It had a release this month, that doesn’t sound dead…
But yeah, it’s unfortunate that Qt WebEngine is Chromium based. I get it though, it’s probably less work to maintain and if users complain, you tell them it’s the most popular embedded engine.
kwebkitpart
Maybe you’re right though, the last commit on master seems to be 2 months ago. I wonder if it’s officially dead or just maintenance only.
Konqueror is more or less dead as a browser. I don’t even think kwebkitpart is maintained anymore since QtWebkit was abandoned with Qt6.
It had a release this month, that doesn’t sound dead…
But yeah, it’s unfortunate that Qt WebEngine is Chromium based. I get it though, it’s probably less work to maintain and if users complain, you tell them it’s the most popular embedded engine.
Maybe you’re right though, the last commit on master seems to be 2 months ago. I wonder if it’s officially dead or just maintenance only.
If you look at the kwebkitpart commits, it looks like it’s been nothing but localization for years.
That’s really too bad.
We lost this war with operating systems when Linux ate the BSDs’ lunch, and it’s happening again with browsers. I hope GNOME Web sticks around.