<div dir="ltr">Ok. What about the library Qt Location? That sounds more like what you are looking for, minus the over-engineered approach to require a whole web browser engine to get a couple of functions.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 4:41 PM Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Qt web module are used in digiKam to displayed map for geolocation support. This feature is very important and there is no option to disable geolocation support at compilation time.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, We start to use this Qt web module to open session in web service for import/export files with the cloud.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 19 nov. 2019 à 19:20, Philippe Baril Lecavalier <<a href="mailto:pbl.ltx@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbl.ltx@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Pardon me if the issue was raised or discussed before, I could not find any trace of it.<br><br>Why is qtwebengine/qtwebkit a dependency for digikam? My main use of digikam is to fetch images from my phone or camera. I don't see the need for an entire (and not a light one!) web engine here. Gwenview doesn't call for one to display images or their metadata.<br><br>The issue for me? Not interested to build the whole creepy-chrome from scratch every time an update is pushed (Gentoo here, maybe 2 hours for qtwebkit, more for qtwebengine). If I used some KDE web browser, it would make sense. But it's not the case, and so I got to build a thing that takes longer than gcc itself solely for digikam (and presumably taking more space than digikam too).<br><br>Suggestion: A flag to build digikam minus whatever feature calls for a web browser engine? If the whole application is based on it, I can understand that.<br><br><div>I am not a C++/qt developer, so I'm sorry if I can't push an actual proposal any further. If I can help with testing, it's the least I can do.</div><div><br></div><div>Philippe Baril Lecavalier<br></div></div>
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