Firefox Gtk3 test package

Maros Zatko mzatko at redhat.com
Tue Jan 14 14:22:52 UTC 2014


On 01/13/2014 04:49 PM, Martin Stransky wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 04:41 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> I don't say it's important/newsworthy. It's just FYI. Please ignore if
>>> you're not interested.
>>
>> Ok, I'll rephrase.
>>
>> I'm interested but I have no idea how this is different from every
>> other Firefox build that Fedora provides.  Could you elaborate on the
>> change some and why it's being made?
>
> Ahh, Okay. The package is build with Gtk3 toolkit [1] (the recent 
> official ones are Gtk2) so it's a regular Gtk3 app which should better 
> fit to Gnome 3 desktop, use themes/skins and so.
>
> The long term plan is to switch Fedora Firefox to Gtk3 so this is just 
> a tech preview. Full of bugs, of course :)
>
> ma.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699
What can do users who doesn't want that gtk3 port?
For some users reasoning that "it works better in gnome-shell" is just 
not enough.

Do they need to fork it or what?

Thanks for explanation.
- maros

N.b.: no this isn't trolling


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