[webkit-gtk] Deprecation of shared-secondary-process mode

[Michael Gratton]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 10:00, Carlos Garcia Campos <cgarcia at igalia.com> 
wrote:
> El vie, 06-09-2019 a las 09:07 +1000, Michael Gratton escribió:
>> 
>>  When displaying conversations, Geary uses a WebKitWebView per
>>  message.
> 
> Isn't it possible to use a single web view?

That used to be the case, but it's not workable in general for a bunch 
of reasons, including having CSS from different messages clobber each 
other and not being able to use GTK widgets for message chrome.

>>  As such, single processes per WebKitWebView just isn't scalable. Can
>>  shared-secondary-process mode be brought back? If not, is there
>>  anything in place to mitigate this?
> 
> For 2.26 you can set the env var WEBKIT_USE_SINGLE_WEB_PROCESS=1. This
> is a temporary solution, only available in 2.26, to give apps more 
> time
> to adapt to the multiprocess model.

Yep, the mention of that in the release notes is what made me realise 
it had been depreciated. Will get onto it, cheers.

> There's another option that might make sense in the case of geary if
> using a web view per message is the best option, which is making all
> web views in the same conversation related (See
> https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/unstable/WebKitWebView.html#WebKitWebView--related-view
> ) All related web views will share the same web process.

That's good to know, thanks. Will look into it for the next cycle.

//Mike


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