[ubuntu-art] possible light-themes/murrine bug, trying to find out who to contact

[Сергей Давыдов]

Thanks for the info, I didn't know of XUL technical details. Still, if the
issue is local to Thunderbird, it's still very likely a bug in whatever XUL
uses to render via GTK. For example, LibreOffice tries to use GTK rendering
too (GTK3 as of late) and it's not 100% compatible either. I'd try to bug
Ubuntu Mozilla Team or maybe upstream developers directly. Just FYI,
Murrine developer is https://launchpad.net/~cimi

--
Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff

2012/9/12 John Knight <john at classiccitytelco.com>

>  Hi Sergey,
>
> Thanks for the response and for taking the time to look at the problem
> with me; very much appreciated.
>
> Respectfully, that doesn't sound correct though; XULrunner is a high level
> ui toolkit that binds to gtk2 (and also bind to cocoa and win32 for other
> platforms).
>
> Firefox and Thunderbird are still very much using gtk2 for their
> applications, they just aren't using c/c++ bindings but instead using
> crossplatform XULrunner (which can render using other toolkits making it
> cross platform) which in turn calls gtk2 to write the widgets to screen, as
> opposed to being a completely unique toolkit like motif or qt or using gtk2
> directly.
>
> Here's the ticket tracking work Mozilla is doing moving from gtk2 to gtk3
> for some time in the future, showing they are most definitely using gtk2
> when rendering xul configurations fed into xulrunner on *nix platforms:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699
>
> The only two themes that are problematic, Ambiance and Radiance, are each
> using the same Murrine gtk2 engine that Ubuntu ships.  I recently
> discovered Clearlooks and all other gtk2 themes I load do not have the same
> issue as Thunderbird renders seemingly every other gtk2 correctly for the
> scrollbars.
>
> -John Knight
>
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