Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Oct 2009 22:42 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones Mozilla has released the first beta release of Firefox 3.6, which comes with some nice Windows 7 integration features. More specifically, the Firefox 3.6 beta integrates with the new taskbar in Windows 7.
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RE: Comment by tobyv
by shotsman on Sat 31st Oct 2009 07:37 UTC in reply to "Comment by tobyv"
shotsman
Member since:
2005-07-22

sigh
Sigh

Ubuntu != Linux

Integrating FF into Gnome on Linux is all very well. Two points come to mind

1) Is this integration being fed back into the relevant products code base?
2) What about KDE, XFCE etc?

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RE[2]: Comment by tobyv
by TObYv on Sat 31st Oct 2009 08:01 in reply to "RE: Comment by tobyv"
TObYv Member since:
2008-08-25

Ubuntu != Linux

..
2) What about KDE, XFCE etc?


Gnome != Linux ?
KDE != Linux ?
XFCE != Linux ?

Ubuntu did some integration with Firefox 3.
Squabbling over what defines a Linux is just pointless.

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RE[2]: Comment by tobyv
by Soulbender on Sat 31st Oct 2009 08:50 in reply to "RE: Comment by tobyv"
Soulbender Member since:
2005-08-18

1) Is this integration being fed back into the relevant products code base?


It's open source. If upstream want it they can just get it.

2) What about KDE, XFCE etc?

I guess they'll have to get cracking on it on their own if they want it.

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RE[3]: Comment by tobyv
by shotsman on Sat 31st Oct 2009 12:40 in reply to "RE[2]: Comment by tobyv"
shotsman Member since:
2005-07-22

There is a whole world of difference between making the sources (& thus the changes made) available than actually and pro-actively submitting the changes into the core project.
It is the latter I'm interested in.

If they are doing it then great, fine, fantastic. It is however all to easy to skip this bit.

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RE[3]: Comment by tobyv
by CrLf on Sat 31st Oct 2009 12:53 in reply to "RE[2]: Comment by tobyv"
CrLf Member since:
2006-01-03

It's open source. If upstream want it they can just get it.


What? It's not upstream that has to go around finding stuff to integrate. It's the ones who create new stuff that have to offer them to upstream projects. This is what it means to be a good citizen in the open source community.

Upstream projects are just the reference code base, they are not people. The people are whoever contributes.

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