Re: Update: 2.2 Proposed Modules List

[mike <mike localhost localdomain>]

On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 16:30, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Joe Marcus Clarke">
> 
> > To be fair, there was some discussion with regard to gst.
> 
> Neither wildly positive or negative, though.
> 
> > >   - galeon: Web browser. Depends on Mozilla.
> > 
> > A lot of the FreeBSD users really want a web browser by default in
> > GNOME.  They see KDE has one, and wonder where GNOME's is.
> 

personally I would be sceptical about galeon and gnome2.2 (maybe 2.4).

There is a nasty crasher bug on plugins (at least flash - maybe more)
against gtk-2.1 (no problems with gtk-2.0.x)

see bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178501

> My issue with Galeon is purely about maintainership. The GNOME 2 port rocks,
> but it needs hackers and maintainers to be viable. I'm not convinced that
> will work in the 2.2 timeframe.
> 
> > >   - gnome-media: Not a new module, but noted here because the latest branch
> > > 
> > >   - gstreamer/gst-plugins: Multimedia framework libraries.
> > 
> > By lowering the thread[0]'s stack size, I got this working on FreeBSD,
> > so I drop my previous contention.  However, I'm not sure how other
> > platform's threading implementations will take to it.
> 
> Great!
> 
> > >   - acme: Daemon and configuration utility for 'special' keys on modern
> > >     multimedia keyboards and notebooks.
> > 
> > Just out of curiosity, why?
> 
> See the discussion about it in the earlier proposed modules thread. More
> likely to be integrated into existing modules for 2.4.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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