Sven Burmeister said the following on 07/04/2011 02:05 PM:
BTW: before firefox became default in openSUSE's KDE pattern, konqueror was the default browser – worse engine, worse plug-in support etc. Those that liked it, used it because for them it had advantage x. Those that did not like it, used firefox because it had extension y.
I never used Konqeror as a web browser; I ALWAYS - and still do - use it as a file manager. Gutted as it is no, its still a better file manager than Dolphin. When I used it in "webkit mode" it was to preview a local HTML file without having to fire up another program. Per brought this matter up in a parallel thread.
This is just about a default browser and not which browser is the most versatile in all kinds of disciplines. Whether rekonq is the right choice – I do not know, but firefox is certainly not the right choice because one can use noscript or any of the stuff 99% of the users on the web do not use. Firefox does not even care about desktop integration other than gtk, which is why KDe people have to work on making it fit into plasma's notification system, use KDE's file-dialogues and standard-apps. That's important for the normal user - not having the choice of a dozen adblockers.
Those were my examples. The other 99% of the users of firefox use other plugins that make their life easier for what they do: on eBay, on Twitter, blogging, whatever. There have been a number of D-Bus/Mozilla integration projects, and a previous version of Thunderbird *DID* notify via the pop-up in my system tray. The current versions of Firefox and Thunderbird make use of libinotify and *DO* integrate with Gnome. I see also that compiz-plugins-extras package uses libinotify through /usr/lib/compiz/libnotification.so Doesn't that use DBus? So what's the problem? -- "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org