on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 08:18:36AM -0500, Richard Cobbe (rcc@inet.com) wrote: > First, I'd like to thank Karsten Self & Steven Yap for their help in > getting Galeon up and running. I must say, I'm quite impressed with this > particular browser. As am I. Almost worth the GNOME cruft. > Also, apologies for the length of time between last posting and this > message, and apologies that I didn't follow up in-thread. > > A couple of notes to those who might be interested in checking this out. > (These are mostly geared toward those who will be compiling Galeon from > source, rather than installing the pre-packaged .debs. Due to what I think > is a misconfiguration in my company's external firewall, I don't appear to > be able to connect to remote FTP sites reliably.) > > 1) Galeon tends to be quite sensitive to your Mozilla install. > Upgrading mozilla will likely break Galeon, requiring at the least > a rebuild. This is one reason I tend to upgrade Galeon tentatively. I'm currently at 0.11.5, which works quite well. Generally, once you get a good, stable, release, you'll want a good reason to move up to something else. Fortunately, the Debian packages tend to lag quite a way ;-) > 2) This can cause some difficulties if you rely, as I do, on Ximian's > Mozilla packages. (I tried downloading Mozilla 0.9.1 from > mozilla.org yesterday; it didn't work.) I destroyed my galeon > 0.11.5 build yesterday by upgrading to mozilla 0.9.3. It would > appear that galeon 0.11.5 won't even build against mozilla 0.9.3, > let alone run, but I'm not entirely sure of this---I was fairly > frustrated yesterday morning as I was attempting to rebuild things. I don't run any GNOME apps of significance other than Galeon. IMO GNOME's repeating some well known mistakes by creating such a dependency-laden system. It's inherently fragile. Galeon's treading on some dangerous ground in this regard. > 3) Galeon versions 0.12 and (presumably) later use the gconf system to > manage configuration details. Unfortunately, the documentation > doesn't explain how to set up the necessary config file hierarchy > to allow Galeon to start the first time. My experience (almost wholly vicarious) with gconf is almost uniformly bad. It seems like a reinvention of the legacy MS Windows Registry, with fragile settings. Not to mention some really bad quality control (largely file permissions settings, it seems) in a few revs. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Praying for the victims.
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