On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 21:59, nick rundy <nru...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I think the community (at a minimum) needs to ask Mozilla and TDF to change > toolkits for their Linux offerings. Frankly, Firefox's > appearance/presentation on Linux is rather pathetic. Just take a look at the > forums and lots of folks are posting pictures of Firefox on Windows and > commenting about how nice it looks while bemoaning the appearance of Firefox > on Ubuntu. > > Chrome on the other hand looks good on Linux. Here's an article I found > about why Chrome went with GTK+: > http://www.osnews.com/story/20980/Linux_Version_of_Chrome_To_Use_Gtk_ > > Basically, Chrome went with GTK+ because it would mean a better Linux > product. I have looked at a LOT of performance reviews comparing Firefox and > Chrome web browsers. Chrome routinely performs better on Linux than Firefox. > And Firefox routinely performs better on Windows. Granted, this probably > isn't due solely to the toolkit. But I think it plays a role while also > reflecting on the commitment to Linux in the design of the product. > > Opening Ubuntu up to Qt I think was good move. It's a widely used toolkit > and encouraging app makers to support Ubuntu is important, even at the > expense of "seamless appearance." Perhaps in time the integration of Qt > won't look so "foreign"? > > I think the "toolkit problem" has a solution though and it lies more in > getting companies like Mozilla to not be so Windows-centric in their product > design and creation. After-all they are gung-ho about open-source and > freedom right? Why don't they do more to advance their Linux version of > Firefox and Thunderbird? I don't think it's too much to ask.
Hi , I think it's unfair to say that Mozilla is Windows-centric, especially when compared against Chrome. Chrome was released for linux about 2 years after the Windows version . So it's not exactly a good example regarding how should a project support Linux . It doesn't seem feasible to go to various projects and ask them to migrate to another presentation toolkit. Such a change can happen only if in their own community there are already enough people thinking about such a change (and also willing to spend effort to implement it) . -- Adrian -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
