Packaging Stremio's GTK4 Shell: CEF Integration Adventures - VEJETA
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Nine days debugging one function call, and other lessons from browser-engine integration Introduction When Stremio released their new GTK4-based shell using Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) instead of Qt5/QtWebEngine, it provided the perfect test case for my Debian packaging journey, specially after QT5 has become an End Of Life software that won’t be supported soon. It […]
  • Andres@social.ridetrans.it
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    2 days ago

    @Vejeta Hi! Chromium maintainer here, just wanted to say that I appreciate the write-up (and the associated bug report followup). I have some paid work that will involve dealing with qtwebengine’s embedded chromium - I’m hoping to address both QT and CEF at the same time. Currently focused elsewhere, but I’m thinking in a few months.

    • Vejeta@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Oops. I messed it up when posting. I have edited it. Thanks for pointing that out!