Re: Galeon 1.2.5 to 1.3.19 conveersion a couple of questions

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 04:17:59PM +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> 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.
> 
OK, is it C or C++?

I'd be woilling to spend some time on this, if anyone else is.

I'm a (somewhat out of practice) decent coder, but my UI experience is
basicly 0.

Anyone else interested in working on this?


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