Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:55:25 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mozilla-1.6_4,2 Message-ID: <20040626005525.GV72578@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <200406260237.45464.danny@ricin.com> References: <40DCBE30.5020706@att.net> <200406260237.45464.danny@ricin.com>
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>> (06.25.2004 @ 2037 PST): Danny Pansters said, in 2.0K: << > On Saturday 26 June 2004 02:07, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a general question about how to configure mozilla. I personally > > like to use a window manager like "ion". GNOME is very beautiful but I > > usually do not need all of the additional applications and overhead. I > > usually install X, ion and Mozilla. The big problem that I am having > > (and why I am making this post) is that when I configure the system in > > this fashion Mozilla does not look very good. If I install GNOME > > everything looks great. I can even run mozilla from "ion" and it looks > > great. > > > > I have played around with fonts, etc. but it has never had any big > > impact. I have found that installing the bitstream-vera fonts help. > > > > Does anybody have an explanation of what is going on here ? Are there > > some key libraries from GNOME that I need to compile mozilla with ? I > > would be very interested in any feedback. > > > > I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1, Mozilla 1.6_4.2 and GNOME2-2.6.1. > > I'm not a heavy mozilla user but if you talk about fonts, is that your main > problem, do they look the same with gnome (anti-aliassed), does it also > include widgets? It seems to me that in your ion environment mozilla gets > built with/for gtk1 and in your gnome environment it gets built with/for gtk2 > which looks a lot nicer. Having ion installed shouldn't affect which version of mozilla gets installed. > I'm assuming that you're building from ports, please look at > the /usr/ports/www/mozilla Makefile, you may want to build it with an > explicit WITH_GTK1="no". It does want to use gtk2 per default but it might be > the case that your gnome-free ion environment has some gtk1 app which can > make everything or most gtk'ish apps in ports to use gtk1. I have not tested > this (I use mainly kde). This is wrong. It doesn't matter what you set WITH_GTK1 to; as long as WITH_GTK1 is defined, mozilla will be built against Gtk1. The original poster can check which Gtk he's compiling against with pkg_info -r mozilla\* Arend: can you be a little more specific about what exactly is different about the way mozilla looks when the GNOME Desktop isn't installed? # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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