<div dir="ltr">These are the days I understand why I use gentoo (despite the headaches it gives me every once in a while). No, I cannot use anything that does not have chromium, whatever the reason may be, sorry. <br><br>Both sides are right, there is not human labour enough to maintain the stuff, and cutting stuff's quality to keep up with the lack of labour means delivering an inferior product nobody would really use. I cannot see any way out of this. I'll keep building my own stuff as long as I can, but the day there won't be any linux pc desktop any more is getting closer by the minute. It's very much the end of an era.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 April 2015 at 09:23, Sandro Knauß <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knauss@kolabsys.com" target="_blank">knauss@kolabsys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey,<br>
<br>
At the moment there is a discussion in kde-core-devel, that distros won't ship<br>
QtWebEngine (at least Debian and Fedora). And ubuntu also will follow the<br>
decision of debian.<br>
<br>
The only part so far, that depends on QtWebEngine in kdepim is<br>
KSieveUi::SieveEditorWebView<br>
<br>
it only shows links like: <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5173" target="_blank">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5173</a><br>
(some people said, that these kind of links should be easy to display with a<br>
QText*)<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
sandro<br>
<br>
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Am Montag, 20. April 2015, 13:28:59 schrieb Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez<br>
Meyer:<br>
<div><div class="h5">> Hi everyone! I'm one of Debian's Qt maintainers and I'm writing here due to<br>
> the problem that QtWebEngine poses for us distros (in this case, at least<br>
> Debian and Fedora).<br>
><br>
> I know that kdepim seems to depend on it now. Sadly QtWebEngine it's quite a<br>
> hard (very hard) piece of software to package.<br>
><br>
> It embeds quite a lot of 3rd party stuff which we distros don't accept (in<br>
> different grades depending on the distro) as we require to build using the<br>
> system versions. Fedora's Rex Dieter tells me that's actually why chromium<br>
> is not available for them.<br>
><br>
> Moreover we can't build debugging symbols on most archs due to the enormous<br>
> amount of RAM+swap it involves in the linking process (more than 8GB last<br>
> time I checked). This is at least the same as QtWebKit, but seems to be<br>
> getting worse.<br>
><br>
> Yes, we do understand that QtWebEngine is technically superior to any other<br>
> thing out there but making that code an acceptable package is another thing.<br>
><br>
> So basically what I'm trying to say is: don't expect us down streamers to<br>
> easily package QtWebEngine soon, if we ever get to it.<br>
><br>
> I'm really sorry if this comes as "bad news", but the reality is currently<br>
> this :(<br>
<br>
--<br>
</div></div>Sandro Knauß<br>
Software Developer<br>
<br>
Kolab Systems AG<br>
Zürich, Switzerland<br>
<br>
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pgp: CE81539E Sandro Knauß</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">==============================<br><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px">If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music.</span></div>
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