On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 07:47, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 06:39:54PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Dunno, Galeon 2 is basically dead. A few people have been working on the > > 'crackpipe' idea, but generally doing a pretty ugly job of it. > > :((( > > So the developpment team split up and died then ?
Marco, the main developer who made galeon1 so great wanted to move fully to hig compliance, etc. Lots of ppl disagreed about the removal of settings and disagreement was hindering progress. Marco quit as galeon maintainer. The other maintainers have continued (and seem to be doing a good job, albeit slowly). Gnome decided not to include galeon in 2.2 (main reason was that none of the existing developers has enough time to put their name down as the project leader); this was a big blow for the project. Marco is now working on a new project, ephiphany. This is an intuitive gnome browser suitable for non-technical users. The initial code base was taken from galeon, although it seems that much has been done since. There has been a lot of interest in epiphany, based on its mailing list. This is not a clone of other web browsers. It is being created almost as an experiment into how to make good uis (quite different from most common apps). For example, the bookmarks system does not have a hierarchical structure. I filed an ITP for epiphany some time ago. I will hopefully have packages working a few days after gnome-common is updated (to fix #178071). This will not be a useful for some time however (if ever); one branch of it already depends on gtk 2.3 - I'd be surprised if this trend doesn't continue into the main branch. -- .''`. Mark Howard : :' : `. `' http://www.tildemh.com `- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
