Re: Removing gtkhtml2 view

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Sander Vesik wrote:

> On 16 May 2002, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> 
> > oops trying again....
> > 
> > CCing desktop-devel. For those unfamiliar, we are discussing not
> > shipping the nautilus gtkhtml view since it's pretty broken and buggy.
> > Comments?
> > 
> 
> The largest downside to not shipping it is that users will not be able to
> view even very simple static html files residing on their local disk. Its
> pretty unlikely that the 'view html source' is the behaviour they would be
> expecting...

We're aware of this. The two options right now are:
1) Change default_action_type for HTML to application. Then you'll launch 
a web browser for html pages.

2) I'm currently looking into a GtkHTML1 web view. It should be pretty 
simple, and GtkHTML1 is maintained. Although i'm not sure if GtkHTML1 (and 
gal) is in the current desktop package set...

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