QWebEngine

Stefan Rödiger [GMX] stefan_roediger at gmx.de
Wed Apr 8 23:40:36 BST 2020


Thanks, will start testing now

-- Frontend --
RKWard version: 0.7.1z+0.7.2+devel2
KDE Frameworks version (runtime): 5.67.0
KDE Frameworks version (compile time): 5.62.0
Qt version (runtime): 5.12.4
Qt version (compile time): 5.12.4
Using QWebEngine for HTML rendering


On 07.04.20 21:08, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi!
>
> As some of you may be aware, some years ago, Qt has decided to abandon
> their "webkit" based HTML-render in favor for a "webengine" (aka chrome)
> based renderer. This decision was quite unfortunate for RKWard, as
> QWebEngine is not available for MinGW on Windows, while that is the
> compiler used by R on Windows.
>
> Despite of this, the future of QtWebKit looks uncertain, and we should
> not rely on it being around in the long term. Therefore, RKWard can now
> be compiled using QWebEngine (the default if the corresponding
> development package is installed in version 5.12 or greater), while
> QtWebKit is still supported as a fallback.
>
> Most of our PPAs[1] are now using this (those with Qt >= 5.12), as does
> our Mac build[2], and the MSVC-based Windows build[3]. I'd like to
> ask you to test this, i.e. browse RKWard internal pages, R help pages,
> RKWard output page or other local HTML files. In particular, if you are
> using RKWard on Windows, I'd like to encourage you to try our MSVC
> based build, as this *might* turn out to be our single
> viable future-proof option.
>
> If you are unsure, which renderer your version of RKWard is using,
> you'll find a line stating that near the top of the output from
> rk.sessionInfo().
>
> Thanks!
> Thomas
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~rkward-devel
> [2] https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/RKWard_Nightly_macos/
> [3] https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/RKWard_Nightly_win64/


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