On 05/05/2016 16:06, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote: > On 05/05/2016 04:01 μμ, Chris Wareham wrote: >> On 04 May 2016 at 21:48 Antonis Tsolomitis<antonis.tsolomi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I was using firefox themed to match CDE by setting the GTK2_RC_FILES >>> variable >>> to point to a suitable resource file. >>> >>> But Ubuntu updated firefox for its' supported distributions to version 46. >>> Firefox 46 switched from gtk2 to gtk3 and now the above variable setting >>> does not have any effect. Gtk3 uses css style files and not rc files. >>> >>> I wonder if anyone knows how to fix this or bybass its mechanism to >>> read the rc file. >>> >>> Thanks for any help, >>> >>> Antonis. >>> >> GTK 3 uses a completely different theming engine. It's now configured through >> CSS files rather than the old syntax, and as far as I'm aware there's no >> automatic conversion tool to convert GTK 2 themes to the new format. I tried >> converting the rather cool NextSTEP GTK 2 theme, but there's not even a >> porting >> guide :-( >> >> Chris > > Yeah..., i realized this and I downgraded to FF45 that uses gtk2. But > for how long can someone > do this? > > It is ridiculous: you now have to be a programmer to make a theme. I > just hope that someone starts > compiling FF with gtk2. The Gnome team (these are the guys behind gtk, > no?) can not be trusted. > They will follow exactly the route their users hate the most. > > Antonis. > The current Extended Support Release of Firefox seems to be just FF45 and it appears https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/ to be supported till December 27, 2016.
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