Firefox integration in Workstation

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Thu Nov 12 16:45:08 UTC 2015


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On 11/12/2015 10:59 AM, Christian Schaller wrote:
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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.)
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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 ?
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>> 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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> 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.

I think you're making assumptions about single-user systems. In the
case of a "lab computer", for example, it may be sensible to have
multiple environments available. Anyway, this is the last comment I'm
going to make on the topic.

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