Re: Mozilla should not be built with GTK2 toolkit.

[Mike Martin <redtuxxx yahoo co uk>]

 --- Nils Philippsen <nphilipp redhat com> wrote: > On Wed,
2003-08-06 at 14:16, Hans Deragon wrote:
> > Mike Martin wrote:
> > 
> > > There is another issue with this - epiphany and galeon (which
> > > collectively are probably used by more RH users than mozilla)
> > > 
> > > Both of them need gtk2 build, somehow I think you may have one
> or two
> > > complaints if a gtk1 mozilla is shipped.
> > 
> > Mmm... Are you sure that Mozilla is not the #1?  Yeah,
> > at home people might be using other browswers, but in
> > large corporation, Mozilla is preferred because it is also
> > available on the Windows platform.  This allow bookmarks to be
> shared 
> > without having to import and export them continuously.
> > 

You may be right, dunno, my feeling is that RH tends to be the
gnomers preferred platform, and the majority of these would use
either galeon or epiphany

> > Regardless, why can't galeon and epiphany be shipped with GTK 2
> and 
> > Mozilla with GTK 1.2?
> 
> Both of them use Mozilla's rendering engine. I doubt it is that
> easy to
> use both GTK 1.2 and GTK 2 simultaneously in the same program.

actually not that difficult, though you would nned to be careful
about build prefixes etc

(althugh in general I agree with Havoc about the need to use gtk2
version in any case)
> 
> > Anyhow, I believe that the bug will be fixed soon.  I doubt it is
> > difficult to re-enable the ¨paste¨ function for bookmarks.
> > 
> > I opened a bug report for Red Hat people to track:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101702
> 
> I noticed that you set the severity to "high". You should rather
> set
> priority to "high" and severity to "normal" (this is probably what
> you
> want anyway), because "high severity" is "crashes, loss of data,
> severe
> memory leak, etc." (see
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/bug_status.cgi#priority).
> 
> Nils
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