Re: RE: Galeon2 / Nautilus as a web browser [was: Re: KDE Interop [Wa s: D-BUS background]]

[Vadim Plessky <plessky cnt ru>]

On Monday 10 March 2003 17:26, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
|  Actually we have a half-GEPed policy now for GNOME version numbers. I
| think _almost_ everything in GNOME 2.2 is meant to have a 2.2.x version
| number.
|
|  But stuff that isn't part of GNOME platform or desktop, such as Galeon,
|  probably shouldn't bother with it. We don't need stuff calling itself
|  version 2.2.0 just because it uses GNOME 2.2 libraries.

Certanly interesting...
- Why Galeon2 is not part of GNOME?
- if it is not Galeon - what browser is part of GNOME?

I always thought of Galeon as part of GNOME/default GNOME browser.
Did I miss something?..

|
|  Murray Cumming
|  murrayc usa net
|  www.murrayc.com
|
|  > -----Original Message-----
|  > From: Rodney Dawes [mailto:dobey free fr]
|  > Sent: Montag, 10. März 2003 15:16
|  > To: Vadim Plessky
|  > Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
|  > Subject: Re: Galeon2 / Nautilus as a web browser [was: Re:
|  > KDE Interop [Was: D-BUS background]]
|  >
|  >
|  > Applications that use a toolkit's libraries should not be
|  > bound by the version in that toolkit. Yes, sometimes they are
|  > confusing. In an ideal world though, they don't matter as
|  > much as N > N-1, which is what the version number is all
|  > about anyway.  Yes, Nautilus jumped from version 1.0 straight
|  > up to 2.0 for the stable series. Lots of other applications
|  > and/or libraries did similar. This doesn't mean everything
|  > should, especially if it's not a core component of GNOME.
|  > Metacity isn't even considered stable yet, and it's version
|  > is 2.4.34. Should we require metacity themes to also be
|  > versioned in the Fibonaci sequence? That makes no sense.
|  >
|  > -- dobey
|  >
|  > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 08:58, Vadim Plessky wrote:
|  > > [vad VPlessky vad]$ rpm -q nautilus
|  > > nautilus-2.1.3-1mdk
|  > >
|  > > So, it's different from, say, nautilus-1.4.2
|  > >
|  > > If Galeon-1.3.2 designed for GNOME 2.2 - it should be (re)named
|  > > galeon-2.2 This would also highlight the fact that GNOME 2.2 UI
|  > > guidelines are implemented (if it's the case).
|  >
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