Hi, In my recent work for Qt/WebKit2, I found a need for exposing some global settings and events: * Spellchecking variables are global (not specific to a context nor a view). There's only one spellchecker, and properties like "beign enabled", "check languages A and B" are global then. * Web notifications are not associated to any web view (at least at API level). They are associated to a WKPageRef, but we don't have access to the associated UI client. So my idea is notifying the user also through a global object.
In Qt/WebKit1 this kind of variables are exposed in object QWebSettings with static methods for global settings. In Qt/WebKit2 we have QWebPreferences, associated to each QQuickWebView. So it is not exactly valid for this case. My proposal is adding an object accessible through QML for global settings. The proposal has already an implementation in spellchecking bug [1] Basically: * I have a QWebGlobal object, which allows to access the global spellchecker (and would also add properties for any other settings needed). * This QWebGlobal object is exposed as a global variable "webkit" in QML JS. I'd love some feedback. To start with, here we go with a set of questions: * C++ object QWebGlobal naming... Anything better? QWebSettings? * QML global object named as "webkit". Ok? * How would we prefer to expose spellchecking vars? Just webkit.textChecker.property = whatever? Or better something like webkit.textCheckerProperty = whatever and avoid exposing the textchecker object at all in QML? * About notifications [2]: I need a way to tell user a new notification has been requested. My current take is adding a signal to QWebGlobal "showNotification" that passes a QWebNotification object to user. It would allow to How would you see this? * What about the other global settings existing in Qt/WebKit1? [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105034 [2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96171 _______________________________________________ webkit-qt mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-qt
