On Friday, 17 March 2017 15:57:40 CET inkbottle wrote: > I too vote it out of (almost) compulsory installation: > > Konqueror "was" a really great idea, especially, to my mind, through the > kpart things: One could open several Okular document simultaneously, have > efficient tab organization, the possibility to bookmark them > simultaneously... Unfortunately it never worked, since one of the most > praised functionality, the annotation or review tools, never integrated > with it -- by the way, this annotation functionality of Okular still lack > support for utf-8, years after the bug have been reported, > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65956 > (I know it's a poppler bug). > > Also Konqueror doesn't integrate anymore with plasma, is redundant... > > Konqueror depends on *Dolphin4*...
Regardless of the general decision about this, just remember that Konqueror from Applications 16.12 is based on Frameworks. (and dolphin4 is just a small library anyway). > > I like the "file size view" feature which I find far superior to > "filelight". This functionality "is" provided by "k4dirstat" (which is an > outdated version of qdirstat, http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/) > The Konqueror version is faster and more convenient, to my mind. > > *kde-plasma-desktop* (package), *depends* on kde-baseapps, which in turn > *depends* on konqueror (and kfind...), which again depend on "outdated > technologies", like *dolphin4*.... This is probably an historical artifact before the split of kde-baseapps (which happened over time, the last part of the split few months ago). > > The only thing bad if Konqueror is not forced in anymore, is that one will > have to amend wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror). > > More and more Kde things are called Plasma nowadays... So suppressing it is > not as bad as if it was called "Pomperor" (sorry about that). Another note on naming (which I know that you know, but the sentence above could be a bit unclear). The number of components of the Plasma project did not did not change significantly in its history (check the upstream tarballs). Ciao -- Luigi
