CEF? > On Nov 18, 2023, at 8:00 PM, john <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > 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
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