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Epiphany Interview, part II

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 ★ 00:51 ★ Category Gnome

As promised before, some more answers I provided in the interview about Epiphany I participated in. I wrote this in response of a question about the responsibilities the various people involved in the Epiphany project have:

The Epiphany developers are the ones who have taken responsibility for the overall quality of the codebase. Some of them take care of the core and the Mozilla integration, while others focus on more specific features of Epiphany, e.g. the great bookmark features that were added in the last release cycle.

About my own role:

I’m not one of the core Epiphany developers. I do a lot of beta-testing of the official codebase and I also test proposed patches/fixes that were submitted through the bug tracking system. Furthermore, I frequently report bugs and comment on them, and, where possible, fix them (for me, that means trivial fixes).

Question: How are you and the other volunteers trying to make Epiphany an even better Web Browser for GNOME?

We make usability a major priority for every feature that is included. We incorporate the same features seen in other browsers, but don’t deviate far from the expectations users have built from other GNOME applications. This ensures the web browser is easy to use and feels comfortable for users.

Now I’m getting really excited:

Sometimes the simplifications we make in our interface become innovations in themselves! This is clearly demonstrated in our new bookmarks system. Epiphany is the only web browser that provide an intelligent bookmarks menu that makes finding and maintaining your bookmarks a real pleasure.

Question: What is the appeal of Epiphany for users?

Epiphany focuses on simplicity and ease of use. Our goal is to make Epiphany a browser that does what you want it to do, without getting in your way or presenting you with feature bloat.

But we do have a lot of features:

Note that this does not translate to ‘lack of features’: Epiphany provides a powerful extension interface. Many features that are not in the core are available through these extensions. Examples that come to mind: a sidebar, a page error viewer and mouse gestures.

This is the second part of a series: