improve kde (plasma 5) integration with kmozillahelper

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improve kde (plasma 5) integration with kmozillahelper

Unread post by ianas » 2018-02-16, 05:27

most Linux distro's include an extra package called kmozillahelper that integrates KDE's dialogs in Firefox's open/save menu's
https://github.com/openSUSE/kmozillahelper
as far as I can tell it's a binary blob that use to be shipped as an xpi addon but now it's a shared object
https://software.opensuse.org/package/kmozillahelper
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kmozillahelper/
the ubuntu devs have the same package under a different name
https://launchpad.net/~plasmazilla
https://github.com/plasmazilla/mozilla-kde-support
I was hoping maybe you could integrate this in Basilisk for Linux for us KDE users

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Re: improve kde (plasma 5) integration with kmozillahelper

Unread post by Moonchild » 2018-02-16, 20:06

I'm sorry but we already have enough widget code for different desktop interfacing as it is in our tree. Pale Moon and Basilisk are GTK applications; as such they will use by default what the toolkit prescribes. Changing that specifically for a different desktop environment in the core would mean required maintenance and support for it by us as well -- we can't do that, so it'll have to remain an extension.
Considering our plans for maintaining classic/XUL extensions, there shouldn't be an issue continuing to provide it through external code in the same way as plasmazilla.
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