Being a 60-40 Windows/GNOME user at present, I have a pretty major interest in making Firefox (and by extension Thunderbird) a well-behaved app on GNOME. I’ve wasted a lot of time explaining to people why we use GNOME button ordering, and I’m not going to bother any more. We try to do the right thing for the platform we build on, which on linux is GTK2. We don’t have a KDE (qt) port for a multitude of reasons, not least of which is that no one’s working on it. And until someone is willing to step up and do the work to make building/running in KDE work right, I’ll continue to not care about it.

If caillon manages to get stock icons done, and I manage to finish instant-apply prefwindow work, we’ll be making huge strides towards being a well-behaved app within GNOME. Not that there isn’t lots more to do, but you have to focus on making the biggest steps you can in the time you have, which lately for me isn’t much.