Mozilla should not be built with GTK2 toolkit.

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Tue Aug 5 19:03:34 UTC 2003


On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:19:05PM -0400, Hans Deragon wrote: 
>    I downloaded the rawhide version of mozilla 1.4 and found out that it 
> suffers from the following bug:
> 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209496
> 
>    In short, the "paste" function does not work when managing bookmarks. 
>   This occurs only when Mozilla is built with the GTK2 toolkit.  It is 
> recommended by Mozilla developer that Mozilla be built against the 
> GTK1.2 toolkit.  Thus, whoever builds the Mozilla rpm, you might want to 
> recompile it against GTK1.2.

Chris Blizzard builds our Mozilla packages, he's also the main author
of the GTK 1.2 and GTK 2 ports upstream. We need to move to GTK 2
sometime, there will be new bugs, but they just have to be fixed.

Havoc






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