[Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

[André Pönitz]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 01:10:26PM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Friday, 10 November 2017 11:41:56 PST André Pönitz wrote:
> > > are there plans to retire QtWebKit support, migrate to using QtWebEngine
> > > or to improve QTextBrowser's HTML support?
> > 
> > WebEngine is plainly inacceptable as dependency for QTextBrowser which
> > is part of the QtWidgets module.
> 
> But improving Assistant need not imply changing QtWidgets.
> solutions for this:

> 1) make qttools depend on qtwebengine

Optionally, perhaps, as done in https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/111559/

I still wouldn't want to have that as default. It's complete overkill for
the task at hand - "Display mildly formatted Rich Text, quickly".
And that's not yet considering security implication.

Andre'