on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:17:10AM -0400, geordie (geordie@tao.ca) wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely > > in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm > > looking for feedback, particularly on anything I might have missed. > > > > http://home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html > > > > I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon. > > > > Cheers. > > from the konqueror review: > > Con: > > KDE dependencies. Difficulties and/or issues running > independently of KDE. These are subsiding with time -- a recent > Debian upgrade, and cleaning out of some conflicting KDE package > source servers has given me a working KDE installation. I still > find the total desktop environment to be annoying and bloated on > my aging (but recently invigorated) PPro-180/256MB home system. > Running Konqueror under WindowMaker, my preferred desktop, > results in some annoying font and display choices which aren't > readily addressable through WindowMaker. > > > it seems to run fine under fvwm. the major beef i have with it is > regular crashes with https. Font settings dialogs are not as clean as the Galeon/Gtk equivalents. I can't set menu/dialog fonts without going through the KDE configuration tool. I believe the same beef applies to Galeon, but I've recently set my GNOME prefs and they've stuck. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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