Mozilla should not be built with GTK2 toolkit.

Hans Deragon hans at deragon.biz
Tue Aug 5 19:55:08 UTC 2003


Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:19:05PM -0400, Hans Deragon wrote: 
> 
>>   I downloaded the rawhide version of mozilla 1.4 and found out that it 
>>suffers from the following bug:
>>
>>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209496
>>
>>   In short, the "paste" function does not work when managing bookmarks. 
>>  This occurs only when Mozilla is built with the GTK2 toolkit.  It is 
>>recommended by Mozilla developer that Mozilla be built against the 
>>GTK1.2 toolkit.  Thus, whoever builds the Mozilla rpm, you might want to 
>>recompile it against GTK1.2.
> 
> 
> Chris Blizzard builds our Mozilla packages, he's also the main author
> of the GTK 1.2 and GTK 2 ports upstream. We need to move to GTK 2
> sometime, there will be new bugs, but they just have to be fixed.
> 
> Havoc

Well, as long as the paste function works when Severn is released as 
gold, go for GTK 2.  My point is that this bug is a blocker and if it is 
not fixed with GTK 2 by release date, Mozilla should be released as 
built with GTK 1.2.  A browser where one cannot manage the bookmarks is 
a browser lacking an important feature.

Thanks for the info.
Hans Deragon
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