On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that there have been 2 recent developments that make it much more > likely for QtWebEngine (and Chromium) to become acceptable for Fedora: > > 1. Samsung developed a multimedia backend for Chromium that uses GStreamer > instead of FFmpeg: > http://blogs.s-osg.org/announcing-a-new-gstreamer-backend-for-chromium/ > > 2. V8 upstream is working on a bytecode interpreter in their master branch, > which can serve as a fallback for architectures (non-SSE2 i686, secondary > architectures) not supported by the V8 JIT: > https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8/+log/master/src/interpreter > > In addition, the people who were at Akademy are reporting that at least the > QtWebEngine upstream is cooperative when it comes to unbundling libraries, > and there has been significant progress on that. > > The Qupzilla browser is working on a QtWebEngine-based version, and there > are also first plans (and some experimental code) for a KDE QtWebEngine > browser under the name "Fiber". > > I propose that we stick to Konqueror/KWebKitPart at least until it is clear > whether we can get QtWebEngine in. If it works out, then we can plan a move > to Qupzilla, Fiber, or a new browser if one comes out (or maybe even stick > to Konqueror if somebody writes a KWebEnginePart for it). If we KNOW it > doesn't work out, and if we have no way to keep KWebKitPart up to date, THAT > would be the moment to consider non-KDE alternatives (e.g. Firefox). > Shipping Firefox as a one-time stopgap is not worth it when a better > solution may actually be round the corner. > > > Therefore: > > Proposal: For Fedora 23, we stick with Konqueror. Evaluation of QtWebEngine > is still ongoing, due also to recent upstream developments. We will > reconsider the default browser decision after that. > > +1 from me for this proposal, obviously. > The other voting members, please vote. +1. But I'd say we're alone. I'm looking forward to what will come in the next few months. And another few days on poorly performing Firefox :(. Jaroslav > > Kevin Kofler > > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -- -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Engineering Program Manager Office: +420 532 294 645 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 PIN: REZZABBM Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/ _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
