288314 – www-client/epiphany should incorporate webkit USE flag

Bug 288314 - www-client/epiphany should incorporate webkit USE flag

Summary: www-client/epiphany should incorporate webkit USE flag

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team

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Reported:	2009-10-09 14:39 UTC by Linux Blues
Modified:	2009-10-13 12:49 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Linux Blues 2009-10-09 14:39:13 UTC

According to the info about epiphany, on the last versions they're migrating from gecko to the webkit rendering engine:

http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/WebKit

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Help
2. About
3. "Powered by gecko-1.9"

Actual Results:  
Epiphany is powered by gecko

Expected Results:  
We need an USE flag to choose the rendering engine to be able to make it "lighter".

Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-09 14:48:33 UTC

epiphany 2.28 uses webkit only, previous versions will not have the webkit use flag because it was unusable.

Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2009-10-11 02:41:52 UTC

There is no webkit embed code in epiphany-2.26 at all - 2.24 did have both gecko and webkit-gtk, but webkit-gtk was unusable as it was still at 2.22 state in the branch from which it was released as all webkit development happened in trunk.

So there's even no option for a USE flag.
epiphany-2.28, currently available in gnome overlay only, uses webkit-gtk exclusively as its rendering backend.

Comment 3 Linux Blues 2009-10-13 12:49:24 UTC

Thank you very much.