[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Thu Oct 7 10:27:16 CEST 2010

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 00:22 -0400, andré wrote:
+> Sorteal a écrit :
+> > 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 ? ;)
+
+Firefox works great with GNOME since it's GTK based.  I love GNOME,
+Ubuntu is my main desktop distro with Mandriva being my work desktop,
+and Firefox seems tailor made for GNOME.  I'm not sure if its GTK (kind
+of) base is the reason some KDE focused distros (Kubuntu, OpenSUSE, and
+Linux Mint KDE) have a rough time getting Firefox to work perfectly
+right "out-of-the-box".  As long as everything works without me having
+to configure it to work right I'm perfectly happy using FF as my default
+browser.
+
+Also, yeah I hate that IE is a major browser too. Yet for some reason
+60% - 70% of computer users choose it as their main browser.  Sad but
+true. :-(
+
+I'm really hoping Mageia focuses on both GNOME & KDE, but I could also
+understand if the developers chose to focus on just one for stability
+and speed reasons.  Guess I just figured it was a KDE-centric distro
+since Mandriva seemed to focus so much on it.
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