[rekonq] Re: Plasma Active webbrowser

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 26 July 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:02:55 Andrea Diamantini wrote:
> > Hi all,I'm here to say I'm sorry I could no more work on this active
> > browser port.In fact in all my attempts "against" QML, it seems clear to
> > me I cannotreach there any sort of KDE integration, at least the one
> > needed forrekonq code (access manager, webpage control, web elements
> > access).
> 
> if we came to this kind of conclusion within Plasma we'd never get anything
> done. :) nearly everything we've done from the start of QGraphicsScene to
> now with QML has been at the edge of what seems possible. but we find
> ways, and the starting point is to not accept the idea that it can't be
> done.

and yet there are still things that are not possible or things that will be 
harder in the future, due to drastically divergence of views between "us and 
them(tm)", but some times just byte the bullet and go on ;)

> that desktop rekonq may wish to rethink using HTML for those items: while
> it looks ok right now, it's rather clunky and the amount of work to make
> it snazzy and gorgeous in, say, HTML5 will likely be as much work (with
> likely lower quality results) than doing it in QML. starting with the QML
> that sebastian has already written for the web dashboard for Plasma Active
> would be an interesting starting point, imho.
> 
> see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgdnuxcUcWg starting at 2:00 to see what
> we currently have there.

eh, i was thinking about using that very qml as a "default page" for the 
browser, as it could make sense for it to be out of the workspace.

and note, that view (also because it uses pretty abstract components we did 
for other things) represents just a few hors of work and a surprisingly little 
amount of code

Cheers,
Marco Martin