The reason for selecting WebKitGtk is the Gtk: It had WebKitWebView and was supported in most distros and Mingw.
The Mozilla team seem to have stopped maintaining their embedding facility around 2015 and it is apparently badly bit-rotted. Blink is Chromium's rendering engine so that's the same as Sherlock's suggested CEF, i.e. Chromium Embedded Framework. It supports Gtk only on Linux; on macOS and Windows it build to the native toolkits, so we'd have to hack the build to provide Gtk3 on macOS and Windows. There's no mention of support for MinGW, so that might not be possible. The level of effort needed both to get and keep the ports working might make it impractical even if it is possible, but the only way to find that out is to try. Note that while most repos have a Chromium package, only Arch and Nix have CEF packages. Adding it as a GnuCash dependency is likely to get most distros to drop us, so nearly everybody on Linux/BSD would be forced to use flatpak. Regards, John Ralls > On Nov 19, 2023, at 11:16, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> > wrote: > > Gecko? Blink? > > I'm sure there was a reason for selecting WebKit originally. Does that still > hold true? > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 11/18/23 10:00 PM, john 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? > > _______________________________________________ > 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
