Firefox Gtk3 test package

Martin Stransky stransky at redhat.com
Thu Jan 16 11:54:32 UTC 2014


On 01/14/2014 07:12 PM, Maros Zatko wrote:
> On 01/14/2014 03:38 PM, H. Guémar wrote:
>> What's the point ?
> Personally, it's mainly about not throwing gnome 3 HIG at people.
>> 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.
> Oh yes, Wayland.
>> 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.
>>
>> H.
>>
>>
>
> Is it possible to keep current gtk 2 face as a different plugin/frontend?

No, but we can keep config flags for that in firefox.spec so you can 
build your own package at copr. But it's realy a long term issue, a 
first Firefox with Gtk3 support is Firefox 29.

ma.


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