On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 16:57 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Gilboa Davara <gilboad <at> gmail.com> writes:
> You don't want to remove Firefox because Konq is the better tool - you
> want to remove [Firefox]* because it doesn't fit your purist view of KDE-only
> distribution.
Not really (though I see how you could get that impression). I use some non-KDE
apps daily, X-Chat for example. (I like its C plugin interface, I have written
a few script-like plugins in C for X-Chat. Most users will probably be happy
with Konversation though, if they even use IRC at all.) I doubt the usefulness
of Firefox in particular (over Konqueror) though (and the usefulness of
Evolution even more, considering that I never use it whereas I use KMail all
the time, and that AFAICS it gets more flames than any other application which
ships with Fedora). Personally, I'd rather have X-Chat available than Firefox
or Evolution, but that is my very biased personal preference.
As for generally useful non-KDE apps (not just the one I happen to use the
most ;-) ), I think OO.o and GIMP qualify, but IMHO not Firefox and definitely
not Evolution. Ekiga might also be interesting, though that probably drags in
several GNOME libs too.
* I guess that's what you meant because otherwise your sentence makes no
sense. ;-)
Kevin Kofler
Guess I jumped the gun. My mistake, I apologize.
I seem to be suffering from a mild case of sleep deprivation which
makes a bit jumpy.
Firefox is not a leanest/cleanest product - no arguments there.
(Hopefully FF 3.0 will be a major improvement when it comes to bloat)
But for now, firefox has 3 major advantages:
A. Extensions.
B. Better site compatibility.
C. ... Extensions.
A well configured (and extended) FF 1.5 runs circles around
Konq/Opera/IE7.
I'm not saying the Konq doesn't work for you - or that Firefox should be
the default browser.
I am saying the removing it from the ISO is a big mistake.
- Gilboa