SUMMARY I was wondering if it would be possible to make qtwebengine optional but not make the obsolete qtwebkit required as a consequence of disabling qtwebengine. I run Gentoo and to install kmymoney, I have to compile qtwebengine because it's required and qtwebkit is currently deprecated and being removed. qtwebengine takes an enormous amount of time to compile and it would be nice to avoid installing it especially if the functionality it provides in kmymoney is not something I need. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. -DENABLE_WEBENGINE=OFF OBSERVED RESULT Disabling qtwebengine makes qtwebkit required and it looks for that library instead: CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:224 (find_package): By not providing "FindKF5WebKit.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "KF5WebKit", but CMake did not find one. Could not find a package configuration file provided by "KF5WebKit" with any of the following names: KF5WebKitConfig.cmake kf5webkit-config.cmake Add the installation prefix of "KF5WebKit" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "KF5WebKit_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "KF5WebKit" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed. EXPECTED RESULT Don't require qtwebkit if qtwebengine is not enabled SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.21.5 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: 5.15.2
Currently it's an either one or the other. One of the two is needed for the home page to display and the reports to show up. Unless, someone rewrites these parts to use different technologies there is no chance for your request.
(In reply to Thomas Baumgart from comment #1) > Currently it's an either one or the other. One of the two is needed for the > home page to display and the reports to show up. Unless, someone rewrites > these parts to use different technologies there is no chance for your > request. Bummer. Thanks for the response.
(In reply to Matthew Schultz from comment #2) > Unless, someone rewrites these parts to use different technologies > there is no chance for your request. QTextBrowser https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextbrowser.html#details may be an alternative.
(In reply to Ralf Habacker from comment #3) > (In reply to Matthew Schultz from comment #2) > > Unless, someone rewrites these parts to use different technologies > > there is no chance for your request. > > QTextBrowser https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextbrowser.html#details may be an > alternative. Since kmymoney uses the webengine/webkit in several places (check printing, reconciliation report, reports, homeview and kmymoneywebpage), it would make sense to extend the already existing MyQWebEnginePage class to a new class e.g. MyWebPage or MyMoneyWebPage and use this class in the other places.
Ralf, for the record, I ported check printing in master to use QTextBrowser. I imagine our other usages of it don't require any advanced HTML/CSS over what QTextBrowser supports, so it may be worth looking into porting everything else, too.
MyQWebEnginePage is either derived from qtwebengine or qtwebkit based classes whichever is selected. Simply extending them sure does not solve the original problem.