Le 11/08/2017 à 07:38, Gene Heskett a écrit : > On Thursday 10 August 2017 14:48:52 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am not sure I understand your mail in details. What I can say is >> that we tried building against gtk2 and it works. It is just a build >> option switch to change. Why do you think Debian package will not do >> it? >> > It hasn't played a video, except some commercials in front of the video > in several weeks. I can't download the binary from mozilla because its > built against gtk3, and the dependency's it needs are not available in > the wheezy repo's. I haven't tried to build from src, no clue where to > get it even.
Wheezy is quite old, is it impossible to switch to Jessie at least? Anyway, have you reported the problem? > Why should I have to build FF from src, this isn't gentoo or arch? I dont say you should, I say it is a working solution and we submitted it to maintainers of the package. Dont hesitate to reply the bug report I gave to help us to convince them to rebuild the package according to this requirement for DebiaN 7 and 8. Regards > I have got chromium working in its place for everything but banking. I > can and now have, bought several things online using chromium. > >> Regards, >> >> Le 10/08/2017 à 20:31, Gene Heskett a écrit : >>> On Thursday 10 August 2017 13:05:02 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> >>>> It is a known bug we reported under number 870719. The problem is >>>> that this release builds against GTK3 and, in stable releases >>>> (including oldstable), it is a problem. The solution we suggest to >>>> the maintainer, and known to work), is building against GTK2 as >>>> Thunderbird 45 was. We are waiting for maintainers feedbacks, as we >>>> really think it is a debian-specific bug. Debian does not have to >>>> build against GTK3 and should not, given problems in display. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>> >>> In this old farts mind, gtk3 should been still born. gtk2 left one >>> heck of a legacy code base behind and they won't let us use it >>> anymore even on wheezy. Thats about the same vacuum suckage as >>> halfway to Alpha Centari. >>> >>>> Le 10/08/2017 à 18:29, Gene Heskett a écrit : >>>>> On Thursday 10 August 2017 11:08:44 Joe wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:24:43 -0400 >>>>>> >>>>>> Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>>>>> After this upgrade >>>>>>> >>>>>>> thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thunderbird in Cinnamon DE is almost completely useless because >>>>>>> portions of its windows / text / toolbars don't repaint until >>>>>>> the window is resized. Is anyone else seeing this? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Using different desktop themes or logging in as a different user >>>>>>> results in same behavior. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm curious to know whether this is being seen in different >>>>>>> desktop environments, too. >>>>>> >>>>>> Not only that, but not just Thunderbird, Firefox also trashed. >>>>>> >>>>>> New update today OK. >>>>>> >>>>>> Never just have one mail client or one browser installed, at >>>>>> least not in Sid... >>>>> >>>>> Despite a mozilla-flash update this AM, firefox is still DIW, will >>>>> not play a video, not even the commercial in front of it. Using >>>>> chromium for my default browser now. >>>>> >>>>> Do I detect an effort to kill mozilla/firefox? It has not worked >>>>> for any videos but you-tubes in 6 months. And for the last several >>>>> weeks, not even there, as the debian version has no html5 support >>>>> according the window the video is supposed to play in. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, Gene Heskett >>> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- Logo Hypra JEAN-PHILIPPE MENGUAL DIRECTEUR TECHNIQUE ET QUALITÉ 102, rue des poissonniers, 75018, Paris Tel : +331 84 73 06 61 <tel:+33184730661> Mob : +336 76 34 93 37 <tel:+33676349337> jpmeng...@hypra.fr <mailto:jpmeng...@hypra.fr> www.hypra.fr <http://www.hypra.fr/> Facebook Hypra <https://www.facebook.com/hyprasoftware/> Twitter Hypra <https://twitter.com/Hypra_> Linkedin Jean-Philippe <https://fr.linkedin.com/in/jean-philippe-mengual-800133135>
