On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 15:45 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
> g wrote:
>
>> yet, in reality, my point, which one missed, is that when it comes
>> to web browsers and email clients, it is like baskin-robbins, there
>> are many choices to make and that choice should be left to user.
>> not packages that are loaded by default when a new installation is
>> made.
>
> Thanks, but I think it's a given that we need to install one web browser
> by
> default, and that the question is which one. Not installing any (or some
> how providing a choice) is not an option we are considering.
On the other hand, we *could* move the webbrowser outside of treating it as
part of the desktop environment, and more as an (essential) addon
application.
I'd go along with that. I know this may be somewhat heretical, but I use
KDE because I like the GUI, not because I like most of the specific
apps. I don't use Kmail and friends, or Kwallet, or the media player or
probably a bunch of other stuff. I use Evolution for mail, Chrome and
Firefox for browsing, VLC for media playing, qBittorrent for torrents
etc. I do use Konsole and Dolphin but could get by without them. Digikam
is very good but it would still be good running under another DE. I
can't even remember the last time I used Konqueror but it's many years
ago. I do understand about the KIO stuff but I don't miss it.
And I absolutely do *not* understand Activities. I know what they are, I
just don't see the point of them if I already have multiple virtual
desktops.
However I don't want to get too OT.
poc