desktop spin growth issues

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Jul 2 15:24:47 UTC 2009


Martin Sourada (martin.sourada at gmail.com) said: 
> > webkitgtk 18MB - pulled in by empathy
>
> I think it's rather unfortunate to pull in two web-rendering engines
> (webkitgtk and gecko), both rather big... What are the deps to xulrunner
> resp. webkitgtk in the Desktop Live? Should we target for the Desktop
> Live only one of these?

Well, in general upstreams seem to be pushing towards WebKit for embedding
engines. However, I doubt you'll be able to convince firefox to port. :)
And we've been over the epiphany/firefox discussion in the past, and
elected to stay with firefox.

Bill




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