06.01.2016, 21:15, "Kevin Kofler" <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Aleix Pol wrote: >> One of the big news lately is the deprecation of Qt WebKit module. >> >> One of the Qt dependencies on it is assistant (which is a tool I use >> quite often, really) and AFAIK it's using it quite thoroughly. It used >> to be powered by QTextBrowser though, as far as I remember. > > We tried building Qt Assistant against QTextBrowser in Fedora long ago > (IIRC, in an attempt to get rid of the circular dependency between Qt 4 and > QtWebKit 4). We found that it was a very bad idea because the Qt help was > looking horrible as a result, not to mention third-party help using > Assistant. So this was very quickly reverted to QtWebKit. AFAIK, > QTextBrowser's HTML and especially CSS support has not improved > significantly, if at all, since then. > > This is really not funny: > * you (= the Qt project) stop maintaining QtWebKit, > * you deprecate it, > * you stop providing even security updates for it, > * and now you stop even shipping it at all, > and yet you haven't even ported YOUR OWN code away from it! (And the > QTextBrowser "solution" leaves A LOT to be desired.)
You might want to ship unofficial QtWebKit 5.6 in Fedora. -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
