Re: ongoing discussion on mdk.cooker about galeon 1.3.2 vs. 1.2.8

Am Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:44:22 +0000 schrieb Philip Langdale:

> Hi Udo,
> 
> I'm afraid that galeon 1.3.x *is* the workaround for 1.2.x not working
> with gtk2 :-)

*lol*, I think I got the point. 
 
> There are substantial differences in API between glib/gtk+ 1.2.x and 2.x
> and even bigger differences in the GNOME components, so when you have
> something like galeon which leverages a lot of components, you're almost
> forced to make a complete rewrite. You'll notice that projects like
> xchat and pan simply stopped leveraging GNOME completely rather than try
> and fight with the new API (though I hope they'll both build back up to
> it in due course).
> 
> So, they don't really have much choice. If you're going to ship a gtk2
> build of mozilla and you want galeon, it needs to be 1.3.x
> 
> Do you have specific issues with 1.3.x? Maybe they're already on our
> radar, and if not, it's good to know about them.

Hmm, I really doubt that you don't have those things on your radar screen
blinking already, but anyway, the thing I miss most of all is the
tools-menue, including VIP items like the java(script)-console or
cookie-management. Developing webstuff becomes a pain (if not impossible)
without these tools.

But I'm certain that I'm not the king of wishful thinking when I assume
that you are already working on these matters ;-))

udo

> 
> --phil
> 
> Udo Rader wrote:
>> hi,
>> 
>> a couple of weeks before the actual release of mdk 9.1 there is an intense
>> discussion about why mandrake will ship galeon 1.3.2 instead of the stable 
>> 1.2.8 with the upcoming mandrake 9.1 release.
>> 
>> The point is that 1.2.8 can allegedly not be built against a gtk2+ enabled
>> mozilla. So my question: can that be true resp. is there a way to
>> workaround this problem?
>> 
>> thanks for your great work.
>> 
>> udo
>> 
>> P.S.: please note that I am _in no way connected_ to mandrake (maybe except my
>> enthusiasm for this best of all distros ;-)).



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