On Sunday, May 15, 2016 11:52:49 PM Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sunday, May 15, 2016 10:10:11 PM Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > >> Reading backlog on channels today, I saw this in #plasma: > >> > >> [02:12] <mgraesslin> hmm looks like kmail with qtwebengine is faster > >> in opening mails, that would be positive > >> [02:12] <notmart> yay > >> [02:12] <notmart> but distribution will ever package it now? > >> [02:13] --> soee ([email protected]) has joined this > >> channel. [02:13] <bshah> qtwebengine? > >> [02:15] <notmart> yeah, qtwebengine and in turn anything using it > >> [02:15] <mgraesslin> well kdepim now depends on it > >> [02:15] <notmart> like, we haz a "beautiful" mobile web browser > >> written one year and an half ago... :p > >> [02:16] <mgraesslin> so distros need to either package it or drop kdepim > >> [02:18] <notmart> yep > >> [02:18] <bshah> arch packages it > >> [02:19] <bshah> but well debian and friends.. meh > >> [02:19] <mgraesslin> the deb-based distros don't > >> > >> I'm assuming that Debian doesn't package it because of policy - > >> chromium inside of qtwebengine evidently embeds its own dependencies, > >> which is ... ick. > >> > >> I looked it up on the Qt website: > >> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-index.html > >> > >> If KDEPim will now depend on it, we have no choice, I think? Shall I > >> file a packaging bug against it? > > > > It's not just policy (Debian policy doesn't forbid embedded libraries, it > > just discourages them). The estimate I recall reading from people on the > > Debian Qt-KDE team is that packaging QtWebEngine is about the same amout > > of work as Chromium or Firefox on their own. > > > > Take a look at the number of people that work on those (including people > > doing it as a full time job) and ask yourself how feasible it is. > > > > Scott K > > Good point, but dropping KDEPim? That sounds terrible, too. > > Valorie
Agreed, but there's only so much we can do. I've used kmail for well over a decade and it looks like I'm going to have to find something else. Scott K -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
