Re: Failed building Mozilla Firefox on GTK with the DFB backend

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro tiscali it>]

karuna karan wrote:

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> > Step 1: Look up the *correct* mailing list
>
>
> This might not be *the* correct list: but definitely appeared (at the time 
> of
> posting) to be a good candidate for further information.

I always considered this mailing list, togheter with directfb-dev, to be 
 the most appropriate place to ask questions about development of GTK 
applications in embedded environements.
I always found very competent people here who helped me many times and 
also showed to be interested in development of the DirectFB backend for 
GTK that karuna was referring to.

> > Step 2: Only mail the good one. Don't randomly mail one and cc it to tons 
> > of
> > different people that you might not know.
>
>
> I had mailed it to one group and only after pondering over the consequences.
> I had cc-ed it to people I knew/thought would be interested.

Indeed, mike and me are interested in GTKDFB developement, and Mike is 
working on a GTK web browser for embedded applications, whch is what 
karuna may be looking for.

> > I really wonder what gtk-devel has to do with mozilla. There are probabely
> > tons of mozilla/firefox mailinglists where you could ask this
>
>
> The build had hit a gdk/gdkx problem while building Firefox with gtk as the 
> toolkit.
> BTW: not having got any replies either from the mozilla-builds group and 
> this must
> have accounted for the franctic posting!

Developing a lightweight browser on top of GTK-DirectFB is a tricky 
challenge i'm interested in too, but requires a different approach from 
Mozilla/Firefox one, which is a big application meant to be used on 
desktop systems.

friendly

Attilio