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edscott wilson garcia edscott at imp.mx
Wed Jul 23 17:27:26 CEST 2003


The problem I see with forking a branch from dillo is that it is gtk12,
so that quite heavy rewriting is probably necessary to compile it in
gtk2 disallowing deprecated calls...

regards,

Edscott

El mi? 23-07-2003 a las 05:06, Ric escribió:
> --- Biju Chacko <biju_chacko at vsnl.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 03:03:24 +0200, Moritz Heiber wrote:
> > 
> > > > The arrow next to mozilla offers dillo. I've tried this browser a
> > > > few months ago, and even though it's fast and small, it mishandles
> > > > all non-latin-1 charsets, at it's based on the old&shit gtk1.
> > > > Shouldn't we offer gtk2 based browsers such as mozilla, galeon,
> > > > epiphany? IMHO even'links -g' is far better than dillo.
> > > 
> > > I wouldn't even think about using Mozilla or galeon (/me is laughing)
> > > for like browsing documentation. dillo is small and incredibly fast
> > > and if you'd rather like to view the docs slow and bloated go and set
> > > $BROWSER to something that fits your needs.
> > 
> > I have been seriously thinking of making a help viewer out of a fork of
> > dillo.
> > 
> > But as usual, the spirit is willing but the flesh is f*cking lazy.
> > 
> > -- b
> > 
> > PS: Well ... I am kinda busy too.
> > 
> > -- 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Biju 'botsie' Chacko                        biju_chacko at vsnl dot net
> > http://www.symonds.net/~botsie          Public Key available on request
> 
> I had the same idea but do not have any way to do it - or enuf knowledge of
> how.  As soon as I cut loose some time I was going to email those dillo folks
> and hint that they potentially have  best little document browser in *nix. 
> Linux needs one.  All the other browsers seem to want to be better than the
> other & include the kitchen sink which makes them completely unsuitble for
> browsing documentation locally.
> 
> IceWM has a help browser called icehelp, so I think it is reasonable for XFce
> to have one.  Dillo is much better than icehelp.  If I can help you, I will. 
> I'll test it at least - if you get around to it.
> 
> =====
> Have A Great Day!
> 
> Ric
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