[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Thu Oct 7 09:43:01 CEST 2010

On 7 October 2010 09:21, Graham Lauder <yorick_ at openoffice.org> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+I think all DE's should be supported as much as possible. Even in
+Mandriva, which theoretically was a KDE-centric distro, both KDE and
+GNOME were equally supported AFAICS.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+