GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 668111
reload icon could represent other actions when there is no page loaded
Last modified: 2014-08-29 01:31:10 UTC
When I have a blank page open the reload icon is sensitive. Wonder if the reload icon should even be visible at all when I'm typing in the url bar. Other more interesting things to show could be a "go" button or a "clear" button.
The reload icon is no longer sensitive. Chaging title to Jon's suggestion.
I think it would be nicer not to have any icon while the entry is empty. Only after a page has started loading, a stop button should take that right hand side and become a reload button after it completes or gets stopped. I've been pondering edit-clear. It seems we would have to have it in addition to reload once a page has been loaded (most relevant case). I lean towards not having it at all for URL entry.
I also think we can live without a 'go' button. But if you insist, go-jump would be the icon to look up (and actually add to -symbolic first) ;)
(In reply to comment #0) > Wonder if the reload icon should even be visible at all when I'm typing in the > url bar. Other more interesting things to show could be a "go" button or a > "clear" button. I suppose this is useful for touch-based interfaces? Could it be possible to only show them when we detect a touch screen? I think they are quite useless otherwise.
In case it's not possible to show it just for touch screen, you could show it just when the entry is actually focused.
The reload button is no longer in the location entry, so it no longer makes sense to hide it conditionally.