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I think you should always focus on your strong points, not weaknesses; konq3.5 is the best filemanager around, and also happened to be a browser, konq4.x, needs to be just as good

I don't use Konqueror, but Chrome instead. I think, the focus on webbrowring should be, but for Arora or some lightweight and USABLE browser. Porting Chrome would be good, though I don't know either would it be good technically.

I notice only *power users* use konqueror. Look at their reasoning, ordinary users would have a hard time digesting it. Okay continue to make konqueror the default after all KDE aims not to be in the mainstream...

Let's just switch to Webkit.

frustphil wrote:I notice only *power users* use konqueror. Look at their reasoning, ordinary users would have a hard time digesting it. Okay continue to make konqueror the default after all KDE aims not to be in the mainstream...

There are a couple of things, the file-size view and gallery, that I love about konqueror, but these are not things I need constantly. For every-day use I find dolphin far better. It wasn't at first, granted, but now its configurability brings benefits to me that I never had in konqueror. And in the sense of file-manager usage, I do consider myself a power user.

Many people haven't scratched the surface of dolphin before they decide to stick with konqueror. It's more a matter of comfort-zone than the application's ability.

I actually think KHTML needs much more work put into it, instead of shipping Konqueror with Webkit. I'm eager to see KHTML integrated with Nepomuk and Akonadi, and I'm sure this would be hard to implement with Qt's version of Webkit... especially, as I've said before, with the release difficulties...

Sorry for the previous semi-OT. There are many things about Konqueror as a web browser that I actually do like, and if it becomes possible to deal with the broken sites I'd certainly choose it in preference to firefox, which I use out of practicality but don't really like. I'm just sorry that the road ahead for konqueror looks so unclear at the moment. I expect that there are the usual limitations of man-power, so it's up to those of us that care about konqueror to stand up and be counted

Dekkon wrote:Let's just switch to Webkit.

You say that like it's an easy thing to do. It isn't, in fact it is extremely difficult.

Konqueror has always been my main motivation for sticking to KDE, I use it for pretty much everything that is not in a console (still I could use the console from konqueror as well, I just never got used to it). It's so much better than firefox for 99% of the sites, and the integration with the filesystem of local and remote machines (via fish) is a huge plus. Firefox configuration is a pain, just an example, try to implement your own search engine shortcut. It takes a few seconds in konqueror, and you can use shortcuts like gg: from the url line

i voted negative because i use konqueror with all functionalities , as file manager and as web browser and i have a wonderful experience. Please don't break konqueror

I changed my vote. Originally I thought this was a good idea, simply because we didn't have a good, easy-to-use web browser in KDE. However, rekonq seems to be on the road to fill that niche. So I say let dolphin be the polished, dedicated file manager, let rekonq be the polished, dedicated web browser, and leave konqueror as the jack-of-all-trades.

I am against it. Konqueror is not only a File/Web browser, it is a documents shell. It can work with almost anything and has very nice multi-views support. It is the KDE swiss army knife.

Instead, those who are interested in a better browser for KDE should push the idea of using Rekonq as default browser for their distribution of choice. Rekonq is very good!

I agree with dpalacio. I love konqueror and I think that it should get more development .

A video with a demostrasion of the power of konqueror. The only linux application capable to do all these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... O3fIAPPZGs