FreeBSD Port: mozilla-1.6_4,2

[Danny Pansters]

On Saturday 26 June 2004 02:07, Arend P. van der Veen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a general question about how to configure mozilla.  I personally
> like to use a window manager like "ion".  GNOME is very beautiful but I
> usually do not need all of the additional applications and overhead.   I
> usually install X, ion and Mozilla.   The big problem that I am having
> (and why I am making this post) is that when I configure the system in
> this fashion Mozilla does not look very good.  If I install GNOME
> everything looks great.  I can even run mozilla from "ion" and it looks
> great.
>
> I have played around with fonts, etc. but it has never had any big
> impact.   I  have found that installing the bitstream-vera fonts help.
>
> Does anybody have an explanation of what is going on here ?  Are there
> some key libraries from GNOME that I need to compile mozilla with ?  I
> would be very interested in any feedback.
>
> I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1, Mozilla 1.6_4.2 and GNOME2-2.6.1.

I'm not a heavy mozilla user but if you talk about fonts, is that your main 
problem, do they look the same with gnome (anti-aliassed), does it also 
include widgets? It seems to me that in your ion environment mozilla gets 
built with/for gtk1 and in your gnome environment it gets built with/for gtk2 
which looks a lot nicer.

I'm assuming that you're building from ports, please look at 
the /usr/ports/www/mozilla Makefile, you may want to build it with an 
explicit WITH_GTK1="no". It does want to use gtk2 per default but it might be 
the case that your gnome-free ion environment has some gtk1 app which can 
make everything or most gtk'ish apps in ports to use gtk1. I have not tested 
this (I use mainly kde).

Using gtk2 apps does install quite a chunck of gnome anyway though.

HTH,

Dan