[Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

André Pönitz apoenitz at t-online.de
Sun Jun 23 19:08:44 CEST 2019


On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 01:05:32PM +0000, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> Would we provide a menu in the start menu for "Qt documentation" that 
> would launch the web server and then the user preferred web browser with 
> that url? How is the server terminated?
> 
> 
> Either way, this requires developing either a new frontend application 
> first or a back-end that can do the index searches, etc.
> 
> 
> To me it seems easier to solve this first by making the Qt Assistant use 
> WebEngine and when we later have a better doc "frontend" (as web app) 
> switch to that and potentially an external browser.

As that this does not make WebEngine mandatory for anyhthing that passes
as "Qt Creator's Help integration"...

Andre'



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