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jochen.kuehner at gmx

Mar 17, 2008, 3:42 AM

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MythBrowser with QT4

I'm thinking of porting Mythbrowser to QT4, and if this could be done by me.

I have a few questions about it:

What would be the suggested Solution for Mythbrowser, would it be better if
KDE4 or qt is used for Mythbrowser? I think qt is the better solution,
because otherwise we have one lib more we need! What do the other people
think???

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stuart at tase

Mar 17, 2008, 4:29 AM

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Re: MythBrowser with QT4 [In reply to]

On Monday 17 March 2008 10:42:43 Jochen Kühner Privat wrote:
> What would be the suggested Solution for Mythbrowser, would it be better if
> KDE4 or qt is used for Mythbrowser? I think qt is the better solution,
> because otherwise we have one lib more we need! What do the other people
> think???

QT would be best. I think Janne mentioned using qtwebkit but that requires QT
4.4 which isn't yet available.

I think using KDE would be a real mistake, this is the perfect opportunity to
get away from that dependency.
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cardoe at gmail

Mar 19, 2008, 2:09 PM

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Re: MythBrowser with QT4 [In reply to]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Stuart Morgan <stuart [at] tase> wrote:

> On Monday 17 March 2008 10:42:43 Jochen Kühner Privat wrote:
> > What would be the suggested Solution for Mythbrowser, would it be better
> if
> > KDE4 or qt is used for Mythbrowser? I think qt is the better solution,
> > because otherwise we have one lib more we need! What do the other people
> > think???
>
> QT would be best. I think Janne mentioned using qtwebkit but that requires
> QT
> 4.4 which isn't yet available.
>
> I think using KDE would be a real mistake, this is the perfect opportunity
> to
> get away from that dependency.

As discussed in the #mythtv channel, using Qt 4.4 would be a great benefit
here due to including WebKit directly in QT. The best solution all around
for everyone would probably just say that mythbrowser is going to be a
feature dependent on Qt 4.4 since users will have a solid and well tested
mythbrowser implementation and all the work to port to KHTML 4.x will be
better spent on other parts of MythTV.

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stuarta at squashedfrog

Mar 26, 2008, 8:35 AM

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Re: MythBrowser with QT4 [In reply to]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:42:43AM +0100, Jochen Kühner Privat wrote:
> I'm thinking of porting Mythbrowser to QT4, and if this could be done by me.
>
> I have a few questions about it:
>
> What would be the suggested Solution for Mythbrowser, would it be better if
> KDE4 or qt is used for Mythbrowser? I think qt is the better solution,
> because otherwise we have one lib more we need! What do the other people
> think???
>

Personally, I'd start by throwing the existing mythbrowser in the bin
and starting again.

Perhaps thrash out a design for the new one on the list here to make
sure all the use cases are covered and off we go.

Stuart A
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mtdean at thirdcontact

Mar 26, 2008, 10:43 AM

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Re: MythBrowser with QT4 [In reply to]

On 03/26/2008 11:35 AM, stuarta [at] squashedfrog wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:42:43AM +0100, Jochen Kühner Privat wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking of porting Mythbrowser to QT4, and if this could be done by me.
>>
>> I have a few questions about it:
>>
>> What would be the suggested Solution for Mythbrowser, would it be better if
>> KDE4 or qt is used for Mythbrowser? I think qt is the better solution,
>> because otherwise we have one lib more we need! What do the other people
>> think???
> Personally, I'd start by throwing the existing mythbrowser in the bin
> and starting again.
>
> Perhaps thrash out a design for the new one on the list here to make
> sure all the use cases are covered and off we go.

Anyone a whiz with Firefox extensions and/or plugins? Because the
current MythBrowser requires KDE libs (that I don't want on my system),
I don't have it, so I had been considering trying to figure out whether
it would be possible to make a
remote-control-usable-with-10-foot-interface Firefox with extensions
and/or plugins, possibly with chrome or XUL changes to make it more
appropriate for the 10-foot usage scenario. Unfortunately, as I have a
computer (with 2-foot interface) in my TV viewing room, it's been very
low priority for me, so I haven't even looked into it.

Of course, it still makes sense to ensure that we have a "built-in"
browser to maintain the MythTV "all-in-one" approach. And with QT4.4's
webkit, it seems that it would make sense to make a MythBrowser that
uses webkit (if QT version >= 4.4) so those who don't have KDE libs can
still build the integrated MythBrowser. IMHO, QT 4.4 could be the
minimum required QT version for those wanting MythBrowser and QT 4.3 (or
whatever) could be the minimum required QT version for anyone else.

I just wondered if it might be easier to get a FF-based approach going
quickly, and resolve people's concerns about QT version requirements if
MythBrowser goes to a webkit-based approach.

Mike
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