On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:59 AM, Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Please remember me what is the difference of webkitgtk, webkitgtk3
and webkitgtk4 ?
The package names are very confusing, sorry.
webkitgtk: This package is WebKitGTK+ 2.4 built with the original
WebKitGTK+ API, for use by GTK+ 2 applications. If you really, really
want to use it in your package, you can bundle it, but this is
discouraged since security updates ended in 2014.
webkitgtk3: This package is WebKitGTK+ 2.4 built with the original
WebKitGTK+ API, for use by GTK+ 3 applications. Ditto.
webkitgtk4: This package is the modern version of WebKitGTK+ (currently
2.18.3). It's the only version that you should be using. It exposes a
newer multiprocess API. The "4" in the package name is related to the
API version, but this was a mistake IMO.
To save the Markdown plugin, you'd need to rewrite all of Geany with
GTK+ 3, first using the webkitgtk3 package. Then you can switch to
webkitgtk4 as the next step. It's not possible to mix GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3
in the same process, so switching to GTK+ 3 is the only way you can
continue using WebKitGTK+ without bundling the old version. A better
alternative might be to stop using WebKitGTK+ altogether if it's not
absolutely required. (I don't know, but perhaps you could use pango,
for instance.) Alternatively: possibly you could try to run the
markdown plugin in a separate process from the rest of Geany?
Note: even if you rewrite Geany with GTK+ 3, it's only a matter of time
(guess: five years or so) before we drop GTK+ 3 support. So you have to
be prepared to move on to GTK+ 4 sooner or later. If you're not OK with
this then you should not be using WebKitGTK+ at all.
Hope that helps,
Michael
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