From: mrosset@bufio.org
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: mike.rosset@gmail.com, 35866@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#35866] [PATCH] gnu: Add qtwebengine.
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 10:48:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y32qii63.fsf@bufio.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhn7pq0r.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Mon, 27 May 2019 23:05:08 +0200")
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
Hello Ludovic, thank you for looking at this.
>
> <https://github.com/mrosset/nomad/> looks pretty exciting, which
> motivates me to take a look at this patch. :-)
This is my motivation for having this included with guix. the main URL
is https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/nomad/ and the main source is
http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nomad.git?h=feature-qt. Development
is currently being done on the feature-qt branch.
Nomad is still very much WIP. And some early documentation can be found
here. http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nomad.git/tree/org/README.txt?h=feature-qt.
In short Nomad is an extensible web browser that uses GNU guile as it's
extension language. And is heavily modeled after Emacs.
>> + (synopsis "Qt5WebEngine")
>> + (description "Qt5WebEngine provides support for web
>> +applications using the Chromium browser project.")
>
> As you may know, Guix contains a variant of ‘ungoogled-chromium’, which
> goes to great lengths to remove non-free software, DRM support, spyware, etc.
>
> The problem is that QtWebEngine bundles Chromium. We would need to
> “unbundle” it and/or replace it with ‘ungoogled-chromium’. I’m not sure
> how hard that is.
I have done some research as to how best to handle the chromium sources
that are distributed with qtwebengine. From my understanding so far. QT
has similar goals as ungoogle-chromium. Based off of the information
found here https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine. Binaries are stripped from
source tree. Services that talk to Google are removed. And the code is
refactored to use system libraries like OpenSSL.
There is a more in depth break down on the chromium rebase process found
here. https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine/Rebase_on_New_Chromium .
It seems to me that QT is already doing the right thing
here. Unfortunately I don't think it will be easy to reuse the
ungoogle-chrome code base. It would probably require manually re-basing
then applying qt patches. Also there is no clear benefit for it. Since
updating ungoogle-chromium would not directly benefit qtwebengine. In
short QT seems to already be doing the necessary work.
I can though now, do my best to ensure that the least amount of 3rd
party libraries are used. I'll update my patch as soon as possible. And
I will explore the chromium source issue more in the process.
Regards,
Mike Rosset
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-28 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-23 6:23 [bug#35866] [PATCH] gnu: Add qtwebengine mike rosset
2019-05-27 21:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-28 17:48 ` mrosset [this message]
2019-06-01 9:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-29 23:37 ` [bug#35866] Mike Rosset
2019-05-29 23:37 ` [bug#35866] [PATCH] gnu: qtwebengine: Do not use 3rd party libraries Mike Rosset
2019-05-31 19:28 ` Marius Bakke
2019-05-31 23:16 ` mrosset
2019-07-18 9:26 ` [bug#35866] [PATCH] gnu: Add qtwebengine Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-06 15:45 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-07 15:49 ` mike.rosset
2019-07-24 14:06 ` Brendan Tildesley
2019-12-16 15:29 ` [bug#35866] " Hartmut Goebel
2019-12-16 16:02 ` mike.rosset
2019-12-16 18:01 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-18 20:32 ` [bug#35866] [PATCH] " Mike Rosset
2019-12-19 18:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-19 20:19 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-12-20 0:02 ` mike.rosset
2019-12-18 20:45 ` Mike Rosset
2019-12-31 13:10 ` Hartmut Goebel
2020-01-01 16:29 ` mike.rosset
2020-01-01 16:03 ` [bug#35866] [PATCH 1/4] " Mike Rosset
2020-01-01 16:03 ` [bug#35866] [PATCH 2/4] gnu: qtwebengine now uses pulseaudio Mike Rosset
2020-01-01 16:03 ` [bug#35866] [PATCH 3/4] gnu: qtwebengine: now uses system libvpx Mike Rosset
2020-01-01 16:03 ` [bug#35866] [PATCH 4/4] gnu: qtwebengine: separate substitution and configure phase Mike Rosset
2020-01-24 0:16 ` bug#35866: Status: [PATCH] gnu: Add qtwebengine Mike Rosset
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