[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-17230) Resolve GTK and BrowserSim web engine paradox

[Michelle Murray (JIRA)]

Michelle Murray created JBIDE-17230:
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             Summary: Resolve GTK and BrowserSim web engine paradox
                 Key: JBIDE-17230
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-17230
             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
          Issue Type: Enhancement
          Components: browsersim
    Affects Versions: 4.2.0.Beta1
            Reporter: Michelle Murray


BrowserSim can be run with 2 web engines: JavaFX or SWT WebKit.

On Mac OS X, under preferences I don't see an option to change the web engine for BrowserSim. I assume it is running with JavaFX - is that right?

On Windows?? I don't have a windows system to test.

On Linux-based OS, the web engine to use depends on the GTK with which BrowserSim is run. GTK2 = JavaFX and GTK3 = SWT WebKit. There are additional restrictions based on OS with respect to this:
* JavaFX requires Oracle JDK - this JDK is only supported by Red Hat on RHEL, not Fedora or Ubuntu so this option is pointless for the majority of Linux OS we support
* On Fedora at least I have to run the IDE with GTK2 to avoid issues (export SWT_GTK3=0); running BrowserSim with GTK3 I see at least one UI issue in the BrowserSim Preferences window

The potential paradox:
* We are advising Fedora users to run IDE under GTK2 to avoid seeing UI issues but they must run BrowserSim under GTK3 so see UI issues



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