Gerald B. Cox ha scritto:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano(a)tiscali.it
<mailto:luigi.toscano@tiscali.it>> wrote:
As long as people continue spreading this information, it will continue to
exist. KDE is not a Desktop Environment, full stop, whatever you like or
think.
I think the point was that many people just don't care... their eyes simply
glaze over
when you get into the minutiae of it all. In any event, it's really amusing
if you do
a Google search, the first hit says:
"KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations."
Here is a screenshot for your amusement:
https://goo.gl/photos/smu2Zem1So2pD9669
So if you're concerned about misinformation, someone needs to work on that.
Yes, Google Search. That string is only available from those pages:
https://www.kde.org/announcements/beta2announce.php
https://www.kde.org/announcements/beta3announce.php
https://www.kde.org/announcements/beta4announce.php
You can check it yourself by checking out the source of the www website and
running grep there:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/www/sites/www/
Maybe it's possible to force Google to change this information, I will ping
KDE sysadmins.
If you check any other page around on
kde.org you will find the correct
definition (the one I mentioned before).
Interesting to notice that one side you don't care about what upstream says
about Plasma and KDE, and on the other side you want to exactly follow what
upstream ships in some of the many products. Konqueror is not part of of the
releases of the desktop anyway.
The thread was about changing default applications. To change a default, you need
a compelling reason.
It depends on the set of default. There is no default browser for Plasma.
My point is: even upstream does not really want to push for a browser or
another right now. There is a (maybe just prototype) of new browser
investigated, but really really an experiment. No one in KDE community will
complain if the default browser of a "KDE-based distribution" is not
Konqueror.
I haven't seen anything that implies that Konqueror isn't the designated
browser for KDE;
just the opposite - there is a dearth of information on the web that implies
otherwise.
It's a browser shipped with KDE Applications. Can you find anywhere that it's
the default browser for Plasma?
However,
if upstream wants to clarify that, I would think they would just put out a
notice here:
https://www.kde.org/applications/internet/konqueror/
In any event, I still believe if one has an issue with the performance or
capabilities of a particular
application, the place to discuss that is with upstream.
A browser is unfortunately a really important component of the system nowadays
and even talking with upstream won't magically make it appears, even if I
really would like it.
Ciao
--
Luigi