Re: What is Epiphany's role now?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 13:11 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Hi Murray,
> 
> Op maandag 26-03-2007 om 10:57 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Murray
> Cumming:
> > Unfortunately, I think we have lost the battle to get Epiphany installed
> > as the default browser on popular Linux distributions. The Firefox brand
> > was just something that they couldn't do without.
> 
> Admittedly not a major distro, but Foresight recently decided to make
> Epiphany the default browser:
> http://flinux.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/foresight-chooses-epiphany-as-new-default-browser-on-upcoming-release/
> 
> > So, how do the Epiphany developers see their role now? Is Epiphany now
> > just a way to show what Firefox should do, or are you motivated by the
> > needs of the few users who do use it, via the few distros that default
> > to it?
> 
> I speak only for myself, but the main reason I'm continuing to
> contribute to the project is that I want Epiphany to be the perfect
> browser for the GNOME desktop. Epiphany isn't perfect, but it comes a
> hell of a lot closer than Firefox does. 
> 
> Did you know that the majority of our bug-buddy generated bug reports
> comes from Ubuntu users? In a strange way, this makes me glad Epiphany
> isn't the default browser there. :P
> 
> > Personally, I think it's time instead to fix Firefox as much as
> > possible, as difficult as that is.
> 
> I believe the packagers of the various distros have their hands full
> with fixing Firefox. I don't think it's reasonable to expect Epiphany
> developers to just throw in the towel and go work on Ff. Are you asking
> the same thing from the people who work on Camino, for instance?

I don't expect them to do anything. I'm wondering about the best way to
get GNOME integration into the web browser for actual users, assuming
that that is the aim behind the Epiphany project. There is no need to be
defensive.

> Also note that Christian has contributed a sizeable number of patches to
> the Mozilla codebase already.

That's great.

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