On Monday 20 January 2014 19:16:55 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 2014/1/20 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com>:
> >> 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):
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------
> >> 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..
> >> ----------------------------------------
> >> [...]
> >> 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?
>
> Hmm, it can be a bit confusing, yes.
>
> What I meant is that if one of the devels behind KDE recommends to use
> Webkit backend as a default for Konqueror, perhaps in Debian we should
> be more proactive to make it the default. I don't know if there will
> be people insisting on using the KHTML one, though.
>
> To achieve this, probably the easiest solution would be
> Require-ing|Recommend-ing kpart-webkit. The users then can still
> select which backend they want from the "General" options of
> Konqueror, but at least Webkit is selected as default when the package
> is installed (I think).
>
> The package konqueror currently does not even Depend|Recommend|Suggest
> kpart-webkit at the moment, so I expect that most users don't even
> know that Debian actually supports Webkit as renderer for Konqueror,
> nor there are clear suggestions on how to achieve this (as far as I
> know).
>
> So the subject meant to say "arrange things in a way that users use
> only webkit, or webkit by default, or at least as an option" without
> having to fiddle with the system too much (e.g. install new packages
> that are not even recommended).
I then understood you well. I made konqueror recommend kpart-webkit some hours
ago, it will be included with the next upload.
Thanks for your input!
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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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