Well, as some of you must know, Konqueror has been replaced as the default web browser in Kubuntu by a new Konqueror-based web browser, Rekonq. I'm using Rekonq right now, and it's too soon to tell for sure, but it looks good.

As a longtime fan of Konqueror, I think this bodes well. In the past, whenever I've felt like I've had a great idea about where KDE ought to be heading, it usually turns out that the team is way ahead of me. With Rekonq, I see Konqueror freed of the need to fit into an assigned role in the KDE4 desktop, and I hope and expect that it's going back to its former role as the biggest, baddest GUI application ever, able to transform any lowly window manager into a full-functioned graphical desktop environment. I can't imagine that the KDE team is going to want to actually discontinue Konqueror, and so, being the KDE team, what else can they do but pimp that bad boy out?

I've already seen signs of this. Brand new functions are being introduced into Konqueror via konq-plugins, including bulk renaming and simple text-editing (or did I dream that?). If something resembling the old kioslave storage media window appears in Konqueror, what little resistence I have left against KDE4 will finally be abandoned, and I will be a KDE4 fanboy100 per cent.

The following was taken from within Konqueror (trunk, although this should be in 4.6 as well)

http://simplest-image-hosting.net/jpg-0 ... ktopi11163

Confirmed. It's the same in 4.6



That'd really be something to make an entire DE with just Konqueror and a window manager!

CraigPaleo wrote:Confirmed. It's the same in 4.6

So that's it? Konqueror is awesome again? Sorry I complained so much about KDE4.



That'd really be something to make an entire DE with just Konqueror and a window manager!

I guess I've done that, with Konqueror and Fluxbox. The fluxbox menu and the key configuration files can easily be edited to open konqueror to any directory, and that includes

programs:/

the url of Konqueror's own applications menu. Konqueror restores the whole graphical icons to fluxbox. It's like a KDE desktop that can open anywhere within the filesystem, minus the panel (and now, minus the plasma widgets)

I've gotten out of it more recently, and it looks like I've been finally seduced by pure KDE, but for maybe 2-3 years, I used Konqueror and Fluxbox together, and called the combination "Kickbox" I was starting to work on creating a live CD with the combination when KDE4 came out, and I wasn't sure what my next move should be.