Re: Awesome new Mozilla roadmap!

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Vadim Plessky wrote:

> On Monday 07 April 2003 02:55, James Willcox wrote:
> |  On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 17:19, Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> |  > On Monday 07 April 2003 00:11, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> |  > > I think the best solution is to ignore all mails coming from oGALAXYo.
> |  > > He's just looking at starting a discussion by inventing numbers and
> |  > > lies so if we just don't pick up on the trolling he might get bored...
> |  >
> |  > Heheh, you must be afraid of something. Maybe I could be right but I
> |  > would like you to come up with the so called 'lies' that I have
> |  > invented. At least one.
> |
> |  Ok, lets look at this one:
> |  > I very much would like to make a clean cut on GNOME and continue using
> |  > KDE and don't look back at GNOME unfortunately your team spent a lot
> |  > effort putting all sorts of GNOME material in other projects such as
> |  > XFree86, libPNG, OpenSSL and so on.
> |
> |  What GNOME stuff is in XFree86?  If you are referring to the use of
> |  libxml2, it is not a GNOME-specific library.  In fact, your much lauded
> |  KDE uses it (http://developer.kde.org/build/compile_kde3_1.html).
> |
> 
> AFAIK, libxml2 is temporary solution for KDE (it is used together with 
> libxslt)
> Dependency on it would be excluded from upcoming KDE versions.
> 

Why? And what will the replacement be?

> BTW:  it's very nice that GNOME and KDE use some common standards.
> In fact, I would appreciate if Mozilla folks would finally decide on *what* 
> kind of library/toolkit they want to use for Mozilla.
> Let it be either Qt or GTK.  Most important that Mozilla XUL and own 
> far-from-beiong-optimal libraries/toolkits should go away.
> 

But we could instead wish for QT going away and KDE adobtingeither XUL or
gtk(mm)? There isn't really a reason for mozilla dropping xul 

> -- 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Vadim Plessky
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	Sander

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