[GNC-dev] WebKitGtk now defaults to Gtk4

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Sun Nov 19 14:16:52 EST 2023


Gecko? Blink?

I'm sure there was a reason for selecting WebKit originally. Does that 
still hold true?

Regards,
Adrien

On 11/18/23 10:00 PM, john wrote:
> I spent some time this afternoon poking at webkit replacement. The options I found are:
> * Keep using WebKitGtk
> * Figure out how to wrap a native (meaning Apple AppKit or Microsoft) WebView in a GtkWidget
> * Send the HTML/JS/CSS to the default browser. This will lose the links to GnuCash objects like transactions
> * Configure a GtkTextView to understand HTML tags. This doesn't support charts, printing, or PDF export.
> * Write reports directly to PDF. There are libraries out there but I didn't find any FLOSS ones that mention CSS styling or drawing charts in their feature sets.
> 
> Any other ideas?



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