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RealNC
12-29-2008, 01:03 PM
For those who missed it:

http://browser.garage.maemo.org/news/

I hope we can get rid of Gtk in Firefox at some point. I'll give the port a shot and see how it fares. :D
[Knuckles]
12-29-2008, 04:56 PM
I doubt it, seeing as the last update to their repository was in august and nobody said nothing 'bout it since.
KDesk
12-29-2008, 05:15 PM
I hope also a stable QtFirefox, maybe in FF 3.1...
kraftman
12-29-2008, 05:38 PM
For those who missed it:

http://browser.garage.maemo.org/news/

I hope we can get rid of Gtk in Firefox at some point. I'll give the port a shot and see how it fares. :D

That's great news. I want to get rid of gtk from my entire system. As far as I know it's second attempt to port Firefox to QT. I hope this time it will succeed.
RealNC
12-29-2008, 05:50 PM
;56695']I doubt it, seeing as the last update to their repository was in august and nobody said nothing 'bout it since.

I think the patches got merged upstream. cairo-qt is in official mozilla repo now.
val-gaav
06-09-2009, 05:31 AM
*bump*

So anyone knows what's the status of it now ?
Huenengrab
06-09-2009, 03:42 PM
Actually, there is no Gtk in Firefox. The user interface is made up on XUL and was just optimized to blend in with Gtk-widgets. I'd say this can be done with Qt too, but as Firefox has had the possibility to be themed since the first Phoenix-builds in ~2003 I don't consider the UI a show-stopper for everyone using Qt/KDE.
Kano
06-09-2009, 04:03 PM
Then tell me why gtk2 themes can be used with Firefox.
[Knuckles]
06-09-2009, 04:25 PM
Actually, there is no Gtk in Firefox. The user interface is made up on XUL and was just optimized to blend in with Gtk-widgets. I'd say this can be done with Qt too, but as Firefox has had the possibility to be themed since the first Phoenix-builds in ~2003 I don't consider the UI a show-stopper for everyone using Qt/KDE.

I'm sorry but this is wrong. Firefox doesn't look like GTK+, it uses GTK+. Remember that one of the release highlights with 3.0 was the usage of native GTK+ widgets on webpages too (like input boxes and buttons), instead of only on the menu, configuration pages, toolbars, etc.

That said, yeah I would just love a Qt port, especially since google chrome decided to go GTK+ too, and opera is still stuck with qt3, so not much remains of qt 4 browsers (konqueror, arora and rekonq are all that comes to mind, and those unfortunately are still not up to par).
DeepDayze
06-09-2009, 08:08 PM
if firefox can use qt4 UI widgets then that's great...would definitely fit in with KDE
RealNC
06-09-2009, 08:32 PM
The reason Nokia is doing this is because they want Firefox in their mobile phones (they use Qt), not for KDE. Right now, Firefox 3.5 betas work with Qt, but they look like ass :P
val-gaav
06-10-2009, 04:01 PM
Scratch the reason ... the outcome is what is important :)
Apopas
06-18-2009, 08:31 AM
But this one they have in this page is qt3 port :confused:
izual
08-04-2009, 06:55 PM
But this one they have in this page is qt3 port :confused:

...and it seems there have been no updates in ages.
KDesk
08-04-2009, 10:04 PM
Maybe Nokia has no more interest in porting Firefox to Qt. They are for sure working in better alternatives for them, I would like to know which they are.
Apopas
08-05-2009, 06:47 AM
Maybe Nokia has no more interest in porting Firefox to Qt. They are for sure working in better alternatives for them, I would like to know which they are.
Maybe because Opera is already in QT and supports many platforms.
Tsiolkovsky
08-05-2009, 10:44 AM
I think they will just end up using WebKit instead. On Gran Canaria Desktop Summit they announced that they are switching from GTK to Qt for their mobile platform. And since Qt already has WebKit integrated that's what they will end up with and it will probably be easier to write a browser interface using Qt+WebKit from scratch than port Firefox to Qt. Or maybe they will use some existing Qt browsers like Arora.