[webkit-gtk] GTK4

[Andrea Giammarchi]

Out of curiosity, does that mean GTK4 doesn't bring interesting benefits so
nobody cares about having a browser there?

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 6:09 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Eric Williams <ericwill at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > I was wondering -- has work on a GTK4 port of WebKitGTK started? If
> > not, what is the timeline for such work?
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> There is no work yet on this and it is not scheduled. I expect it would
> be a lot of effort to get working, and we're fully booked right now,
> and unfortunately none of our customers care about GTK+ 4 (it's a shame
> that Red Hat isn't a customer :) so it seems unlikely that we'd be able
> to start on this within the next year. Maybe.
>
> If you want to help, I know Adrian Perez and Benjamin Otte have been
> throwing around some ideas. The plan involved writing a GTK+ 4 based
> libwpe backend so that the GTK port would become based on WPE. Adrian,
> this thread would be a good chance to document your ideas.
>
> Michael
>
> _______________________________________________
> webkit-gtk mailing list
> webkit-gtk at lists.webkit.org
> https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-gtk
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/attachments/20181123/4470329b/attachment.html>