kdewebkit moved to kdereview

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Sun Oct 25 22:57:49 GMT 2009


On Sunday 25 October 2009 22:40:47 Urs Wolfer wrote:
>   On Sunday 25 October 2009 22:05:08 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 October 2009 20:02:51 Urs Wolfer wrote:
> > > I have just moved the kdewebkit lib from
> > >  playground/libs/webkitkde/kdewebkit  into kdereview. It's the KDE
> > >  integration part of QtWebKit which is used directly in many apps and
> > > libs already (...which does not include the WebKit KPart). Any KDE app
> > > is supposed to move to this integration lib when it is in kdelibs
> > > (plans are to move it to kdelibs/kdewebkit).
> >
> > 
> > Could you briefly explain what features this brings? That might make it
> >  easier for people to understand why it's needed ...
> 
> Sure. The main point is for sure the integration of KIO. Without
>  kdewebkit,  any app which is using QWeb* classes does network interactions
>  without KDE technologies. Other points are for example:
> * using KDE icons in context menu
> * using KDE plugins (for example nsplugins flash)
> * KDE dialogs for javascript dialogs (alert, file picker, ..)

Great stuff. :) One thing I've been asking myself is if it all works in the same way 
for QGraphicsWebView (the canvas based QGraphicsWidget). Are you planning to add 
password saving / kwallet integration as well?
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sebas

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