what is the reason for not making epiphany the default browser?

[Alejandro Bonilla]

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 02:01 -0500, Miles Lane wrote:
> On 2/11/06, MadMan2k <madman2k at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Carey O'Shea wrote:

To comment on this thread one more thing:

HONESTLY, how many people would really select Epiphany over Firefox?

Let's be real, I'm not looking for people to vote, but I could bet at
least 80% would like FF over Epi.

.Alejandro



> > > The one thing I liked Epiphany was the nice GNOME icons/theme as a
> > > browser. However, Firefox looks just as "integrated" with GNOME when
> > > using theme: http://gnomefx.mozdev.org. Any comments on this theme being
> > > default?
> > this will do as long as the user will stick to the default gnome theme,
> > but what if he switches?
> > Epiphany will automatically adopt those icons as well while you will
> > have to search for an appropriate icon theme on firefox first.
> > _that_ is what the integration thing is about...
> 
> Why, oh why, do some Gnome people insist on cramming their frickin
> UI choices down user's throats?  Look, people would not be downloading
> and installing themes unless they preferred them!
> For what it's worth, I think the gnomefx icons are ghastly.
> The Nuvola, Lush and Clearlooks sets are great, that is just my opinion.
> Gnome has some excellent graphics.  Obviously, people like choice.
> What I have to wonder is why theming hasn't been enabled for Epiphany.
> Epiphany, AKA the browser that strips out the flexibility and user
> empowerment of Firefox.  Great.  Another advance for Gnome usability.
> 
> Not.
>            Miles
>