Re: Internet Suite

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Op zondag 31-10-2010 om 11:24 uur [tijdzone +0530], schreef Abhishek
Puri:

> My suggestion is that Epiphany ought to be developed as an "Internet 
> Suite" on lines of Opera/ Sea Monkey. Opera is closed source and Sea 
> Monkey is seeing issues of it's own with poor developer support. 

I'm willing to take a bet that Seamonkey has more active developers than
Epiphany has!

> Epiphany can reap in benefits of the web kit based browser, with perhaps 
> full featured Evolution integration, IRC Chat and in future, more of 
> extension support than available at present.

Sounds like you're describing a whole desktop environment. It already
exists, it's called "Gnome"! :-)

> I don't know how this would be taken but it's a worthwhile option to 
> come as a "Default" installation instead of Firefox which is "pathetic" 
> in my opinion. I don't like the browser, it comes with poor default 
> settings and generally lagging behind the developmental curve.

Epiphany _is_ the default web browser on Gnome, but most distro vendors
choose to make Firefox default instead.

regards,

-- 
Reinout van Schouwen