On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:20:35 +0200 "IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)" <umlae...@debian.org> wrote:
> On 07/16/2015 08:29 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Simon Richter wrote: > >> > The problem is that the icons are displayed in the search field > >> > dropdown, which should be fully functional before visiting the first > >> > site. > > I was hoping that it could be semi-functional, with placeholder icons > > until the site in question is actually visited. But if the icons are > > necessary, then they're necessary. > > > > what is the "site in question" you are referring to? > > as in: the first time the user starts the browser, the search field will > be filled with empty (placeholder) icons. whenever they enter a search > term and select one of the unknown¹ search engines, the search is > performed (e.g. on wikipedia) and the placeholder icon is updated with > the real icon (since wikipedia was visited anyhow), and from know on the > user knows at least one of their search engines. > this feels a bit like > > Quaff the blue speckled potion. > > You have no more potions of blindness. What if the placeholder icons were the first letter of the search engine's name?
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