Firefox integration in Workstation

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 11/12/2015 10:30 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 08:50 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> On 11/12/2015 08:44 AM, Kalev Lember wrote:
>>> On 11/12/2015 02:30 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>>>> Also, we would need to figure out how to make the theme
>>>> limited only to the GNOME environment. (I suspect we could
>>>> probably work some magic with systemd units to enable or
>>>> disable the theme when we are in a GNOME session, but it
>>>> would be... tricky.)
>>> 
>>> This is probably the easiest part here: we would just add the 
>>> extra firefox theme package to the set of default installed 
>>> Workstation packages and leave it out in KDE and other spins.
>>> 
>>> Making firefox hard depend on the extra GNOME themes would not
>>> be a great plan, I think :)
>>> 
>> This would still be a problem for anyone who installs both 
>> Workstation and an alternative desktop. That's why I suggested
>> the unit file hack rather than just a packaging solution.
> 
> I'll bite. Why is it a problem ?
> 

Well, applying a theme specifically to integrate with the GNOME
environment would (pretty much by definition) mean that it would not
cleanly fit into a KDE, XFCE, LXDE, etc. environment if they were
launched from GDM. I know from history that these groups tend to get
upset when we make changes that negatively impacts them without
considering their needs as well.
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