Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 13:49:13 -0400 From: Michael Johnson <ahze@freebsd.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, jannisan@t-online.de Subject: Re: Port upgrade: www/firefox. Added GUI selection support Message-ID: <445422B0-3472-4679-A35C-765124896A87@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <42A87F72.6030203@magnesium.net> References: <20050608130827.GA65807@rochel.dyndns.org> <42A7273C.5060908@magnesium.net> <20050609065035.GA627@rochel.dyndns.org> <9CA7DFE7-0F80-4306-8CBC-6D61D4235869@FreeBSD.org> <42A87F72.6030203@magnesium.net>
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On Jun 9, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote: > 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. totally agree about not wanting gtk1. > > # Adam > > > -- > Adam Weinberger > adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org > adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org > http://www.vectors.cx > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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