Editing Galeon (section)

=== Split of the development team ===
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With the release of new version of the [[GTK+]] widget toolkit, which was used to construct the user interface of Galeon, the team decided to write a new version of Galeon from scratch. At the same time the GNOME project has adopted its new [[human interface guidelines]], which promoted simplicity and uniform design.<ref name="ghig" /> The Galeon team had differing opinions on the new guidelines. The author and lead developer, Marco Pesenti Gritti, endorsed them and saw the rewrite as an opportunity to make Galeon simpler. Many other developers believed that reducing the number of preferences and simplifying the user interface would harm the project.<ref name="galeon-history" /><ref name="FSM" />

In November 2002,<ref name="galeon-history" /> as the result of several discussions on the topic Gritti made the decision to cease his work in Galeon and [[Fork (software development)|fork]] the project and started development of a HIG-compliant web browser he called ''Epiphany'' (now known as [[GNOME Web|Web]]).<ref name="FSM" /><ref name="mozillazine-epiphany-fork" />