Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by sprash on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:05AM
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Why does it have to be cross platform? At this point Ladybug does not compile on Windows anyways. Also the target audience is probably mostly using Linux.
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Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by account42 on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:44AM
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And what windowing toolkit do you think it sould use on Linux? GTK? Meh. Qt is fine and using QtWidgets is pretty far from depending on QtWebEngine.
Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by sprash on Monday September 12, 2022 @04:41PM
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None? Talking to bare X11 is actually pretty simple.
Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by Deukhoofd on Monday September 12, 2022 @05:44PM
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Don't forget that you're also expected to support Wayland nowadays on Linux.
Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by sprash on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:02AM
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Who is expecting Wayland support besides Redhat and Collabora?
And yes, talking to Wayland directly is extremely cumbersome and unnecessary complex. That's why nobody uses it.
Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by smoldesu on Monday September 12, 2022 @07:07PM
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Talking to bare x11 is one of the worst ways to conform to XDG desktop spec.
Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by Deukhoofd on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:11AM
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Well, the goal from the article is obviously to make it cross-platform, it's even in the title ;). To achieve that they just wrapped it in Qt. To replace that you'd have to achieve parity for the (admittedly smallish) subset of Qt that is being used. Starting with Linux for that would be a good start, but I'd assume the eventual goal would be to expand to other platforms as well.