On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:01:50 +0100
Christoph Wickert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am Sonntag, den 28.10.2012, 13:15 +0100 schrieb Raphael Groner:
> > I think, we can't get completely rid of webkit. 
> > 
> > Further, there's Fancy HTML Viewer:
> > "This [claws-mail] plugin renders HTML mail using the WebKit 1.8.1
> > library."
> 
> We are not shipping claws-mail-plugins-fancy in the Xfce spin.
> 
> > So IMHO better remove all XULRunner related stuff. :p
> > 
> > To be honest, I don't know anybody that still prefers Firefox over
> > Chromium. 
> 
> I do. As soon as you have a lot of tabs oben, Chronium uses way more
> resources because it spawns a new instance of the browser for every tab.
> 
> > Though, Chromium would be too much overkill for a live cd
> > that's called Xfce. That's only as a side note, I wouldn't bring in
> > Chromium in this saving space discussion.
> 
> Chronium will never get into Fedora unless Google stops forking all
> random libraries. See http://spot.livejournal.com/312320.html
> 
> >  Midori is good for most of
> > the common web pages, I know about a few pages where it sucks, but no
> > matter in our case.
> 
> It still does not handle certificate based authentication, which IHMO is
> a bigger problem than any random website looking ugly.
> 
> But I really think we should remove one browser. I don't really care
> which one, let the majority decide.
> 
> And we could remove some themes. Currently we are shipping 4 complete
> themes: adwaita, albatross, bluebird and greybird. IHMO this is too
> much.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Christoph
> 
> 

Why not take themes down to the primary installed theme, and if needed,
add in help where to get more? Most users accept the default
configuration anyway, as I recall.

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Charlie Kravetz 
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