On Thursday, April 18, 2013 17:21:09 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On 18.04.2013 16:48, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > I'm thinking about looking at snowshoe, so not quite sure what kind of > > future hte webbrowser has. Its development is simply lacking manpower > > right now, which really is the root cause of this problem. > > I agree: A web browser is a central application for a tablet, and it's > not something you can get to feature parity with other major products > with a development team of one person, even if you get the rendering > engine for free. You did great work on our Browser, but I don't think it > makes much sense for you to continue developing it alone. > > So maybe adapting an existing corr-platform browser to our needs might > be the more sensible solution in the long run, unless we find a lot more > people willing to hack on the PA Browser.
The problem (and advantage at the same time) of snowshoe is that it's written in Qt5, so we can't just add our features in, but would have to wait for Frameworks 5 to appear. SLC could *maybe* be done with some D-Bus magic, but things like cookiejar, KIO, KSSL integration would have to wait for F5. So our situation is: <rock> <us> <hard place> -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
