Re: galeon 1.3 - feature killer?

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 10:05, Eivind Tagseth wrote:
> * 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]
> 
> > 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...

You might want follow the discussion on
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xdg-list where people are 
discussing how suitable a mailcap based system is for the current
desktop needs. Starting with the "MIME Activation" thread of this month.


Regards
Yanko



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