visual refresh and linux (and you?)
Alex seems to have stirred up some debate regarding visual refresh on Linux. I wanted to talk a little about why its not as big of a priority right now, and longer-term thinking I’ve been doing about Linux.
First off, I think there’s a lot of “Mozilla doesn’t invest anything in Linux” comments which are pretty untrue, both currently and historically. We’ve actually had more people in the project working on integration with Linux since I’ve been around than on Mac or Windows. We’ve had really good native appearance and drawing hooks for GTK2 (Qt doesn’t get much love, but we’ve asked/begged/pleaded for interest, and no one really seems to have it, including the distros that invest time into Firefox). Where we use native look and feel, we are pretty solidly compatible. The current trunk adds native theme form widgets and other goodies, in no small part thanks to the work of Michael Ventnor. There’s a lot of other work that involved significant time spent on Linux, including pango and cairo integration, and we’ve fixed a lot of things that required just as much effort on Linux as on other platforms, so I don’t think its anywhere close to zero, despite some people’s assertions to the contrary.
Second, we’re not going to share much between platforms other than icons between Linux and Windows.
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