yaneti@declera.com (Yanko Kaneti) writes:
Unless you want to do some serious maintenance/development yourself Galeon is as good as dead.
Huh? Somehow you missed all the steady activity on the 1.3.x gtk2/gnome2 branch which has regular releases, has reached a good level of maturity and will soon be promoted to a stable status. In addition to being nicely integrated in the GNOME2 environment and following the letter of the HIG it also has many of the nifty features that made 1.2.x popular.
Following the Gnome HIG is a death sentence for applications which are used regularly. Browsers are such a kind of applications... e.g.:
* HIG requires reuse of Gnome Proxy settings, but these are broken/non-existent since early days (or: where is the no_proxy support?). For browsers, it may be sometimes usefully to use different proxies but changing them would affect the entire system. * optimizations for often used applications like smaller toolbars are possible for the entire system only. This may conflict with the settings for seldom used applications where e.g. 'Icons & Text' is needed. * lots of important settings can be done with regedit only; README.ExtraPrefs is probably the most useful file in galeon. Ordinary users want to configure things without reading a huge document.
Trying to follow Gnome HIG for galeon 1.3 is wasting of resources; there is already Epiphany. Developers could try to make it a powerful browser again, but this slot is filled by Firefox already.
Enrico