I'd like some feedback from users and application developers regarding a proposed behavior change for the upcoming Browser Switchboard 3.2 release.

Currently, no matter what the default browser is set to, the "Web" menu entry opens MicroB (on Diablo, this doesn't mean the sidebar panel with the bookmarks, it means the item that's in the Internet menu by the default), and running "browser" from the shell does the same. This is done to make sure that there's always a way of opening MicroB regardless of the default browser setting.

However, this behavior would seem to be less than intuitive (why does the entry marked "Web" not open the default browser? on Diablo, why do the Web sidebar panel and Web menu entry do completely different things?). Therefore, I propose to do the following for 3.2:

• Make the Web menu entry launch the user's selected default browser.
• Make running "browser" from the shell launch the user's selected default browser.
• Install a new menu item labeled "MicroB" that can be used to launch MicroB no matter what the default browser is set to.
• Install a new "microb" script that can be used to launch MicroB no matter what the default browser is set to.

This has one primary disadvantage: none of the standard methods of launching a browser on Maemo can be guaranteed to bring up MicroB. If anyone knows of an application that needs to be able to launch MicroB specifically (not just a browser), please let me know so that I can talk this over with the developers.

Also, if you believe the current behavior of the Web menu entry or the /usr/bin/browser script is better, or if you have a better suggestion for how they should behave, please let me know.