Firefox + KDE integration: Getting FF to use Dolphin reliably. 12+ years and counting.

[Mike de Boer]

Hi Grant,

Thanks for your plea for better KDE integration!

I think that all the points that tell you _why_ we haven’t stepped up to spearhead the KDE integration ‘project’ have been mentioned and discussed here. I just wanted to stress a, perhaps, additional point of view:

The KDE project is quite resource constrained at the moment, working hard on KDE 5. Congrats on the first stable release of Frameworks 5, btw! More big milestones are coming up and the future is looking bright, when I look at screenshots/ mockups of versions to come…

This is no different for our ‘little’ project; we need to pick our battles carefully.

If there’d be an opportunity to work more closely with the KDE team, I’m sure we could find the resources for coordination work. KDE desktop has the opportunity, it always had, to make Firefox their own. To submit patches that improves shell integration and more, to make Firefox part of their internal projects and allocate resources to do the work.
Firefox 29 introduced a more uniform look-and-feel, less Gnome-y… I’d say now’s the time to start!


Mike.

On 08 Jul 2014, at 10:48, David Rajchenbach-Teller <dteller-4eJtQOnFJqFBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 08/07/14 03:49, Richard Newman wrote:
>>>> That said, there should probably be a discussion ...
>>> 
>>> If that's an invitation to the outside world -- Linux & KDE to enter into discussion, great.  Provide the name of a point person @ Mozilla and a willingness to have 'this' talk, and I'll do my part to see if I can make some connections.
>> 
>> firefox-dev and bugs are as good a place as any to start. But remember: people who care need to own solving the problem. It's not enough to spend time advocating for someone else to fix it.
> 
> Or, said differently: I believe that there is plenty of good will among
> Mozilla developers to help Firefox + Dolphin along the road (starting
> with reviewing patches and mentoring newcomers). However, our resources
> are quite strained at the moment and we clearly cannot kickstart that
> project.
> 
> If you have any technical question, feel free to reach out through
> dev-platform or IRC.
> 
> Best regards,
> David
> 
> -- 
> David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD
> Performance Team, Mozilla
> 
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