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

[Nick Boldt]

ICYMI the status of this is now:

* List the features that are non-supportable on Red Hat Linux desktop
 - visual page editor & preview - requires xulrunner, which requires
GTK2. GTK2 is not supported on RHEL7/Fedora24+)

* Document it (including details about libnotify and GTK3)
* review this limitation for next year's major release train as a team
with PM being aware of the issues
* consider developing a VPE and preview that don't require xulrunner/GTK2

See also https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RHDEVDOCS-120 and
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-4059

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:46 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 29 Sep 2016, at 17:37, Nick Boldt wrote:
>
>> Why wouldn't it be a solution?
>
> before you guys get all trapped in VPE issues for the <10% of users
> please also remember that browsersim and cordovasim relies on JavaFX
> which afaik still is not available on RHEL and Fedora OpenJDK.
>
> Thus we already have cases where we got features we just can't support on
> RHEL and Fedora because the baseOS/VM's don't support the necessary features.
>
> And even if users installs Oracle JDK to work around this then at least
> last time I looked at it JavaFX had hard bindings to GTK2 too.
>
> Here is my suggestion:
>
> List the features that are non-supportable on Red Hat Linux desktop.
>
> Exclude or disable them by default in the RPM distro.
>
> Go look at the usage stats we added 1-2 years ago to track how
> much the various editors/simulators are used.
>
> Document it and review it for the next years major release train
> as a team and with PM being aware of the issues.
>
> /max
> http://about.me/maxandersen



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