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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] has anyone tried KDE5?
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:38:16
Message-Id: 5436E419.1040401@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] has anyone tried KDE5? by Francisco Ares
1 On 09/10/2014 19:44, Francisco Ares wrote:
2 >
3 > 2014-10-07 12:20 GMT-03:00 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com
4 > <mailto:michaelkintzios@×××××.com>>:
5 >
6 > On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 15:48:33 Philip Webb wrote:
7 > > 141007 Pavel Volkov wrote:
8 > > > On Sunday, October 5, 2014 9:10:50 PM MSK, Alan McKinnon wrote:
9 > > >> I haven't used konqueror as a browser in many many months,
10 > > >> I get along just fine with Firefox and Chromium.
11 > > >> I believe Konqueror is essentially unmaintained these days
12 > > >> or at least on life support. Make a fine file manager though
13 > > >> (kparts has always been one of KDE's very much better ideas)
14 > > >
15 > > > I think there was a tendency to replace Konqueror with rekonq
16 > > > in KDE-based distros. Can somebody comment on how rekonq is doing?
17 > >
18 > > I dropped Konqueror as an alternative browser recently
19 > > after it refused to accept every URL as malformed.
20 > > Rekonq is an adequate replacement + Firefox for regular use ;
21 > > I also use Lynx when I want text copies of WWW dox.
22 > > My window manager is Fluxbox.
23 >
24 > I still use Konqueror as file manager, ssh/ftp/webdav client and
25 > occasionally
26 > as an Internet browser. However, I have set it up to use WebKit as its
27 > browser engine instead of KHTML.
28 >
29 > --
30 > Regards,
31 > Mick
32 >
33 >
34 >
35 > Hi,
36 >
37 > How did you manage to get WebKit instead of KHTML? On my version, I can
38 > only see the last.
39 >
40 > Thanks, and Best Regards,
41 > Francisco
42
43
44 I set this up so long ago I forget exactly how I did it. IIRC it's as
45 simple as
46
47 emerge kde-misc/kwebkitpart
48 konqueror menu -> View -> View Mode
49
50 --
51 Alan McKinnon
52 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] has anyone tried KDE5? Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>