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Re: Galeon?

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 00:33, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:54:52PM -0400, Alex wrote: > > Is galeon no longer part of red hat, just because galeon is not an > > official gnome package? Its bad enough that i have to piece meal my > > multimedia stuff from other sites (which is understandable, due to > > patent and copyright issues) but red hat is sending the message that > > galeon is inferior to konqueror, mozilla, epiphany, lynx, and links. > > > > Galeon 2 and Epiphany are nearly identical at the moment; including > both doesn't make a lot of sense. Epiphany is developed by the main > developer of the original Galeon 1.x, so it seems logical to move to > Epiphany as the successor to Galeon 1.x. > Something that might be useful, is to encourage the epiphany developers to make sure that it can cleanly import galeon bookmarks and preferences where possible. I know I have a lot of users who would hate to have to move them all manually. -sv

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Re: Galeon?

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 00:42, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:34:52AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > Something that might be useful, is to encourage the epiphany developers > > to make sure that it can cleanly import galeon bookmarks and preferences > > where possible. > > > > I know I have a lot of users who would hate to have to move them all > > manually. > > Yep. Worth an epiphany bug report. > > We might have to bail back down to Galeon 1.x, but we're trying to get > rid of GTK+ 1.2 apps whenever possible. is 1.3 that unstable? I've been using galeon 1.3.4 for a while now with no weirdnesses to report. and it's gtk2 last I looked. -sv

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Re: Galeon?

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 00:33, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:54:52PM -0400, Alex wrote: > > Is galeon no longer part of red hat, just because galeon is not an > > official gnome package? Its bad enough that i have to piece meal my > > multimedia stuff from other sites (which is understandable, due to > > patent and copyright issues) but red hat is sending the message that > > galeon is inferior to konqueror, mozilla, epiphany, lynx, and links. > > > > Galeon 2 and Epiphany are nearly identical at the moment; including > both doesn't make a lot of sense. Epiphany is developed by the main > developer of the original Galeon 1.x, so it seems logical to move to > Epiphany as the successor to Galeon 1.x. > Something that might be useful, is to encourage the epiphany developers to make sure that it can cleanly import galeon bookmarks and preferences where possible. I know I have a lot of users who would hate to have to move them all manually. -sv

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Re: Galeon?

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 00:42, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:34:52AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > Something that might be useful, is to encourage the epiphany developers > > to make sure that it can cleanly import galeon bookmarks and preferences > > where possible. > > > > I know I have a lot of users who would hate to have to move them all > > manually. > > Yep. Worth an epiphany bug report. > > We might have to bail back down to Galeon 1.x, but we're trying to get > rid of GTK+ 1.2 apps whenever possible. is 1.3 that unstable? I've been using galeon 1.3.4 for a while now with no weirdnesses to report. and it's gtk2 last I looked. -sv