cvs commit: ports/www/firefox Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-message pkg-plist ports/www/firefox/files firebird.rb firefox.rb mkdistfile mozconfig.in patch-Double.cpp patch-config-rules.mk ...

[Brian F. Feldman]

Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 03:27, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:16:17PM -0800 I heard the voice of
> > Joe Marcus Clarke, and lo! it spake thus:
> > >
> > >   Log:
> > >   Add Firefox after a repo copy from mozilla-firebird.
> > 
> > Excellent stuff!
> > 
> > But, it seems to have lost the infrastructure the other mozilla-*
> > ports have to use GTK 1.2 instead of 2.x.  I don't THINK I'm the only
> > one who would greatly prefer 1.2 (or maybe I am; so hard too tell how
> > far I am behind the times sometimes :).  Is that an oversight, a
> > "we'll do that later", or a "we're not gonna do that"?
> 
> 1.2 is old.  2.x is the new stable version, and will be used from here
> on out.  In fact, we're looking to move away from gtk+-1.2 as much as
> possible.  We will start by making gtk+-2.0 the default toolkit for
> Mozilla (1.2 will stay there for a while until apps such as Galeon 2
> stabilize).  At some point, 1.2 will probably disappear from the tree
> altogether.
> 
> Why don't you like gtk+-2?

I really hated the looks of gtk+ 2.0 until I did the following:

gtk-font-name = "Sans 8"
~
gtkrc-2.0: 1 lines, 25 characters.

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