Re: Galeon2 extensions plan

Christian Rose <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
tis 2002-10-22 klockan 17.43 skrev Petter Sundlöf:
> > Note that basically all major distros[1] /want/ a simplified galeon, and
> > believe that their users really don't want 10,000 options. If the major
> > distros aren't shipping any plugins it's probably a good sign that a
> > sane set of base options has been chosen.
> 
> Hold on, where have you seen this stated? If that's true, than the only
> reason Galeon wasn't included as the default browser in most desktop
> OS's is that it was too complicated?

Well, the statement I know of only covers one of the major distros, but
it's an opinion from their desktop/UI tech lead, so I give it some
credibility. Unless you haven't read it already, you can read it again
at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2002-October/msg00107.html.
It's in the last paragraph.


Cheers,
Christian




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