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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/19/2016 05:39 PM, Greg Hellings
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">The recommended solution is to move to the webkit2 API</pre>
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<p><font face="FreeSerif">Yes, there was discussion of this in
#xiphos a week or so ago, though with regard to Ubuntu.<br>
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<p><font face="FreeSerif">The WK2 configuration builds, runs without
crashing...and looks like total crap. I don't know what they did
to it in the last year but basic operations that have been in
place for something like 10 years now render a main window that
is crippled. Chris Bayliss says it's not WK2 itself but our
packing of GTK widgets -- I dunno, it seems to me that Everything
Worked Just Fine for an indecently long time, considering that
even today it looks right and works correctly with plain old WK,
but now the upgrade treadmill has us looking yet again at a
toolkit change. Considering the differences required for WK2
over WK, WK2 becomes the 6th display toolkit used by
GnomeSword/Xiphos in 15 years. This gets old.<br>
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<p><font face="FreeSerif">Yes, it will have to be dealt with. Comedy
is not pretty. A related problem is that the editor component
was not ported to WK2 because at the time Chris couldn't find adequate
documentation of its API, as to its differences from original
WK. That is, at the moment, the latest-hotness WK2 build still
uses the GTKHTML editor. Incongruous, I know. Funny, perhaps,
but oddly enough it works. Er, worked until WK2 went off the
deep end.<br>
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<p><font face="FreeSerif">(Why does WK2 have <i>any</i> API differences
from WK? What benefit is reaped from gratuitously ripping up an
interface? Why could not the internal re-implementation still
present an identical application-facing interface? -- Eh, don't
answer that, I already know.)<br>
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<p><font face="FreeSerif"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/issues/756">https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/issues/756</a><br>
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<p><font face="FreeSerif">I have a politically incorrect yet
tractable plan for how to deal with Win32.</font></p>
<p><font face="FreeSerif">--karl<br>
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