Re: [jbosstools-dev] Do we still need Xulrunner in Devstudio?

Actually, we planned to remove xulrunner and deprecate VPE some time ago and leave only VPV as a WYSIWYG html editor. However, as soon as we gave a shout out about this on tools.jboss.org the first comment was: Nice. The reason I used JBoss Tools was the Visual Editor for JSF, > especially for the Visual parts, which was not perfect but was good enough > to have it. Will you have alternatives for that ? [1] It was decided that we need to slow down with this process. I can not say if it is a high time for doing this assuming that some people actually use it. Furthermore, some people treat it as a killer feature for JSF that only one IDE is providing. So, we need to think twice before doing it. [1] http://tools.jboss.org/blog/2015-04-02-devstudio-8.1.0. GA-for-luna.html On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Nick Boldt <nboldt(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On the Eclipse team call today, the question of why we need Xulrunner > was brought up again. > > As I understand it, the only reason we still include Xulrunner is for > the Visual Page Editor. But Alex pointed out today that Xulrunner only > works on GTK2, which means a user has to explicity disable GTK3 in > order for Xulrunner to be used, as these days GTK3 is the default OOTB > implementation on the platforms we support (Fedora 24/25, RHEL7, > etc.). > > So... is it time to remove Xulrunner from the Devstudio dependencies, > if most people are not even seeing it used? > > Alex suggested it might be useful to set up a call to discuss this in > more depth. Is there a good time tomorrow or Friday you guys would > like to meet to discuss this, if it can't be resolved asynchronously > via email? > > Whatever we decide here, we should make sure we announce this on the > jbosstools-dev@ list. > > -- > Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat > Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio > http://nick.divbyzero.com >