Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firefox 1.5 and gnome

[Trenton Adams]

On 1/13/06, Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl> wrote:
> Trenton Adams schreef:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm just curious about something.  I installed mozilla-firefox-bin,
> > and I got what I *thought* was the gnome open/save dialog.  And I
> > absolutely I can't stand that thing.  So, I decided to compile
> > mozilla-firefox for myself, as I have "-gnome" in my use flags.  Well
> >  for some reason, I still have that open/save dialog.
> >
> > So, is that a gnome open/save dialog, or is it something else?
>
> Yes, as far as I know, it is (though I myself do have GNOME installed).
>
> Firefox depends on gtk:
> (from www.gentoo-portage.com ; the compile-it-yourself version used for
> clarity, since even the bin has to be originally compiled by someone):
>
>
> Runtime Dependencies
> mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9
>
> |    app-arch/unzip
> |    app-arch/zip
> |    dev-libs/expat
> |    >= dev-libs/glib - 2.8.2
> |    >= dev-libs/libIDL - 0.8.0
> |    >= media-libs/jpeg - 6b
> |    >= media-libs/libmng - 1.0.0
> |    >= media-libs/libpng - 1.2.1
> |    >= sys-libs/zlib - 1.1.4
> |    >= www-client/mozilla-launcher - 1.42
> |    >= www-client/mozilla-launcher - 1.39
> |    ! x11-base/xorg-x11 - 6.7.0-r2
> |    >= x11-libs/cairo - 1.0.0
> ==>    >= x11-libs/gtk+ - 2.8.6
> |    x11-libs/libXmu
> |    x11-libs/libXmu
> |    x11-libs/libXrender
> |    x11-libs/libXrender
> |    x11-libs/libXt
> |    x11-libs/libXt
> |   >= x11-libs/pango - 1.10.1
> |    gnome >= gnome-base/gnome-vfs - 2.3.5
> |    virtual/x11
> |    virtual/x11
> |    java virtual/jre
>
>
> Firefox is a GTK application, so it uses the GTK toolkit (as opposed to
> the QT toolkit, which KDE uses).

The old version could disable gnome, but 1.5 can't.  Perhaps it's a
firefox 1.5 ebuild limitation?  I hope that's what it is, because I
can't stand gnome.

>
> GNOME is a GTK-based DE (as opposed to KDE which is QT-based).
>
> So the reason why the open/save dialogs are the same is because they use
> the same resources (GTK settings, many of which can be set in GNOME).
>
> I can't say if the "extra features" that I have because I have GNOME
> installed are present in your open/save dialog (bookmarked folders, for
> example).
>
> >
> > Is there going to be a way of NOT making it the standard open/save
> > dialog when firefox 1.5 gets unmasked?
>
> Masking or unmasking is not going to change the source code, which
> depends on GTK. Only upstream can recode the program with a different
> toolkit. And that seems unlikely to happen, since it hasn't happened yet
> (and if the toolset was going to change, it probably would have before
> 1.0, not suddenly now when the release is finally stable enough to be
> picking up steam fast in the popularity stakes).
>
> Holly
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