Galeon2 open menu question

[stan]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 03:09:06PM -0400, stan wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:00:58PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:35:50PM -0400, stan wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:10:05PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:42:34PM -0400, stan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I"m trying to set up a machine using Gnome2. One of the chages
> > > > > (aparently) is that I seem to need to be running "Galen2" Well,
> > > > > like a lot of the other gnome 2 stuff it seems to be sunstainly
> > > > > less featurfull than the Gnome 1.4 stuff I' acustomed to,
> > > > >
> > > > > So, on to a specif question. When I type "CTRL O" in Galeon (the
> > > > > original, I get a nice URL entry popup. In Gnome 2 I get (believe
> > > > > it ot not) a FILE open window. Last time I check this application
> > > > > was a WWW browser, not a file manager (like I need one of those
> > > > > ?).
> > > > >
> > > > > So, can I change this behavior?
> > > >
> > > > You want to type "CTRL-L".  This is pretty much the standard
> > > > shortcut to enter a URL, even IE uses "CTRL-L"
> > >
> > > Thanks for the fast reply.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately typing "CTRL-L" in the version I built from ports this
> > > weekend does nthing. Is this configurable? Is it possible that I need
> > > to turn it on somehow? I notice that this action is not listed in the
> > > "File" pulldown menu either, if that tells you anything?
> > 
> > What "CTRL-L" will do (in galeon2) is highlight the existing URL in the
> > navigation bar and put the keyboard focus there so that whatever you
> > type will replace it.  It will not open a dialog box.
> > 
> > So, type "CTRL-L", enter your URL, press ENTER, and the page should load
> > up.
> > 
> 
> That seesm (to me) to be an _almost_ useless feature. 
> 
> Thanks for educating me.
> 

BTW, Is it possible to buld "galeon1" on a mchine running Gnome2 safetly? By asfely I mean that
the next portupgrad won't die building Gnome2, since it sees the Gnome1 libraries?



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