Re: GtkMozEmbed with Firefox not Mozilla

2005-01-03 Thread Billy Biggs
Eric Dorland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [...] Firefox now tends to fork from the mainline mozilla tree, so the > code can be quite different, or at least different enough to make > having firefox load the mozilla components quite impossible. FWIW, I was also under the impression that the official

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-13 Thread Billy Biggs
Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The above is just the tip of the iceberg with respect to i18n, I had > roughly the same size savings when I was removing translations from > KDE2 files---KDE3 has more files, more translations per file, and I > haven't looked at Gnome. Bruce, I can't figure

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-12 Thread Billy Biggs
Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:11:08PM -0600, Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > All that would do is make it consitently different from all other > > distributions. Assuming that they listed the proper Categories in their >

Re: Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-09 Thread Billy Biggs
Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:49:54AM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote: > > Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > It's "pass a few more text fields through to the menu methods, and > > > use them to generate

Re: Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-09 Thread Billy Biggs
Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > It's "pass a few more text fields through to the menu methods, and use > them to generate .desktop files" versus "rewrite everything". You sure it's "rewrite everything"? A script to parse all .desktop files in /usr/share/applications and output the same

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-04 Thread Billy Biggs
Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Are there any technical complaints about it? (Apart from "I don't > > like the .desktop extension", which I consider unimportant.) > > It doesn't support anything but gnome or kde. We have a system that > works for everything, and it is unlikely that anyb

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-04 Thread Billy Biggs
Steve Greenland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 04-Dec-03, 14:44 (CST), Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's now a standard used by KDE and GNOME which has more features > > than the Debian menu system. > > And missing one key one: working with menu sysems other than KDE and > GNOME

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-04 Thread Billy Biggs
Felipe Almeida Lessa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > It would be *very* hard to make the developers agree, but we need to > think in the Open Source Community as a whole. The Debian Menu is used > only by Debian, but the .desktop is or may be used by any > distribution. > > Now just imagine what would ha

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Billy Biggs
Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [...] Lot of new HW has a better chance to be (better) supported on > newer system (are new kernels available for stable?) Of particular interest to desktop users is XFree86's video card drivers. -Billy