On Wednesday 13 Jul 2016 09:14:37 Stefano Crocco wrote: > On Tuesday 12 July 2016 22:56:38 Mick wrote: > > For example Konqueror on my laptop does not integrate with Dolphin > > anymore, > > This is because konqueror still uses KDE 4, while dolphin has been ported to > KDE Frameworks 5. The problem is that konqueror has been without a full > time mantainer for a long time, since the original author shifted his > attention to other parts of KDE. Since last year I took up the role of > konqueror mantainer, but unfortunately I had much less free time to work on > it than I hoped for back then. > > Currently, the situation regarding konqueror is the following: > > * the application itself has been ported from KDE4/Qt4 to KDE Frameworks/Qt5 > by its original author (David Faure). This means that it compiles and > mostly works, including the integration with dolphin. There are several > bugs, however. > * I've ported most of the plugins (only the user agent plugin doesn't work > completely) > * I'm in the process of porting the sidebar, which is the last part of > konqueror still using KDE 4. However, different from the rest of the > application, porting this is going to be a lot of work. This is because the > sidebar (or rather, parts of it) still uses a compatibility library used to > port applications from KDE 3 to KDE 4. This library, of course, doesn't > exist in KDE Frameworks, which means that a large part of the sidebar code > needs to be almost rewritten. > > I've thought of writing an ebuild for the developer version of konqueror, (a > 9999 one, of course), since the application is currently mostly working (I > use it as my primary browser, even if I have to switch to other browser > every now and then for sites which won't work with it). The reason I > haven't done so is that konqueror requires libkonq and that the 4 and 5 > versions of libkonq can't be installed together. Since many applications > from kde 4 still use it, this would create an issue. > > Stefano
Thank you Stefano for taking this project on! We are grateful for your work. I have been using Konqueror since KDE2 if I recall right, and although I've tried other browsers/file managers/ftp clients/et al. nothing has ever come close in terms of versatility to this 'swiss army knife' on all my Linux desktops. From what you say it seems that libkonq-5 won't become available until all reverse deps of KDE4 applications are no longer there. If this can't be addressed by slots in Gentoo, I guess we'll just have to wait until all KDE4 applications have been ported to KDE5, or retired. -- Regards, Mick
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