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WebCat is a Webkit based webbrowser for sailfish os
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Port to Plasma Mobile #58

Closed JLIT0 closed 6 years ago

JLIT0 commented 6 years ago

Have you considered a port to Plasma Mobile in consideration of the successful Librem 5 crowdfunding campaign?

llelectronics commented 6 years ago

It does not make much sense. KDE has already the Falkon browser based on QtWebengine. Also regarding all the problems I encountered with a QtWebkit based browser I think it might be wiser to use some other webengine like QtWebengine.

JLIT0 commented 6 years ago

Ah, I understand. Right now however, Falkon doesn't have a touch-friendly version available. Consequently, all Plasma builds seem to be using either Firefox, or more recently, Chromium, as the default browser - although these are desktop versions of the respective apps so are sub-optimal as well.

The original demo of Plasma Mobile showed the webbrowser-app from Ubuntu Touch being used. However, this will not receive any new updates (unless UBports maintains their fork of the application).