Google for what you are suggesting that you
> > will do?!
> >
> > Who gives a rat's-arse what other distros - Ubuntu etc - do. Are *they*
> > getting a pay-back from Google for making the startpage as Google?
> >
> > Leave the startpage as it is!
> >
> > Don't do anything! Leave the damn thing along!
> >
> > Where did you get this idea of altering the startpage anyway? Google
> > told you to do it? Some hundreds of users asked you to do it?
> >
> > Leave it alone!
> >
> > BC
>
> I dont know about 100 users, but I for one tend to agree with Wolfgang
> that it needs a change, as otherwise every user changes the default
> homepage.
>
> Wolfgang, Just thinking out loud, do you think it will be good to have
> FF plugin, where we can show thumbnails of "recently visited pages".
> In the top/bottom (or background) we may have custom picture slots
> which individual distros can use for their branding/customization ?
> Reminded of Chrome ?
>
> --
> Sankar P
> http://psankar.blogspot.com



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