On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:38:18 PM UTC-3, Hubert Figuière wrote: > On 11/03/14 04:31 PM, saulo.a.mor...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am trying to build firefox in my linux box but I am not understanding > > why do I need to have libgtk? > > > > > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Developer_Guide/Build_Instructions/Linux_Prerequisites > > > > > > If firefox is develop with XUL and XUL is not based in GTK why GTK is > > required? > > > > > > XUL use Gtk on Linux/UNIX to do its work. Simple as that. So you need it. > > > > Hub
XUL is using Gtk2 that is a little old. Is there any plan to support a universal toolkit in XUL, like Aura from Google Chrome ? I am building a linux box based in Qt and I dont want an old GTK package just to satisfy Firefox browser, more packages means more support... thks, Saulo _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
