Vladimir: Thanks for the survey. There wasn't a free-form comment section at the end of the survey, but I had a couple of notes...
I use QWebEngine for three things for my desktop application: (1) displaying my manual (built using the Qt help system), (2) displaying HTML reports I generate on the fly using a template system (KTextTemplate), and (3) saving those reports as PDFs. Using QWebEngine had several consequences: 1) On Windows only MSVC is supported, so it changed my development tooling. MSVC is a pain to use since there are so many little things that are different/unsupported (w.r.t. clang or gcc). It would save me a lot of time not to have to worry about those differences. 2) Now I have to pull in & ship libs (WebChannel, Positioning, Quick? QML stuff?) that I don't use directly 3) Now I have to deal with questions from my customers about QWebEngineProcess (I deal in a moderately sensitive area where they take security a bit more seriously) 4) The size of my shipping applications went from 60 MB to 136 MB (Windows) and 38 MB to 250 MB (not directly comparable since I also switched to universal builds, so probably ~125 MB) 5) The drastic increase in size not only impacts user downloads, but it also means the signing & notarizing stuff is much slower for me None of my HTML/docs/reports use JavaScript, so ideally, for my use cases, Qt would offer a lighter HTML/CSS layout widget (maybe using something like litehtml (https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml), but more complete/robust) that would allow display/interaction with non-JavaScript pages, and allow saving them to PDF. If I'm not mistaken, Qt Creator uses litehtml for its docs? Summary: I'd love to get rid of this Chromium behemoth and replace it with something more reasonable for my use-cases. Thanks! --- Andy Maloney // https://asmaloney.com mastodon ~ @asmalo...@fosstodon.org <https://fosstodon.org/@asmaloney> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM Vladimir Minenko via Interest < interest@qt-project.org> wrote: > Good morning all interested in Qt! > > Qt is conducting a user survey about Qt WebEngine and Qt WebView. We want > to hear users' feedback to properly align the priorities for the > development of these components. We would appreciate your input. > > If you use Qt WebEngine or Qt WebView, please take 15–20 minutes to > complete the survey. > > Some of you might have received a personalized email with an invitation to > this survey. Please use the link in that email to submit your responses. If > you saw this announcement on other email lists or the Qt Forum, please > respond only once. > > Please respond as soon as possible, but no later than March 7th, 2025, > when the survey will close. Click here to start: > > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LC9D3DF > > Thank you for your time and participation! > > -- > Vladimir Minenko > vladimir.mine...@qt.io > +49 171 90 61 461 > > Product Lead for Qt Foundations, mobile and desktop platforms > The Qt Company GmbH - https://qt.io > > Haus 31F, Balanstr 73, 81541 Munich, Germany > > Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Jouni Lintunen > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin > Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest >
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