Port upgrade: www/firefox. Added GUI selection support

[Adam Weinberger]

Michael Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Jun 15, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> 
>> Michael Johnson wrote:
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>>> On Jun 15, 2005, at 2:28 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:06:24 -0500, Erich Dollansky   
>>>> <oceanare at pacific.net.sg> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 04:09:33 -0500, Erich Dollansky    
>>>>>> <oceanare at pacific.net.sg> wrote:
>>>>>>  That's reason why we should kill GTK1, because of no support  
>>>>>> and  no  maintain for years. Avoid the world to have full of  
>>>>>> worms &  co. from it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> So, you say we should continue to give the poor people here our   
>>>>> old machines with Windows as this allows at least browsing with   
>>>>> Internet Explorer?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> on OLDER versions of windows. you could always download an older   
>>> version of freebsd and run an older version of firefox.
>>>
>>>> Uh? Aren't we talking about FreeBSD?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> 3) Use the different browser.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This is what we currently do, but it ain't no FreeBSD browser.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please, there have plenty of different browser for Linux/ FreeBSD.  
>>>> lynx, link, dillo, opera, and goes on...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Erich
>>>>>
>>
>> This discussion is getting silly. Someone needs to make a decision,  
>> and someone needs to commit it. I'm on vacation, so I'm not  
>> committing right now, but I will make a decision about this (follow  
>> it as you wish):
>>
>> * gtk12 support will *not* be added. We don't build gtk12 support  
>> into other apps, and we won't here.
>>
>> * Xlib/no-XUL support *will* be added. This should give people a  nice 
>> option for slower machines who don't want to be bogged down by  a GTK2 
>> dependency. Note, however, that the FreeBSD GNOME team all  uses GTK2, 
>> so  the Xlib-only option won't get much committer  testing in all 
>> likelihood.
> 
> 
> This isn't posable according to jannisan, he said Xlib/no-XUL support  
> was removed in latest version of firefox so we're back at square 1  again.

If Xlib/no-XUL support was removed, then I say that we drop the patch. 
There's no point to having a gtk12 firefox from our standpoint. AFAIC, 
gtk12 is legacy to the point of obsolescence.

# Adam


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