George Wright's Blog: Category WebKit

Nokia N810

gwright@kde.org (George Wright) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:35:00 +0000

Now that they’ve released the Nokia N810 in the UK, I ordered one yesterday and it arrived this morning; hurrah for prompt delivery!

My initial impressions are mixed.

Good things:

the screen is fantastic
it came with maps for the GPS for free
it has a keyboard
it’s responsive
it’s nice and small

Not so good things:

the battery cover is incredibly hard to take off
the battery doesn’t clip in - it just sits there and is held in place by the cover
the GPS takes ages to lock
the keyboard feels a bit mushy, and the top row is hard to type on

Anyway, I’ve now installed Maemo Mapper which works like a charm (a bit of hackery is needed to get the internal GPS to work with it though), and ssh from xterm is very usable with the new keyboard. Haven’t installed our WebKit stuff on it yet, but the Gecko-based MicroB engine isn’t too bad.

Overall a very nice piece of kit, and I’m very pleased with it.

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

Greetings Planet GNOME!

gwright@kde.org (George Wright) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:03:00 +0000

So in the spirit of Freedesktop.org I was added to Planet GNOME yesterday. Thanks Jeff!

This doesn’t mean I’ve converted to GNOME or relinquished KDE, but as the work that I’m doing these days involves both KDE (in the form of my NX stuff) and GNOME (WebKit/GTK+), I figured it was time I had myself added to Planet GNOME.

Here’s to exciting times ahead!