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It would be really great to hear from the Galeon and Epiphany maintainers
about how this might affect their future devlopment plans and/or project
aims.
Murray Cumming
[email protected]
www.murrayc.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 3. April 2003 05:38
> To: [email protected]; GNOME Desktop Hackers
> Subject: Awesome new Mozilla roadmap!
>
>
> Mozilla Drivers [1],
>
> Your new roadmap, and all of the rationale behind it, is terrific.
>
> There has been a lot of discussion in the GNOME community
> recently about our
> choice of native browser, and whether we need to choose one
> at all, given
> Mozilla's ascendency.
>
> The latest roadmap muddies those waters further by providing
> a clear path
> for native browser support (GRE), and a set of goals for
> Mozilla-internal
> browser development (Phoenix) that gel very well with GNOME's
> perspective of
> and approach to the Free Software desktop. Now it's a far
> more difficult
> argument! :-)
>
> One issue that was not raised in the rationale or general goals of the
> roadmap was external integration and interoperability.
> Whether GNOME chooses
> ship its own browser or not, all of our
> mail/web/composer/calendaring/etc
> software should work together.
>
> Mozilla will have to continue dealing with these issues
> across platforms, so
> I would strongly encourage the project to get involved with
> the Free Desktop
> Group <http://www.freedesktop.org/>, and move towards and
> propose "Free
> Software Desktop" standards, rather than integration with
> "GNOME", "KDE",
> etc. This will simplify the requirements on Mozilla's end,
> and fortify the
> benefits of our entire desktop offering - after all, Mozilla
> is a crucial
> element of the Free Software desktop application suite.
>
> GNOME dudes, please have a look at the roadmap and send
> comments to the
> Mozilla Drivers (who are kind of like our release team, in
> that they are the
> project management group for Mozilla) about it:
>
http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html
Thanks,
- Jeff
[1] That is such a cool name. ;)
--
linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/
"If the Internet really wanted to become sentient, it probably could."
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