Re: roadmap discussion

[Jan de Groot <jan jgc homeip net>]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 01:14 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> To follow up with some discussion topics, in random order:
> ...
>   * What user visible enhancement(s) can we provide that emphasizes again
>     that Epiphany is crucial to GNOME, as opposed to
>     Firefox-with-GTK-impersonation?

Epiphany-with-Firefox-impersonation is nice, when using firefox instead
of mozilla, epiphany takes over some very nice features from firefox. I
think the recent support for firefox is a very good thing.

>   * What's the status of GTK-webcore, and will we be able to support it
>     as a backend?

GTK-webcore looks a nice project to me, but it's very broken on gcc
3.4.x platforms. The developer of gtkwebcore only had gcc 3.2 on his
system when porting the project. To be a true replacement for mozilla,
this project needs much work.

>   * Community marketing. Currently Novell and Ubuntu deliver a GNOME
>     desktop where Epiphany isn't the default browser. Do they have
>     requirements Epiphany doesn't fulfill? What are they? Do we need to
>     do (more) advertising and lobbying within the community?

I have used Epiphany for a long while now, and I don't seem to miss
anything in it. The speed is okay, it's just as fast as mozilla or
firefox (duh, what engine are we using? :P). Recently I switched over to
firefox. Why? because it gives me the same fine experience I had with
epiphany. 
My distro (archlinux) has the complete mozilla suite (we're talking
about an 18MB binary .tar.gz now) as dependency for epiphany. Isn't it
some kind of waste to have a complete internet suite on your system
(mozilla) while you're using evolution and epiphany (or firefox in my
case now)? I think it is, so I switched to firefox, which is a
9MB .tar.gz package.