(Posting here instead of Bugzilla, because Bugzilla currently doesn't work for me.) While investigating whether Rekonq is a suitable default browser candidate, I stumbled over an issue on the openSUSE side of things. First of all, Rekonq does not depend on konqueror-plugins even tough it's required for cookie management and web shortcuts. When installing konqueror-plugins manually, Konqueror itself is pulled automatically as it's an dependency. When ignoring the dependency, the Cookies and Web Shortcuts icons show up as expected in Rekonq's options window, but when clicking on them, Rekonq complains that kcm_kio and kcm_kurifilt cannot be found. That means that Konqueror itself is currently a requirement for Rekonq under openSUSE. The KCMs itself and not only the .desktop files should be put in konqueror-plugins. While I fear that this issue can't be resolved in openSUSE's 4.3 packages, you should work this issue out for 4.4/Factory, especially if Rekonq becomes the default browser of openSUSE 11.3. Regarding the suitability of Rekonq as default browser, I'm happy to say that a very promising new web browser is in development. The IMHO two crucial features that are missing from the current 0.3 release (missing KWallet support and no Adblock) are either already done or in advanced work in progress. If password saving and ad blocking are not needed, Rekonq is already a very fine performing web browser. The next release, slated for February 2010 (probably along with or shortly after the SC 4.4 release) should fulfill all needs for a mainstream web browser. Markus Am Dienstag 01 Dezember 2009 15:14:22 schrieb Will Stephenson:
On Sunday 22 November 2009 14:08:05 Markus wrote:
Hi there. Since the default browser is a recurring topic with every openSUSE release, I decided to create a small feature matrix (from a KDE point of view) at http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Ideas/11.3#Web_Browser to make a more informed decision once the time comes to agree on one browser.
Please update the feature matrix with other KDE-releated features I might have missed and when a feature status changes (eg. Chromium becoming compatible with KDE's GTK theme engine wrapper).
Thanks for doing this. I have updated the matrix with Konq + WebKit part.
Will
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