#637454 RFP: bluegriffon -- Next Generation WYSIWYG HTML editor based on Gecko

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
Axel Beckert
Date:
2025-10-05 08:31:04 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#637454#5
Date:
2011-08-11 14:54:37 UTC
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* Package name    : bluegriffon
  Version         : 1.1.1
  Upstream Author : Disruptive Innovations, http://www.disruptive-innovations.com/
                    Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
                    Laurent Jouanneau <laurent.jouanneau@disruptive-innovations.com>
* URL or Web page : http://www.bluegriffon.org/
* License         : MPL 1.1, GPL 2, LGPL 2.1; some graphics also CC-SA
  Description     : Modern WYSIWYG HTML editor based on Gecko

From the website:

  BlueGriffon is a new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide
  Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox 4, it's a
  modern and robust solution to edit Web pages in conformance to the
  latest Web Standards.

  BlueGriffon is an intuitive application that provides Web authors
  (beginners or more advanced) with a simple User Interface allowing to
  create attractive Web sites without requiring extensive technical
  knowledge about Web Standards.

  Because Gecko lives inside BlueGriffon, the document you edit will
  look exactly the same in Firefox 4. Advanced users can always use the
  Source View to hard-code their page.

  BlueGriffon is available in English, Dutch, French, Czech, German,
  Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and
  Traditional Chinese

There's also a "needs-packaging" bug report for Ubuntu:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/815498

The team of GetDeb.net already built packages of BlueGriffon 1.1.1:

http://www.getdeb.net/software/BlueGriffon
https://bugs.launchpad.net/getdeb.net/+bug/820730
#637454#10
Date:
2011-08-11 15:17:56 UTC
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Yay, one more copy of the gecko engine :(

Mike
#637454#15
Date:
2011-08-11 15:46:41 UTC
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Hi Mike,

Mike Hommey wrote:

Your fear it won't be able to run it with xulrunner directly like e.g.
Conkeror does?

On a first glance it looked like a xulrunner application, but it seems
as if it has a xulrunner application embedded. At least upstream's
code repo includes an application.ini, but the upstream tar ball also
ships a libxul.so... Haven't looked closer yet, though.

The upstream author seems to be the author of the Netscape Composer,
too, so I don't wonder about his choice of platform at all. :-)

		Regards, Axel
#637454#20
Date:
2011-08-11 16:07:49 UTC
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AFAIK, it's quite tied to the underlying engine, but I haven't heard
Daniel's plans wrt the rapid release of Firefox. I'm not sure, for
example, that the current BG works with the 5.0 engine instead of 4.0.

Mike
#637454#25
Date:
2013-04-24 20:03:06 UTC
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This appears to be a very old bug -

I'm supposing because of the paid addons that this is not added?

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#637454#30
Date:
2018-06-07 22:20:00 UTC
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RFP 637454 has no visible progress for a long time, so closing.
#637454#35
Date:
2018-06-08 00:19:35 UTC
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Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

This reason is only valid, if the upstream project is dead. Which
BlueGriffon obviously isn't: The latest release is from November 2017.

Hence reopening.

		Regards, Axel
#637454#42
Date:
2025-10-05 08:16:16 UTC
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As upstream really abandoned the project now, I am closing this RFP.

   Thorsten