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K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 17, 2010 06:54AM
I really think that K-meleon really needs a complete makeover.
This green color everywhere is sick for the eyes.
Even this website needs a makeover.
Once, there is a makeover then many other people will gladly support this project.
Even the desktop icon needs a makeover
Regards
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Posted by:
Anonymous User
Date: February 17, 2010 07:24AM
I don't think so.
About the look, I personally like the green colour (I even use a green background for the tool bar), but I agree about the "dinosaur" desktop and top left icon. Maybe a new icon set would be welcomed, but we need an artist to do it and, call it a permission from some of the core developers (we don't want to be working on something that finally it's not going to be used).
If Dorian or KKO confirms the need of it I (and I assume everyone's invited to help) can start working on a new icon set.
About the rest, I only see two major steps for K-Meleon to carry on: to accomodate with GRE 1.9 and to rewrite the favourites plug in, which is full of bugs. The problem is that these two things require very skilled people to work on it and these people are busy with "real life" and have very limited free time to spend in K-Meleon.
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 17, 2010 08:22AM
Hmm....
Alright
But Firefox 3.6 is based on much later Gecko engine. Is this so?
Sites like Cnet and others usually don't mention K-Meleon much
Do you have a facebook group?
Thanks!
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 17, 2010 01:03PM
I like green
K-Meleon is skinable. Users can use another skin, Main icon etc. without any makeover.
This how my K-Meleon looks. main.ico looks like a ball with ring, back.bmp is a color gradiant by siria, buttons are phoenity-aura by Lim Chee Aun and Contributors to the K-Meleon project.
Devs are busy with transit to GRE 1.9 that is also used by Firefox 3.x.
Is a facebook group a development feature? :s
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/2010 01:08PM by guenter.
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Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 17, 2010 01:58PM
I just asked whether you had Facebook group because if you had one then it means I can join it. I didn't ask it as a development feature.
:mad:
K-Meleon 1.5.4 beta is based on which Gecko version?
Thanks for the links
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/2010 02:01PM by chrismt.
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 17, 2010 02:36PM
forum/read.#100963
GRE:
rv:1.8.1.24pre
Gecko/20091010
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 17, 2010 03:25PM
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=6114732819 Maybe this has links & info.
Cave. Facebook does not support K-Meleon.
For some things You have to spoof Firefox or Opera for Linux UserAgentStrings.
p.s. Names. Updates.
Current: 1.5.x are versions for GRE 1.8.x. Like Firefox 2.x.
Future: 1.6.x are versions for GRE 1.9.x. Like Firefox 3.x.
Some development k-meleon.exes for GRE 1.9 still have internally 1.5.x strings.
Some of Fred's NIX and Hao's CCF use components from dev versions for GRE 1.9.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/2010 03:42PM by guenter.
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 17, 2010 09:58PM
Quote
chrismt"
Sites like Cnet and others usually don't mention K-Meleon much
Yes, you're right, they prefer make ad for bad products like Internet Web Spirit which are violating laws.
CNET, and all the websites of the group are a shame, and it doesn't disturb me because they don't speak of K-Meleon.
A+
Mozilla/5.0 (x11; U; Linux x86_64; fr-FR; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Ubuntu/12.04 K-Meleon/76.0
Web:
http://jujuland.pagesperso-orange.fr/
Mail : alain [dot] aupeix [at] wanadoo [dot] fr
Ubuntu 12.04 - Gramps 3.4.9 - Harbour 3.2.0 - Hwgui 2.20-3 - K-Meleon 76.0 rc
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/18/2010 02:05PM by JujuLand.
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 18, 2010 05:54AM
Quote
guenter
Current: 1.5.x are versions for GRE 1.8.x. Like Firefox 2.x.
Future: 1.6.x are versions for GRE 1.9.x. Like Firefox 3.x.
Some development k-meleon.exes for GRE 1.9 still have internally 1.5.x strings.
Some of Fred's NIX and Hao's CCF use components from dev versions for GRE 1.9.
Some recent KM 1.6.x downloads have been made available
here. (w00t!)
I suggest chrismt should try out one of those KM 1.6.x builds and see what he thinks. the K-Meleon UI in either KM 1.6.x or KM CCF that Hao uses are much different than in KM 1.5.x.
Speaking of K-meleon CCF, Hao has posted a v0.096.5pre version; read about it here:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?1,103199
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 18, 2010 05:26PM
I also have problems with using Twitter. Some scripts are becoming unresponsive
The great thing I like about K-Meleon is this "It is lightweight"
I am downloading the K-Meleon 1.6.0a :drool:
I am officially joining the K-Meleon family
I think you must have a desktop icon that looks cool
Thanks for all the links
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/18/2010 05:28PM by chrismt.
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 18, 2010 06:47PM
Well, good luck with the 1.6 alpha version, which is even an earlier state than beta versions yet. Just don't be surprised if there are quite some bugs yet in it ;-)
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 18, 2010 07:01PM
Only thing Kmeleon need is a FEMALE Kmeleon.
Or two of them. Make them three.
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 18, 2010 07:50PM
Quote
panzer
Only thing Kmeleon need is a FEMALE Kmeleon.
Please consider it a female
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 18, 2010 07:58PM
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 20, 2010 06:09AM
Hey,
Since there are many builds of K-Meleon, both official and unofficial
Why don't you guys made a seperate
K-Meleon builds Thread for quick reference
Current way of finding it is by digging and digging
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/20/2010 06:10AM by chrismt.
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 20, 2010 04:38PM
Quote
chrismt
I really think that K-meleon really needs a complete makeover.
This green color everywhere is sick for the eyes.
Even this website needs a makeover.
Once, there is a makeover then many other people will gladly support this project.
Even the desktop icon needs a makeover
Regards
One of the best attributes of KM browsers is that they be custmized to the user's liking. But it seems to me, the simpler it is designed the faster it opens and renders.
Charlie
~~If it ain't broke, why screw it up?~~
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 20, 2010 04:53PM
Quote
JujuLand
CNET, and all the websites of the group are a shame, and it doesn't disturb me because they don't speak of K-Meleon.
Mentioned KM several times at the cnet forums myself but could be most of us KM'ers use the KM forums as they specialize in KM browsers.
Charlie
~~If it ain't broke, why screw it up?~~
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: February 20, 2010 04:58PM
I would be glad to throw away appearences if it improves speed and rendering
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Posted by:
dugbugoffice
Date: February 25, 2010 05:02AM
The looks do need something. Most browsers change looks sometime. As for the update on the GRE, I run Firefox 3.5+ on my WIN ME with Kernelex & unicows.dll
Seamonkey 2.0 will not work & a few others. If K-meleon 1.6 gets tested can it be tested on Win ME / 98 with Kernelex is see if it works?
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: March 06, 2010 06:18AM
Quote
chrismt
I really think that K-meleon really needs a complete makeover.
This green color everywhere is sick for the eyes.
Even this website needs a makeover.
Once, there is a makeover then many other people will gladly support this project.
Even the desktop icon needs a makeover
Regards
Obviously you don't know much about K-Meleon!
Everything you "complaint" about is customizable. You can make it any colors you want, either download ready-made skins/themes, or DIY (its not that hard! I made my first one using god-damn MS Paint on an ancient laptop years ago).
Do you see any "green" here:
(except for the website)
I don't understand what are you talking about. Honestly.
Are you sure you are not talking about IE?
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: March 06, 2010 08:13PM
Quote
dugbugoffice
The looks do need something. Most browsers change looks sometime. As for the update on the GRE, I run Firefox 3.5+ on my WIN ME with Kernelex & unicows.dll
Seamonkey 2.0 will not work & a few others. If K-meleon 1.6 gets tested can it be tested on Win ME / 98 with Kernelex is see if it works?
You can change the look. K-Meleon will adopt Windows styles but use it own icons. Alternatively You can use its skin including background.
BTW AFAIK 888 made a pretty skin with gold background.
You can find his Golden skin and about 150 other K-Meleon 1.5/1.6 skins in an archive here.
K-Meleon 1.6 more or less runs with Kernelx. Someone tested it already.
Zoom makes problems but the rest seemed ok.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/06/2010 08:14PM by guenter.
Re: K-Meleon needs a complete makeover
Date: March 07, 2010 05:58AM
888,
Yeah.... I mean, I'm the fan(atic) of Early Blue and right now the only color other than Blue on my K-Meleon is the main icon, where if I were to use the blue lizard on the top bar left, you wouldn't be able to see it, so I use the red main.ico instead!
(Also use the Netscape icon in the top right instead of the original "fire-breathing" green, goofy lizard, but I suspect that will soon change as I often rotate out different avi's for that element of KM.
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