[Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

[Palaraja, Kavindra]

On 28.06.19, 12:22, "Eike Ziller" <Eike.Ziller at qt.io> wrote:

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    > From your response, I'm only gathering two options:

    There are other options.
    https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2019-June/036712.html
    summarizes many of them.
    Additionally “strip down QtWebEngine or QtWebKit and support that”.
    Or, separating "plain and simple API documentation" to be displayed directly an Qt Creator/Assistant from “fancy tutorials” to be displayed by a browser of the user’s choice.

Just curious, how would you define "plain and simple API documentation"?

Developer documentation is split up into four categories:

* API Reference -- the inline source code comments
* Conceptual documentation -- The qdoc files that we use to explain how to use large modules
* Code samples -- The snippets and the Examples
* Strings -- error messages and Creator's strings

Right now, with qdoc, all we have is "plain and simple API documentation", the first three categories. None of this is fancy yet Creator/Assistant can't display it correctly.

    > 1. Live with it and hope that somehow this will solve itself in the future -- there is no evidence from the past years that this is going to happen. Recall that the ticket we are still debating over is from March 2016.

    > 2. Give QtWebEngine at least a try, let the users decide in a BETA phase.

    - a tiny percentage of users use Betas
    - there already is quite some controversy in this email thread

I don’t see why this should be a controversy. I understand and empathize with the reaction from some of the community members, but I think as people who have worked in this product and industry for a while, we should be able to discuss this in a respectful, professional, clear headed manner.

    Br, Eike

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