Gerald B. Cox píše v Út 11. 08. 2015 v 11:25 -0700: > There has been a lively discussion within KDE regarding the Konqueror > browser; and subsequently it has been decided that a non-KDE, GTK > browser will be the default for the spin. > > Why, because Firefox is the only choice for Fedora, Chromium is not > allowed. And how would Chromium make this particular situation better? It looks even less integrated in KDE than Firefox. Nevertheless, it looks like we will need to find a solution to this because Qt developers have decided to replace Qt WebKit with Qt Web Engine which is nothing, but a bundled Chromium. So if we want Qt apps in Fedora to draw HTML in the future, we probably won't have a lot of choice. Jiri On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Dan Mossor <danofsatx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The correct avenue here, in light of the news from the upstream > > products, is to keep the status quo regardless of the lack of > > usability. When we finally get a fully-featured Qt based browser, > > that is when we switch. We DO NOT switch to a GTk based browser > > that has zero integration with the Plasma desktop - single click > > selection of files and directories within Firefox doesn't even > > work, let alone the theming and other issues. Ironically, those two > > items, as well as integration with kWallet, work fine with Google > > Chrome (which is not a choice in this discussion). > Tom Calloway has been working on Chromium - and his copr is up-to > -date for anyone who wants to try it. > https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/spot/chromium/ > > It's been a slow slog working through the issues keeping it from the > official repository, but progress > has been made: > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28287 > > Things have also changed over the years, and Chrome/Chromium's > popularity has continued to grow and is now packaged in Ubuntu, > Debian and Suse. Firefox has exceptions mainly because it is deemed > "to popular" to keep out of the distribution. I think it is obvious > to everyone that Chrome/Chromium is "at least" as popular than > Firefox. > > I realize we have our guidelines and we're not Debian, Suse or > Ubuntu... and that's a good thing. But, if we're making exceptions > for Firefox because of it's popularity shouldn't we do the same for > Chromium. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
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