Re: Proposal for inclusion of mozilla-bonobo in 2.5

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:39, Christian Glodt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> seeing that the time has come for proposing new
> modules, I'd like to come forward and propose my
> project - mozilla-bonobo.
> 
> What is it? It's a Netscape-compatible plugin that
> uses bonobo components to display files for which
> a component exists inline in a web browser.
> 
> An image says more than a thousand words, so please
> see the website for screenshots (and tarball downloads):
> http://www.nongnu.org/moz-bonobo/
> 
> I think it would make a nice addition to epiphany.
> No new dependency would be added since epi already
> depends on Mozilla.
> 
> It still has a few rough edges - that's why I still
> label it as alpha software. Many of these are really
> due to Mozilla bugs. Overall the plugin is pretty
> stable.
> 
> The code is hosted on the Gnome CVS server, in the
> mozilla-bonobo module. There have been no changes
> since the last release, therefore I won't make
> another right now.
> 
> What do you think?

Given that in the core desktop we are moving away from embedded views,
I'm not sure this is a good idea at all.  Generally, if I have a file, I
want to view it in a real window, not an embedded stripped-down "view"
in a web browser.

Are there any cases for *requiring* this functionality in order to
browse a site?

> 
> Greets,
> 
> Christian Glodt
> 
> 
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