Re: Proposal for inclusion of mozilla-bonobo in 2.5

[Christopher Blizzard <blizzard mozilla org>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Hi,
>
> cc'ing Chris Blizzard and quoting your full mail. Chris is planning to
> work on a new plugin system for Gecko using XEMBED, etc. instead of Xt.
Most of the code to do xembed is in the mozilla tree already.  It should 
be more or less usable with a gtk2 build.

--Chris

> Havoc
>
> 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?
> >
> > Greets,
> >
> > Christian Glodt
> >
> >
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> >    


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