Gnome issues

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

Epiphany == mozilla when it comes to rendering

firefox ~ mozilla ~ netscape...

man, 11.10.2004 kl. 18.55 skrev Stephen J. Smoogen:
> gnome seems to deadlock this morning when trying to log in. It said
> that some gnome daemon could not start, but pressing either CANCEL or
> OK to report to the developers just halted the box. Had to kill bonobo
> and a lot of related processes by hand to get the user account to
> open. Am using xfce at the moment because of this.
> 
> <rant please ignore>
> Ok first off.. I am guessing that the Red Hat Desktop initiative of
> choosing the best of breed seems to have gone to the wayside with
> epiphany over firefox. At one time there was a lot of talk about
> getting the best package in place whether it was KDE, GNOME, or
> independant onto the desktop.. and I believed and defended it against
> a lot of people who said it was just a ploy. I was kind of perturbed
> that the original desktop had no KDE items listed on it even though
> several items (HTML editor) were better than naything GNOME had.
> However, getting epiphany as the default browser is kind of the icing
> on the cake for me right now.. It might have promise.. but now I am
> back to having 2+ browsers installed on my system when Firefox was
> doing just nicely.
> 
> Crusty old man going off to delete epiphany and change various default
> settings so that I can get my work web-pages again. [And no they are
> not going to add epiphany/konqueror/etc/etc to the list of working
> browsers.. getting them to support Mozilla was a big enough change
> from Netscape 4.2 and Microsoft IE]
> </rant>
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stephen J Smoogen.
> Professional System Administrator