Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:13:25 -0500 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/firefox Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-message pkg-plist ports/www/firefox/files firebird.rb firefox.rb mkdistfile mozconfig.in patch-Double.cpp patch-config-rules.mk ... Message-ID: <200402121513.i1CFDQ4o006149@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> <1076574754.409.18.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 03:27, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:16:17PM -0800 I heard the voice of > > Joe Marcus Clarke, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > > > Log: > > > Add Firefox after a repo copy from mozilla-firebird. > > > > Excellent stuff! > > > > But, it seems to have lost the infrastructure the other mozilla-* > > ports have to use GTK 1.2 instead of 2.x. I don't THINK I'm the only > > one who would greatly prefer 1.2 (or maybe I am; so hard too tell how > > far I am behind the times sometimes :). Is that an oversight, a > > "we'll do that later", or a "we're not gonna do that"? > > 1.2 is old. 2.x is the new stable version, and will be used from here > on out. In fact, we're looking to move away from gtk+-1.2 as much as > possible. We will start by making gtk+-2.0 the default toolkit for > Mozilla (1.2 will stay there for a while until apps such as Galeon 2 > stabilize). At some point, 1.2 will probably disappear from the tree > altogether. > > Why don't you like gtk+-2? I really hated the looks of gtk+ 2.0 until I did the following: gtk-font-name = "Sans 8" ~ .gtkrc-2.0: 1 lines, 25 characters. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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