khtml for Jabber

[George Staikos]

On Saturday 16 September 2006 12:54, Francisco Joaquín Rodríguez Prados wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> It's been a while since we want to improve the chat window in the Psi
> [1] jabber client. And of course, one of our options is supporting
> Adium themes - like Kopete or Gtalk already do.
>
> At this point is where KHTML comes into play. As you may already know,
> Psi is a cross-platform client programmed in Qt. That's why we thought
> of adapting KTHML to be as much as possible kde-libs independent.
>
> The thing is we do not have the resources to maintain a fork of KHTML,
> so the first idea was creating a library with KHTML and the smallest
> subset of kde-libs needed for it to work. Keeping of course both trees
> synchronized, to have full code compatibility.
>
> I tried compiling KHTML from scratch (creating a new Qt project), but
> short after I started I heard about the port of the whole Apple WebKit
> back to Qt4. Which was a pretty good new: it sounded like a pretty
> kdelibs-independent version of WebKit. However, we have heard no
> further news on that project.

  This is now living in webkit's svn.  We have a bit of a divergence (2-3 
patches) in our tree which should be ported over to webkit SVN today.  
Hopefully we can setup some sort of forum for webkit+qt soon to make it 
easier to discuss.

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George Staikos
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