yaneti@xxxxxxxxxxx (Yanko Kaneti) writes: >> Unless you want to do some serious maintenance/development yourself >> Galeon is as good as dead. > > Huh? Somehow you missed all the steady activity on the 1.3.x gtk2/gnome2 > branch which has regular releases, has reached a good level of maturity > and will soon be promoted to a stable status. In addition to being nicely > integrated in the GNOME2 environment and following the letter of the HIG > it also has many of the nifty features that made 1.2.x popular. Following the Gnome HIG is a death sentence for applications which are used regularly. Browsers are such a kind of applications... e.g.: * HIG requires reuse of Gnome Proxy settings, but these are broken/non-existent since early days (or: where is the no_proxy support?). For browsers, it may be sometimes usefully to use different proxies but changing them would affect the entire system. * optimizations for often used applications like smaller toolbars are possible for the entire system only. This may conflict with the settings for seldom used applications where e.g. 'Icons & Text' is needed. * lots of important settings can be done with regedit only; README.ExtraPrefs is probably the most useful file in galeon. Ordinary users want to configure things without reading a huge document. Trying to follow Gnome HIG for galeon 1.3 is wasting of resources; there is already Epiphany. Developers could try to make it a powerful browser again, but this slot is filled by Firefox already. Enrico
