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

[Alexey Kazakov]

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> On Oct 21, 2016, at 9:11 PM, Nick Boldt <nboldt at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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+)

Minor correction. HTML preview is supported. It's coupled with Xulrunner but doesn't use it.

> 
> * 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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