Cookies in PA

[Wolfgang Romey]

Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2013, 18:00:53 schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
> On Thursday, April 18, 2013 17:21:09 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On 18.04.2013 16:48, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > > I'm thinking about looking at snowshoe, so not quite sure what kind of
> > > future hte webbrowser has. Its development is simply lacking manpower
> > > right now, which really is the root cause of this problem.
> > 
> > I agree: A web browser is a central application for a tablet, and it's
> > not something you can get to feature parity with other major products
> > with a development team of one person, even if you get the rendering
> > engine for free. You did great work on our Browser, but I don't think it
> > makes much sense for you to continue developing it alone.
> > 
> > So maybe adapting an existing corr-platform browser to our needs might
> > be the more sensible solution in the long run, unless we find a lot more
> > people willing to hack on the PA Browser.
> 
> The problem (and advantage at the same time) of snowshoe is that it's
> written in Qt5, so we can't just add our features in, but would have to
> wait for Frameworks 5 to appear. SLC could *maybe* be done with some D-Bus
> magic, but things like cookiejar, KIO, KSSL integration would have to wait
> for F5.
> 
> So our situation is:
> <rock> <us> <hard place>

The shortness of manpower seems to me the main problem with PA development. I 
think, it will get better with the releaseof the Vivaldi-tablet and the 
progress made in plasma and qt.

So thank you all for the hard and good work done so far.

Wolfgang