[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Thu Oct 7 06:22:30 CEST 2010

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+> 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.
+For a while Gnome 2 had some problems at first, just as did KDE 4, but 
+they have been long solved.  (The upgrade to Gnome 2 was a major rewrite.)
+Most of the things you mention are configuration problems.  It might be 
+a little difficult at first finding exactly where to adjust the specific 
+settings, but that is to be expected.
+>    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.
+>    
+Firefox also works well with Gnome.
+
+... Wait a minute ... who said that (ms) IE is a major browser ? ;)
+