On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I look forward to using a non-bloated konqueror. Feel free to point me
> to some docs that show how I can quickly install and use it without
> the QT and KDE baggage. (I guess this is similar to the projects that
> use the mozilla base.)

[Off topic, I guess but here goes.. ]

Mozilla on UNIX platforms only requires the addition of the GTK libraries,
and ORBit (primarily for the IDL stuff) library, which is a lot better
than having to install QT & KDE (or even GNOME!) For security, you may use
the OpenSSL library as well. After compiling and packing for distribution,
you end up with a ~10 megabyte tarball. Installing it takes up ~30MB of
disk space, which compares very favourably with M$ Internet Exploder and
its ilk.  Since most UNIX-based GUI programs uses the X11 software, it's
an indispenable part of most distributions. What I'm not sure of is
whether Mozilla can be compiled on a UNIX platform using the GTK console
framebuffer toolkit. Maybe I'll give that a try, Ghods only knows how
bored I am on a Friday night!

It's a shame that a lot of software requires the use of GNOME or KDE. I
won't install GNOME or KDE on my box, because I don't feel it necessary,
when one can get by using just the GTK library with Blackbox.

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