To acquire Web Inspector, you have to install the webkitgtk-devel package, which has 38 dependencies. This is obviously bad, as using Web Inspector has little to do with development of webkit-gtk, not necessarily web development either. Web Inspector should be small enough to be in the main webkitgtk package. In fact it seems that Webkit assumes that it's always available, because when trying to open Web Inspector without having webkitgtk-devel it just shows an empty window with a crude error message.
No comment? It's still the same in Fedora 13. It looks bad when the menus hint the availability of a web inspector, but then when you proceed you just get an error.
I think there might be some practical reason why we can't split out the inspector, but I don't know what it is off hand. I'll take a look and see what I can do...
Well, I built an f14 package with this moved to the main package and everything is working fine as far as I can tell, so I don't see much downside to just doing this. ;) However, I don't know that I want to push this change back into f12/f13 right now. I can push for f14/rawhide soon. Is that acceptable? Or do you need this in f13?
I've pushed this into rawhide's package, and it should go into f14 with the new update there hopefully. Thanks for the suggestion!