Star Can KDE Save a Dying Windows Platform?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 3rd Feb 2008 23:09 UTC, submitted by Moochman
KDE This article details the story of a KDE-loving software engineer who was forced to use Windows for his job. "His only hope was that he knew Qt was cross compatible with Windows Linux and Mac, and there was talk that someday, KDE was to be ported to Windows. So he waited. Well, KDE4 was announced and there was much joy. Betas were released and there was much bitching. KDE4.0.0 was released and there again was much joy (and still a little bitching). More importantly an actual honest to goodness Windows port is released. Here follows that engineer's report."
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autumnlover
Member since:
2007-04-12

Now try to uninstall Konqueror without removing the KDE itself. Then you will see the difference between IE-driven Explorer and Konqueror.

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Erunno Member since:
2007-06-22

Now try to uninstall Konqueror without removing the KDE itself. Then you will see the difference between IE-driven Explorer and Konqueror.


That's pretty easy on a distribution which doesn't mark Konqueror as a hard dependency (e.g. Gentoo if my memory doesn't fail me).

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glarepate Member since:
2006-01-04

Are you claiming 'Doze is improved in functionality with IE removed? Or that KDE, and possibly Linux itself rather than one of it's several user interfaces, is benefited by removing Konq?

Didn't think so. But if I did run 'Doze I would want to remove the largest vector for infection and compromise of security and possibly even replace the whole Explorer GUI/interface with something more secure, usable and stable. But I don't.

What would your point be if you were to state it without obfuscation by ambiguity?

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