I had thought about this before, but thought it would probably be too
complicated.
Surprisingly, it doesn't seem to require CAAppKitBridge, but
unfortunately it requires WebKit.
If we want to do a GNUstep port of the Cocoa backend for WebKit, we
could use the 2017 GSoC project
<https://gist.github.com/theiostream/7b9e83997320ccade6b5ec749cdc3573>,
but it would require a lot of work -- WebKit has certainly experienced
significant changes in the past 8 years, and the 2017 GSoC project only
got JavaScriptCore working (no web rendering yet).
Alternatively, it might be easier to use one of the existing WebKit
ports to Linux -- WebKitGtk and WPE WebKit. It might be harder to
provide compatibility with WebKit.framework (since that might expose
some internal stuff not exposed by WebKitGtk/WPEWebKit API). See
https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/issues/325 for more discussion
on how to do that. @onflapp made a web browser which embedded WebKitGtk
using XEmbed. WPE might be better, since it allows you to provide your
own drawing backend (we could probably provide an NSView). The default
backend (WPEBackend-FDO) renders to a Wayland EGL surface; we might be
able to ask the compositor to composite the surface on top of the window
but I don't know if all compositors support that. If we want to use WPE,
we'll probably want to chat with the WPE developers, since WPE's
documentation is currently not very extensive.
On 3/1/25 08:19, Gregory Casamento wrote:
I think it’s an interesting looking project. If it avoids using core
frameworks and swift it should be portable. I do see some places in
the project file where it looks like libs-Xcode might need to be
extended to handle the build (remote targets).
Let me know how it goes, but it looks promising at first glance.
Gregory Casamento
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On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 06:22 [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi fellow 'Steppers,
By surfing the Web I came across this App:
https://github.com/dsward2/macSVG
https://macsvg.org/
The good news: it is, for the most parts, written in ObjC! Some
newer parts, as I read the PlugIn System, are written in Swift
although. But this should only be another incentive to consider
Swift support for GNUstep again.
What do you think? In my opinion a GNUstep port of macSVG could be
a Killer App for us on the free Unix and Unix-Clone OSes like the
BSDs and, of course, Linux.
Kind regards,
Lars
