Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:42:10 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net> To: Michael Johnson <ahze@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, jannisan@t-online.de Subject: Re: Port upgrade: www/firefox. Added GUI selection support Message-ID: <42A87F72.6030203@magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <9CA7DFE7-0F80-4306-8CBC-6D61D4235869@FreeBSD.org> References: <20050608130827.GA65807@rochel.dyndns.org> <42A7273C.5060908@magnesium.net> <20050609065035.GA627@rochel.dyndns.org> <9CA7DFE7-0F80-4306-8CBC-6D61D4235869@FreeBSD.org>
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Michael Johnson wrote: > > On Jun 9, 2005, at 2:50 AM, jannisan@t-online.de wrote: > >>> Huh? This is ridiculous. Why would our user base want the ability to >>> disable XUL? And why would the majority of our users want the ability >>> to >>> build against GTK1? We're trying to get people as far away from GTK1 >>> as >>> possible. And IIRC, firefox won't build against Xlib anyway and will >>> ignore such a request and build against GTK2 anyway. >>> >> >> It doesn't ignore that request and was built just fine with Xlib- support >> without having GTK2 installed on my system. I have an Athlon 500 and >> applications using GTK2 are generally too slow to be really usable, >> especially Firefox. Using Xlib instead of GTK2 and disabling XUL made >> Firefox quite fast and usable again on my system. >> >> I didn't test GTK1 support. > > > I'm not really for adding gtk1/Xlib w/o gtk support to firefox, but I > understand why someone > would want it. I've missed the first emails on this thread so I haven't > seen the patch, but > if this is going to be added (I'm not saying that it ever will be > added) it should work with firefox 1.1 also, > I'm not sure if firefox 1.1 supports gtk1 anymore? Please check out > firefox from marcuscom and check. > See http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ for details. I'm willing to consider an Xlib switch, but not as part of OPTIONS. I'm definitely not willing to consider a GTK1 switch. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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