Mozilla should not be built with GTK2 toolkit.

[Mike Martin]

 --- Hans Deragon <hans at deragon.biz> wrote: > 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

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.



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