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
