On 1/13/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trenton Adams schreef: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm just curious about something. I installed mozilla-firefox-bin, > > and I got what I *thought* was the gnome open/save dialog. And I > > absolutely I can't stand that thing. So, I decided to compile > > mozilla-firefox for myself, as I have "-gnome" in my use flags. Well > > for some reason, I still have that open/save dialog. > > > > So, is that a gnome open/save dialog, or is it something else? > > Yes, as far as I know, it is (though I myself do have GNOME installed). > > Firefox depends on gtk: > (from www.gentoo-portage.com ; the compile-it-yourself version used for > clarity, since even the bin has to be originally compiled by someone): > > > Runtime Dependencies > mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9 > > | app-arch/unzip > | app-arch/zip > | dev-libs/expat > | >= dev-libs/glib - 2.8.2 > | >= dev-libs/libIDL - 0.8.0 > | >= media-libs/jpeg - 6b > | >= media-libs/libmng - 1.0.0 > | >= media-libs/libpng - 1.2.1 > | >= sys-libs/zlib - 1.1.4 > | >= www-client/mozilla-launcher - 1.42 > | >= www-client/mozilla-launcher - 1.39 > | ! x11-base/xorg-x11 - 6.7.0-r2 > | >= x11-libs/cairo - 1.0.0 > ==> >= x11-libs/gtk+ - 2.8.6 > | x11-libs/libXmu > | x11-libs/libXmu > | x11-libs/libXrender > | x11-libs/libXrender > | x11-libs/libXt > | x11-libs/libXt > | >= x11-libs/pango - 1.10.1 > | gnome >= gnome-base/gnome-vfs - 2.3.5 > | virtual/x11 > | virtual/x11 > | java virtual/jre > > > Firefox is a GTK application, so it uses the GTK toolkit (as opposed to > the QT toolkit, which KDE uses).
The old version could disable gnome, but 1.5 can't. Perhaps it's a firefox 1.5 ebuild limitation? I hope that's what it is, because I can't stand gnome. > > GNOME is a GTK-based DE (as opposed to KDE which is QT-based). > > So the reason why the open/save dialogs are the same is because they use > the same resources (GTK settings, many of which can be set in GNOME). > > I can't say if the "extra features" that I have because I have GNOME > installed are present in your open/save dialog (bookmarked folders, for > example). > > > > > Is there going to be a way of NOT making it the standard open/save > > dialog when firefox 1.5 gets unmasked? > > Masking or unmasking is not going to change the source code, which > depends on GTK. Only upstream can recode the program with a different > toolkit. And that seems unlikely to happen, since it hasn't happened yet > (and if the toolset was going to change, it probably would have before > 1.0, not suddenly now when the release is finally stable enough to be > picking up steam fast in the popularity stakes). > > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
