-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2014 12:20 PM, Elad Alfassa wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Christian Schaller > <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Hi Elad, Some of the issues you mention we actually have people in > the desktop team at Red Hat working on, like the GTK3 port. > > In general I am tempted to keep Firefox as our primary browser for > a variety of reasons like brand recognition, security updates and > web site support. So while I am positive to the effort the Web team > are undertaking I am having a hard time convincing myself they > would be a better choice for us despite the integration advantage > they bring. > > Christian > > > I'm well aware of the efforts going on to port firefox to GTK3. > Nevertheless, this port won't get us much, because Firefox will > still look alien to the rest of the desktop (which is something > upstream is unwilling to change, and Fedora people objected to > including the "Firefox GNOME" theme by default). > Is there any reason that this cannot be packaged separately from the 'firefox' SRPM and included as part of Fedora Workstation? I don't think it's an unreasonable thing for the Workstation WG to decide should be default on that Product. > Even after the GTK3 port is done, High-DPI and touch input support > won't be supported (at least, not anytime soon). How can we > advertise high-dpi and touch input support as features of our > product if our default web browser, arguably the most important app > for most users, doesn't support them? > Ship with Epiphany as well as Firefox? Then we can have useful UI in the gnome-initial-setup perhaps that asks if you're using a touchscreen or detects hi-dpi and then advises you to change the default browser to Epiphany. > > I wanted to raise a couple of more points about how upstream > treats Linux, but I'd rather stick with constructive criticism > here. > Thank you, that's always preferable. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlOR7OoACgkQeiVVYja6o6PjYwCfTySSxNpCgFZem3U+hfGoI1WE ZqYAn1X8dec4o0cr2RKg71QUBQwyMN36 =X0py -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
