Re: Using webkit with konqueror
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 21:52:00 Michael Thaler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > a couple of months ago it seemed to work reasonably well. I don't think
> > there is a Debian package, but it might be possible to compile it with
> > KDE 4.2.2 if you install the headers (I have not tried).
>
> I just tried to compile the webkit kpart with KDE 4.2.2 from Debian and it
> works without problems. You have to do the following. Create a directory
> for the sources, e.g. /usr/local/src/kde4 or ~/kde4. cd to that directory
> and do
>
> svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/libs/webkitkde/
>
> It will create a directory webkitkde with the sources. Do
>
> cd webkitkde
>
> and create a build directory:
>
> mkdir build
>
> Go to that directory and run cmake:
>
> cd build
> cmake ..
>
> If you get error message, you have to install the appropriate headers (you
> can find them using apt-cache search package name. You need to install the
> packages that end with -dev). When cmake finishes without errors, run make:
>
> make
>
> Next you have to install the kpart:
>
> make install
>
> This might not work as normal user. If it does not work, do it as root. The
> webkit kpart will be installed to /usr/local. Next you have to restart KDE.
> Then open a page in konqueror. You can switch engines with
Build and install, no problems, once I got svn to get the sources.
>
> View -> View Mode -> {KHTML, WebKit}
>
> This only works if a page is open.
And gets switched back with every new open or refresh.
Go "server could not fill request" in some cases.
Could not really look at much because of other konqueror problems
>
> If you want to set the WebKit part as default, run:
> 'keditfiletype text/html'
> and move "WebKit (webkitpart)" in the "Embedding" tab to the top.
It would be really nice if one could "apply" a change like this. Saving system
config just repeats with each run 1/2 as fast. Long standing problem from the
kde3 days :-(
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