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Theo Chatzimichos posted on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:52:50 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> For example, I don't really like the |
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> firefox flag in kde, and I'd suggest a -firefox (ugly, I know) in kde's |
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> make.defaults |
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That's not particularly practical, unfortunately. konqueror seems to be |
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dropping behind, doesn't have proper ssl/certificate management support |
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with 4.x, and in general is getting less and less useful as a general |
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purpose browser, and there's simply no way to keep up with the community |
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development power of its extensions even if kde wanted to. Pretty much |
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everyone (including kde devs, based on remarks on the kde lists and |
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planet) seems to use firefox for at least some of their browsing these |
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days. |
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Someday, the webkit based rekonq is likely to take over from konqueror, |
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but upstream says it's not yet mature enough for that. Others use chrome |
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or chromium, or icecat, or something else. But firefox really does tend |
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to be the cross-DE default, at least to the point that I believe that |
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defaulting to USE=-firefox in the kde profiles would be a mistake. Some |
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of us would like nothing better than to be able to remove both it and with |
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it gtk, but reality is, that's not going to be a useful default for some |
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time, and given that, IMO, full optional but default-on support for it in |
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the KDE desktop profiles via USE flags should be maintained. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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