[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Thu Oct 7 05:18:05 CEST 2010

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 04:01 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 2010/10/7 Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com>:
+> >
+> > I guess this information would have to come from someone from the core dev
+> > group. Just so that we know for sure. So, is Mageia going to be principally
+> > a KDE distro with offers during installation to install GNOME and other
+> > desktops? Or is it going to be a desktop agnostic distro where the user
+> > eventually picks the desktop sometime during the installation processs?
+> >
+> > This may help with this thread on the talk of browsers.
+> 
+> Pls correct me if I'm wrong but I don't know any browser which is DE
+> dependent - well, there's konqueror, if you want to call this "I want
+> to be everything" a browser. But for real browsers, what does it
+> matter which DE is used?
+
+While Mandriva officially supported both GNOME and KDE, I do remember
+the last time I tried the GNOME version of Mandriva it was pretty much a
+raw GNOME install.  It had no changes to the default options such as, a
+web browser type of tool bar, and opening new folders in the same
+window.  After trying to get to a video and finding I now had 5 windows
+opened I assumed Mandriva's focus was most assuredly KDE.  I admit this
+was a while back, so this could all have been addressed already, but it
+scared me away from Mandriva-GNOME.  Also, while yes, most browsers are
+DE independent, Firefox takes a bit of tweeking to work flawlessly
+within the KDE DE.  Some distros have supplied a very vanilla install
+and things such as application associations were rather buggy.  Yet, if
+it's done right (and Mandriva always did it right) Firefox works great
+on KDE as do all the other major browsers, IE excluded of course.
+
+