GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 680021
URLs should be grayed out to be less proeminent than page titles
Last modified: 2014-10-22 11:31:26 UTC
Created attachment 218915 [details] screenshot As the attached screenshot shows, there is a lot of visual noise due to the URLs being shown with equal importance to the page titles in the URL bar dropdown. Giving them an insensitive/less proeminent color would help usability by allowing the eye to more quickly locate items, because the page titles are usually more relevant and because the change of color would provide a greater separation between each "result". See also bug #679907.
Created attachment 218916 [details] mockup
Created attachment 218917 [details] comparison The difference is also quite striking if you look at the screen from afar, as this 50% scaled down version tries to illustrate.
Would this also work with high- and low contrast themes etc.?
Well for one thing, the color should be gotten from the gtk theme (not a hardcoded gray)... but as far as accessibility technologies are concerned, I don't really know.
We used to do this, but the feature fell through the cracks when we ported things to the new history backend (long story, but it wasn't trivial to do given how the code ended up being). So no strong reason for this, someone just needs to sit down and re-implement it.
*** Bug 500634 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I am using 3.14 and it seems the mockup's already implemented if I'm not missing something. It works for me with adwaita light/dark, raleigh, zukitwo and HighContrast themes.
Yes, this works already.