[mythtv-users] MythTV qtwebkit dependency
Paul Harrison
mythtv at sky.com
Sat Oct 29 16:49:23 UTC 2016
On 29/10/16 11:01, Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:
>> On 24/10/16 14:58, Tom Dexter wrote:
>>
>>
>> I think John forgot we still use Qt Webkit for the browser widget that is
>> part of MythUI and is still being used by the plugins.
>>
>>
>> Paul H.
>
> Is that mythbrowser you're referring to? It's too bad this is
> required, given that most users will never technically need it. Qt
> Webkit is a big requirement the way it is, but the odd compile time
> requirement for ruby (which I don't really understand) makes things
> even worse.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Tom
Yeah MythBrowser uses it. Also if you removed it MythNews, MythNetVision
and MythMusic would be affected since they all use MythBrowser.
They've gone a little quite about it but some of my fellow devs want to
remove the plugins algether so you will probably get your way at some
point. I don't see the tiny amount of disk space required for the webkit
stuff to be a big problem when you consider the multi GB space required
for recordings.
You could make it optional and only allow those plugins to be configured
if QtWebkit is available but then you run into problems with future
development not knowing if you can use the browser widget or not.
Personally I'd be sad to see it. If you remove the one or two remaining
differences between Kodi and MythFrontend, the web browser and
MythZoneMinder etc then what's the incentive to continue developing the
frontend? Might as well just kill it off :(
Paul H.
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