Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 02:37:45 +0200 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mozilla-1.6_4,2 Message-ID: <200406260237.45464.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <40DCBE30.5020706@att.net> References: <40DCBE30.5020706@att.net>
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On Saturday 26 June 2004 02:07, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a general question about how to configure mozilla. I personally > like to use a window manager like "ion". GNOME is very beautiful but I > usually do not need all of the additional applications and overhead. I > usually install X, ion and Mozilla. The big problem that I am having > (and why I am making this post) is that when I configure the system in > this fashion Mozilla does not look very good. If I install GNOME > everything looks great. I can even run mozilla from "ion" and it looks > great. > > I have played around with fonts, etc. but it has never had any big > impact. I have found that installing the bitstream-vera fonts help. > > Does anybody have an explanation of what is going on here ? Are there > some key libraries from GNOME that I need to compile mozilla with ? I > would be very interested in any feedback. > > I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1, Mozilla 1.6_4.2 and GNOME2-2.6.1. I'm not a heavy mozilla user but if you talk about fonts, is that your main problem, do they look the same with gnome (anti-aliassed), does it also include widgets? It seems to me that in your ion environment mozilla gets built with/for gtk1 and in your gnome environment it gets built with/for gtk2 which looks a lot nicer. I'm assuming that you're building from ports, please look at the /usr/ports/www/mozilla Makefile, you may want to build it with an explicit WITH_GTK1="no". It does want to use gtk2 per default but it might be the case that your gnome-free ion environment has some gtk1 app which can make everything or most gtk'ish apps in ports to use gtk1. I have not tested this (I use mainly kde). Using gtk2 apps does install quite a chunck of gnome anyway though. HTH, Dan
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