Re: [Dev] [RFC] Let's solve the Chromium freedom issues, definitively

2020-05-29 Thread bill-auger
On Fri, 29 May 2020 23:31:29 -0400 Megver83 wrote: > P.S: I'm cloning chromium from git, to explore its source. > It's heavy as hell!!! (16GB) ok let us know when you have finished reading 16GB of source code - it should be the year of the linux desktop by then fossology is the tool for that job

Re: [Dev] [RFC] Let's solve the Chromium freedom issues, definitively

2020-05-29 Thread Megver83
El 29-05-20 a las 23:03, bill-auger escribió: > On Fri, 29 May 2020 22:06:46 -0400 Megver83 wrote: >> I've encountered myself webpages that refuse >> to work with anything that isn't Chrome > > i would not consider that to be our problem - that is a problem > for those websites to address - if

Re: [Dev] [RFC] Let's solve the Chromium freedom issues, definitively

2020-05-29 Thread bill-auger
On Fri, 29 May 2020 22:06:46 -0400 Megver83 wrote: > I've encountered myself webpages that refuse > to work with anything that isn't Chrome i would not consider that to be our problem - that is a problem for those websites to address - if they do not want firefox users to use their website, then

Re: [Dev] [RFC] Let's solve the Chromium freedom issues, definitively

2020-05-29 Thread Megver83
El 29-05-20 a las 21:58, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli escribió: > As I see it, there are several approaches possible: > - Replace Chromium by Gecko somehow. This will need to be done for > every API that uses chromium, like qt5-webengine, electron and so on. > The advantage is that we don't have the

Re: [Dev] [RFC] Let's solve the Chromium freedom issues, definitively

2020-05-29 Thread bill-auger
> I've started a page about it here: > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Software/research/Chromium david hedlund and adfeno created on the FSD two years ago, with the same intention - it has changed URLs several times; but i found it https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Review:Chromium-REV-ID-1

Re: [Dev] [RFC] Let's solve the Chromium freedom issues, definitively

2020-05-29 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Fri, 29 May 2020 20:03:47 -0400 Megver83 wrote: > The purpose with this is to create a distro-agnostic project to solve > the Chromium problem, so then each FSDG distro will implement the > solutions in their specific ways. I think that ppl from Parabola, > PureOS and the FSF/GNU project will

Re: [Dev] [RFC] Let's solve the Chromium freedom issues, definitively

2020-05-29 Thread bill-auger
regarding iridium/ungoogled, this has all been discussed before on the FSDG and FSD mailing lists - from what i remember, ungoogled is not a browser, but a set of patches - iridium is a browser which is made using the ungoogled patches - as we build everything from source, the two projects are

Re: [Dev] [RFC] Let's solve the Chromium freedom issues, definitively

2020-05-29 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Fri, 29 May 2020 21:59:27 -0300 Freemor wrote: > I'd be really good to get input from the other distros on this RFC > before any actual zooming ahead as they may have their own ideas that > need to be synthesised with this one. I've not looked at it personally, but we have this issue as well

Re: [Dev] [RFC] Let's solve the Chromium freedom issues, definitively

2020-05-29 Thread Freemor
I think it sounds like an execllent (if ambitious) plan. And it is at least that. "A plan" which is infinitely better at this point then "Wait for the FSF". I'd be really good to get input from the other distros on this RFC before any actual zooming ahead as they may have their own ideas that

[Dev] [RFC] Let's solve the Chromium freedom issues, definitively

2020-05-29 Thread Megver83
I think that one of the greatest problems with this is that users and devs of FSDG distros are not joining forces, or better say: we are not doing a coordinated effort to address this topic, but I think we all know that. Coordinating efforts is in fact easier that how it sounds. Someone (me? when