Bug 718942

Summary:	www-client/firefox should not depend on x11-libs/startup-notification
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Yaroslav Isakov <yaroslav.isakov>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	herrtimson, jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Yaroslav Isakov 2020-04-22 23:54:00 UTC

Hello! I've found that Firefox doesn't use startup-notification library. I cannot find any mentions of it in the code of firefox-75, besides one comment and .desktop file. revdep-rebuild -L libstartup-notification-1.so (and symlinks) doesn't mention firefox. It looks like GTK+ implements startup notification protocol itself, which could be seen in gdk_x11_display_broadcast_startup_message.
Also, in Wayland environment this library won't work, for obvious reasons, and other means should be used. So, my proposal is to drop this requirement.

Comment 1 Yaroslav Isakov 2020-04-23 00:06:35 UTC

Oh, and in Fedora and Ubuntu firefox packages doesn't requires startup-notification

Comment 2 Yaroslav Isakov 2020-07-03 09:22:58 UTC

Oh, sorry, I haven't seen appropriate use flag!

Comment 3 Yaroslav Isakov 2020-07-03 11:30:33 UTC

It looks like in Firefox 74 upstream started using GTK+ API for startup notification (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726479). And it looks like in Portage, latest Firefox has no startup-notification flag, so this bug could be closed.