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Bug#506976: marked as done (konqueror rendering engine is obsolete)

Your message dated Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:28:22 +0100
with message-id <200811261828.36792.xavier.vello@gmail.com>
and subject line Re: Bug#506976: konqueror rendering engine is obsolete
has caused the Debian Bug report #506976,
regarding konqueror rendering engine is obsolete
to be marked as done.

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Package: konqueror
Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5
Severity: wishlist

Hello, i can see that konqueror has a very old rendering engine that does not confront to today's browsing needs.
frequent users of konqueror may see the browser's incompatibility with pages like google maps, gmail, or even slashdot.
anyway, what i suggest is that konqueror 3.x series is recompiled(if possible) to use the khtml engine that konqueror 4.x series use,
that is much more compatible, or even the webkit engine, which is open-sourced and derived as you all know from khtml.
Thanks for your attention and time.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages konqueror depends on:
ii  kcontrol         4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5        control center for KDE
ii  kdebase-kio-plug 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5        core I/O slaves for KDE
ii  kdelibs4c2a      4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  kdesktop         4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5        miscellaneous binaries and files f
ii  kfind            4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5        file-find utility for KDE
ii  libc6            2.7-16                  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1          1:4.3.2-1               GCC support library
ii  libkonq4         4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5        core libraries for Konqueror
ii  libqt3-mt        3:3.3.8b-5              Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++6       4.3.2-1                 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6         2:1.1.5-2               X11 client-side library

konqueror recommends no packages.

Versions of packages konqueror suggests:
pn  gij-4.1    <none>                        (no description available)
ii  khelpcente 4:4.0.0.really.3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 help center for KDE
ii  konq-plugi 4:3.5.9-2                     plugins for Konqueror, the KDE fil
pn  ksvg       <none>                        (no description available)
pn  libgcj7-aw <none>                        (no description available)
pn  libjessie- <none>                        (no description available)

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
> Hello, i can see that konqueror has a very old rendering engine that does
> not confront to today's browsing needs. frequent users of konqueror may see
> the browser's incompatibility with pages like google maps, gmail, or even
> slashdot. anyway, what i suggest is that konqueror 3.x series is
> recompiled(if possible) to use the khtml engine that konqueror 4.x series
> use, that is much more compatible, or even the webkit engine, which is
> open-sourced and derived as you all know from khtml. Thanks for your
> attention and time.

We are not fulfilling this wish for several reasons :
  - lenny (testing) has been in feature freeze for a long time
  - there's no simple way to use khtml4 or webkit in konqueror3
  - even if it was possible to hack this, we (the distribution) are not 
supposed to do such a big functionality change, this is evil. Debian policy is 
to stick as much as possible to upstream (they are the ones who know best).

But if konqueror3 doesn't fit you, you can use konqueror4 from the lenny 
backports (kde.debian.org), or one of the numerous web browsers Debian ships.

Regards
-- 
Xavier Vello

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