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On Sat, 2021-03-06 at 09:46 -0600, The Bit Pit wrote:
> I am a proxy maintainer for mythtv and mythplugins on gentoo linux.
> mythplugins [mythbrowser mythmusic] do not compile without qtwebkit.
> Other mythplugins require mythbrowser be installed in order to work.
>
> Does anyone use mythbrowser or one of the mythplugins that depend on
> mythbrowser?

I use mythmusic, but I'm not a gentoo user.

> Is anyone working on converting mythbrowser and mythmusic to not
> require qtwebkit?

I'm working on porting MythTV to qt6, but I haven't done any work on
the lack of qtwebkit. I'm still trying to get a basic qt6 compile to
finish at this point. Any qtwebkit->qwebengine work could be done
separately since qwebengine is available in qt5, but that not where I'm
focused at the moment.

David


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On Sun, 2021-03-07 at 09:27 -0500, David Hampton via mythtv-dev wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-03-06 at 09:46 -0600, The Bit Pit wrote:
> > I am a proxy maintainer for mythtv and mythplugins on gentoo linux.
> > mythplugins [mythbrowser mythmusic] do not compile without
> > qtwebkit.
> > Other mythplugins require mythbrowser be installed in order to
> > work.
> >
> > Does anyone use mythbrowser or one of the mythplugins that depend
> > on
> > mythbrowser?
>
> I use mythmusic, but I'm not a gentoo user.

Likewise.

> > Is anyone working on converting mythbrowser and mythmusic to not
> > require qtwebkit?
>
> I'm working on porting MythTV to qt6, but I haven't done any work on
> the lack of qtwebkit. I'm still trying to get a basic qt6 compile to
> finish at this point. Any qtwebkit->qwebengine work could be done
> separately since qwebengine is available in qt5, but that not where I'm
> focused at the moment.

In mythmusic at least it looks like the browser stuff is used for:

* image search for album/genre/artist on flickr or google images for
metadata purposes.
* something in the visualisers (I can't actually see where apart from the
header, might be an unnecessary include or maybe it's one of the
visualisers somehow not immediately obvious).
* streaming, which forward declares the MythUIWebBrowser class but
doesn't appear to use it.

I'll try dropping the bits of the second and third and see if
everything still builds since they look vestigial on first glance.
After that maybe it would be acceptable to make the image search bit
optional (I had no idea it existed til just now so I don't (and
wouldn't) use it)?

Ian.

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On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 3:46 PM The Bit Pit
<thebitpit@austincustomerrands.com> wrote:

> Is anyone working on converting mythbrowser and mythmusic to not require
> qtwebkit?

The project has had a long term understanding that
qtwebkit was deprecated (if one reads various
archives it was discussed a long time ago), but as
qtwebkit has been community supported(*) (outside
of the Qt project itself) no one has ever decided to
invest the effort(s) required to migrate forward to
qtwebengine (or other technologies) as one can
still use qtwebkit in almost all distros (either via
direct or 3rd party repositories, or by building it
locally). Obviously, everyone understands that
at some point that will need to change.




(*) There have historically been a lot of apps that
for one reason or another depend on qtwebkit
and have not been updated, so the interim fix for
all those apps was keeping qtwebkit buildable,
and last I knew it still was.
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