[RFC] Deprecating cefpython about protonfixes HOT 4 OPEN

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-cef/

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I made that package...

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I've used Kivy in the past for other projects and think it would be a great replacement. My only reason for using cef initially was because of the quick prototyping that could be done in html and wanting the splash to match bigpicture for my use case.

There's also the option of using pysdl2 directly. Kivy is good for it's widgets, but like cef is kind of heavy for a simple splash. This would require more coding than using a UI framework though.

Another option would be tkinter, which may or may not be built with python depending on the distribution. I haven't worked with it much, but I have a friend working on a project written in it and it seems pretty decent.

I was also reading up on using a custom theme for zenity. zenity is pretty reliably available since it is kind of bundled with the steam-runtime and is a dependency for steam in most package managers. It also supports progress bars and labels which I think are really the only controls needed. Right now I'm only able to find info for gtk2, but I'll keep looking.

At the end of the day I'm willing to merge anything splash-related as long as it stays optional if it has external dependencies, and I agree with deprecating cefpython.

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Maybe something really simple, like semi-transparent image, see e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/ and pango_markup section. Or window with background and text.

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