Re: galeon 1.3 - feature killer?

Eivind Tagseth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Tommi Komulainen <[email protected]> [030423 17:44]:
> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 15:37, Hanno Böck wrote:
> > 
> > - Most options aren't available through the galeon-options, instead you
> > have moved them to gnome-control-center (proxy, themes etc.).
> > I don't use gnome, but I would have to install lots of things from gnome
> > just to configure galeon.

> As much fun as it might be to to reinvent wheel over and over again,
> it's nothing but a waste of resources. 

[snip]

> Next time you want to try another
> browser (epiphany?) you'd have to go through everything again.  It just
> isn't sane.

[snip]

> Galeon is a gnome browser and as such we delegate and share as
> much as we can with the common infrastructure, that's the whole point.

All you say is very true of course, it doesn't make sense maintaining
mime handling more than a few places, and it doesn't make sense wasting
time reimplementing it all the time.  I do find it a bit strange though,
that Gnome chose to reimplement the wheel (a.k.a. mailcap) and thus make
sure that you _have_ to maintain these settings twice, once for gnome apps,
and then again for all other apps... My old netscape handler settings
were working just fine, _and_ could be shared by mutt...



Eivind


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