[Development] Importing Snowshoe QML browser to the Qt project

[Simon Hausmann]

Hi all,

Now that Qt 5.0.0 is out I feel that it is a good time to also emphasize show cases
of Qt and QML as a technology. In Qt 4 we've had a couple of pretty nice demos
in the source code, including a pretty neat demo browser. It serves as a show-case
for QtWebKit's C++ API and the Qt widgets (line edit, customizable tab widget, etc.).

I would like to have the same for the new technologies we've been working on in
the past years, Qt 5, QtQuick 2 and the multi-process capable WebKit integration
into Qt. That means basically a little web browser that blends all these technologies
together. One option is to start with a new code base from scratch, but I would
like to explore another option first:

Our friends at INdT started writing a little web browser with exactly that spirit,
and to top it off: It's open source and it looks very pretty! It's got a shiny website at

    http://snowshoe.openbossa.org/

and source code that is currently hosted at Github.

So I got in touch with them and they're willing to contribute the code to the Qt
project. I'm therefore seeking approval from the Qt project to importing Snowshoe
into Gerrit, with

    playground/snowshoe

as proposed location, although I admit that we do have a little problem with
the naming there as it's not in line with the guidelines:

http://qt-project.org/wiki/Creating-a-new-module-or-tool-for-Qt#681f347d064c99a795cb47631e853396



Opinions? Thoughts?


Simon