mad-moo
commented
17 hours ago Hey, thanks for this.
When we originally added webview we've tried the different backends. The chromium backend works by far the best and behaves similar to what you'd expect from a browser. With the others we've seen issues like videos not playing.
The reason we've ultimately decided on the current selection is because there were the best implementations on each platform that were actually reasonable to install. We'd often get error messages that webview couldn't find something even though it was installed on the system, or we plain couldn't find a package to get it to work on a platform.
We can review this - maybe the situation has changed. Your note on ubuntu also needs attention, thanks for pointing that out.
Ultimately running well on a platform beats whether an icon can be displayed. Maybe we could also add an option to switch backents to run_in_window
iwr-redmond
Description
This request involves the window icon for local app mode.
According to the pyproject.toml, pywebview 4.2 is installed on Windows with cefpython and current (5.3.2) is installed on Linux with QT. However, of these two only the QT backend supports runtime icons, per the pywebview documentation.
Suggested Solution
Standardizing on the QT backend would allow for identical support on Windows, Mac, and Linux, with app icon support. QTPY is arguably better supported in general, as cefpython3 has not been updated in years.
Alternatives
N/A - see NiceGUI pull 634
Additional Context
The [window] subinstall is broken on Ubuntu 22.04, as the unsupported pywebview 4.2 is installed in addition to current. If this feature request is not accepted, please update pyproject.toml line 76 to read:
"pywebview~=4.2" ; sys_platform == 'win32'",Separately, cefpython3 is available for Mac on Python 3.10.
Related Issues/Pull Requests
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