Hi, I am not sure I understand your mail in details. What I can say is that we tried building against gtk2 and it works. It is just a build option switch to change. Why do you think Debian package will not do it?
Regards, Le 10/08/2017 à 20:31, Gene Heskett a écrit : > On Thursday 10 August 2017 13:05:02 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> It is a known bug we reported under number 870719. The problem is that >> this release builds against GTK3 and, in stable releases (including >> oldstable), it is a problem. The solution we suggest to the >> maintainer, and known to work), is building against GTK2 as >> Thunderbird 45 was. We are waiting for maintainers feedbacks, as we >> really think it is a debian-specific bug. Debian does not have to >> build against GTK3 and should not, given problems in display. >> >> >> Regards, > > In this old farts mind, gtk3 should been still born. gtk2 left one heck > of a legacy code base behind and they won't let us use it anymore even > on wheezy. Thats about the same vacuum suckage as halfway to Alpha > Centari. > >> Le 10/08/2017 à 18:29, Gene Heskett a écrit : >>> On Thursday 10 August 2017 11:08:44 Joe wrote: >>>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:24:43 -0400 >>>> >>>> Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>>> After this upgrade >>>>> >>>>> thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1) >>>>> >>>>> Thunderbird in Cinnamon DE is almost completely useless because >>>>> portions of its windows / text / toolbars don't repaint until the >>>>> window is resized. Is anyone else seeing this? >>>>> >>>>> Using different desktop themes or logging in as a different user >>>>> results in same behavior. >>>>> >>>>> I'm curious to know whether this is being seen in different >>>>> desktop environments, too. >>>> >>>> Not only that, but not just Thunderbird, Firefox also trashed. >>>> >>>> New update today OK. >>>> >>>> Never just have one mail client or one browser installed, at least >>>> not in Sid... >>> >>> Despite a mozilla-flash update this AM, firefox is still DIW, will >>> not play a video, not even the commercial in front of it. Using >>> chromium for my default browser now. >>> >>> Do I detect an effort to kill mozilla/firefox? It has not worked >>> for any videos but you-tubes in 6 months. And for the last several >>> weeks, not even there, as the debian version has no html5 support >>> according the window the video is supposed to play in. >>> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- Logo Hypra JEAN-PHILIPPE MENGUAL DIRECTEUR TECHNIQUE ET QUALITÉ 102, rue des poissonniers, 75018, Paris Tel : +331 84 73 06 61 <tel:+33184730661> Mob : +336 76 34 93 37 <tel:+33676349337> jpmeng...@hypra.fr <mailto:jpmeng...@hypra.fr> www.hypra.fr <http://www.hypra.fr/> Facebook Hypra <https://www.facebook.com/hyprasoftware/> Twitter Hypra <https://twitter.com/Hypra_> Linkedin Jean-Philippe <https://fr.linkedin.com/in/jean-philippe-mengual-800133135>
