[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Thu Oct 7 09:21:04 CEST 2010

On Thursday 07 Oct 2010 19:11:45 Mihai Dobrescu wrote:
+> I think that I read somewhere that Mandriva *started *as KDE centric.
+> AFAIK, Gnome, KDE and some other popular DE are supported and Mandriva
+> spent an important effort to make them look alike from the main menu and
+> other customizations point of view.
+> As file browsers I like Dolphin, Konqueror and I use Krusader a lot.
+> As internet browser, Firefox is my favorite, although I use Opera
+> occasionally (it's ergonomic, free but not open sourced). I would like to
+> see Firefox having Chrome's architecture (each tab in its process) and less
+> memory consumer (this is due to plugins too - the pluggable architecture is
+> what makes me stick with it).
+
+
+Don't kill konqueror it's my default ftp client.  
+
+There are already a bunch of Gnome centric distros.
+
+KDE centric would be no issue nobody else is so in fact it would be a 
+excellent point of difference.  In fact, if it was my decision I'd leave Gnome 
+to Ubuntu, Redhat, CentOS, Debian, Solaris and all those Gnome centric distros 
+and concentrate on being the best KDE environment.
+
+Cheers
+GL     
+