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FS#24821 - [firefox] About Window on gnome - no close button; is this for real?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by akhenaton (aky) - Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 07:16 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 21:29 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
No Close button on Firefox' About Window, Gnome.
It's either a bug (missing something) in Firefox or some Gnome guys should really think about *this* usability feature again!

Additional info:
* package version(s)
5.0-1
I've seen this even before updatin to 5.0, so it's present at least in 4.0.1-1 too
* config and/or log files etc.
N/A

Steps to reproduce:
Install Firefox and click About Firefox in the Help menu.

P.S.: I would have set this to "embarrassing" Priority level if such an option had existed.

Regards!
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 21:29 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Report this to Mozilla, please.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 07:28 GMT
you should really report this to gtk developers or to mozilla. we cannot do anything.

you can close that window with esc or alt+f4
Comment by akhenaton (aky) - Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 08:20 GMT
Hi, Wonder!

"we cannot do anything."
I didn't know wheather there's anything you could do about it or not.

"you can close that window with esc or alt+f4"
From an usability point of view this is totally wrong.

Reporting to mozilla's gonna be a problem. Anyhow, I guess it is about time they start building firefox against gtk3 (instead of gtk2).
Reporting to gtk developers won't help because firefox is not their product; more than that they aren't responsable about gnome either (let aside the *attitude* they usually have towards normal people - as far as I'm told).

I suspect that building Firefox against gtk3 would solve this (and not only this) problem. Is there any plan/attempt to do that?

Regards!
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 09:05 GMT
porting to gtk3 doesn't this particular problem since that type of window(i don't know the name) is not suppose to have any close buttons or window decorations. Just open in nautilus Help->About and notice how is opened and how does it look.

Imo, that is a bug in firefox running gtk2 2.24 and they should add a close button like in nautilus or force it in a new window that inherits automatically the window decoration
Comment by mattia (nTia89) - Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 09:54 GMT
confirm this "problem" either in 4.0.1 version either in 5.0, but just press ESC

i think only is a firefox problem related to gtk
Comment by Francisco Pina (Stunts) - Thursday, 23 June 2011, 10:45 GMT
Using a different theme (atolm-gtk3 in the AUR, which also comes with a matching gtk2 theme bundled) makes the close button appear (at least in firefox 5).
Regardless, it does not seem to me like an arch bug but rather something that should be fixed upstream.
Comment by akhenaton (aky) - Thursday, 23 June 2011, 12:40 GMT
Then it could be also considered a mistake on Gnome's part: the default gnome theme doesn't *look* right in this case.
(btw, i can't stand those blackish themes.. not up for any funerals yet; installing another theme isn't a solution and anyway most of the Gnome's users go with the default just like I do)
Mozilla/Firefox' fault, Gnome's fault, Gtk's fault.. oO
As a user I don't know, really, who's to blame and to whom should I adress this problem. That's why I asked this here: maybe our devs would know what to do in this case.

Regards
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 09:29 GMT
we are not going todo anything about it.

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