From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 4 4:25:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD6337B412 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 04:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DFB743EFF for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 04:25:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0015.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.15] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17mYGV-0007I2-00; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 04:24:07 -0700 Message-ID: <3D75ED19.B5664795@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 04:23:05 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael WARDLE Cc: David Schultz , FreeBSD Current Mailing List Subject: Re: web browsers (was: Re: aout support broken in gcc3) References: <20020904141916.B9524-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <3D759CCC.D96C11AA@mindspring.com> <20020904064122.GA5220@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <038901c253df$da7f8d80$354ba8c0@wodonga.adacel.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael WARDLE wrote: > The Gecko engine developed by the Mozilla Project, however seems > to be very good. I find Galeon quite nice, as it uses Mozilla's > quite capable HTML rendering engine, has its own well designed > GTK-based GUI, and has little of Mozilla's bloat. If it isn't broken, don't fix it. > If you're looking for a replacement Internet mail client, you > might like to try Mutt, Balsa, Sylpheed, or Evolution. I like my applications to have the same look-and-feel. I like them to use the same shortcut keys for the same functions, etc.. Unfortunately, kmail and konquerer just aren't there yet, and even though GTK has a "style guide", no one is very religious about following it. Reminds me a lot of a UI person I used to know who prototyped all her UI stuff in Visual BASIC, and then expected us to be able to implement things like modal dialogues in HTML, so that browser-based access to the device resembled a Windows application. She totally refused to be "constrained by HTML" during the design process, even though that was what we had to deploy on. Made it a real pain in the ass: everyone who has to deal with UI code was effectively painting pixels with an 8 foot paint brush. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message