> Hallo, > > I still don't get the point why you need to replace Phonon in QtWebkit, > when > it works ok everywhere else, from HTML5 in KHTML over plasmoids up to > Amarok > or any video player in KDE. In fact it is currently maturing to a state > where > it fulfills its goal and makes playback on different platforms and over > all the > desktop with different backends a painless effort. I guess it comes from > your > mobile roadmap, but please don't be shortsighted. > QtWebkit has some relevance in KDE, as it is the only serious perspective > for > a KDE platform browser being it Konqueror with kpart-webkit or something > like > rekonq. When you decide to move to QtMultimedia you in fact break QtWebkit > for > KDE and make the usage of Phonon either pointless, because you need > QtMultimedia with GStreamer anyway or force KDE SC to create a fork with > Phonon built-in. > Although I am not a multimedia guy this problem hits me hard, because I > have > written a kioslave to allow iostreams from bittorrent in any KDE > application. > While this works like a charm in Konqueror+KHTML with almost instant > playback > in the HTML5 widget it does not work in QtWebkit :-/ Atm. this is a > primary > use case. > Since the kio module uses KTorrent, it will be, at least to my > understanding, > very difficult to add a similar input module to Qt to allow support in > QtWebkit > as well. And even if it could be done, it wouldn't be smart. > To unlock the situation of QtWebkit for any future KDE platform browser > you > should definetly talk to the Phonon guys and try to figure a road map > where > Phonon suppport is at least still buildable in QtWebkit. I'm one of the phonon guys. The reason I'm asking is because we *want* phonon to stay used by QtWebkit. Not too sure what your reply is trying to say, but thanks for the gobs of praise anyways :)
There is no plan for KDE to use QtMultimedia. Phonon is and will always be the multimedia toolkit for KDE. > > I hope it is obvious that supporting KDE is only in your (Nokia's) > interest as > it is not only the most sophisticated free desktop environment and a > serious > playground for new ideas, but also a very flexible platform to explore > innovative new technologies in the future. kio-magnet is only one small > perspective on bridging the web with free desktop technologies. Still it > is a > unique platform-feature atm and has already raised some attention. Sorry to disappoint, but I'm not working for Nokia :P > > Christian > >> On Sunday, January 09, 2011 06:24:13 pm Antonio Gomes wrote: >> > http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/05/06/qt-47-scope-change-regarding-qt-multi >> > me dia/ >> >> So does that mean qtwebkit will be using Phonon for the forseeable >> future, >> or just for 4.7? >> >> > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Trever Fischer >> > >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > Howdy. >> > > >> > > Us over in phonon land are wondering about webkit-qt's relationship >> > > with Phonon. >> > > >> > > * Whats the current status of Phonon's integration with webkit-qt? >> > > * How can phonon be improved to fit your use cases? >> > > >> > > We're in #phonon on freenode and i'm idling in #webkit if a more >> > > interactive medium is desired. >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Trever Fischer (tdfischer) >> > > Fedora Ambassador, KDE Hacker >> > > http://wm161.net >> > > GPG: C40F2998 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > webkit-qt mailing list >> > > [email protected] >> > > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-qt mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-qt mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt > -- Trever Fischer (tdfischer) Fedora Ambassador, KDE Hacker http://wm161.net GPG: C40F2998 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net _______________________________________________ webkit-qt mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt
