Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:41:26 -0400 From: Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, jannisan@t-online.de Subject: Re: Port upgrade: www/firefox. Added GUI selection support Message-ID: <28921A19-8ED3-4DC3-92B2-DB68720D5DC8@ahze.net> In-Reply-To: <42B09108.6020208@magnesium.net> References: <E1DiSSt-00032x-8Z@rochel.dyndns.org> <42AFE0C9.30201@pacific.net.sg> <op.sselu5wf9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <42AFF04D.7090506@pacific.net.sg> <op.sseouu0o9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <42AFFDA0.5080007@pacific.net.sg> <op.ssfcaeqm9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <2DB082C3-FA38-4DDC-889E-228D29B42C5C@ahze.net> <42B09108.6020208@magnesium.net>
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On Jun 15, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote: > Michael Johnson wrote: > >> On Jun 15, 2005, at 2:28 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:06:24 -0500, Erich Dollansky >>> <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Jeremy Messenger wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 04:09:33 -0500, Erich Dollansky >>>>> <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> wrote: >>>>> That's reason why we should kill GTK1, because of no support >>>>> and no maintain for years. Avoid the world to have full of >>>>> worms & co. from it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> So, you say we should continue to give the poor people here our >>>> old machines with Windows as this allows at least browsing with >>>> Internet Explorer? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> on OLDER versions of windows. you could always download an older >> version of freebsd and run an older version of firefox. >> >>> Uh? Aren't we talking about FreeBSD? >>> >>> >>> >>>>> 3) Use the different browser. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> This is what we currently do, but it ain't no FreeBSD browser. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Please, there have plenty of different browser for Linux/ >>> FreeBSD. lynx, link, dillo, opera, and goes on... >>> >>> >>> >>>> Erich >>>> > > This discussion is getting silly. Someone needs to make a decision, > and someone needs to commit it. I'm on vacation, so I'm not > committing right now, but I will make a decision about this (follow > it as you wish): > > * gtk12 support will *not* be added. We don't build gtk12 support > into other apps, and we won't here. > > * Xlib/no-XUL support *will* be added. This should give people a > nice option for slower machines who don't want to be bogged down by > a GTK2 dependency. Note, however, that the FreeBSD GNOME team all > uses GTK2, so the Xlib-only option won't get much committer > testing in all likelihood. This isn't posable according to jannisan, he said Xlib/no-XUL support was removed in latest version of firefox so we're back at square 1 again. > > Mezz, ahze, do either of you want to commit this? > > # Adam > > > -- > Adam Weinberger > adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org > adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org > http://www.vectors.cx >
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