Re: Awesome new Mozilla roadmap!

[Vadim Plessky <plessky cnt ru>]

On Monday 07 April 2003 23:49, Sean Middleditch wrote:
|  On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 15:39, Vadim Plessky wrote:
|  > And I can't take seriously statements that "Nautilus doesn't require Web
|  > View/embedded browser component"
|  > For the Heavens sake, *how* you can have modern Desktop without
|  > integrated browser?..
|
|  Because that's a stupid place to put the browser?

Pardon?..

|
|  GNOME *does* need an official browser distributed with the desktop, and
|  the recent Mozilla announcements make this much more likely to happen
|  sooner.  Once the GRE is released and stable, stabilized Epiphany/Galeon
|  releases can be released sooner and have a chance of being official
|  GNOME apps.

So, decision is already made?
I had impression that some people would be interested to have KHTML, not 
Gecko, as rendering engine.

|
|  I'd also agree with the integration of apps.  For example, how many apps
|  need to send e-mail messages?  Quite a few, actually.  (Things like
|  Bug-Buddy, or "Send Link" options in a web browser, etc.)  This could be
|  simplified by having a standard GNOME "Send Mail" component/object,
|  which just loaded Evolution or Balsa or whichever is the users' choice.

Very good idea.

|  Relying on /usr/sbin/sendmail is pretty silly given the number of
|  systems these days that don't even configure that for anything but
|  local-user delivery.
|
|  Instead we have the e-mail component setting which is setup to just run
|  "/usr/bin/evolution %s" for a mailto: link.
|
|  I should probably write this idea up more formally and put in
|  Bugzilla...

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Vadim Plessky
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