Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2013, 18:00:53 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: > 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>
The shortness of manpower seems to me the main problem with PA development. I think, it will get better with the releaseof the Vivaldi-tablet and the progress made in plasma and qt. So thank you all for the hard and good work done so far. Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Active mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
