02-11-2020, 09:11 PM | #16 |
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Indeed, I have been using Arch as my primary system for years. Nowadays so called "stable" distros dont make much sense to me. Though to be fair, I used Gentoo before arch, so I guess they never made much sense to me )
And Qt has a serious quality control problem. I cant really do much about using Qt in calibre since there is too much code that depends on it, but I am really reluctant to use it on anything new. |
02-12-2020, 09:25 AM | #17 |
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@DiapDealer, Could this be related to the crash caused by Chrome extensions you saw. Newer versions Qt seems to be adding in ability to load Chrome browser extensions, right?
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02-12-2020, 09:30 AM | #18 |
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Yes Qt does have a serious quality issue, and I am not sure their most recent changes are going to help at all.
FWIW, I have often wondered if using the cross-platform vcl widget library of Libre/OpenOffice or the equivalent of Mozilla/Firefox might be a viable long term solution. At least the latter has a WebWidget that is kept up to date and meets the standards. |
02-12-2020, 10:45 AM | #19 |
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for my latest major project https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ I just ditched all toolkits
Its liberating to be responsible for all the bugs yourself |
02-12-2020, 12:14 PM | #20 | |
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Boy you keep busy. Between Calibre and your Family and other projects, do you even get tim to breath? |
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02-12-2020, 09:37 PM | #21 |
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I love my work, its what keeps me entertained I guess
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02-15-2020, 10:27 PM | #23 |
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Yeah these video driver issues are really painful I hate not being able to offer better solutions than update drivers/get a new computer/downgrade calibre.
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I know there's been a push for QtWebEngine to support third-party extensions, but I don't know if it's happening by default yet. I've been looking for ways I can ensure it doesn't when building QtWebEngine, but the published config options for building QtWebEngine (with Qt) are fairly limited. |
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02-19-2020, 01:21 AM | #26 |
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Good to know that the issue was in windows and not calibre.
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02-19-2020, 05:20 PM | #27 |
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We (engineer and me) suspect the fault lies with reseller, they installed and configured Windows and other software. The 3 laptops with the problems have a different 'id' in the Software column on their Build/QC sheets to the 9 that don't have problems.
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