From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 12:44:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A92B16A41C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:44:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) Received: from 62-15-207-214.inversas.jazztel.es (62-15-207-214.inversas.jazztel.es [62.15.207.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C71443D48 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:44:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) Received: from redesjm.local (orion.redesjm.local [192.168.254.16]) by 62-15-207-214.inversas.jazztel.es (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j5FCi1ri009325; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:44:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from josemi@redesjm.local) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by redesjm.local (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j5FChwUd002644; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:43:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from josemi@redesjm.local) From: Jose M Rodriguez To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:43:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <42AFFDA0.5080007@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <42AFFDA0.5080007@pacific.net.sg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506151443.58516.josemi@redesjm.local> X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter (version: 1.1.0-3; AVE: 6.30.0.15; VDF: 6.30.0.207; host: antares.redesjm.local) Cc: jannisan@t-online.de Subject: Re: Port upgrade: www/firefox. Added GUI selection support X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:44:12 -0000 El Mi=E9rcoles, 15 de Junio de 2005 12:06, Erich Dollansky escribi=F3: > Hi, > > Jeremy Messenger wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 04:09:33 -0500, Erich Dollansky > > wrote: > > > > That's reason why we should kill GTK1, because of no support and no > > maintain for years. Avoid the world to have full of worms & co. > > from it. > > So, you say we should continue to give the poor people here our old > machines with Windows as this allows at least browsing with Internet > Explorer? > > > 3) Use the different browser. > > This is what we currently do, but it ain't no FreeBSD browser. > Your machine can't use opera (www/opera)? Also kdebase3 come with=20 konqueror and can be tweak for small machines. both full funtional=20 here with a K2-350/64 and before working even with 32 MB. Also, modern computer prices don't seems to be a real problem. You can=20 get low end geode/athlon boxes for really low prices. Also some via=20 boards. A 500 Mhz basic via epia board is capable of running gtk2 firefox with=20 64/128 MB without problems. > Erich =2D- josemi