[Buildroot] (gtk)webkit 2.x anyone ?

[Buildroot] (gtk)webkit 2.x anyone ?

[Johan Sagaert]

Hi

Anyone busy writing patches to get a recent webkit in buildroot ?
(The current one in buildroot crashes  (GtkLaucher) )

Regards Johan

[Buildroot] (gtk)webkit 2.x anyone ?

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Johan Sagaert,

On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:34:56 +0200, Johan Sagaert wrote:

> Anyone busy writing patches to get a recent webkit in buildroot ?
> (The current one in buildroot crashes  (GtkLaucher) )

Yes, Gustavo is working on it.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] (gtk)webkit 2.x anyone ?

[Gustavo Zacarias]

On 03/31/2015 12:43 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> Anyone busy writing patches to get a recent webkit in buildroot ?
>> (The current one in buildroot crashes  (GtkLaucher) )
> 
> Yes, Gustavo is working on it.

Quick status is it's working but not yet completely clean to submit.
Lacking: JIT (completely disabled until i can test & narrow down the
combinations for it) and any *GL* acceleration (no spare/useful hardware
to test).
Details: midori 0.5.9 & webkit-gtk 2.4.8, can't use anything newer so
easily because the API changed and midori isn't compatible.
gtk2 & gtk3 working (gtk2 is always required, with webkit-gtk 2.6+ it
can be ditched but you loose plugin ability with that option).
I'm pondering packaging separate versions of webkit-gtk and adding
epiphany (now known as just "web") that can use the newer version, in
theory with almost no gnome-proper dependencies.
Thomas has being applying my assorted patches that are leading to this,
but it's still some work away from being submission-ready.
And it's being done in free time, so don't hold your breath.
Regards.

[Buildroot] (gtk)webkit 2.x anyone ?

[Johan Sagaert]

Gustavo Zacarias schreef op 31/03/2015 om 18:30:
> On 03/31/2015 12:43 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>>> Anyone busy writing patches to get a recent webkit in buildroot ?
>>> (The current one in buildroot crashes  (GtkLaucher) )
>> Yes, Gustavo is working on it.
> Quick status is it's working but not yet completely clean to submit.
> Lacking: JIT (completely disabled until i can test & narrow down the
> combinations for it) and any *GL* acceleration (no spare/useful hardware
> to test).
> Details: midori 0.5.9 & webkit-gtk 2.4.8, can't use anything newer so
> easily because the API changed and midori isn't compatible.
> gtk2 & gtk3 working (gtk2 is always required, with webkit-gtk 2.6+ it
> can be ditched but you loose plugin ability with that option).
> I'm pondering packaging separate versions of webkit-gtk and adding
> epiphany (now known as just "web") that can use the newer version, in
> theory with almost no gnome-proper dependencies.
> Thomas has being applying my assorted patches that are leading to this,
> but it's still some work away from being submission-ready.
> And it's being done in free time, so don't hold your breath.
> Regards.
>
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Hi Gustavo , all ,

Thanks for the info, this seems a huge effort , not sure if this : could 
serve you any help :
https://github.com/Metrological/buildroot
Came across this, but did not dive into it.

There are so many dependencies and there is always to a chance to break 
something else
that depends on these.
I want a fullscreen html5 (+ websockets ) capable browser,and a virtual 
keyboard
(matchbox-keyboard) that pop-ups when the focus is in a text field .....

I tried the qt5-kiosk package ,but for some reason is very slow.
(platform is imx6 dual lite  )
I did run the Qt5-cinematice experience demo, and that runs smooth, it 
seems to push
the GPU to its limits , yielding a GPU too hot warning, but it proves 
graphical accel. is working.

So i am wiling to test-drive if you have something to play with.

Best Regards,  Johan

[Buildroot] (gtk)webkit 2.x anyone ?

[Gustavo Zacarias]

On 03/31/2015 01:58 PM, Johan Sagaert wrote:
> Hi Gustavo , all ,
> 
> Thanks for the info, this seems a huge effort , not sure if this : could
> serve you any help :
> https://github.com/Metrological/buildroot
> Came across this, but did not dive into it.

From a quick look it seems somewhat useless, they've focused on their
side of things (webkitgtk-shell) without considering anything else like
midori.
They're also using some snapshot version.

> There are so many dependencies and there is always to a chance to break
> something else
> that depends on these.
> I want a fullscreen html5 (+ websockets ) capable browser,and a virtual
> keyboard
> (matchbox-keyboard) that pop-ups when the focus is in a text field .....

Well, that's why it needs so much work :)

> I tried the qt5-kiosk package ,but for some reason is very slow.
> (platform is imx6 dual lite  )
> I did run the Qt5-cinematice experience demo, and that runs smooth, it
> seems to push
> the GPU to its limits , yielding a GPU too hot warning, but it proves
> graphical accel. is working.

I dunno if you'll get better results with gtk+, a full ARM target image
is ~270 MB with X11-modular and matchbox.

> So i am wiling to test-drive if you have something to play with.

At this point in time what i've got is a PoC qemu test image, the
packaging and cleanup part is going along - however feature-wise it's
still very lacking.
Regards.