From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 26 00:37:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB4016A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:37:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq1.home.nl (smtpq1.home.nl [213.51.128.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACEA243D2F for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:37:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=39902 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Be1Ca-0004JC-7L for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 02:37:52 +0200 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([212.204.145.167]:52235 helo=workstation.homenet) by smtp1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Be1CY-0002kD-Lm for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 02:37:50 +0200 From: Danny Pansters To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 02:37:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <40DCBE30.5020706@att.net> In-Reply-To: <40DCBE30.5020706@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406260237.45464.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mozilla-1.6_4,2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: danny@ricin.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:37:54 -0000 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