I think that in this context we are talking about mozilla/widget/qt/* components and yes we're using those in our Gecko build. We don't use QWidgets for Sailfish Browser. User interface of the Sailfish Browser is written with Qt QML.
There is more info in the embedding wiki [1] and Dmitry's blog [2]. Rendering pipeline has changed after Dmitry's blog post but otherwise quite close to the current state. [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Embedding/IPCLiteAPI [2] http://blog.idempotent.info/posts/whats-behind-sailfish-browser.html -Raine 2016-04-14 20:38 GMT+03:00 Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi>: > Added Raine Mäkeläinen, who has been committing to qtmozembed lately, to > CC. > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Jim Blandy <jbla...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:27 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Masayuki Nakano <masay...@d-toybox.com > > > >> wrote: > >> > So, my question is, why do we still have Qt widget in mozilla-central? > >> > What > >> > the reason of keeping it in mozilla-central? > >> > >> My understanding is that > >> https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/qtmozembed/ still uses it. As we > >> are figuring out how to be more embeddable (see > >> https://medium.com/@david_bryant/embed-everything-9aeff6911da0 ), it's > >> probably a bad time to make life hard for an existing embedding > >> solution. > > > > > > This doesn't really answer the question. We can't have code in tree that > > isn't tested, and isn't used, and has nobody responsible for it. > > > > If someone is willing to fix it up and get it tested and included in the > > continuous integration process, then that's fine. But "someone might > want to > > use it in the future" can't possibly be a legit reason to keep > substantial > > bits of code in the tree. > > It looked to me like the code is being used *now*. > > Raine, does qtmozembed use the Qt widget code from mozilla-central? > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivo...@hsivonen.fi > https://hsivonen.fi/ > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
