Building Firebird with XFT and GTK2 enabled
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Building Firebird with XFT and GTK2 enabled
Is there an ftp site that has the source for the latest trunk of firebird?
I'd like to download and compile it on my system with XFT and GTK2 enabled. Thanks.
I'd like to download and compile it on my system with XFT and GTK2 enabled. Thanks.
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I have been putting the source I build with up at my site. You can find 2003-05-12, and soon you'll find 2003-05-13. This is the a CVS pull of the Mozilla and Firebird sources.
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saberworks wrote:What will adding GTK2 support do? I thought the UI was all built in XUL?
Maybe someone else can explain.
All I know is that it lets Firebird fit with the theme of my Gnome desktop environment.
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saberworks wrote:What will adding GTK2 support do? I thought the UI was all built in XUL?
It's like the Windows XP theme support: parts of the XUL user interface are drawn to look like the GTK2 theme, including colours, fonts, button and menu styles, etc.
Much more importantly, you get beautiful, anti-aliased Type1 and TrueType fonts. IMHO, web pages look much better in Bitstream Vera Sans than Helvetica. Is it just me?
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i compile a weekly phoenix build with GTK2 + XFT enabled, on my site: http://www.napolihak.it/pagine/down/fil ... i386-1.tgz
i'm waitng for building this week cause i read 0.6 mileston is really near, so i'll wait for the 0.6 stable.
i'm waitng for building this week cause i read 0.6 mileston is really near, so i'll wait for the 0.6 stable.
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mestolo wrote:i compile a weekly phoenix build with GTK2 + XFT enabled, on my site: http://www.napolihak.it/pagine/down/fil ... i386-1.tgz
i'm waitng for building this week cause i read 0.6 mileston is really near, so i'll wait for the 0.6 stable.
What system do you build that on? I'm running Red Hat 9 so I don't know if it would be compatible with a build from Slackware?
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sig wrote:mestolo wrote:i compile a weekly phoenix build with GTK2 + XFT enabled, on my site: http://www.napolihak.it/pagine/down/fil ... i386-1.tgz
i'm waitng for building this week cause i read 0.6 mileston is really near, so i'll wait for the 0.6 stable.
What system do you build that on? I'm running Red Hat 9 so I don't know if it would be compatible with a build from Slackware?
that link is not working..
chrookee
Linux + Firebird + gtk2 + XFT is neat.
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Right now my gtk2+xft build is failing to run. Builds ok, just doesn't run. I might try one of the builds listed here.
On a side note, can someone post a link to a screenshot of a gtk2 enabled Firebird build? Does it actually have sensible looking scrollbars or is it still the default gtk1.x ones? (personally, Phoenix looked just fine in the fall until the day it was decided to go with gtk instead of whatever it was before, a decision I still cannot understand). I remember wasting a couple of hours searching for a gtk theme with more attractive scrollbars, only to find out that Phoenix didn't seem to apply them (as Asa said it would...), even under Gnome, never mind in KDE.
And so it fails. Seems to try twice for whatever reason before exiting.
On a side note, can someone post a link to a screenshot of a gtk2 enabled Firebird build? Does it actually have sensible looking scrollbars or is it still the default gtk1.x ones? (personally, Phoenix looked just fine in the fall until the day it was decided to go with gtk instead of whatever it was before, a decision I still cannot understand). I remember wasting a couple of hours searching for a gtk theme with more attractive scrollbars, only to find out that Phoenix didn't seem to apply them (as Asa said it would...), even under Gnome, never mind in KDE.
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davidpjames@davidium:/builds/firebird/mozilla$ dist/bin/MozillaFirebird
(MozillaFirebird-bin:23943): Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `(unknown)' to `(unknown)'
(MozillaFirebird-bin:23943): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 725 (gtk_signal_connect): assertion `GTK_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed.
(MozillaFirebird-bin:23943): Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `(unknown)' to `(unknown)'
(MozillaFirebird-bin:23943): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 725 (gtk_signal_connect): assertion `GTK_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed.
And so it fails. Seems to try twice for whatever reason before exiting.
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mestolo wrote:i compile a weekly phoenix build with GTK2 + XFT enabled, on my site: http://www.napolihak.it/pagine/down/fil ... i386-1.tgz
I get a 404 error on that link...
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David James wrote:Right now my gtk2+xft build is failing to run. Builds ok, just doesn't run. I might try one of the builds listed here.
On a side note, can someone post a link to a screenshot of a gtk2 enabled Firebird build? Does it actually have sensible looking scrollbars or is it still the default gtk1.x ones? (personally, Phoenix looked just fine in the fall until the day it was decided to go with gtk instead of whatever it was before, a decision I still cannot understand). I remember wasting a couple of hours searching for a gtk theme with more attractive scrollbars, only to find out that Phoenix didn't seem to apply them (as Asa said it would...), even under Gnome, never mind in KDE.
yes it has sensible looking scrollbars
David James wrote:Code: Select all
davidpjames@davidium:/builds/firebird/mozilla$ dist/bin/MozillaFirebird
(MozillaFirebird-bin:23943): Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `(unknown)' to `(unknown)'
(MozillaFirebird-bin:23943): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 725 (gtk_signal_connect): assertion `GTK_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed.
(MozillaFirebird-bin:23943): Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `(unknown)' to `(unknown)'
(MozillaFirebird-bin:23943): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 725 (gtk_signal_connect): assertion `GTK_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed.
And so it fails. Seems to try twice for whatever reason before exiting.
that looks like what I had from trying to dep compile thunderbird with gtk2 after building with gtk1, you'll need to make clean and rebuild everything