Re: Debian galeon packages

Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:34:16PM +0000, Mark Howard wrote:
> 
>>[Context:
>> Debian mozilla package is now compiled with gtk2. galeon1 does not
>>support gtk2. galeon2 does but has not been officially released as
>>stable. 
>>I have suggested that since galeon2 is now quite stable we should put
>>galeon2 into the Debian galeon package (for the Unstable distribution).
>>A similar thing was done for gnome before it was released.
>>Debian galeon package has over 140 bugs which will never get fixed in
>>galeon1 - there are not enough people working on it. Most of these are
>>resolved in galeon2. 

(Just a minor note first: would it be possible to compile Mozilla 
1.3-gtk2 with "native" scrollbars?)

>>>My idea is to remake the Mozilla 1.3 package compiled for GTK1.
>>
>>I need further opinions on this. My personal opinion is that this should
>>not be done. 
> 
> 
> I think that Mozilla 1.3 should be linked to GTK1.2 too. The release notes
> say it's for GTK1.2 and it is also the default toolkit for Mozilla at this
> time. In my opinion, using Galeon for a long time now, I should not be
> forced back to the still maturing browsers at this moment. That is,
> galeon2 (galeon-snapshot in Debian), ephiphany, phoenix, etc, since I would
> be loosing a lot of features.
> GTK1.2 is not very obsolete now GTK2 is here!

Agreed. In fact, Mozilla compiled with gtk2 as its toolkit is apparently 
considered experimental by Mozilla people. Granted, "unstable" is not 
intended to have just stable packages, but still, a somewhat more 
complete and stable browser would be very nice.

If you (Mark) don't want to bring back Galeon 1.2.x as the default 
browser and compiled Mozilla with gtk1.2 as its toolkit, how about 
creating mozilla-*-gtk1 packages?

I don't mean to be rude or demanding. Your work is enormously 
appreciated, and I value it greatly.

> I have recompiled
> Mozilla 1.3 for GTK1.2 and build Galeon 1.2.9 against it, for the people
> interested: deb http://people.spacelabs.nl/~paul browser-gtk1.2/

Greatly appreciated, I will be adding that to me sources.list.

> Note that the things said above are NOT Debian's opinion nor the ones
> of the maintainers of galeon or mozilla. It's my opinion and the packages
> are privately maintained.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Paul
> 




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