Launchpad has imported 1 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694570.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-10-14T15:38:27+00:00 Chris Coulson wrote: Firefox still depends on libgnome and libgnomeui (specifically, GnomeClient - see toolkit/xre/nsNativeAppSupportUnix.cpp) for talking to the session manager. The problem with this is: 1) Those are both deprecated, and have been for a long time 2) They have quite heavy dependencies on a lot of other deprecated libraries (orbit, bonobo, gnomevfs, gconf, glade, gnomecanvas) We dropped these entirely from the default install in Ubuntu, and this now results in Firefox not shutting down cleanly when users log out of their session (leading to the "Well, this is embarassing" screen when they next start Firefox. Unfortunately, there isn't really a good replacement for GnomeClient, but the options are: 1) Use the gnome-session DBus interface directly. However, this won't work outside of gnome. 2) Use libsm directly to talk to the session managers xsmp interface, rather than relying on a higher level library. This is more work, but lighter dependencies and would work outside of gnome too. 3) Embed a copy of EggSMClient from http://git.gnome.org/browse/libegg/tree/libegg/ , which has a xsmp backend and is light on dependencies (just libsm AFAICT) Gnome applications seem to do a combination of 1 and 3, but I think option 1 is a non-starter for us, as the dbus interface is completely gnome-specific and doesn't have any API stability guarantees. The only software I know which does 2 is metacity. What do other people think? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/867424/comments/8 ** Changed in: firefox Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: firefox Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/867424 Title: Oneric: On boot up Firefox always displays the “Well, This Is Embarrassing” screen. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/867424/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
