[Qgis-developer] Plans for QGIS 3.0 and QWebView.... *sigh*

[Luigi Pirelli]

First... thank you Nyall to rise up the argument.

second... I had to plugin heavely using QWebKit... but basing on this:
https://wiki.qt.io/Porting_from_QtWebKit_to_QtWebEngine
It wouldn't be a problem get rid of webkit and use directly webengine.
The use of QTextBrowser is not an option for that plugins.

I didn't dig into QWebEngine rendering limitations, so I don't have
opinions about this.

cheers




Luigi Pirelli

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On 14 September 2016 at 09:48, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 September 2016 at 17:37, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On 09/14/2016 09:23 AM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>> On 09/14/2016 09:13 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>>>> On 09/14/2016 09:02 AM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>>>> On 09/14/2016 08:46 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>>>>>> On 09/14/2016 08:26 AM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>>>>>> QtWebKit is not removed, is it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not yet, but will be (in Debian) since there is no more upstream
>>>>>> security support for WebKit in Qt4 now that it's EOL. Continuing to rely
>>>>>> on WebKit in Qt4 is irresponsible from a security POV.
>>>>>
>>>>> We will be switching to Qt5 soon, this discussion only targets the Qt5
>>>>> version, so this is no issue.
>>>>
>>>> For Qt5 it's no problem, that's still supported upstream.
>>>>
>>>> I thought you meant like the embedded copy of python-qt4.
>>>>
>>>>> In the meanwhile it would be nice if QGIS users wouldn't be forced to
>>>>> switch to other distributions.
>>>>
>>>> It would be great if QGIS were to support changes in its dependencies
>>>> sooner, and not wait until they are (near) EOL. I guess the incentive
>>>> isn't there when there is no funding for it.
>>>
>>> I've started working on Qt5 transitions without any funding way more
>>> than a year ago.
>>
>> Yes, and props to your for that. If only you had more helping hands
>> longer before Qt4 went EOL.
>>
>> Qt4 went EOL in December 2014 and was eventually extended to December
>> 2015, the work on Qt5 support in QGIS was still very late in the Qt4
>> lifetime.
>>
>> Work on Qt5 support should have started when Qt 5.0.0 was released and
>> planned to be ready when Qt4 originally went EOL. That's what I expected
>> for such an essential component of QGIS, and what made me so
>> disappointed about how the Qt4/Qt5 situation was actually handled.
>
> By the way Bas - If I'm coming across as annoyed it's because I am.
>
> But it's not at you or our distro partners! I'm annoyed at Qt upstream
> for both the web view situation and for the predicament that
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-47192 has put us in (a broken
> application on Qt 5.5 and 5.6 which we can't work around).
>
> I totally realise that you're also a volunteer and put in difficult
> situations because of the choices we as upstream make. Thanks for all
> the hours you've put into supporting this project behind the scenes.
> It's VERY much appreciated.
>
> Nyall
>
>
>
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Bas
>>
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