This is better on desktops, the reason why the behavior changed to in-app was for mobile and especially Android. It should also be possible to force this behavior to avoid a webengine dependency, as required by some distributions: https://invent.kde.org/network/tokodon/-/issues/62
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/network/tokodon/-/merge_requests/489
Git commit 21f14929eb7037ef591d84c4502af6255600d595 by Joshua Goins. Committed on 16/04/2024 at 20:20. Pushed by redstrate into branch 'master'. Make QtWebView optional, overhaul auth (again) Our current authentication system uses an in-app QtWebView. However, WebView isn't available on all systems and arguably this only makes sense for mobile. So now this is how the authorization should've worked before: * On desktop systems, the external browser method is preferred. Unless you're running on a debug build, and Tokodon will choose the auth code method for you. This is to prevent gotchas when you forgot to install the .desktop file and other gubbins required for that feature to work. * On mobile systems, the in-app web browser is preferred if QtWebView is available. * On other systems who don't want QtWebView, they can turn it off via USE_QTWEBVIEW and Tokodon will fall back automatically. M +6 -1 CMakeLists.txt M +16 -2 src/CMakeLists.txt M +6 -4 src/account/abstractaccount.cpp M +3 -1 src/account/abstractaccount.h M +9 -3 src/account/account.cpp M +3 -0 src/account/account.h D +0 -58 src/content/ui/LoginFlow/AuthorizationPage.qml A +107 -0 src/content/ui/LoginFlow/BaseAuthorization.qml [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] A +31 -0 src/content/ui/LoginFlow/BrowserAuthorization.qml [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] A +38 -0 src/content/ui/LoginFlow/CodeAuthorization.qml [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] M +70 -7 src/content/ui/LoginFlow/LoginPage.qml A +45 -0 src/content/ui/LoginFlow/WebViewAuthorization.qml [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] M +2 -2 src/content/ui/LoginFlow/WelcomePage.qml M +6 -0 src/main.cpp M +18 -0 src/utils/navigation.cpp M +10 -0 src/utils/navigation.h https://invent.kde.org/network/tokodon/-/commit/21f14929eb7037ef591d84c4502af6255600d595