Updated Mozilla Firefox Roadmap

Kjartan Maraas kmaraas at broadpark.no
Wed Aug 18 18:49:14 UTC 2004


ons, 14,.07.2004 kl. 21.26 +0200, skrev Enrico Scholz:
> 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

Sorry for the late reply. Just wanted to point out the existence of the
gconf key system->http_proxy->ignore_hosts which gives you this
functionality.

> * lots of important settings can be done with regedit only;

And please use arguments rather than trying to scare people into
believing that GConf == Windows Registry ;-)

Cheers
Kjartan






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