-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/2015 10:59 AM, Christian Schaller wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stephen Gallagher" <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> To: >> desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 >> 10:52:55 AM Subject: Re: Firefox integration in Workstation >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 11/12/2015 10:30 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote: >>> On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 08:50 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >>>> On 11/12/2015 08:44 AM, Kalev Lember wrote: >>>>> On 11/12/2015 02:30 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >>>>>> Also, we would need to figure out how to make the theme >>>>>> limited only to the GNOME environment. (I suspect we >>>>>> could probably work some magic with systemd units to >>>>>> enable or disable the theme when we are in a GNOME >>>>>> session, but it would be... tricky.) >>>>> >>>>> This is probably the easiest part here: we would just add >>>>> the extra firefox theme package to the set of default >>>>> installed Workstation packages and leave it out in KDE and >>>>> other spins. >>>>> >>>>> Making firefox hard depend on the extra GNOME themes would >>>>> not be a great plan, I think :) >>>>> >>>> This would still be a problem for anyone who installs both >>>> Workstation and an alternative desktop. That's why I >>>> suggested the unit file hack rather than just a packaging >>>> solution. >>> >>> I'll bite. Why is it a problem ? >>> >> >> Well, applying a theme specifically to integrate with the GNOME >> environment would (pretty much by definition) mean that it would >> not cleanly fit into a KDE, XFCE, LXDE, etc. environment if they >> were launched from GDM. I know from history that these groups >> tend to get upset when we make changes that negatively impacts >> them without considering their needs as well. > > Well but in this case it was specifically a solution that would > not affect spin-users, only people who install the standard > workstation and then starts swapping out core parts. Which they are > free to do of course, but if they have the skills and interest to > self support and do that then for sure they can also reconfigure > the browser theme. I think you're making assumptions about single-user systems. In the case of a "lab computer", for example, it may be sensible to have multiple environments available. Anyway, this is the last comment I'm going to make on the topic. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZEwhQACgkQeiVVYja6o6Nk/gCgocNY7a0CbgnzJ/pJGQNCZvfF ECoAoI6Z+hy1xWXNC1cZmnQDHpfWRO89 =phwU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
