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this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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The thing is, Linux Desktops dont have a unified WebView. I wonder how that would work on KDE and others
Tauri uses webkitgtk everywhere, including KDE.
Hm, I mean that is way better than using an entire Chrome browser, but KDE uses qtwebengine
True. If their goal is truly to use the "native" solution everywhere, they should use QtWebEngine on Qt desktops. For the most part, the advantage with Tauri isn't so much that it's using the "native" web engine, it's that not every Tauri application has to bundle a full (probably outdated) web engine. On Linux, this is achieved regardless of whether WebKitGTK or QtWebEngine is used. The first Tauri application you install pulls in WebKitGTK if you didn't already have it installed, then every subsequent application just uses the same one. I'm personally glad it's using WebKitGTK despite being a Plasma user. The less we rely on Blink and Blink-based web engines, the better. Having to spend 100MB of my 1TB hard drive on WebKitGTK to achieve this isn't making me lose a whole lot of sleep.
I suppose that is okay, and targeting a specific engine is likely needed, to have non-trivial features.
I believe it uses gtk-webview. So on KDE system you would use GTK as a base. But you anyway would have GTK libs in your system.