Firefox Gtk3 test package

Martin Stransky stransky at redhat.com
Thu Jan 16 12:11:31 UTC 2014


On 01/16/2014 01:04 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 16.01.2014 12:56, schrieb Martin Stransky:
>> On 01/14/2014 08:18 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 14.01.2014 19:12, schrieb Maros Zatko:
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> personally if a GTK user does not want GTK3 i want a pure
>>> QT firefox to get rid of GTK-dialogs
>>>
>>> i know that will not happen, but on the KDE desktop *any* GTK2 or GTK3
>>> application is much more disturbing as the difference GTK2/GTK3
>>
>> AFAIK the QT state in Firefox is pretty bad, unmaintained and you still need gtk2 for the plugins. But you're free
>> to contribute there upstream, I can assist you to submit your patches.
>
> i know that
>
> my intention was to make clearf why whining "i want to stay at GTK2"
> is useless since GTK2 is dead on the long term and any package get
> rid of it is a step in a future not have GTK2 *and* GTK3 installed

We're going to allow people build their own config by some switches in 
the spec file and make it as easy as possible.

ma.



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