Hi Florian, definitively go for it, I think a lot of people are interested in this little browser. And if you provide a Bitcoin wallet address to donate that way, that would be great!
Tomas On 7 March 2016 at 15:36, Chris Salzberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Florian, > > Just one user here, but I'd be more than happy to put forward serious > money to get the QtWebEngine work done, say USD$100+ if it helps. And I > doubt that I'm the only one. > > The reason is simple: there are a lot of people out there who want a > powerful, minimal vim-like browser, but you just can't buy them, no matter > how much money you have! You have to just hope that somebody else builds > it, or build it yourself. > > For those of us who don't have time or skills to build a browser like > qutebrowser (i.e. pretty much everybody), putting forward a bit of money to > support your (very modest) request seems like a real bargain. (Not to > mention how minuscule this amount of money is compared to what goes into > building a mainstream browser!) > > Even if (as you think) the community of qutebrowser users is small, for > the reasons above, a crowdfunding call might work well and bring you more > results than you'd think. It gives everybody a chance to support a really > important step (QtWebEngine integration) which everybody agrees needs to > happen, but which everybody also agrees will not be easy. > > I consider having a good browser up there in importance with having a good > code editor. But whereas editors get lots of attention from developers, it > seems like everybody is just happy to use Chrome or Firefox with whatever > hacky plugin on top to do what they need... which I think is crazy! I want > something better than that. Qutebrowser is *very* close to the perfect > browser for me. > > So count me in! And be ambitious with the crowdfunding drive. I think > there's more support out there than you think. > > Chris > > p.s. As an example of a similar crowdfunding drive that raised quite a > large amount of money, see git-annex assistant: > > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeyh/git-annex-assistant-like-dropbox-but-with-your-own > > > > On 03/07@12:44, Florian Bruhin wrote: > >> * Mel Boyce <[email protected]> [2016-03-07 22:39:22 +1100]: >> >>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016, at 19:12, Florian Bruhin wrote: >>> > - 2800 EUR >>> > - 2100 GBP >>> > - 3000 USD >>> >>> USD$10 from 300 people sounds manageable in exchange for modernizing a >>> web browser of this caliber. >>> >> >> Hmm, I doubt that. Hell, I'm not even sure it has 300 users. >> Unfortunately, those things are quite hard to predict/measure. >> >> I guess in the end I'll just have to try and see what happens ;) >> >> Florian >> >> -- >> http://www.the-compiler.org | [email protected] (Mail/XMPP) >> GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc >> I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/ >> > > >
