Midori can be made to depend on WebkitGTK+-2.10

[Pierre Labastie]

By adding the switch -DHALF_BRO_INCOM_WEBKIT2=ON to to the cmake instruction, Midori links to the webkit2gtk-4.0, which is the library available in recent WebkitGTK+ (from 2.6 to now).

Tests by Fernando de Oliveira and me show that, although the comment says "Serve as a Guinea pig", the browser works very well with this switch.

This ticket is open so that people can test and comment.

[Pierre Labastie]

Did anybody test this? For me it has been working for a couple of weeks. I've not tried the new webkitGTK version yet.

[bdubbs@…]

I intended to test it, but have been busy catching up with other tickets. March really had a dump of package updates -- well over 100. I'll try to test it in the next week.

[bdubbs@…]

Seems to work fine for me. After building, ldd gives:

libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 => /usr/lib/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37

which points to /usr/lib/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37.13.6 installed with webkit-2.12.0.

I'd say we can add the -DHALF_BRO_INCOM_WEBKIT2=ON switch and make the WebKitGTK+-2.4.10 dependency optional.

Now if we could only get gimp to update to WebKitGTK+-2.12.0, we can remove 2.4.10 completely.

[Pierre Labastie]

Thanks for testing. As of GIMP, I do not think it will be updated soon. But ISTR a post by Ken saying that the help system for GIMP could be accessed without webkitGTK. Maybe we could put instructions on the GIMP page for that. Anyway, I'll modify the page for midori.

[Pierre Labastie]

Fixed at r17220. A new ticket should be open for GIMP, if necessary.