Firefox Gtk3 test package

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Jan 14 14:59:19 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 08:49:05AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> H. Guémar wrote:
> >What's the point ? There's absolutely no benefit in keeping Gtk+2 longer.
> >Gtk+ 2.24.0 has been released 3 years ago (january, 2011) and is only receiving
> >bugfix due to existing apps who didn't move to Gtk+3.
> >By migrating more apps, we can drop Gtk+ 2.24 (at least from images), firefox is
> >one of the major application that prevents us to do so.
> 
> You'll never (in the foreseeable future) be able to drop GTK2.
> Firefox will still need it to run NSAPI plugins.

In fact Fedora still ships GTK *1*. If we can't even get rid of GTK1,
then talk of killing GTK2 seems wildly over optimistic.

Regards,
Daniel
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