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A Dolphin-esk web browser
by kwilliam on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @21:23

"I think it'd be interesting to see what a web browser equivalent of Dolphin would look like."

It's interesting, because Dolphin started out to be a simple, Nautilus-like file manager, but has become more powerful in some respects than Konqueror for file managing. (I like the favorites dropdown in the address bar and the Columns view.) Include tabs, port a few more of the views from KDE 3, and allow more than two folders in "Split View", and Dolphin would be completely superior for file managing. If a "simple" web browser was started based on WebKit, it might quickly surpass Konqueror in web browsing functionality. Don't get me wrong, I love Konqueror (I use it's split views all the time), but there doesn't seem much advantage to having a web browser and a file manager combined. Aside from forward and back buttons, there's almost nothing in common between web browsing and file browsing.

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simple web browser Re: A Dolphin-esk web browser
by Anon on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @01:15

> If a "simple" web browser was started based on WebKit, it might quickly surpass Konqueror in web browsing functionality.

Why does everyone assume this?

a) Read the post farther up saying what KDE-integration functionality you'd lose.

b) Where would all these magic developers come from? Lots of hype, no action.

c) Someone already started a WebKit browser. It doesn't do much.

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Re: simple web browser Re: A Dolphin-esk web brows
by Louai Al-Khanji on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @15:33

If the browser you are referring to is safra in playground then that someone is me. It's a very young project, patience. ;) I'm also waiting for qt-copy to be updated.

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Re: A Dolphin-esk web browser
by Grósz Dániel on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @12:42

What Konqueror has is not specifically web browsing or file management - it can display whatever type of file (directory, html, pdf etc. with kparts) which is accessed via whatever protocol (file:, http:, ftp: etc. with kio slaves). File management (directory via file: or sometimes ftp:, sftp: etc.) and web browsing (html, sometimes pdf, doc, etc. via http: or https:) are special cases of this, but not the only case that someone may want to use.

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Re: A Dolphin-esk web browser
by Grósz Dániel on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @12:47

However, most of the kparts have a standalone application also (kpdf part has kpdf, etc., now file management dolphin part has dolphin) so a standalone app for html browsing wouldn't be a problem, if someone writes it. However, most web browsers are able to display not only html, but pdf and other file types also. That's what Konqueror can do easily and it would be silly not to reuse the kparts technology - and if a browser reuses kparts to display whatever file type, it is essentially the same as Konqueror.

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