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Originally posted by Daktyl198 View PostCan we please talk about how bullshit this is? I love Mozilla and Firefox but it's not like there's a million lines of GTK code in there; what the hell constitutes 3 years of porting?
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Originally posted by Daktyl198 View PostI could-of swore plugin-container was already a separate process... *shrug*
At this point, I'd go for a Qt-based Firefox if it meant faster porting to newer versions :/
(btw, what versions of Qt does flash support?)
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Originally posted by TheBlackCat View PostSo then why are the symbols not versioned?
Originally posted by GreatEmeraldAs far as I understand it, it's Flash that requires GTK2. No idea why, though. So that means Flash doesn't support any versions of Qt, and only GTK2.
Originally posted by DeviusGood question, but it's not just the GTK3 port that is taking forever to complete. The Metro interface version for Win8 was started March 2012 and it's not out yet.
If you used cairo in GTK2 and didn't use any X11 stuff (e.g. from GdkX11.h), porting to GTK3 and thus Wayland is quite simple.
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Originally posted by oleid View PostIt's for their GUI. Try right-clicking any yt-video.
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostHuh, now that you said it, I see that the menus I get when right-clicking on a Flash applet and when right-clicking elsewhere are different... That also shows just how poorly Firefox integrates with themes at the moment.
Currently, the only trouble I have with Firefox "integrating" with my theme is that the theme uses a combination of light and dark colors, the dark taking over the tab section of Firefox. If I want to move a button (Like Home or Downloads) into the tab bar, they become really hard to see because they don't change from their own dark-grey color.
But that's not Firefox's fault, really.
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[QUOTE=oleid;388742]I think it more has to do with Flash being linked to GTK2; currently it is not possible to use GTK2 and GTK3 in the same process, thus Flash won't work with a GTK3 built of firefox where the plugin lives in the same process as the browser gui.
Had this same problem with mplayerplug-in when Firefox was transitioning from GTK1 to GTK2. I had to have a bunch of code in configure to try and figure out which GTK to use or to just use X11 code. I was a total pain and then there were problems with reusing the binary in other browsers on the same machine, because those other browsers might be using GTK1 while Firefox was using GTK2.
When I developed gecko-mediaplayer, the replacement for mplayerplug-in, I made sure not to use any GTK code in the plugin so this kinda stuff would not happen again.
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Originally posted by Daktyl198 View PostI could-of swore plugin-container was already a separate process... *shrug*
At this point, I'd go for a Qt-based Firefox if it meant faster porting to newer versions :/
(btw, what versions of Qt does flash support?)
As for Firefox, plugin-container is indeed a split process, but it currently uses the same library the browser does - libxul.so. They would need:
a) to both link to gtk+2 and gtk+3, in order for plugin container to work correctly (which is impossible because of reasons mentioned above)
b) to rewrite plugin-container to be a standalone binary, without any dependency on libxul.soLast edited by Krejzi; 13 January 2014, 05:15 PM.
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Originally posted by Daktyl198 View PostI could-of swore plugin-container was already a separate process... *shrug*
At this point, I'd go for a Qt-based Firefox if it meant faster porting to newer versions :/
(btw, what versions of Qt does flash support?)
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Originally posted by Daktyl198 View PostIt could be because I'm using Nightly (version 29 currently) with the Australis interface, but I have no trouble at all with Firefox integrating with my GTK theme. Heck, even the flash right-click looks completely integrated... it looks no different from any other right-click in my DE (Cinnamon 2)
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