Re: 2.4 Module List and Rationale (aka GEP10 and 11)



On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 10:47, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 10:24, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 05:03, Luis Villa wrote:
> > ...
> > > Galeon clearly meets most of the standards of GEP 10- as you say, it
> > > would be a marked improvement over Mozilla in most situations,
> > > especially as we work to integrate the 'net and the desktop.
> > 
> > FWIW, Moz 1.3+ represents a significant step forward in integration
> > with GNOME-2.  The most recent gtk+-2 builds I've seen have impressive
> > GTK+, theme, font, and ATK integration, though it's not 100% there yet.
> > 
> > I think Galeon/Epiphany are cool projects and don't intend anything 
> > negative about them, but I do think that the arguments in favor of
> > having a GNOME-specific browser are less compelling nowadays.
> 
> One thing that'll help is a common mime-type system among all
> desktops/apps.  That's probably the one thing that Galeon/Epiphany
> really provide.

...er...Galeon doesn't quite provide that as it uses its own list and
not GNOME's.  FWIH, Epiphany *does* use GNOME's, but I have yet to get
it to compile on my ba5dardized system.  ;-)

--Jason

> 
> Aside from HIGyness.  (Which is always cool...;-)
> 
> > 
> > -Bill
> 
> 
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