On Sunday 12 January 2014 13:34:28 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Package: konqueror
> Version: 4:4.11.3-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
>
> I reported a problem (copied below) about being unable to see correctly a
> web site with Konqueror (works perfectly with Firefox and Chrome), in:
>
>
> https://discuss.makeplaylive.com/t/forum-website-not-working-in-konqueror/2
> 9/2
>
>
> My original post (does not show a blank page now, more info at bottom):
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> https://discuss.makeplaylive.com/
>
> In Konqueror, shows a blank page.
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>
>
> Aaron Seigo's reply (for those for whome the name does not ring a bell, he
> is one of the most prominent upstream developers of KDE, and admin of that
> forum):
>
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> Yes, KHTML is way behind the times. There is exactly nothing we can or will
> do about that. Please use a webkit based browser such as Rekonq (Konqueror
> can use the webkit part, btw), Chrome, Firefox..
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>
>
> Rekonq doesn't seem available in Debian (was present a while ago but
> removed).
>
> Arora (using webkit) doesn't show anything either, but the last version is
> ~1.5/2 years old and seems dead upstream.
>
> I repeated with Konqueror and the front page is not blank, but when
> installing kpart-webkit package and selecting it as backend in Konqueror
> ("General" -> "Default web browser engine"), the support for websites that
> I generally use is much better, and the zoom of the pages much more useful
> than with the default KHTML renderer.
>
> So I thought that it would be useful to pass on this information to the
> Debian maintainers in the case that you are not aware, because if Aaron
> recommends to use Webkit as a backend and it's possible to use Konqueror
> with it by default, maybe we should switch the backend, or switch the
> default, suggest/recommend kpart-webkit in the dependencies, or provide
> alternative packages using the different backends (konqueror-khtml and
> konqueror-webkit), for example.
Hi! I think your subject confused me a little. You can use konqueror with
webkit as you mentioned. Are you suggesting that we switch the default?
--
Existe un problema cultural, el que lleva -por ejemplo- a los padres a
comprar una computadora y ponerla en la habitación de los varones. La
computadora tiende a ser vista como un objeto "masculino", por lo cual
el número de mujeres interesadas es menor.
Margarita Manterola, Debian Developer, en un mail sobre las mujeres
en el software libre, LugFi.
http://listas.fi.uba.ar/pipermail/lug/2005-September/020266.html
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