Netbookifying the GUI

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As I'm on my little Asus Eee, I'd like to make a few suggestions for making the 
persistence of 
the GUI less necessary and more convenient.

1.) One is an idea straight from Midori. It is smart with its hiding of the 
Location/Tool Bar. It will 
stay hidden until/unless it's called into focus somehow, either by opening a 
New Tab or by 
hitting Ctrl+L, and then goes into hiding again after the user hits Enter or 
defocuses it. This is 
awesome.

Arora already kinda does half of this. If the Tool Bar is hidden, you can still 
focus it by opening a 
New Tab or hitting Ctrl+L - you just don't see the bar. You can type into it 
and even see relevant 
history items being displayed - you just can't actually see what you're typing.

2.) Another idea is straight from Google Chrome - namely it's Status Bar - or 
rather its lack of 
one. Having the Status Bar stay hidden and pop-up only when it's needed 
(hovering a link, etc.) 
would be fantastic. But it shouldn't actually shove a bar onto the bottom of 
the UI (which would 
cause awkward pushing and pulling of window content), it should be implemented 
more in the 
fashion of how relevant history entries pop up when you're typing URLs in the 
address bar - 
something more like a pop-up tooltip or dialogue bar.

3.) Allow hide/show of the main Menu Bar with, at least, a key bind.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ssoundas...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2009 at 4:52

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Doh, forget #3. I just realized Full Screen mode. :P

Original comment by ssoundas...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2009 at 6:08

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#1 & #2 shouldn't be too hard

#3 you can do with Ctrl-M

Original comment by ice...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2009 at 6:54

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
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#1 Ctrl+T should indeed focus the address bar, but not necessarily bring the 
address bar back if it was hidden 
- that would be annoying to see address bar popping up and disappearing after 
you hit Enter/Return. I'd 
personally would see behaviour similar to the one from Opera, when only the 
input field is being shown and 
while you type the relevant items from history show up.

#2 Status bar continously jumping up and down might not be a good idea. This 
one's also taken from Opera, 
when you hover over the link you get a small box which contains the address 
where the link points to. Image 
being a link might be a bit tricky as you'd have to solve the 'alt' 'title' and 
'href' issue - they might be separated 
with a veritcal bar '|' for examle.

#3 Could you add this to "View" menu as this is not obvious to everyone.

Original comment by rafal.cz...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2009 at 4:59

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on #3 I recall in KDE users seeing in the View menu accidently turning it off 
and then having no idea how to turn 
it back on.  We add it to the right click menu, but we need some way to inform 
the user how to turn it back on if 
we add it to the View Menu, perhaps a popup dialog the first time?

Original comment by ice...@gmail.com on 24 Jul 2009 at 6:55

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This is an area where the Kubuntu people might be willing to help, as the 
upcoming release will bundle 
Arora as default browser as well as optionally have a Netbook Remix available.

Original comment by kamika...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2009 at 9:15

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@kamikazow discussing it a littlebit on irc we were trying to come up with a 
way to detect we were running on a 
netbook.  At the moments it seems like the only way is some distro specific 
hacks, any ideas?

Original comment by ice...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2009 at 10:04

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@icefox : you can check the video resolution. It's often very specific for 
netbooks
(i.e 1024x600 for a 9 inch netbook)

Original comment by fabien.b...@gmail.com on 3 Aug 2009 at 12:11

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#2, the status bar is done very nicely in google chrome without interupting the 
user's experience.  Most of 
the time the status bar is useless, displaying no info.

Also, there is another enhancement I've found that can help us netbook users.  
594, which lets you set a 
minimum font size.  Websites that default to 10pnt font are unreadble with my 
9" netbook screen.

Original comment by grjor...@gmail.com on 26 Sep 2009 at 1:17

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While the Kubuntu people now changed their mind towards Rekonq, the MeeGo crew 
seems
to be rather agnostic about the web browser -- currently using Chrome for the 
Netbook
edition.

Idea 1 & 2 still apply. About Idea 3 I suggest that Arora offers a mode similar 
to
Chrome, Safari, and Rekonq which have buttons with the most common actions are 
behind
one or two buttons with drop-down menus. See:
http://www.cleeki.com/images/chrome_menu.jpg

New Idea 4:
Allow to show bookmarks and/or often visited pages in an empty tab. See:
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/new-tab-feature.jpg
That would make it easier to disable the bookmarks toolbar and save vertical 
space.

Original comment by kamika...@gmail.com on 28 May 2010 at 3:56

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firstly - advertise your shortcuts more! i had to dig here to find about hide 
menu etc... before, i thought: arora=stupid...

no classic status bar! only link address on mouse over link!

combine addressbar+serachbar+progressbar.

its very useful [like in midori] to have an icon with important menu items when 
menu is hidden.

one more thing. fullscreen or even th normal view have to have ability to show 
system buttons - minimize, maximize, close...

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Original comment by shakeebg...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2012 at 12:13