I spent some time this afternoon poking at webkit replacement. The options I found are: * Keep using WebKitGtk * Figure out how to wrap a native (meaning Apple AppKit or Microsoft) WebView in a GtkWidget * Send the HTML/JS/CSS to the default browser. This will lose the links to GnuCash objects like transactions * Configure a GtkTextView to understand HTML tags. This doesn't support charts, printing, or PDF export. * Write reports directly to PDF. There are libraries out there but I didn't find any FLOSS ones that mention CSS styling or drawing charts in their feature sets.
Any other ideas? Regards, John Ralls > On Nov 18, 2023, at 11:03, john <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > WebKitGtk. When I wrote that I was thinking Gtk4, but that won't work on > Windows because WebKitGtk 2.4, the last release before they ripped out all of > the Windows support code, obviously doesn't support Gtk4. > > I don't know that we have until 2026 because I don't know what are the other > WebKitGtk based applications Carlos referred to so I don't know where they > are on migrating. We know from experience that nobody's going to wait for us. > > I couldn't find the earlier discussion about release cycles either. The > options are to keep doing what we're doing or to switch to a more continuous > model where stable is the only central branch and feature branches are merged > in when they're ready. We'd switch to a year-based versioning similar to > Ubuntu's; I proposed YYYY-n, e.g. 2024-1, 2024-2, etc. on the same quarterly > schedule. There would be no beta releases; the few users willing to test > could do so with nightly builds. > > If we don't change to the continuous model, 6.0 would drop 29 March 2026, see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule#Goals_for_6.0. 8 March is > string freeze. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On Nov 18, 2023, at 02:54, Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Can I get clarification, is that migrating to Gtk4 or move away from >> WebKitGtk ? >> >> I suppose either change would be a major one so that would be version 6.0 I >> assume. >> I seem to recall there was a question on release cycles but can not find >> where, so if 6.0 is that still 08/03/2026 ? >> >> Regards, >> Bob >> >> On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 at 17:15, john <jra...@ceridwen.us >> <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote: >>> WebKitGtk 2.43.1 was just released and one of its changes is that it's Gtk4 >>> by default and one must specify a build option, -DGTK4=OFF, to use it with >>> Gtk3. I asked on the webkitgtk mailing list if there's a schedule for >>> dropping Gtk3 support. Carlos Garcia Campos replied "No, but it will take a >>> while I'm afraid. Most of the WebKitGTK based >>> applications are still GTK3, I think." >>> >>> So we don't have a firm deadline yet, but this is a warning that we need to >>> get serious about migrating. >>> >>> Regards, >>> John Ralls >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
