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beh Registered Member Posts 18 Karma 0	User intefaces with webkit Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:56 am Nowadays, as web components are easily integrated to any kde app, or so I have understood, would it be possible to make parts of user interfaces of conventional apps with "web technologies" (of which I have little knowledge) and show them with KDEWebkit. In short, we would have a web page that resides in local folder and which shows data of local folders instead of a web page. This idea occurred me as I had been using Greader (Google reader) for a while and switched back to Akregator. Although I like and prefer using Akregator I had grew fond of dynamic interface of Greader. For example, marking a post important and showing details of a post in place are features I like. So what I'm proposing here, is to change part of Akregator which shows feed topics to a local webpage. That's one example, I'm sure others come up with more ideas. Benefits of which I can think of are more dynamic and graphic interfaces (maybe possible otherwise too but not that much used.) (easily?) customizable and themeable not everything have to be so square and traditional this could be alternative, I'm quite sure that, for example, in Akregator conventional and webkit interfaces could be interchangeable in runtime. Good idea? Old? Is this even possible?
beh Registered Member Posts 18 Karma 0	User intefaces with webkit Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:08 pm Any comments on this? Why it is bad idea?
Alec Registered Member Posts 565 Karma 1 OS	User intefaces with webkit Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:10 am I actually like it when my user interfaces are consistent... And also, Qt is actually pretty powerful and actually more flexible than a webpage could be. It's just that someone actually have to take the time and write up a better user interface for the application. Get problems solved faster - get reply notifications through Jabber!
TheBlackCat Registered Member Posts 2945 Karma 8 OS	User intefaces with webkit Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:28 pm Also, read this: Side effects of using QtWebKit for desktop apps. Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. -NASA in 1965
beh Registered Member Posts 18 Karma 0	User intefaces with webkit Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:42 pm Thanks for commenting. All good points. I suppose we can bury this idea then.
The User KDE Developer Posts 647 Karma 0 OS	User intefaces with webkit Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:51 pm Qt has great theming functions. And now compare the interface of Firefox-Addons (that is XUL, more powerful than HTML, e.g. FireFTP or the Chat-Clients) with the interface of Kopete or Konqueror: The interface of Kopete and Konqueror was written in C++. But for the user they provide much more flexibility: You can drag everything around etc. With HTML and JS this is only possible with a huge overhead. When you want to have dynamic interfaces, Qt's .ui-features should be used.