A heartfelt plea for two trivial changes in Omniweb

Carl Edman cedman at Princeton.EDU
Fri Jan 5 08:51:47 PST 1996


These two have been driving me mad since the earliest days of OmniWeb, but I never bothered to complain about them because they are _so_ obvious that doubtlessly they would be fixed in the next release anyway.  Well, by now we are up to OmniWeb 2.0 beta2, so if they ever are to be fixed, I better speak up now.  Fortunately neither of them can require more than two or three lines of code to implement:

(*)  Please make OmniWeb honor the HideOnAutoLaunch YES/NO default like dozens of other NeXTstep apps.

(*)  Some people don't like to have a start page, but only want their bookmarks window to appear when launching OmniWeb.  In 1.0 you could get rid of the start page dwrite and only get a warning beep every time you launched OmniWeb.  In 2.0 however an empty start page default is interpreted as unset and is immediately replaced with the default start page.  Please allow me to convince OmniWeb that if I remove the Start page in the preferences, I mean it.

Thanks !

	Carl Edman

PS:  What does the leftmost button on the button bar in beta2 (the globe with the link sign) do ?  I think it is new and it seems to have no effect when playing with it.


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