Firefox integration in Workstation

[Christian Schaller]

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> From: "Stephen Gallagher" <sgallagh at redhat.com>
> To: desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 10:52:55 AM
> Subject: Re: Firefox integration in Workstation
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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.

Well but in this case it was specifically a solution that would not
affect spin-users, only people who install the standard workstation
and then starts swapping out core parts. Which they are free to do of
course, but if they have the skills and interest to self support and
 do that then for sure they can also reconfigure the browser theme.

Christian