On 27/06/19 04:47, Lars Knoll wrote: > > Yes, Webengine uses some memory. But is that really a problem on developer > machines?
Yes. The more RAM you use for surfing documentation, the less RAM you have for building. I have 16 GB of RAM, and sometimes I have to close Chromium away (yes, I know, my fault, I should use a more lightweight browser!). Doing the same with QtCreator (which I only use for browsing documentation, not for actual development) would be quite troublesome. IMHO a better question would be: are the costs of using QtWebEngine worth the benefits? > People propose adding functionality to QTextBrowser instead. I do not thing > that’s a viable solution (we’ve tried that in the past and our technical > writers hit the next issue some weeks/months later). The problem is not that > one could not add support for one or two new features to QTextBrowser, it is > that we do not know what features we will need in our docs in the future. We can switch to something else in the future; switching to QtWebEngine is easy. But in the meantime, all improvement made to QTextBrowser (or any development done on a new lightweight HTML view component) will be a great benefit to the Qt developer community: many applications could benefit from with, typically for showing inline docs. Ciao, Alberto -- http://www.mardy.it - Geek in un lingua international _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
