Re: Update: 2.2 Proposed Modules List

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:30:16AM +0000, mike wrote:
> 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
> 

Galeon's inclusing has nothing to do with mozilla working with a commercial
plugin. That is macromedia's problem. Besides there is a free flash
plugin for mozilla that won't have this problem. swf-player in debian
provides one.

John