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Re: KFirefox?
by Anonymous on Saturday 11/Sep/2004, @20:00

It isn't a matter of making Konqueror a bloated application. It's actually a relatively lightweight container. The parts which are loaded in order to accomplish a task don't need to be loaded at the same time unless you're using both. That goes for the kparts viewers that load directly in Konqueror as well. This argument is somewhat akin to stating that Netscape is a bloated app because Adobe's PDF plugin loads Acrobat Reader in the same window. The main difference is that the apps are more closely knit in KDE, with more options.

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Re: KFirefox?
by Anonnysauraus on Saturday 11/Sep/2004, @20:16

Re-read my initial post. I said bloated in terms of features, not resources.

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Re: KFirefox?
by Anonymous on Saturday 11/Sep/2004, @22:53

I did read it, but it seems to miss the point. Konqueror isn't a web browser or file manager. It's a container application, sort of a universal meta-browser. The file manager and HTML renderer are simply plugins. Features can be added or removed dynamically by adding or removing plugins. If you don't use it as a file manager, then it isn't. The same is true about the web browser portion. Calling it bloated in terms of features seems a bit silly since features can be added or removed dynamically. If you take that away, it's no longer Konqueror.

As an example, try right-clicking on a text file in the file manager. Choose "open in new window" from the menu that pops up. If you have the appropriate kpart, voila, Konqueror is now a text editor. Depending on what other plugins are present, other data types may have a part that can be loaded into konqueror. PDF files, filesystem trees and audio files are examples off the top of my head. You can use the location bar or even one of the plugins to access other plugins. IMO, it's a great model for data access that isn't constrained by a focus to be a single type of application.

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Re: KFirefox?
by koos on Sunday 12/Sep/2004, @11:08

Completely agreed with mr. Anonymous from previous post.
If you think konqueror supports to much mimetypes, then go to the 'File Associations' dialog and remove unwanted mimes from the 'Embedding' tab. Eg. to make konqueror not supporting HTML anymore, simply configure it at text/html to not embed with the khtml part, and put your favorite browser on top of the 'Application Preference Order'.

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