Firefox KDE support

[starbuck]

O 4311 guess I'll give it a whirl ......if I just add the PPA and upgrade will it pull it in and keep my passwords and bookmarks and such ?
will lava fox blue still be good?

VINNY

Yes, personal settings should be kept.
lava fox blue depends if it is supported by 14.0.1.

[SteveRiley]

Jonathan Riddel (personal blog, KDE blog) is the person who Canonical used to employ full-time to maintain Kubuntu. When Canonical decided that Kubuntu would be treated like the other official *buntu flavors, Jonathan learned he would be assigned to other tasks. Subsequently he was hired by Blue Systems to work full-time on Kubuntu. Jonathan is one of six members of the Kubuntu Council.

Harald Sitter (blog), another Kubuntu Council member, is part of the team of community members (the MOTU) who maintain Ubuntu's Universe and Multiverse repositories, which is where Kubuntu is housed. Harald contributes to a wealth of the packages that comprise Kubuntu. Harald is employed by Blue Systems.

Rohan Garg (blog, wiki) is an active member of the Kubuntu developer community, working on a number of contributions that will appear in Quantal. Rohan is employed by Blue Systems to work full-time on Kubuntu.

Starbuck is Clemens Toennies, also of Blue Systems. He spends much time on Netrunner OS, Blue's other large KDE-based project (which itself is derived from Kubuntu).

These are just four of the many people who pour countless hours into making Kubuntu the wonderful operating system it is. I think knowing a little about about the folks behind our favorite distro is a useful thing.

[Xplorer4x4]

You could:

1. click their names and view their Launchpad profiles
2. Google their real names and see what comes up

They be famous folk in Kubuntu-land

1. No offense but have you checked there profiles? Just sayin..
Harald Sitter - "Ubuntu MOTU, Core Developer and Kubuntu Ninja." I guess he works for Canonical? Maybe he was one of the few guys from Canonical that worked on Kubuntu.
Jonathan Riddell - "Kubuntu Developer" Officially or Unofficially? To some people they might consider me a developer. Hacker is probably a more accurate word, but it has a negative stereotype for obvious reasons.
Rohan Garg and Starbuck - No description

2. Try googleing Starbuck. Something tells me Starbucks Coffe is irrelevant here lol. The others, well still requires a little digging. Can't say I am that desperate to find out.

[SteveRiley]

And these people are who? lol Seriously though, who are they?

You could:

* click their names and view their Launchpad profiles
* Google their real names and see what comes up

They be famous folk in Kubuntu-land

[Xplorer4x4]

I would imagine so: https://launchpad.net/~blue-shell/+members

And these people are who? lol Seriously though, who are they?

I was wondering if it would be possible to develop kind of support for Firefox themes, or a way to theme Firefox on KDE somehow independently? I mean Firefox versions change frequently so something more independent would be great.
I wish I could use Foxdie (Camino or Safari 3) theme in KDE but would be great to have a simple tool to configure it (or other themes) so that it can work regardless of official themes and Firefox versions. I am thinking about something like a new category - like Firefox KDE skins/themes.
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...l=1#post304989

Of course even better solution would be to integrate Gtk applications more with KDE (at least menu bar and toolbar/iconbar), so that they could use KDE theme engines, but I realize that this is not that simple.

Despite the fast release schedule, most add ons(and maybe themes to) still work fine. You can go to about:config and toggle add on compatibility checking, or simply grab the XPI file, open it(not extract it) in winrar(I assume Ark will work in the case of linux/KDE). Open the rdf file(I think) in something like Kate, and alter the max version as needed. In worst case scenario, if something goes wrong, you just need to launch firefox in safe mode to disable your add ons. then reenable all but the hacked add on.

[HalationEffect]

gnomek:
This would be our primary theme to keep updated, unfortunately it is not available for ff13+
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/fir...on/oxygen-kde/

The latest version of Oxygen-KDE is available for Firefox 14+

From here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...-kde/versions/

Or from here: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=117962

[vinnywright]

welp couldn’t wait for a reply so I just did it .......all seems well

VINNY

[vinnywright]

O 4311 guess I'll give it a whirl ......if I just add the PPA and upgrade will it pull it in and keep my passwords and bookmarks and such ?
will lava fox blue still be good?

VINNY

[pauly]

I was wondering if it would be possible to develop kind of support for Firefox themes, or a way to theme Firefox on KDE somehow independently? I mean Firefox versions change frequently so something more independent would be great.
I wish I could use Foxdie (Camino or Safari 3) theme in KDE but would be great to have a simple tool to configure it (or other themes) so that it can work regardless of official themes and Firefox versions. I am thinking about something like a new category - like Firefox KDE skins/themes.
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...l=1#post304989

Of course even better solution would be to integrate Gtk applications more with KDE (at least menu bar and toolbar/iconbar), so that they could use KDE theme engines, but I realize that this is not that simple.

You can use foxdie. Just install checkcompatability addon for firefox, enable the addon. Download the acefoxdie windows version and isntall it. It works without issue. While your at it try this theme I created to go with it.

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php...content=152553

[sumski]

I suggest to add browser-css.patch, it make awesome bar more nice:

From: Jakub Steiner <jimmac@novell.com>, Wolfgang Rosenauer <wr@rosenauer.org
Subject: make style compatible with dark themes
References:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503351
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478632
wr: changed because of
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561027

diff --git a/browser/themes/gnomestripe/browser.css b/browser/themes/gnomestripe/browser.css
--- a/browser/themes/gnomestripe/browser.css
+++ b/browser/themes/gnomestripe/browser.css
@@ -1026,16 +1026,30 @@ toolbar[iconsize="small"] #feed-button {
 
 #urlbar-display {
   margin-top: 0;
   margin-bottom: 0;
   -moz-margin-start: 0;
   color: GrayText;
 }
 
+#PopupAutoCompleteRichResult .autocomplete-richlistitem {
+  background-color: -moz-Field !important;
+}
+
+#PopupAutoCompleteRichResult .autocomplete-richlistitem[selected="true"],
+#PopupAutoCompleteRichResult .autocomplete-richlistitem[selected="true"] * {
+  color: HighlightText !important;
+  background: Highlight !important;
+}
+
+.ac-title {
+  color: -moz-Fieldtext !important;
+}
+
 /* Favicon */
 #page-proxy-favicon {
   width: 16px;
   height: 16px;
   margin-top: 2px;
   margin-bottom: 2px;
   -moz-margin-start: 4px;
   -moz-margin-end: 3px;

[starbuck]

gnomek:
This would be our primary theme to keep updated, unfortunately it is not available for ff13+
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/fir...on/oxygen-kde/

[starbuck]

sumski: It's greatly appreciate that you kept this going!
We still appreciate any help for a joint effort to keep the patching sources working with every new ff version, so anyone is encouraged to check the code out here:
https://github.com/blue-shell/firefox-kde
https://github.com/blue-shell/firefox-kde-support

[sumski]

I'm glad this issue has getting attention that it deserves. Guess this new sponsorship's paying off

[SteveRiley]

Let's see if the blue-shell team can keep up the quality

I would imagine so: https://launchpad.net/~blue-shell/+members

[sumski]

Firefox-kde-support is back with latest packages:
https://launchpad.net/~blue-shell/+archive/firefox-kde

Kubuntu team has picked up again where Canoncial dropped.

Great, i'll stop updating my PPA, and will add link to blue-shell PPA in description