[mythtv-users] MythTV qtwebkit dependency

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 29/10/16 17:49, Paul Harrison wrote:
> 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.
> 

We are probably better off spending time porting MythBrowser to the new
web engine (QtWebEngine iirc...)

> 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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