[desktop-discuss] Epiphany browser?

[Calum Benson]

On 18 Nov 2007, at 18:48, Mario Goebbels wrote:

> Just wondering, are there specific reasons why JDS doesn't ship  
> with Epiphany? Especially now that it's based on WebKit? It'd be  
> nice to have a different rendering engine if you're going HTML work  
> on (Open)Solaris.

Only reason really is that Solaris customers have traditionally asked  
us for Firefox (and Mozilla before that), and in general we tried to  
ship and support only one desktop application of each 'type' in JDS.   
(Thunderbird + Evolution being the main exception.)

We have just recently been talking about the possibility of doing  
Epiphany builds though, so I wouldn't be surprised if you see them in  
the future.  Spec files and patches welcome of course :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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