[Bug 1289684] Re: Firefox needs to be packaged with a css style sheet to allow for darker themes

James Cain james.cain.25 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 17:53:53 UTC 2014


Hi Rohan. No offense meant here, but people have been trying, without
success, to get Mozilla to honor KDE settings since 2002:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140751. It appears that
this type of patch would never be introduced because of the need to add
KDE-specific deps, which Mozilla apparently avoids like the plague.

Since we know:
(1) 14.04 is a LTS AND
(2) We can (hopefully!!) expect a lot of Win XP refugees to be coming to Linux in the next few years

Having the present user experience in Kubuntu of a stock Firefox  is
just "not good" from a usability standpoint since there is no native
integration. At minimum, the Blue Shell firefox PPA should be a
dependency. Even that still would not address this bug, however.

IMHO, Chromuim would have been a much better default. It's long been the
default in Lubuntu (and I think others). Added to the fact that now
Chromium is now GTK-less (http://tech-
beta.slashdot.org/story/14/03/12/0147256/google-to-replace-gtk-with-its-
own-aura-in-chrome), this would make much more sense to me. And the
Kubunut Devs could keep current Chromium builds in our own PPA's if
needed as I know this was a concern in the past...

Wildly off-topic here except for the fact that a new user's perception
is my main concern here, and I'm not convinced we are doing users
justice here by just throwing in a default Firefox build that in
addition to all the reasons why the Blue Shell PPA has to exist, web
pages as I have shown above will be unreadable if a user so much as
decides to change themes to a darker one, even IF that darker theme is
part of the default Kubuntu .iso, as is the case with Obsidian Coast,
which is what the situational environment was with this bug.

Bug filed with Mozilla
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987247).


** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #140751
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140751

** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #987247
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987247

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