On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 06:04:08PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was looking for a lightweight web browser and I try tried
> all of those I could get in debs. Unfortunately, neither
> mozilla nor galeon nor konqueror are satisfactory in terms
> of memory usage (says less tha
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:39:48PM +0800, zhaoway wrote:
> Nay, I haven't ever done even once -geometry thingy. Always
> maximise. Why not? Those apps can't do it sucks. :) (Though I'd really
> hope ratpoison could come over it, maybe a container alike applet for
> things such as Gimp etc.? Ie a li
> Oh I know about ratpoison :) Of course one can always do the 'xterm'
> style of window managing (ie, extensive use of the -geometry option
> :)
Nay, I haven't ever done even once -geometry thingy. Always
maximise. Why not? Those apps can't do it sucks. :) (Though I'd really
hope ratpoison could
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:34:02AM +0800, zhaoway wrote:
> > I too agree that Linux window managers and session managers should not
> > aspire to emulate Microsoft, I'd rather see some newer and better ideas
> > implemented instead.
>
> apt-get install ratpoison. it rocks. :) sorry, can't resist.
> I too agree that Linux window managers and session managers should not
> aspire to emulate Microsoft, I'd rather see some newer and better ideas
> implemented instead.
apt-get install ratpoison. it rocks. :) sorry, can't resist. ;)
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Jerome wrote:
> Listen, I've packaged it in order to make available in debs for
> people willing to test it. Now, don't blame me about those gnome
> dependencies since
[...]
> Please note that did not ITPed it since I'm not sure people except
> from me are interested in such a browser. And It does
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:58:44PM +, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > Now I agree that there's lots of bloat in Gnome, but I have to disagree
> > with you about Glib. [...]
>
> Well, I've heard these arguments a lot and I agree with them to some extent.
> I
> [...]
> I think in principle glib may b
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:12:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Maybe because they're bloated, take huge gobs of memory, and are
> > designed only to emulate the mistakes and misdesign of a certain OS
> > from Redmond?
> I too agree that Linux window managers and session managers should not
Omn 27-Apr-01, 15:46 (CDT), Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not only me. It's just that the Gnome Libaries install a bunch of
> packages and also need quite some disk-space. Therefor I and I think
> some other people too would like to know before if the software
> depends on that bunch
To quote Aaron Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> I think in principle glib may be a good idea, but it is overdone.
I think I disagree. Look down the road five or ten years. Maybe at that
point, there will be a good reason for gint to be different from the
standard C int, but yet backwards-compatible
On 01-04-27 Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > So come on people, let's install all 6000 packages, because maybe we
> > could use them once.
> >
> Listen, I've packaged it in order to make available in debs for
> people willing to test it. Now, don't b
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:51:05 + (UTC),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Lehmann) said:
> them to some extent. I like several of the routines, but
> things such as g_malloc() and g_free() are equivilent to
> functions in the standard C libary. I am also very suprized
Not at all. Why should
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Now I agree that there's lots of bloat in Gnome, but I have to disagree
> with you about Glib. Glib provides many handy routines (such as linked
> list management, and a threads API) for C programmers. Having Glib provide
> these routines is a much better choice than
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:46:19PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Please note that did not ITPed it since I'm not sure people except
> from me are interested in such a browser. And It does not seem to make
> you very happy. Unless people are interested to see it in debian
> I won't uplo
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:32:06AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> Yes, but only when you ignore the bloat from the horrible Gnome
> libraries that entangle it. "Encompas doesn't take much ram, the ram
> is all taken up by libgnome, libgnomeui, libbonobo, libgnomevfs,
> libesd, libaudiofile, libgal,
> Maybe because they're bloated, take huge gobs of memory, and are
> designed only to emulate the mistakes and misdesign of a certain OS
> from Redmond?
I too agree that Linux window managers and session managers should not
aspire to emulate Microsoft, I'd rather see some newer and better ideas
imp
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:25:46AM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> I mainly focused on low memory consumption, and Encompass meet this
> requirement.
Yes, but only when you ignore the bloat from the horrible Gnome
libraries that entangle it. "Encompas doesn't take much ram, the ram
is all taken
Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> So come on people, let's install all 6000 packages, because maybe we
> could use them once.
>
Listen, I've packaged it in order to make available in debs for
people willing to test it. Now, don't blame me about those gnome
dependencies since
On 01-04-27 Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > May I ask why you don't mention that this is a web browser for Gnome?
> > This information would be helpful for people that look for a lightweight
> > HTML browser, but don't want to install Gnome. For those people th
Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> May I ask why you don't mention that this is a web browser for Gnome?
> This information would be helpful for people that look for a lightweight
> HTML browser, but don't want to install Gnome. For those people this
> browser will not be a alternative
On 01-04-26 Jérôme Marant wrote:
> However, I found a simple HTML browser called Encompass
> that takes far less memory than those I mentioned. Of course,
> it does not have all the feature these browsers can offer
> but it does handle HTML pretty well. I've build debs you can
> find ther
Hi,
I was looking for a lightweight web browser and I try tried
all of those I could get in debs. Unfortunately, neither
mozilla nor galeon nor konqueror are satisfactory in terms
of memory usage (says less than 10 megs of RAM).
However, I found a simple HTML browser called Encompass
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