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0 pointsshmerl8y ago0 comments

Why didn't they replace all GTK with Qt and proposed to upstream it? That would have been really good.

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kuschku8y ago· 1 in thread

That was done several times before, but Mozilla rejected such proposals.

Even if that means Firefox breaks every few weeks due to a new GTK release.

Even if that means Firefox never will properly support multi-monitor HiDPI on Linux (and not at all on X11).

shmerlOP8y ago

Did they provide any reason, or those who make decisions there have some irrational bias and prefer GTK?

I can see why it can be harder to bind to Qt from Rust, but this is now a solved problem I think:

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