Re: [Nautilus-list] mozilla view plan

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

on 11/1/01 12:40 PM, Havoc Pennington at hp redhat com wrote:

> How doomed are we here? I'm making the assumption we have no GTK 2
> based Mozilla for at least a year or two.
> 
> This means we can't link the Mozilla view to any of GNOME 2.

Wow, this never even occurred to me.

> Maybe we reimplement XEMBED for GTK 1.2, then use a custom hack to
> embed the Mozilla component in a view, which is in turn a bonobo 2
> component? I'm imagining the breakage caused by double-nested
> plug/socket...

I hope we can do something like this. The component architecture has to pay
off somehow.

> Maybe we could roll a GTK 2 Mozilla really quickly right after 1.0, on
> the maintained Mozilla 1.0 branch? Sounds unlikely.

Maybe nautilus-gtkhtml will save the day? Is it really going to be more than
a year until we can port Mozilla to GTK 2?

Oh man, I am just going to ignore this for a while and concentrate on
porting the rest of Nautilus.

    -- Darin