Updated Mozilla Firefox Roadmap
Enrico Scholz
enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed Jul 14 19:26:40 UTC 2004
yaneti at declera.com (Yanko Kaneti) writes:
>> Unless you want to do some serious maintenance/development yourself
>> Galeon is as good as dead.
>
> Huh? Somehow you missed all the steady activity on the 1.3.x gtk2/gnome2
> branch which has regular releases, has reached a good level of maturity
> and will soon be promoted to a stable status. In addition to being nicely
> integrated in the GNOME2 environment and following the letter of the HIG
> it also has many of the nifty features that made 1.2.x popular.
Following the Gnome HIG is a death sentence for applications which are
used regularly. Browsers are such a kind of applications... e.g.:
* HIG requires reuse of Gnome Proxy settings, but these are
broken/non-existent since early days (or: where is the no_proxy
support?). For browsers, it may be sometimes usefully to use different
proxies but changing them would affect the entire system.
* optimizations for often used applications like smaller toolbars are
possible for the entire system only. This may conflict with the
settings for seldom used applications where e.g. 'Icons & Text' is
needed.
* lots of important settings can be done with regedit only;
README.ExtraPrefs is probably the most useful file in galeon. Ordinary
users want to configure things without reading a huge document.
Trying to follow Gnome HIG for galeon 1.3 is wasting of resources; there
is already Epiphany. Developers could try to make it a powerful browser
again, but this slot is filled by Firefox already.
Enrico
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