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

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

Le lun 10/03/2003 à 17:22, Vadim Plessky a écrit :
> 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?..
> 

I think GNOME doesn't have a web browser in its core. There are some
GTK/GNOME web browsers (Galeon, Epiphany for example) but they are
separate applications, even if they can, one day, get into GNOME.

> |
> |  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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> 
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