On 10/20/06, Ken Mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > "Do people feel that vi/xemacs (or Star/OpenOffice, > or bluefish) is sufficient, or should OpenSolaris provide > a good WYSIWYG HTML Composer as part of the > standard desktop?" > > You have choices like you do with homes and cars - just depends on what > you can afford and afford to deal with... > > Seriously, you have a few good HTML editors to choose from on Solaris. > Some of the web developement tools I've reviewed or maintained are: > > 1. Arachnophilia 5.2 (java based) ( > http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/Arachnophilia.jar) > 2. Quanta Plus > 3. BlueFish > 4. Mozilla.org SeaMonkey suite (>= 1.0.5, very cool) > 5. Nvu Kompozer 0.77 (replaces Nvu 1.0)
The question is what, if anything, we should offer on the desktop. Not all OpenSolaris users are going to want to find/download/build one. I think we should provide the best one we can find, if at all practical. Since many target users would be relatively unsophisticated (otherwise they could, as you say, roll their own), it should be good WYSIWYG. I understand the issues around picking up software that the community doesn't care about, and having to support it ourselves. But if in fact NVU has acquired new life, perhaps we should reconsider. -Bob P.S. I don't believe *anybody* is promoting the idea of dropping Firefox/Thunderbird. Today we deliver Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird. The notion Alan proposes is that Seamonkey ~= Mozilla, but is supported to some degree by the community, so why not Seamonkey/Firefox/Thunderbird(Ed: /Nvu), considered as an upgrade to the current Mozilla rather than "dropped support" for Mozilla. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20061020/c7448105/attachment.html>
