How to get back an an up-to-date, open source WYSIWYG webeditor in the regular *Ubuntu repository?! (Was: Urgent. How to get Kompozer or alternative for Kubuntu 12.10???!!!)

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 01:07:50 AM Bas Roufs -En. wrote:

> Today, I found this page:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seamonkey/+question/187826
> This page suggest some ppa which contains Seamonkey. However, my attempts to
> add this repo, ends up in the following error report:
> Failed to download http://ppa.launchpad.net/joe-nationnet/seamonkey-
> beta/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-i386/Packages
> 404  Not Found

> 
> > Have you tried to add to the repos the following string:
> > https://launchpad.net/~giuseppe-iuculano/+archive/ppa
> > and then reload?
> 
> An attempt to add ppa:giuseppe-iuculano/ppa as a repository, ends up in the
> 
> following error report:
> > Failed to download
> > http://ppa.launchpad.net/giuseppe-iuculano/ppa/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/b
> > i
> > nary-i386/Packages 404  Not Found

It looks like the owner of these ppa's have not yet built any  packages for 
12.10. 

> 
> Provisional conclusion: as far as I can see now, "BlueGriffon" is at this
> moment the only up to date WYSIWYG  editor which works under *Ubuntu 12.10
> and beyond. It has been "written from scratch" in 2008 and is being
> maintained ever since. Apart from Kompozer,  also another well-known
> WYSIWYG and source code editor vanished from the regular repository already
> about two years ago: Quanta Plus, which is stuck in the stage of KDE 3.
> 
> On the other hand, the CSS-editor of BlueGriffon is a commercial "add-on" -
> in Kompozer, that editor was simply integrated in the package. Also a few
> other parts of BlueGriffon have not been open sourced: e.g. the user's
> manual. Seemingly the maintainer or BlueGriffon is double minded: while the
> core part of that package is more or less open source, essential parts of
> it are not. This might be one of the reasons why the latest version of
> BlueGriffon is still not in the  regular *Ubuntu repository. To get that
> package, you need to download a binary installer file from BlueGriffon.org
> and make that one "executable" via Dolphin > Properties  > permissions.

This is the reviled "Open Core" model, which is pure rubbish and useless for 
most people :(


> On the other hand, "simple" HTML editing is possible via both the WYSIWIG
> and "Source" mode in  BlueGriffon. CSS editing is -as far as I know now-
> also possible in packages like Kate and possibly Bluefish. And the
> documentation I have about Kompozer is still at least 80% relevant for
> BlueGriffon. For the web projects I am doing right now, BlueGriffon
> together with Kate and Bluefish are enough to successfully finish them. The
> same might apply for several others with similar software needs.
> 

> Please, share your suggestions and thoughts here at this forum.
> Thanks, respectfully yours,
> Bas Roufs.

Libreoffice perhaps?


Oooh.....actually, I think you might be better off trying to install seamonkey 
from here:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?title=Main_Page#Installation

I just found this, and installed it, and it does run, and still has the 
Composer element :)


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