[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Fri Oct 8 00:29:57 CEST 2010

On jeudi 07 octobre 2010 at 23:39, Sorteal wrote :
+> Why are we even talking about removing Konqueror??  So many people use 
+> it as their default file manager and ftp client that removing it seems 
+> crazy.  While I do agree that Konqueror is not the greatest web browser 
+> around and Rekonq is a much better choice for a pure Qt/KDE browser, I 
+> do not think we should be excluding Konqueror at all.
+
+I don't think anybody suggested to remove konqueror, but rather to provide 
+firefox as the default browser on a new install.
+Although I prefer konqueror, I think it is reasonable as most people expect 
+to have firefox (and I use it for the few sites that I visit and render 
+badly in konqueror (actually, it is more about javascript than rendering)).
+
+> Plus, Dolphin still requires certain parts of Konqueror to function
+> correctly if I'm not mistaken.
+
+Right, but those parts are in separate libraries which can (and will) be 
+installed without installing konqueror itself.
+
+> While at first I found Dolphin rather weak in comparison to Konqueror, 
+> as far as file management went, it has improved over the last couple of 
+> years.  Now, I actually prefer Dolphin over Konqueror when it comes to 
+> file management but I still use Konqueror for ftp or when I need a all 
+> in one kind of tool.  If Konqueror could render web pages as well as 
+> Rekonq, Firefox, or Chromium I'd definitely use it as my default web 
+> browser.
+
+There is a webkit kpart which can be used instead of the standard khtml one. 
+In mdv2010.1 it is provided by package webkitkde.
+I think I read somewhere that it was greatly improved in KDE 4.5 (or was it 
+during a summer of code after KDE 4.5 release?) with better KDE integration.
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+