Possible package...

[Nathanael Noblet]

On Sep 11, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Ben Boeckel wrote:
>> Looking through the code, it looks like the #ifndef stuff for
>> things called "extensive hacks" could cause some issues, but
>> that's a cursory glance at it. I'm also not sure what to make of
>> the patches for Qt in its repository. If they're serious
>> patches, they should clone Qt on Gitorious and create merge
>> requests. Fedora's Qt probably won't ship with them without some
>> oversight that they aren't breaking things.
>
> At least part of their patches look like really awful hacks, e.g.  
> they're
> making some of QtGui work without X11 to support their stuff being  
> used in
> text mode despite using QtWebKit (which is normally a GUI  
> component). Some
> of the patches also appear to break ABI compatibility.
>
> This really needs to be made to work with unmodified upstream Qt  
> (even if it
> means requiring an active X11 session). Some of the patches might be
> upstreamable, with or without additional required fixes (like  
> maintaining
> binary compatibility), but others are just plain "no go"s.
>

Yeah, I saw their patches, but didn't look at any of the actual code.  
Since I know you are an avid KDE/Qt consumer, perhaps I can ask you  
for some information about this program and if a better way to  
accomplish what it is doing exists.

I write web apps, often I want to provide a pdf output of the nicely  
designed / styled html. This becomes difficult because I'm writing  
from the webserver's perspective, not a browser/rendering engine. This  
solves the problem very nicely for me in that it lets a rendering  
engine have a go at the html and then outputs the pdf. It works  
wonderfully in my tests. Obviously they are using the webkit/qt  
bindings to do this. Would there be a way to use those without the qt  
hacks they are introducing?

If so I don't mind getting my hands dirty to look, my C/C++ skills are  
a bit rusty but I've always enjoyed it, and this is an itch I've been  
trying to scratch for a couple years now. So would feel great if it  
could be solved and become part of fedora.