On Sun, 2021-08-22 at 09:40 +0200, Ben Greiner wrote:
Am 22.08.21 um 03:56 schrieb Juan Erbes:
The current versions of Openshot-qt don't use PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets anymore.
That's incorrect. As Christophe wrote, there is no movement upstream in releasing a version without QtWebKit.
Fair enough. Unfortunately, OpenShot is one of the few "killer apps" that attract people to the Linux ecosystem. It used to be the #1 answer to the question "Is there a decent video editor for Linux?" (#). Not being able to run it is bad, even if it's upstream's fault (*). Looking at the issue you link, only openSUSE and Gentoo seem to be affected up to now. Even Fedora Rawhide still seems to ship qt5-qtwebengine. Asking as a dumb user here: If they can, why can't we? This reminds me of the loss of DisplayCal to Python 3. There, too, upstream is at fault - but that information provides zero consolation to people who need to the tool. Between toolkit and distro maintainers who want to get rid of old cruft, and application developers who have no time for porting their apps, the users are left out in the cold. If this pattern repeats, we'll be scaring away users from Tumbleweed big time. I'm not saying I have a solution for that. But sometimes I wish we'd care just a little bit more for compatibility. Martin (#) I know that there's Shotcut, too. But that's about it, right? (*) Is it, really? I can understand upstream developers who have more imporant things to care about than depreciation warnings from cutting edge Linux distributions.