Hi! I see some discussion in the thread "Re: Is Konqueror still a live project?", which seems to be incomplete in my kmail devel-ml folder tough, but it doesn´t seem it came to any conclusion.
I am posting as a user who reports bug, helped with a little performance optimization work and CRM114 spamfilter configuration for KMail and builds some stuff to help testing and to make it short: I miss an updated Konqi. I mean the Konqueror webbrowser. I used it often but I use it less and less as it has various problems: - websites not rendering correctly with KHTML - Strg + / - zoom not working for Webkit (thats why I have it at KHTML to resize websites quickly in Akregator) - Issues with SSL/TLS certificate handling (on certain sites I get asked about certifictate from fbstatic.com or so, seems sites who link to facebook stuff, I tried accepting the cert or disallowing it but I get this again and again) Alternatives all have their weaknesses. - Iceweasel / Firefox: I just look at the GTK file dialog box it uses and I am done with it (sorry, to be honest: One of the worst usability nightmares *ever*). Or that you cannot search cookie exception rules. And integration issues with KDE here and there. I know people tried making KDE integration, but it is not readily available in Debian. - Chromium: It still feels like a forein body in my KDE desktop. It is fast and all that… but what gives, even with system window borders… And then only Konqi does: - ton of other protocols and KIO stuff - easily have several windows open which are *separate* processes (unlike Iceweasel or Chromium or even Qupzilla it seems, and I think even rekonq which is not currently packaged for Debian, last is 0.9.2-1 for Wheezy, I do have a 2.4.2 package from someone who did one, but thats also not updated) - integrate that well with KDE desktop, bookmark handling, Alt-F2 krunner stuff and so on. Some of the Alt-F2 stuff doesn´t work as I replaced default browser with Qupzilla at the moment. I do not remember which at the moment, but there are things that don´t work with it. - web archives into war files. I loved this, but this also only works with KHTML. I bet webbrowser work is a lot of work… but are there any plans, ideas? Right now I get the impression it at least to some extent bitrots, which is sad. Konqi with updated web engine… and well, okay, maybe a core set of functionality, maybe it doesn´t need all the functions, maybe some kind of usability studies could reveal what people want most in it, miss most with other browsers compared to Konqueror. I think Konqueror was once one of the pillars of KDE. I´d love to see a comeback of it. My C++ coding skills are pretty basic, but I would like to help in ways I can. And maybe it can be QMLified for its GUI. Right now there is no webbrowser that really satisfies me to use in Plasma desktop. I know this is may be a huge one, but I wanted to draw some attention to this. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
