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Re: [trinity-devel] Re: kmozilla patches

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 22:41:15 -0500
>> On Sunday 02 October 2011 02:06:48 Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
>>> > So here is a list of known issues:
>>> > - buttons like back, forward do not work
>>> > - progress indication seems broken
>>> > - some webpages load and then display a white screen
>>>
>>> I forgot to add.
>>> It's necessary for the kmozilla binary to see two environment variables
>>> as well.
>>> First of all, it needs to find its libraries and also it needs to know
>>> the location of the Mozilla environment it should use. Something like
>>> this should work:
>>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.23/
>>> export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.23/
>>> konqueror
>>> (and open a site and choose kmozilla as the viewer)
>>>
>>> Maybe a kcontrol panel could be added at some point that allows
>>> choosing
>>> the Mozilla environment to use.
>>
>> What is needed to enable this Mozilla support?
>> It seems it wants gtkmozembed.h which is not provided by any devel
>> package.
>>
>
> We are not yet sure if gtkmozembed has been removed in the latest
> xulrunner versions.  Right now this is only for systems with Firefox less
> than version 5, and work will be done to see if this can be extended to
> later Firefox versions in the future.
>
> Tim

A bit more information, as gtkmozembed is apparently quite widely used still:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2653686/how-to-compile-a-program-with-gtkmozembed-h

Tim