On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:47:26AM -0400, Jeff Muizelaar wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Benjamin Smedberg > <benja...@smedbergs.us> wrote: > > On 6/16/15 4:16 PM, Jeff Muizelaar wrote: > >> > >> We're working on making all of the tests green for GTK3. This means > >> that we could be changing the default linux configuration to GTK3 as > >> early as FF42. > > > > > > What are the advantages of the GTK3 build? > > Modern features on Linux including HiDPI, smooth scrolling, touch > events and better themeing. The deep X dependency is also the cause of > a lot bad graphics performance and causes the Linux builds to lag in > graphics features. This is pain because Linux is currently the best > debugging environment because of rr.
Also add to the list that GTK3 build can run on wayland once our dependencies on X are gone, while there's no chance of that happening with GTK2. > > Is there a list of which > > distros/versions would continue to work and which would stop working? > > No, but that's probably worth getting. Were currently testing against > GTK 3.4 which was released in February 2012. > > > Do we > > have a plan not to update existing users who would be broken by the new > > builds? I seriously doubt we should spend a lot of time > > No. I'm not sure this is worth doing. As I understand it, most people > on linux use distro builds. People keep saying this, but noone has shown numbers. I know a *lot* of people are using mozilla.org builds on Linux. But I have no idea what proportion of the Linux population does. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
