Re: Galeon 1.2.5 to 1.3.19 conveersion a couple of questions

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 14:52 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:02, [email protected] wrote:
> > > Can the 1.2 serries of Galeon possible to compile on a modern release?
> >
> >    Supposedly yes, with respective older Mozilla version. I'm not pretty
> > sure, if 1.2 Galeon line would be able to handle XFT (antialiased)
> > Mozilla versions.
> 
> I think Mozilla has dumped GTK+1 support in their 1.8 branch, so we're 
> approaching the end of the road for Galeon 1.x. It's a shame :(

Paul Dwerryhouse made a nice hack in April 2004 and ported Galeon 1.2.10
to gtk2.  Here's what he said about the task:
(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8275379)

> In the end, I got it to a point where it compiled cleanly against gtk2
> libraries (but segfaulted spectacularly when run), before I lost
> interest. I think most of what I did involved just commenting out
> stuff that didn't compile, although I may have done a little bit of
> intelligent coding somewhere.

The code is available at
http://galeon.sourceforge.net/galeon-1.2.10-hack.tar.gz if anyone is
interested.

Last time there was no followup on development.  None of those who feel
that 1.2 is superior to 1.3 seem to have the resources to pick up the
development.


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Tommi Komulainen                                 [email protected]
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