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Bug 617316 - www-client/firefox-53.0 gtk2 support
Summary: www-client/firefox-53.0 gtk2 support
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2017-05-03 09:44 UTC by Michelangelo Scopelliti
Modified: 2017-06-15 17:27 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Michelangelo Scopelliti 2017-05-03 09:44:46 UTC
Since version 53.0 I'm not able to find gtk2 in IUSE. Yet, mozconfig-v6.53.eclass seems to be able to handle the gtk2 case.

Is gtk2 planned to disappear from firefox?

emerge --info

Portage 2.3.5 (python 2.7.13-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-5.4.0, glibc-2.24-r1, 4.10.13 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-4.10.13-x86_64-AMD_A10-7700K_Radeon_R7,_10_Compute_Cores_4C+6G-with-gentoo-2.3
KiB Mem:     7141988 total,   3356992 free
KiB Swap:   10485744 total,  10485744 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Wed, 03 May 2017 05:15:01 +0000
sh bash 4.4_p12
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.27 p1.0) 2.27
app-shells/bash:          4.4_p12::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0-r3::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.24.1-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.13::gentoo, 3.5.3::gentoo, 3.6.1-r1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.8.0-r1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29.2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.3::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.25::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.10-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.12.6-r1::gentoo, 1.13.4-r1::gentoo, 1.15-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.27::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            5.4.0-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.2.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.10::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.24-r1::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

kernelpanic
    location: /usr/local/portage/kernelpanic
    masters: gentoo

libressl
    location: /var/lib/layman/libressl
    sync-type: laymansync
    sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo/libressl.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

science
    location: /var/lib/layman/science
    sync-type: laymansync
    sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/sci.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA @EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs clean-logs compress-build-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch parallel-install preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms split-elog split-log strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
INSTALL_MASK="/etc/systemd /usr/lib/systemd /usr/lib64/systemd"
LANG="it_IT.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="X a52 aac acl alsa amd64 ao berkdb blas branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cli cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dbus djvu dri dts dv dvb dvd encode exif ffmpeg fftw flac fontconfig fortran gcj gdbm gif gimp gmp gpm gsm gstreamer iconv icu inotify ipv6 jbig jpeg jpeg2k lame lapack latex lcms libass libnotify libressl lzma lzo mad matroska mmap mms mng modplug modules mp3 mpeg mpi multilib ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pdf png postscript raw readline scanner seccomp session smp sndfile sound sox speex ssl startup-notification svg theora threads tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l vaapi vdpau vim-syntax vorbis wavpack wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xml xmp xpm xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="32 64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx f16c fma3 fma4 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 xop" CURL_SSL="libressl" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" L10N="it en" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="it en" LLVM_TARGETS="AMDGPU" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5 python3_6" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby24" SANE_BACKENDS="hp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu radeon radeonsi" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-05-03 12:06:17 UTC
I've tried to re-introduce the gtk2 version (requires a small patch) but unfortunately ff-53 segfaults with gtk2.
Comment 2 Michelangelo Scopelliti 2017-06-15 14:23:19 UTC
any news on this? The segfault is still there with 54.0?
Comment 3 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-06-15 14:28:19 UTC
The "cairo-gtk2" toolkit is no longer supported by firefox starting with 53.0, and the code has changed upstream enough that functionality cannot be restored.

So yes, after 52.x, gtk2 support is gone.
Comment 4 Michelangelo Scopelliti 2017-06-15 17:01:38 UTC
(In reply to Ian Stakenvicius from comment #3)
> The "cairo-gtk2" toolkit is no longer supported by firefox starting with
> 53.0, and the code has changed upstream enough that functionality cannot be
> restored.
> 
> So yes, after 52.x, gtk2 support is gone.

It's a pity. I don't like the look and feel of gtk3/adwaita, and I was hoping some workaround "à la alsa" was possible; there is still a gtk2 folder in the binary distribution.

Anyway, thank you for looking into this.
Comment 5 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-06-15 17:27:32 UTC
(In reply to Michelangelo Scopelliti from comment #4)
> (In reply to Ian Stakenvicius from comment #3)
> > The "cairo-gtk2" toolkit is no longer supported by firefox starting with
> > 53.0, and the code has changed upstream enough that functionality cannot be
> > restored.
> > 
> > So yes, after 52.x, gtk2 support is gone.
> 
> It's a pity. I don't like the look and feel of gtk3/adwaita, and I was
> hoping some workaround "à la alsa" was possible; there is still a gtk2
> folder in the binary distribution.
> 
> Anyway, thank you for looking into this.

You can use themes other than adwaita to adjust the look+feel.  Also, the gtk2 code that exists is there because of nsplugin support (which still exists for flash) hasn't been totally dropped.