Re: [Development] The dark side of QtSvg

2015-03-12 Thread Massimo Callegari
Guido, Giuseppe, I got your points. It's so sad to read "we don't have the resources" cause I believe Qt has an enormous potential and I enjoy every day using it (except when I can't get things to work lol) As for me taking care of such matterswellyou don't really want that :) (and I hav

Re: [Development] The dark side of QtSvg

2015-03-12 Thread Guido Seifert
> So my wonder is this: if the SVG rendering of QtWebKit/QtWebEngine is modern > and solid, why not "extracting" it > from those monsters and place it into a brand new QtSvg ? Very easy to ask for something like that. When do you start? > This would bring two advantages:1- applications that n

Re: [Development] The dark side of QtSvg

2015-03-12 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo
On 12 March 2015 at 16:47, Massimo Callegari wrote: > > 3- it removes duplicated code between QtSvg and QtWebEngine But there's no such code. QtWebEngine is a "thin" wrapper around Blink/Chromium. The idea is precisely that Qt currently does not have the resources for maintaining its port/fork of

Re: [Development] The dark side of QtSvg

2015-03-12 Thread Julien Blanc
On 12/03/2015 16:47, Massimo Callegari wrote: Apologies if my mail doesn't have proper carriage returns in pipermail ! (my crappy webmail's fault) Just want to add a third advantage in decoupling QtWebEngine from SVG: 3- it removes duplicated code between QtSvg and QtWebEngine Just a note. F

[Development] The dark side of QtSvg

2015-03-12 Thread Massimo Callegari
Apologies if my mail doesn't have proper carriage returns in pipermail ! (my crappy webmail's fault) Just want to add a third advantage in decoupling QtWebEngine from SVG: 3- it removes duplicated code between QtSvg and QtWebEngine Cheers, Massimo___ Dev

[Development] The dark side of QtSvg

2015-03-12 Thread Massimo Callegari
Hi everyone,following my last November's email about QtMultimedia  (http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2014-November/019035.html)  (where in 4 months almost all the efforts kept on going to camera support...leaving almost 200 tickets rotting on JIRA) it seems that my lack of luck c