[Development] Importing Snowshoe QML browser to the Qt project

[Laszlo Papp]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Simon Hausmann <simon.hausmann at digia.com>wrote:

> 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?
>

Short: +1

Long: Tried on Harmattan briefly back then, and I think it is cool to have.
Hopefully, it can enter other mobile platforms, too.

Laszlo
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