Theo Chatzimichos posted on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:52:50 +0200 as excerpted: > For example, I don't really like the > firefox flag in kde, and I'd suggest a -firefox (ugly, I know) in kde's > make.defaults
That's not particularly practical, unfortunately. konqueror seems to be dropping behind, doesn't have proper ssl/certificate management support with 4.x, and in general is getting less and less useful as a general purpose browser, and there's simply no way to keep up with the community development power of its extensions even if kde wanted to. Pretty much everyone (including kde devs, based on remarks on the kde lists and planet) seems to use firefox for at least some of their browsing these days. Someday, the webkit based rekonq is likely to take over from konqueror, but upstream says it's not yet mature enough for that. Others use chrome or chromium, or icecat, or something else. But firefox really does tend to be the cross-DE default, at least to the point that I believe that defaulting to USE=-firefox in the kde profiles would be a mistake. Some of us would like nothing better than to be able to remove both it and with it gtk, but reality is, that's not going to be a useful default for some time, and given that, IMO, full optional but default-on support for it in the KDE desktop profiles via USE flags should be maintained. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
