On 07.04.20 21:08, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: > Hi! Hi > > As some of you may be aware, some years ago, Qt has decided to abandon > their "webkit" based HTML-render in favor for a "webengine" (aka chrome) > based renderer. This decision was quite unfortunate for RKWard, as > QWebEngine is not available for MinGW on Windows, while that is the > compiler used by R on Windows. > > Despite of this, the future of QtWebKit looks uncertain, and we should > not rely on it being around in the long term. Therefore, RKWard can now > be compiled using QWebEngine (the default if the corresponding > development package is installed in version 5.12 or greater), while > QtWebKit is still supported as a fallback. > > Most of our PPAs[1] are now using this (those with Qt >= 5.12), as does > our Mac build[2], and the MSVC-based Windows build[3]. I'd like to > ask you to test this, i.e. browse RKWard internal pages, R help pages, > RKWard output page or other local HTML files. In particular, if you are > using RKWard on Windows, I'd like to encourage you to try our MSVC > based build, as this *might* turn out to be our single > viable future-proof option. > > If you are unsure, which renderer your version of RKWard is using, > you'll find a line stating that near the top of the output from > rk.sessionInfo().
It appears to be QtWebKit here (0.7.1z+0.7.2+devel2-0daily+4735+202004062053~ubuntu19.10.1). RKWard version: 0.7.1z+0.7.2+devel2 KDE Frameworks version (runtime): 5.67.0 KDE Frameworks version (compile time): 5.62.0 Qt version (runtime): 5.12.4 Qt version (compile time): 5.12.4 Using QtWebKit for HTML rendering So it should by QWebEngine, right? > > Thanks! > Thomas Cheers Stefan > > [1] https://launchpad.net/~rkward-devel > [2] https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/RKWard_Nightly_macos/ > [3] https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/RKWard_Nightly_win64/
