2026.11.03 Weekly Meeting

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Title: 2026.11.03 Weekly Meeting

Next Tuesday, we will be having our next weekly hangout at 10:00 AM ET

Anyone is welcome to join at this link: Google Meet meeting

Agenda:

Please post to this thread to put a topic on the agenda! We will try to prioritize agenda items during the meeting.

Thanks
Sam and Ebrahim

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I’m doublebooked next week, but will join late if I can.

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Since it was discussed during a previous weekly, I looked a bit into QWebEngineView alternatives and the solution would be in Qt itself with the QWebView component (Qt 6.11+).

Behavior will change depending on the platform:

  • Windows: delegates to WebView2
  • MacOs: delegates to system WKWebView
  • Linux: Still requires QtWebEngineView + Chromium

Linux systems don’t seem to provide yet native browser embedding, so there wouldn’t be a clean solution for Linux at the moment.

FYI: @pieper & @lassoan

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Thanks for looking into that @Thibault_Pelletier .

I don’t think there’s any rush to get rid of QWebEngine from the Slicer distribution, but as I mentioned it is a big part of the binary that we ship, so it impacts download and startup times. Using a native browser is no doubt more secure too, since it should get more frequent patches. I think we could make it pretty seamless.