Bug ID 1107337
Summary wxWidgets: Restore Webkit support for wxGTK3
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Distribution
Version Leap 15.0
Hardware x86-64
OS Linux
Status NEW
Severity Normal
Priority P5 - None
Component Other
Assignee bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com
Reporter j.v.dijk@tue.nl
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
Found By ---
Blocker ---

Not so long ago, webview support was dropped from the wxWidgets packages. The
reason appears to be that there were various issues with the older webkit
versions that the wx-GTK2 packages relied upon. I understand that, although
this  is a major issue for us and has rendered the OpenSuse wx packages usable.
I think the problem started between 42.3 and 15.0.

At home I compiled wxWidgets with the --gtk=3 option, using webkit2, which *is*
still offered by OpenSuse and does not have the unresolved security issues. I
did not see any problem and everything works like a charm.

So my friendly request is:

Please, please, compile the wxGTK3* packages with webview (->webkit) enabled,
so we do not need to tell our OpenSuse users to compile wxWidgets themselves or
move to another distro. I duly note that there are already more custom wx reps
for OpenSuse than I believe is desirable.

Thank you in advance.


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