Sorry Lemon Juice, you reply was the most comprehensive of the day. The reply was to this thread/post/email in general. It has been an entire day of rebuttals on every little thing that was done. This isn't necessarily directed right at you. I should have pointed that out in the reply. My apologies
There are a couple things I will and want to change and a number of your points were something to consider from a users stand point. SeaMonkey by default looks like its straight from 1996 and thats a problem since that is about 20 years ago. Trying to remedy some of the issues isn't flawless but as you stated and I agree this is the first attempt/implementation of it in LXLE. Improvements and adjustments will be needed and added in future versions. Lemon Juice wrote: > On 2015-04-11 03:02, Ronnie wrote: >> As for the rest I would like to provide a few >> rebuttals. > > [...] > >> As a final note, if I'm going to have to explain or justify each and >> every decision made when trying to use SeaMonkey as the default browser >> in a distribution that has a substantial amount of users and put it back >> in the limelight, then maybe I should reconsider that decision as well. >> To be perfectly frank, outside old school technically inclined users >> (which i am as well) the browser doesn't get used by default because of >> its dated look and lack of features. Midori and Qupzilla get more play >> and its simply because they look modern. Sure they don't have the >> plugins yet but that doesn't matter, they are still adopted more often >> than Seamonkey. Palemoon is also getting substantial users because of >> the same reason, in fact even more so because more plugins are supported >> than SeaMonkey. I wanted to boost SeaMonkey interest and give it a >> platform to be showcased. I did plenty of research about most people >> gripes about the browser. Whether superficial or not, looks, and some >> relatively mundain features that were missing was the biggest gripes. It >> certainly seems like I'm making an effort, including bringing developers >> back to the suite, actually paying them as well for their work and >> giving what I think is the best possible chance to stay on the machine >> after install. If this is not the goal of the users here for their >> beloved browser, then next release the effort won't be made. >> >> I simply don't need all the grief, if you don't like they way I did it >> for the distribution. Then don't use the distribution. As far as I'm >> aware no other distribution even close to our popularity has even >> attempted to give it any thought. Here I thought I was doing something >> relatively noble. Apparently that is not something endeared here on the >> SeaMonkey mailing list. Constructive criticism is one thing. Battling 8 >> or more different users on here over every little decision is a level of >> pretentiousness I haven't encountered in a long time. I would have >> thought that perhaps some excitement was in order, apparently not. > > I'm sorry but I think you greatly misunderstood my posts. I didn't > intend to make you come up with any rebuttals or justifications for > your choices and why would you want to battle me (or anyone?). I > thought I could provide some constructive criticism regarding a few > technical problems I have encountered. I asked you not to take my > previous post negatively just because I have found a few problems. It > is up to you what you do with it and my posting was not about whether > I like it or not or if I will use your distribution with SM - most > probably I will not because I'm not even a Linux user. I only became > interested in your version of SeaMonkey and thought you might > appreciate my observations because maybe you overlooked some of the > glitches or whatever, or we might even help you with some of them. I > don't know what you consider constructive criticism but if you don't > want me (or us) testing your product and getting back to you with > feedback then I don't really have to do this. And I am not arguing > with the appropriateness of your decisions about the features intended > for your audience but I may sometimes express my preference because > it's impossible not to stay subjective. > > _______________________________________________ > support-seamonkey mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey > _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
