GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 330890
"Related" widget should follow active tab, doesn't.
Last modified: 2016-09-28 16:21:41 UTC
Please describe the problem: If you open two different bookmarks on separate tabs, the "related" widget should change depending on which tab is active. While I've been told at #epiphany that ephy ALREADY does this, it doesn't work for me when I check. Steps to reproduce: 1. open two bookmarks on different tabs 2. make one active, then the other 3. check if the "related" widget follows the active tab. Actual results: It doesn't. Expected results: It should. Does this happen every time? Every time. Other information:
The Related widget was written by me and so probably suits my browsing style best. That is, one window per topic (News, Reference, etc), and we simply detect the topic for that window by the activation of bookmarks. If you can offer a list of how you think it should behave on tab creation, window creation, bookmark visitation, homepage visitation, etc I might be able to change it's behaviour.
Well, I rarely keep more than one window open - I usually keep three or four tabs, each of a different topic, so a tab-following topic would be more useful to me. However, if you keep a single topic for each window the topic wouldn't change when changing tabs, so basically people with your browsing style would't even notice if you changed the way it works. What I would do: tab creation - "most visited" topic. Since if you wanted a new tab with the same topic, you'd just middle click the bookmark. window creation - "most visited", just like now. bookmark visitation - change to that topic. homepage visitation "most visited" again. I don't know its current behavior, though, I use a blank page.
Good points. But I disagree with your solution for tab creation. Is that one particularly required for your browsing style? Just checking.
Not specially, I rarely create a tab to open a bookmark (since I middle-click over the bookmark for that effect). But when people create a new tab they might go just anywhere, so I thought it might be be better to choose a general topic like "most visited". That one's up to you, anyway, I couldn't tell. Topic change on tab DELETION is vital for me, though, because if I close the last tab about a topic that means I have finished browsing that topic, and I want to move to other things. Say, the topic for the tab which remains open.
So, could something be done about this?
Setting to enhancement.
I'm not sure what the related widget is, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist anymore.