Re: Personal remarks on Epiphany/Galeon [Was: Release Team's Almost-Final Modules List]

[Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>]

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 09:51, iain wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 06:40, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> >   - If GNOME does not include a browser with 2.4, users and distributions
> >     will choose. It's not like people will suddenly not have a browser. :-)
> >     I think this is a crucial point because it lets us make a "Linus-style"
> >     lazy decision -> let the community decide. By the time we get to module
> >     selection for 2.6, I'm sure we'll see a clear winner.
> 
> Which, once again, makes me wonder why we have this fight to get
> applications into some mythical utopic entity called "The Desktop".
> Having an easy way to find software which has been blessed/certified 
> would, as afar as I can tell, fix these problems, because we can bless
> both browsers and leave it up to the user to decide.

Well I think that microsoft has proven that making a piece of software
the default is a sure way to get people to use it. Plus we don't want
users to go and have to research the difference between galeon and
epiphany just so they can get on the web. Chances are they'll end up
using neither.

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Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>