I just tried a build from the latest Poky/Yocto master (2a85038dd)
Overall, I think the switch to GTK+3 is an improvement, but I have
a number of [usability] questions:
* I built firefox from meta-browser and noticed that on my touch only
device, it does not automatically pop-up the keyboard. However, epiphany
does. I've only done a little testing but that's what I observed. Not
having this happen "on demand" (i.e. when a text field has the focus)
will make using a full screen application impossible on this hardware.
* Also on firefox, I can't seem to get the vertical scrollbar to work.
Again, with epiphany it at least works.
* The system also doesn't seem to play very nice with my GPU enhanced
i.MX6 and causes the SoC to overheat (didn't happen with GTK+2). Makes
it rather unusable as well.
* gtk-play ran my 1GB system out of memory, just starting up :-( This
caused a complete system lockup & I could not even restart the X server.
This application also seemed to run quite well with GTK+2
* There also seem to be a continuous stream of messages like these on the
console:
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other
applications.
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
I know that these firefox vs. epiphany vs. chome vs. ... questions
are not really the responsibility of Yocto or OE-core, but it does
trickle down to those of us trying to use this framework.
Many thanks for any thoughts
n.b. I was torn what mailing list to use for this - it's tightly
tied to OE-core, but isn't really about patches or changes, more
about philosophy. If the OE-core list is more appropriate, please
move the replies there.
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