bug#39176: README: srcdir lacks intl

[Jens Korte]

Hi

Could it be that in the README file the line
 srcdir/configure --with-l10n-base=srcdir/l10n should be
 srcdir/configure --with-l10n-base=srcdir/intl/l10n ?

Jens

bug#39175: git interface from savannah and using mail seems to slows down workflow

[Jens Korte]

Hi

Everything I express here is imho!

I prefer interfaces like gitlab/github have. Sometimes I just use
the webinterface without git cloneing it home to change a typo or add a
line. This doesn't work here, afaik. Here I have to write a mail for a
bug. Yes it works, yes it is easy to understand but imho it is not so
intuionally like a webinterface.

Greets

Jens

bug#39174: makeicecat is not executable

[Jens Korte]

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnuzilla.git;a=tree makeicecat is
not executable

[Bug-gnuzilla] What is the ML gnuzilla-dev for?

[Jens Korte]

Which discussions is the gnuzilla-dev
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnuzilla-dev/ for? What is
bug-gnuzilla for?

Please have a look at
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/Links_to_distributions and
add further distros.

Greets

Jens Korte

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Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat

[Jens Korte]

How about making a draft for a secure HTML6 that still supports nice
features?

Am Wed, 7 Mar 2018 15:35:03 +0100
schrieb Narcis Garcia :

> +1
> 
> HTML 6 should exclude scripts, and add many more declarative tags to
> support some necessary behaviour for pages, widgets and forms. This
> way, scripts features could be moved as to browser features.
> 
> 
> El 04/03/18 a les 12:31, Richard Stallman ha escrit:
> > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
> > ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all
> > enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow
> > Snowden's example. ]]]
> > 
> > I basically agree that the ultimate goal is to put an end
> > to scripts in web pages.
> >   
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[Bug-gnuzilla] Metager and Language Re: Default Search Engine

[Jens Korte]

Metager removed the feature of providing results in the language the
browser prefers as language. The quality of the results in other
languages except german is not so good. Many german users get a firefox
with language en if they install a linux distribution and the feature
didn't make the users happy.

I guess it is a kind of chicken-and-egg problem. But MG works on the
feature of supporting other languages.

Maybe you can include MG as a search engine especially
for german-speaking people.

Am Sun, 28 Jan 2018 18:10:50 +0100
schrieb Jens Korte <ko...@mailbox.org>:

> Am Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:36:26 +0100
> schrieb Marco van Hulten <ma...@hulten.org>:
> 
> > Je 28 jan 13:31 skribis Narcis:
> > > MetaGer still has the problem of prioritizing german results.
> > > 
> > > [examples]
> > > 
> > > This is not useful for me to set many people MetaGer as default
> > > search engine.
> >
> > Here I also see an issue.
> > 
> > https://metager.de/returns German results.
> > https://metager.de/en/ returns English results.
> > https://metager.de/es/ returns German results.
> > https://metager.de/nl/ does not exist.
> > https://metager.de/eo/ does not exist.
> > https://metager.de/no/ does not exist.
> > 
> > The main issue here is that the Spanish website returns links to
> > German websites, instead of Spanish.
> 
> I wrote an issue at Metager [1] and linked to the mail archive of this
> thread. Though the mail development is in english, I guess it is no
> problem to report issues in english.
> 
> If someone is interested in translating Metager write an issue in the
> gitlab or write a mail to off...@suma-ev.de . I am just a user, I
> can't say anything about the priorities of the project.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Another issue (be it a bug or missing feature) is that, at least in
> > IceCat, the language setting is ignored.
> 
> I reported it at 
> https://gitlab.metager3.de/open-source/MetaGer/issues/666
> 
> Jens
> 
> > 
> > —Marco
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.metager3.de/open-source/MetaGer/issues/665
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Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Default Search Engine

[Jens Korte]

Am Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:36:26 +0100
schrieb Marco van Hulten :

> Je 28 jan 13:31 skribis Narcis:
> > MetaGer still has the problem of prioritizing german results.
> > 
> > [examples]
> > 
> > This is not useful for me to set many people MetaGer as default
> > search engine.
>
> Here I also see an issue.
> 
> https://metager.de/returns German results.
> https://metager.de/en/ returns English results.
> https://metager.de/es/ returns German results.
> https://metager.de/nl/ does not exist.
> https://metager.de/eo/ does not exist.
> https://metager.de/no/ does not exist.
> 
> The main issue here is that the Spanish website returns links to
> German websites, instead of Spanish.

I wrote an issue at Metager [1] and linked to the mail archive of this
thread. Though the mail development is in english, I guess it is no
problem to report issues in english.

If someone is interested in translating Metager write an issue in the
gitlab or write a mail to off...@suma-ev.de . I am just a user, I can't
say anything about the priorities of the project.


> 
> Another issue (be it a bug or missing feature) is that, at least in
> IceCat, the language setting is ignored.

I reported it at 
https://gitlab.metager3.de/open-source/MetaGer/issues/666

Jens

> 
> —Marco

[1] https://gitlab.metager3.de/open-source/MetaGer/issues/665

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Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Default Search Engine

[Jens Korte]

Hi

I recommend https://metager.de/en or the developer version
https://metager3.de/en . The SuMa e.V., a non-commercial
german organisation (gemeinnütziger, eingetragener Verein [1]) runs and
develops the search-engine. The source is available under the terms of
AGPL3 [2].


Greets

Jens Korte

[1] https://suma-ev.de/
[2] https://gitlab.metager3.de/

Am Sun, 28 Jan 2018 12:38:35 +0100
schrieb Marco van Hulten <ma...@hulten.org>:

> Hello—
> 
> When I installed IceCat on Parabola, I got the privacy conscious La
> Quadrature as the default default search engine*.  When I installed
> IceCat on GuixSD, I got Google as the default default search engine.
> 
> What is the upstream default search engine?
> 
> Should GNU distributions set this themselves?
> 
> If the latter is the case, it would still be a good idea if the
> upstream default default search engine were a privacy conscious
> search engine.
> 
> 
> Related to this issue, a bit of browsing through the files at
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/ ** shows that the Google search
> engine was removed in icecat-31.2.0 but not anymore in icecat-52.0.2.
> That is probably fine (and discussed before on this mailinglist), but
> the default should not fall back to Google.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> —Marco
> 
> * With this I mean the default search engine that is selected when
>   IceCat is first start, i.e. there is no ~/.mozilla/ when starting
>   IceCat.
> ** These appear builds, not source code as mentioned elsewhere
>   
> (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265828/cant-find-gnu-icecat-or-firefox-source-code)
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