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WebKit & KDE

gwright@kde.org (George Wright) — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:32:00 +0000

Now that I have a KDE 4 environment that I’m willing to use, I thought I’d take a look at Trolltech’s WebKitKDE KPart for embedding WebKitQt into Konqueror (or any other application which supports KParts).

Unfortunately, it seems that the project has been stagnant for a while and had bitrotted to the extent that it no longer compiled. I have now committed a fairly trivial fix that lets it compile and load, but it’s still in a fairly broken position. Hopefully I’ll be able to find some time to look into it more closely and potentially sort a few things out.

Now for the gratuitous screenshot:

WebKit in Konqueror with Firefox in the background

"WebKit & KDE" by manyoso

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:57:21 +0000

niko, this part has been available for awhile. It will be in good shape by KDE 4.1.

"WebKit & KDE" by manyoso

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:56:11 +0000

Leo, it is being maintained. I am currently in Norway where the QtWebKit team is making some good progress finalizing our API and getting ready for a release. KDE integration and the KPart that follows is certainly being considered and we have it in our thoughts. The part in playground is going to have bitrot for the simple reason that our API is changing on a near daily basis.

Cheers,

Adam

"WebKit & KDE" by niko

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:52:05 +0000

great!

I want this in KDE 4.1!

"WebKit & KDE" by Leo

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:45:14 +0000

Cool. Can’t wait for this to be integrated into KDE.

Although the fact that the kpart is not being actively maintained kind of discredits Zack’s claims that they are the real KDE web devs. Without a maintainer even for the KPart, all the webkit work doesn’t have any effect on users.