[mythtv-users] MythTV qtwebkit dependency

[Paul Harrison]

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.