[mythtv] Resurrecting MythBrowser after the switch to Qt4

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Thu Jul 17 21:08:01 UTC 2008


On Thursday 17 July 2008 4:50:42 pm Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Thursday 17 July 2008 4:35:38 pm Paul Harrison wrote:
> > Looks like Mandriva devel cooker does now have Qt4.4 rpms.
> >
> > Anyway I'm going to just do a quick and dirty port of the the old
> > MythBrowser to use QWebView for now. That's just one step closer to
> > using trunk on a production machine again.
> >
> > I do think it's an opportunity missed to add some cool new stuff
> > especially since a lot of stuff will have to be rewritten to use MythUI.
>
> I'm fine with adding a dependency on Qt4.4.  I think the benefits of having
> a webbrowser widget in mythui vastly outweigh the downside of a few distros
> without packages.

It also really shouldn't be to hard to restrict it to just if you have qt4.4.  
ie, add a stub UI type that just displays text to the effect of "You need 
Qt4.4 to do this".

Isaac


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