Scott Balneaves wrote: > Hmmm, interesting. On my home ltsp "lab" (two thin clients), it was > "noticeably" peppier, for completely subjective values of "noticeably". Like > I > say, I think I really need to sit down and come up with some objective > measurements opposite speed, memory usage, etc. As well, the ephy you'd have > been running on would have been gecko based, same renderer as in FF, with all > it's associated goodness/badness. 9.10's ephy's switched over to webkit, > which > seems (to me) to haul donkey/horse admixtures way faster.
For sure. At first tinkering w/9.10 Epiphany, it is pretty awesome, even compared to 9.04. They've done a good job with asthetics (I really liked the progress meter in address-bar thingie :) ) >> 3) We're going to want to extensively test all of the plugins for >> Epiphany (which I haven't done yet myself).. Flash, Java being the most >> noteable ones. > > Flash I know works, Java I haven't tested yet. I did a quick Google on it when I saw it didn't come up - I verified my sun-java6-plugin was installed, but still no go for Epiphany. >> All of the people I've worked with with Linux/LTSP seem >> to really show that the plugins are the most important thing since so >> many sites use them so much. I just installed epiphany-browser on my Ubu >> 9.10 AMD64 machine at home and Java doesn't work ootb. Not really sure >> how to get it going right now actually. Last I heard Webkit and Java >> weren't very good friends. > > Agreed, we need to test/fix the snot out of that sort of thing. Fortunately, > I'm Gnome Upstream now, so, as I've done with Sabayon, so may I do with ephy. If you're a Gnome upstream dev, I will be bugging you a lot. ;) >> 4) 100% agree on gconf == good. I've always envied Epiphany because of >> what you can do with it in gconf, and the lack of support Firefox has >> for it. > > Well, that's the HUGEST advantage I see. If we get "ldap everywhere", and a > connector from some of the lockdown/homepage functions in gconf to ldap, it'd > be saweeet to be able to, at account creation time, set things like homepage, > proxy for DG or whathaveyou, etc. Oh man... =) If we could do some fancy footwork with homepages, that would make my year. >> All in all I'm for testing and making it a goal.. I'm not really happy >> with the direction Firefox is going in, anyway. If Epiphany can smooth >> out the rough edges I think we'd have a good candidate for a replacement >> default browser. > > Agreed. That's why I'm setting a 12.04 goal for looking at this. That gives > us two solid years to get it to where we want. Well let me know what I can do. I'll start using Ephy as my only browser at home on my 9.10 box and take notes and relay them here. Who else is in on this adventure? - Jordan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
