http://www.osnews.com/story/16612/Firefox_2_Ported_to_RISC_OS_5 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 09:10:20 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?187503 http://www.osnews.com/thread?187503 An incredible amount of work would be needed to make this stable and more integrated. Seemingly by one person alone as the source code changes appear not to have been made available (isn't that breach of license?)

RISC OS is suddenly finding itself colliding with modern requirements and gorwing pains are begining to show. The way things are going, RISC OS could soon be the next Amiga. Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?187570 http://www.osnews.com/thread?187570 Perhaps instead of porting each app, somebody could start a closely integrated port of GTK, that looked and felt native.

It could have the menubar drawn as a middle click popup rather than at the top of the window, and perhaps you could even use calls to the real Acorn toolkit to actually draw the buttons and text.

Rox-filer already manages to make GTK's open/close dialogs into RiscOS-style drag and drop affairs, so I'd imagine that this kind of thing could also be built right into the library instead of the usual GTK open/close windows.

Not sure if that would be feasable or even possible, but given that there are so many GTK apps already, it would surely make RiscOS a lot more useful.

(and yes I know Firefox itself doesn't really use GTK, but Epiphany does...) Sun, 03 Dec 2006 16:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hornett) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?187873 http://www.osnews.com/thread?187873 Rox-filer already manages to make GTK's open/close dialogs into RiscOS-style drag and drop affairs, so I'd imagine that this kind of thing could also be built right into the library instead of the usual GTK open/close windows.

It would certainly be nice if someone would code the ability to have RiscOS-style file dialogue boxes and menus in GTK and Qt apps, too. Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twenex) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?187970 http://www.osnews.com/thread?187970 "Seemingly by one person alone as the source code changes appear not to have been made available (isn't that breach of license?)"

My understanding is that all changes are made in the underlying libraries that allow Firefox to run, and all of these changes are freely available (including source). Whilst Peter has presumably done large amounts of work to get the libraries and Firefox to work together, there are many other contributors to these libraries (and the GCCSDK) as well. The GCCSDK copyright file contains quite a few names of people who presumably deserve credit:

http://www.riscos.info/websvn/filedetails.php?repname=gccsdk&pa...

I believe the Firefox code itself may not necessarily need to be modified, which I think is why there's no problem with the license. Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (flypig) Comments