Brad Taylor wrote:
The point of Firefox is that it AFAIK does not use it's own window drawing but uses the one provided by the windows manager. If I remember correctly (it's a while back so I could be wrong), firefox sets up a gtk window and thus you gain all the nice buzz like composite, etc. The last thing I hear was that they're preparing for a qt port since it currently doesn't integrate into kde too good. With Songbird it seems to me that they are doing their own window drawing (hints: Having the menu bar inside the window, composite not working) which does not seem a very good design choice to me since it was one of the things that massively turned me of. With limited theming support I meant in contrast to Firefox 1 where you could rebuild the entire ui to your liking - something that's AFAIK not possible to this extend anymore (but who wants such a thing anyway?).Actually, Firefox theming is quite supported and actively used: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:2 In fact for a while, I had my Firefox looking like Google Chrome. Being skinnable doesn't prevent Songbird from looking like Gtk+, in fact it enables someone to write that support[1].
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