[rekonq] Rekonq 1.2 && Rekonq 2.0

[Alex Fiestas]

On Monday 01 October 2012 16:49:03 andrea diamantini wrote:
> Hi all,
> long time no posts here, so it's time for some rekonq news :)
> I'm going to release (in 2 days) last code from 1.1 series, the rekonq 1.2
> one. It will contain, together with some bugfixes, our first windows
> installer to easy adoption on "third-world software" platforms :)
> rekonq on windows is really not usable yet, but it is doing some nice
> progress.
> 
> On the other hand, I'd like to show my work on the upcoming 2.0 series. Its
> code is actually located here: "git://
> anongit.kde.org/scratch/adjam/rekonq2.git". It is a "tabs up" version of
> rekonq, based on qwidget (no qmainwindows there), with a strong code
> reorganization and the possibility to introduce "in as easy way" some nice
> features probably availables since 2.0 release:
> - a webapp integrated in the "main" rekonq code (no code duplication. I
> will implement this in the upcoming week)
> - a new tabs management (identical to firefox, just available)
> - a pin tab feature (adapting, fixing and improving one year's ago Furkan
> "pin tab code")
> 
> Another thing to decide that will be "easy" to introduce now is the ability
> to create one process per window, being window also separated tabs (see
> webapp first point). This, together with kwin tab scripting feature will
> enable a real "one process per tab" rekonq.
> I'm not sure this will be implemented in the 2.0 series because it will
> also cost the implementation of the sharing mechanism (via dbus?) for eg.
> history & bookmarks.
> 
> Some things may probably be also added if you have valid suggestions (eg:
> someone was proposing a new implementation for the rekonq pages). I'm just
> pointing out that I'd like to respect this plan:
> - 15 to 20 october: rekonq 1.80 release (the "technology preview", no more
> feature in after this line).
> - 15 to 20 november: rekonq 1.90 (rekonq 2 beta)
> - 15 to 20 december: rekonq 2.0 release!
> 
> Regards,

Wow! super awesome to see rekonq moving on!

I can't stop wondering what's the status of QtWebkit2 (the multiprocess one), 
will it be impossible for us to make use of it?

Maintaining our own fork of Webkit is going to be super time consuming :/