[geeks] galeon Doesn't Suck that much....

[jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de]

On 13 Apr, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Yeah, GNOME is wonderful if you're running Linux (or maybe BSD) on a
> PeeCee.  Otherwise, just TRY to get it built.  I dare you.  To be any
> less portable it'd have to be written in C++!
Made this experience the hard way. I build GNOME on my Alpha running
Tru64 UNIX using the Comcrap compiler.
A non i386, non 32 bit, non glibc, non gcc, non ...
In short: A non Linux system. 
It was a PITA. Worked only after a big "GNUification". gmake, 
auto-everything, GNU M4, ...

I still get scrambled bitmap images (like the icons in menu bars and
buttons, jpg's in mozilla/galeon). I suspect the DEC Xserver. Everything
looks well if I export the $DISPLAY to my SS5 running Solaris 2.6 that
has a RasterFLEX HR... But it does the job (=balsa) I need it for. 
I have to solve that issue, since galeon seams to suck less than
Netscape 4.7x. IMHO. 
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tschuess,
          Jochen

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