[Development] Qt WebKit dependency in Qt Assistant

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Sat Jan 2 14:55:41 CET 2016


On Saturday 02 January 2016 12:38:54 Martin Koller wrote:
> On Saturday 02 January 2016 10:07:28 Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> > El Saturday 02 January 2016, Aleix Pol escribió:
> > > Hi,
> > > One of the big news lately is the deprecation of Qt WebKit module.
> > > 
> > > One of the Qt dependencies on it is assistant (which is a tool I use
> > > quite often, really) and AFAIK it's using it quite thoroughly. It used
> > > to be powered by QTextBrowser though, as far as I remember.
> > > 
> > > What's the plan there?
> > 
> > It can be compiled to use QTextBrowser instead of WebKit, and it received
> > some
> > commits a year ago to improve that abstraction:
> ... and I hope this is not the final plan (using QTextBrowser instead of a
> real HTML engine), since then our help pages (we integrated assistant into
> our product) would no longer render correctly.

You can still use QtWebKit.
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