kdewebkit moved to kdereview

Dawit A. adawit at kde.org
Wed Oct 28 01:05:09 GMT 2009


On Tuesday 27 October 2009 14:42:22 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On October 26, 2009, Urs Wolfer wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:15:33 +0100, Allan Sandfeld Jensen
> >
> > <kde at carewolf.com> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 25 October 2009, 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).
> > >
> > > Where does webkit kpart go? I always assumed kdewebkit would move to
> > > kdesupport and the webkitpart to extragear/libs.
> >
> > For the moment it will stay in playground. Only kdewebkit has been moved
> > to
> > kdereview.
> >
> > The KPart is not feature complete yet; KWallet integration is missing for
> > example.
> 
> does this mean kwallet support is going into the KPart rather than
>  KWebPage? if so, then that will mean reimplementing KWallet support for
>  every app that doesn't use the KPart, let alone KWebView.

The KWallet integration is going to be provided in kdewebkit. It will have no 
dependency on the webkitpart (kpart)...

> i ask because there is now a QGraphicsWebView included with QtWebkit which
> Plasma eventually will be using instead of our own QWebPage-behind-a-
> QGraphicsWidget implementation that we currently use; being able to set the
> KWebPage on a QGraphicsWebView and get everything, including KWallet
> integration, would be optimal.

That is exactly the kind of thing KWebPage is actually designed to solve. You 
use it in place of its Qt counter part to get all of the KDE integration for 
free...




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