Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-22 Thread Stephen Kelly
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: >> Fair enough. One of them starts in [0], but there was another thread in >> which even Lars participated. So far I haven't been able to find it, I'll >> keep trying. >> > Found the other one! FYI, if you provide a gmane link, you provide the whole thr

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-22 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Tuesday 21 April 2015 09:44:41 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2015 09:39:35 Milian Wolff wrote: > [snip] > > > > Yes we have, but on the main devel mailing list, > > > developm...@qt-project.org > > > It has been troughly discussed, the thread is actually very

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-22 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Tuesday 21 April 2015 09:39:35 Milian Wolff wrote: [snip] > > Yes we have, but on the main devel mailing list, > > developm...@qt-project.org > > It has been troughly discussed, the thread is actually very long. > > When did this take place and what is the threads subject? I seem to have > mis

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2015-04-20, Thomas Lübking wrote: > You can apply that on really *anything* - the obvious (claimed) failure is > "Qt breaks somehow Plasma" because either > a) a client relied on undocumented behavior (client bug) or > b) a foundation broke documented API/ABI/Behavior (foundation bug) a) is h

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday 21 April 2015 15:44:35 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Thomas Lübking wrote: > >I know nothing about the trouble w/ QWebEngine¹, but what is insinuated > >here is that it's completely unusable, unmaintainable, undistributable > >- ie. Qt then simply won't have any full blown web engine

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Raymond Wooninck wrote: > Isn't this the real main issue with the new QtWebEngine and Chromium > itself ?? In the past I have been trying to get Chromium to build using > system version of the 3rd party stuff, but this only worked out for some > of them. Google didn't just included the 3rd party st

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Milian Wolff wrote: > When did this take place and what is the threads subject? I seem to have > missed it, and also can't find it in my recent mails. Sorry for that. It was a subthread starting here: http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2015-February/019900.html (It also overflowed i

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Actually when it comes to the web engine it's not true. When I suggested > to use an external ffmpeg and libv8 (javascript engine) the answer was > directly no, simply because they are too entangled to be possible. And > ffmpeg tends to be quite a source

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Jeremy Whiting
The thread subject is "Deprecating modules with 5.5" on the qt development list. On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Milian Wolff wrote: > On Monday 20 April 2015 19:02:40 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: >> Sorry Milian, i've sent it to your personal address by mistake. >> >> Resending to

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Thomas Lübking wrote: >I know nothing about the trouble w/ QWebEngine¹, but what is insinuated >here is that it's completely unusable, unmaintainable, undistributable >- ie. Qt then simply won't have any full blown web engine, resp. has >one that nobody uses? That issue would seem -

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Eike Hein
On 04/20/2015 08:17 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: IMHO the duty of a distro is providing software to their users to use But not under any circumstance: Enforcing some level of hygiene and quality in the software provided is a service rendered in my interest and protects me as a user. A lot of

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Bèrto ëd Sèra
These are the days I understand why I use gentoo (despite the headaches it gives me every once in a while). No, I cannot use anything that does not have chromium, whatever the reason may be, sorry. Both sides are right, there is not human labour enough to maintain the stuff, and cutting stuff's qu

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Sandro Knauß
Hey, At the moment there is a discussion in kde-core-devel, that distros won't ship QtWebEngine (at least Debian and Fedora). And ubuntu also will follow the decision of debian. The only part so far, that depends on QtWebEngine in kdepim is KSieveUi::SieveEditorWebView it only shows links lik

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Raymond Wooninck
On Monday, April 20, 2015 01:28:59 PM Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: (I am talking with my openSUSE packager hat on as I am the Chromium packager and am part of the community team that packages KDE/Qt) > It embeds quite a lot of 3rd party stuff which we distros don't accept (in > di

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Milian Wolff
On Monday 20 April 2015 23:19:22 Luigi Toscano wrote: > Milian Wolff ha scritto: > > I'm not a KDE PIM maintainer, but with my KDevelop hat > > on (that uses a web view to display documentation pages, currently > > QtWebKit), > kio_man uses khtml (why don't you use it)? But anyway, also khtml is >

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-21 Thread Milian Wolff
On Monday 20 April 2015 19:02:40 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Sorry Milian, i've sent it to your personal address by mistake. > > Resending to the list. > > On Monday 20 April 2015 23:02:35 you wrote: > [snip] > > > Have you notified the Qt WebEngine developers about this? I have

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Sorry Milian, i've sent it to your personal address by mistake. Resending to the list. On Monday 20 April 2015 23:02:35 you wrote: [snip] > Have you notified the Qt WebEngine developers about this? I have not seen > any email in that regard to the official upstream mailing list at > qtwebengine@

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Kai Uwe Broulik
: Distros and QtWebEngine On Montag, 20. April 2015 23:00:44 CEST, Jeremy Whiting wrote: > Yeah, that's probably a better idea. is there a QML ui for QTextview? or > maybe some other QML component that renders html. ‎ The Text item defaults textFormat to Text.AutoText - you can enforce Text.

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2015-04-20 23:41 GMT+02:00 Thomas Lübking : > On Montag, 20. April 2015 23:02:34 CEST, Sune Vuorela wrote: > >> Let's just try to follow that thru. >> >> A new QuigleyImageView pulls in a new Qt. The newer Qt breaks somehow >> Plasma, >> because relying on internals. Then a newer Plasma is pulled i

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Monday 20 April 2015, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > 2015-04-20 19:28 GMT+03:00 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez : > > Hi everyone! I'm one of Debian's Qt maintainers and I'm writing here due > > to the problem that QtWebEngine poses for us distros (in this case, at > > least Debian and Fedora). > > > > I

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Montag, 20. April 2015 23:02:34 CEST, Sune Vuorela wrote: Let's just try to follow that thru. A new QuigleyImageView pulls in a new Qt. The newer Qt breaks somehow Plasma, because relying on internals. Then a newer Plasma is pulled in. THat ... You can apply that on really *anything* - th

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Montag, 20. April 2015 23:11:49 CEST, Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Monday, April 20, 2015 22:54:26 Thomas Lübking wrote: On Montag, 20. April 2015 22:31:24 CEST, Jeremy Whiting wrote: Even simple applications may want to use a webview for stuff. Kanagram at one point had a QtWebkit Web view

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Montag, 20. April 2015 23:00:44 CEST, Jeremy Whiting wrote: Yeah, that's probably a better idea. is there a QML ui for QTextview? or maybe some other QML component that renders html. The Text item defaults textFormat to Text.AutoText - you can enforce Text.RichText or rely on the detection

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Luigi Toscano
Milian Wolff ha scritto: > I'm not a KDE PIM maintainer, but with my KDevelop hat > on (that uses a web view to display documentation pages, currently QtWebKit), kio_man uses khtml (why don't you use it)? But anyway, also khtml is deprecated. On the other side, the html for manpages is pretty ba

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, April 20, 2015 22:54:26 Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Montag, 20. April 2015 22:31:24 CEST, Jeremy Whiting wrote: > > Even simple applications may want to use a webview for stuff. Kanagram at > > one point had a QtWebkit Web view just to show the wikipedia entry of the > > current word. >

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2015-04-20, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Just state that there's no such long maintaince time for that package o= > r just=20 > install the newer version of Qt. And yes again that probably goes again= > st your=20 > rules, but it's your rules, so you can just improve them for everyone's= >=20 > b

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Jeremy Whiting
Yeah, that's probably a better idea. is there a QML ui for QTextview? or maybe some other QML component that renders html. On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Montag, 20. April 2015 22:31:24 CEST, Jeremy Whiting wrote: > >> Even simple applications may want to use a webvi

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Milian Wolff
On Monday 20 April 2015 13:28:59 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Hi everyone! I'm one of Debian's Qt maintainers and I'm writing here due to > the problem that QtWebEngine poses for us distros (in this case, at least > Debian and Fedora). > > I know that kdepim seems to depend on it n

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Montag, 20. April 2015 22:31:24 CEST, Jeremy Whiting wrote: Even simple applications may want to use a webview for stuff. Kanagram at one point had a QtWebkit Web view just to show the wikipedia entry of the current word. Ouch, sounds like giant overhead =) Shouldn't the basic html subset su

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Montag, 20. April 2015 22:16:34 CEST, Luigi Toscano wrote: That said, let's talk for a moment on real use cases: how many applications can need an *hard* dependency on the beast, apart from mail apps? Everybody. Nobody. Depends. The API doesn't look quite exchangeable w/ QWebKit, so one wo

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Jeremy Whiting
Even simple applications may want to use a webview for stuff. Kanagram at one point had a QtWebkit Web view just to show the wikipedia entry of the current word. It was disabled because QtWebKit at the time was crashing. I'd like to use something light and secure, but am not sure what options we ha

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Luigi Toscano
Albert Astals Cid ha scritto: > El Dilluns, 20 d'abril de 2015, a les 15:52:12, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez > Meyer va escriure: > >> I could also say that Fedora+Debian+Debian derivatives (Ubuntu is mostly in >> the same position as us) is also a large userbase for KDE to loose. >> >> But *it'

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Vadim Zhukov
2015-04-20 19:28 GMT+03:00 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez : > Hi everyone! I'm one of Debian's Qt maintainers and I'm writing here due to > the problem that QtWebEngine poses for us distros (in this case, at least > Debian and Fedora). > > I know that kdepim seems to depend on it now. Sadly QtWebEng

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 20 d'abril de 2015, a les 15:52:12, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer va escriure: > On Monday 20 April 2015 20:17:13 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > [snip] > > > IMHO the duty of a distro is providing software to their users to use, if > > the rules of the distro make providing software

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Monday, 20 April 2015 21:12:44 CEST, Franz Fellner wrote: Is it really necessary to use a multiprocess web framework just to view HTML mails? I suppose that it is necessary to use an HTML content renderer which: - is still supported, - remains reasonably secure and up-to-date, - provides su

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Luigi Toscano
Jan Kundrát ha scritto: > On Monday, 20 April 2015 21:14:51 CEST, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> And Red Hat is following Fedora. > > RHEL might not be a good example here because they are a rather a strange > beast. RHEL has actually never shipped QtWebKit (!) and they also aren't > shipping Qt5 so far.

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Monday, 20 April 2015 21:14:51 CEST, Sune Vuorela wrote: And Red Hat is following Fedora. RHEL might not be a good example here because they are a rather a strange beast. RHEL has actually never shipped QtWebKit (!) and they also aren't shipping Qt5 so far. Cheers, Jan -- Trojitá, a fas

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Franz Fellner
Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dilluns, 20 d'abril de 2015, a les 13:28:59, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez > Meyer va escriure: > > Hi everyone! I'm one of Debian's Qt maintainers and I'm writing here due to > > the problem that QtWebEngine poses for us distros (in this case, at least > > Debian and

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2015-04-20, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > IMHO the duty of a distro is providing software to their users to use, = > if the=20 > rules of the distro make providing software hard/impossible they need t= > o be=20 > updated or these distros need to understand they will lose users to mor= > e=20 > fl

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread David Edmundson
> > Moreover we can't build debugging symbols on most archs due to the enormous > amount of RAM+swap it involves in the linking process (more than 8GB last > time > I checked). This is at least the same as QtWebKit, but seems to be getting > worse. > gold linker seems to handle this a /lot/ better

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Monday 20 April 2015 20:17:13 Albert Astals Cid wrote: [snip] > IMHO the duty of a distro is providing software to their users to use, if > the rules of the distro make providing software hard/impossible they need > to be updated or these distros need to understand they will lose users to > more

Re: Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 20 d'abril de 2015, a les 13:28:59, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer va escriure: > Hi everyone! I'm one of Debian's Qt maintainers and I'm writing here due to > the problem that QtWebEngine poses for us distros (in this case, at least > Debian and Fedora). > > I know that kdepim s

Distros and QtWebEngine

2015-04-20 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi everyone! I'm one of Debian's Qt maintainers and I'm writing here due to the problem that QtWebEngine poses for us distros (in this case, at least Debian and Fedora). I know that kdepim seems to depend on it now. Sadly QtWebEngine it's quite a hard (very hard) piece of software to package.