From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: Package page Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:30:49 +0000 Message-ID: <87eg2horee.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> References: <87r36inxk7.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <20161111134824.02a5c44e@capac> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41655) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5FfR-0002ne-6E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 12:31:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5FfO-0000Ej-1A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 12:31:09 -0500 Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:43151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5FfN-0000D5-QI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 12:31:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20161111134824.02a5c44e@capac> (David Pirotte's message of "Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:48:24 -0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Pirotte Cc: Guix-devel David Pirotte writes: > Hi, > >> Personally I'm in favor of erasing the /packages page (until we >> have an improved alternative), no one likes pages which kill your >> browser process > > FWIW, I still have a [very] low internet band, I'm using epiphany, and it loads the > page in less then a second here. I personnaly think it is important to guive > users a way to search 'visually' for packages... so for me, this page is perfect. > > David The reports I got on crashing were chromium and recent firefox. I'm pretty sure without trying that w3m, lynx, links, elinks and others can manage as good as epiphany, but it still hangs with firefox and chromium, which almost no website manages these days, no matter how overblown in code :)