Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (396 mails)

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On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:49, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> > Is anyone here aware of this yet?
>
> Yes, until last summer I was involved quite a bit in development for it
> besides my openSUSE related work.

Cool.  I hadn't seen any chatter about it here on the list (but it's
easy to miss in the general noise if it was mentioned here).

> > The very very alpha builds are here:
> > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-central-linuxqt/
> >
> > I haven't seen any discussion about this yet... has anyone got this on
> > their ToDo list yet?  Would be nice to get these builds included
> > somewhere... somehow (especially once they stabilize a little).  They
> > aren't working very well yet (no default theme) but... maybe we can
> > help out with the testing?
>
> What do you expect from those? The current status of the codebase is
> that Gecko's rendering engine is ported to use Qt as a drawing backend
> (not exactly the true details as it's far more complicated than that).
> There currently is basically no more integration into Qt and apart from
> that absolutely nothing interfaces with KDE.
>
> So the question really is, what do you (or others who are interested)
> really expect in the end?

What do I expect?  Mmmm a better integrated KDE4 desktop I guess.
Firefox as it is, based on GTK works fine (I'm using FF 4.0 Beta8
right now).... so it's not that it doesn't work in KDE4 or that it
looks bad in KDE4.  I think it's partly academic interest, coupled
with the potential it has to improve the overall KDE4 experience (or
so I assume it can do).

I use both Gnome and KDE desktops... which means GTK apps in KDE and
QT apps in Gnome.  Generally speaking using apps in the native
widget/toolset looks better, and possibly works better (although this
is more likely placebo than reality).


C.
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