Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-23 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Dave Page wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Dave Page wrote: > >> >> 2) This option is not very appealing to me, because we would be pilling code into the QT portion of the application, that I hope we remove in the future, that currently is

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-23 Thread Dave Page
Hi On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Joao De Almeida Pereira < jdealmeidapere...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Hello Hackers > > In the PoC we did with Electron last month this was the point where we > stopped > > What did we accomplish: > - Use Electron as a runtime and packaging solution for the applica

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Robert Eckhardt wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Dave Page wrote: > >> >>> (And don't give up on proper tabs either, but I'm sure Electron might >>> catch up in that eventually -- and the issue around RHEL6 will also go away >>> eventually) >>> >> >

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 5:28 PM, Dave Page wrote: > >> >> 3) Electron >>> >>> Pros: >>> - Full Javascript runtime, no more C++ code to handle >>> - Self packaging for all the environments >>> Cons: >>> - No fully supported on Linux based OS with old libstdc++, (This might >>> solve the problem: h

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-22 Thread Joao De Almeida Pereira
Hello Hackers In the PoC we did with Electron last month this was the point where we stopped What did we accomplish: - Use Electron as a runtime and packaging solution for the application - Support opening new windows when the preferences ask for them - Make the application generally work - U

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-22 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Dave Page wrote: > > 2) This option is not very appealing to me, because we would be pilling >>> code into the QT portion of the application, that I hope we remove in the >>> future, that currently is untested to solve a problem caused by a Window >>> Manager.

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-22 Thread Robert Eckhardt
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Dave Page wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Magnus Hagander > wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Joao De Almeida Pereira < >> jdealmeidapere...@pivotal.io> wrote: >> >>> Hello Hackers, >>> Here is our take on the 3 options present:

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-22 Thread Dave Page
Hi On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Joao De Almeida Pereira < > jdealmeidapere...@pivotal.io> wrote: > >> Hello Hackers, >> Here is our take on the 3 options present: >> > > This looks like a good summary, so I'm going to pick this on

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-22 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Joao De Almeida Pereira < jdealmeidapere...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Hello Hackers, > Here is our take on the 3 options present: > This looks like a good summary, so I'm going to pick this one to comment on :) > 1) QtWebkit and QtWebEngine > > Pros: > - Webkit is

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-22 Thread Dave Page
Hi On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Joao De Almeida Pereira < jdealmeidapere...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Hello Hackers, > Here is our take on the 3 options present: > 1) QtWebkit and QtWebEngine > > Pros: > - Webkit is a mature technology that as been around for some time > - Apparently the Fork of W

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-22 Thread Joao De Almeida Pereira
Hello Hackers, Here is our take on the 3 options present: 1) QtWebkit and QtWebEngine Pros: - Webkit is a mature technology that as been around for some time - Apparently the Fork of Webkit we were using as been catching up Cons: - We are using a Fork - It is to far behind of the today browsers an

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-22 Thread Murtuza Zabuawala
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Dave Page wrote: > All, > > As you know, the 3.0 release is currently on hold as we discovered late > yesterday that the re-vamped desktop runtime will not run on Gnome 3.26 and > later. This is because the GTK project, and later Gnome, have removed > support for

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-22 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Neel Patel wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Dave Page wrote: > >> All, >> >> As you know, the 3.0 release is currently on hold as we discovered late >> yesterday that the re-vamped desktop runtime will not run on Gnome 3.26 and >> later. This is

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-22 Thread Neel Patel
Hi, On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Dave Page wrote: > All, > > As you know, the 3.0 release is currently on hold as we discovered late > yesterday that the re-vamped desktop runtime will not run on Gnome 3.26 and > later. This is because the GTK project, and later Gnome, have removed > support

Re: Showstopper desktop runtime issue

2018-03-22 Thread Akshay Joshi
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Dave Page wrote: > All, > > As you know, the 3.0 release is currently on hold as we discovered late > yesterday that the re-vamped desktop runtime will not run on Gnome 3.26 and > later. This is because the GTK project, and later Gnome, have removed > support for