Re: [Galeon-devel] RE: Awesome new Mozilla roadmap!

[Sven Luther <luther dpt-info u-strasbg fr>]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 12:18:53AM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> So where is Galeon2 taking us? From what I can see (please correct me if I'm
> wrong), it is ignoring its main userbase and discarding its best features, the
> features that made Galeon unique and worth using in the first place. Without
> advanced features like session support (with sessions savable to files), I'd
> might as well be using Konqueror or Phoenix. And as I alluded to above, there is
> no longer any need for simplification (some would say 'dumbing-down') because
> Epiphany is already doing that job admirably. Is there any point in having two
> HIG-compliant browsers? Surely only one would be admitted to be the official
> GNOME browser, so why should Galeon waste its time? Leave that job to Epiphany
> and focus on building a functional browser, just as Galeon1 already is.

A bit of history is in order here i think, but what i know is only
something gathered from someone outside the project, so it can be taken
with a grain of salt.

Anyway, most of the features who did got removed, or more exactly didn't
get reimplemented, did get removed by Marco before the epiphany split.
And one of the causes of the epiphany split were the huge flamewars of
last october because of this exact same issue. Since then, many of the
missing features have been added again, or at least reimplemented
differently. So, please don't come back with these same argument, and go
against the galeon developpers for these selfsam things they are often
trying to correct again.

Somebody (Jonathan Koren if i am not wrong) already volunteered to make
a list of all the missing features, and investigate what their status is
(visible conf, hidden conf, visible conf planed but not implemented,
hidden conf planned but not implemented, feature done differently, or
feature not planned to be reimplemented together maybe with the reason).
This is a visible and constructive effort to steer galeon in the right
direction, instead of these complaints that come back each week, and are
maybe unaware of the huge bettering of galeon 2 from today compared of
the galeon 2 from last october.

Friendly,

Sven Luther