T5852: Abstract from direct use of QtWebEngine

[Tobias C. Berner]

tcberner created this task.

TASK DESCRIPTION
  KDEPim started to heavily rely on QtWebEngine. I think it would be better, if an abstraction, say `KWebPage` were introduced, which could be built against `QtWebEngine`, `QtWebKit`, and what ever will be the hot-new-thing two years down the line.
  
  There are multiple reasons I think this would be a good idea
  
  - FreeBSD&Co do not have WebEngine -- which blocks us from providing up to date KDEPim. [1], and possibly more applications every new KDE Applications release cycle.
  - Who knows how long WebEngine is //the thing//
  - Less code duplications (every application seems to write more or less the same code to restrict the capabilities of WebEngine)
  - Some people may have [security] concerns with being required to use google code to run KDE
  
  Such an abstraction was started by @apol for kdevelop in https://phabricator.kde.org/D5042.
  
  Thoughts?
  
  [1] I invite people to glance at the chromium sources, before telling me //just port WebEngine to FreeBSD // :)

TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/T5852

To: tcberner
Cc: arrowdodger, rakuco, kfunk, #kde_pim, #freebsd, tcberner, apol
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