Konqueror and Gmail

[Anoop]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Mitchell Richters <mjr4077au at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> On 03/01/2010 09:59 PM, Anoop wrote:
>>
>> Hi Keven,
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Kevin Kofler<kevin.kofler at chello.at>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Anoop wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can someone tell me how to make Konqueror work with Gmail?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why use a web browser for e-mail?
>>>
>>
>> I very much use KMail. But sometimes I do need to use Webmail say if I
>> am not on my workstation.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anoop
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The best solution is to use KMail, follow the instructions for IMAP
>>> access
>>> and you can still keep all your messages on the server as with webmail
>>> (which also means you can still use the webmail on other machines, or
>>> even
>>> the same machine for that matter), but get an actual e-mail client which
>>> is
>>> much nicer to use than some AJAX crap in the browser.
>>>
>>> A web browser is not an e-mail client!
>>>
>>> That said, Konqueror's default KHTML engine can be persuaded to work with
>>> GMail by faking browser identifiers or such. And indeed there's also the
>>> WebKitPart, but that's not that great an idea as it's not the recommended
>>> HTML renderer in Konqueror (in fact the only reason it works at all is
>>> that
>>> Konqueror can embed any arbitrary KPart).
>>>
>>>        Kevin Kofler
>>>
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>
> Worth mentioning to Anoop, if you're not on a webpage in Konqueror, you
> can't select the rendering engine via View > View Mode. If you're in a file
> manager session, it will only show you view options for changing the Window
> display (Icons, List, Details etc...).
Yes I saw that option coming up, when I was browsing.

>
> Alexey mentions installing "webkitpart". I think its probably already
> installed if you changed the default layout renderer via System Settings
> (you wouldn't have had the option I don't think).
Yes it was already installed.

Thanks a lot
-Anoop
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>
> Cheers, Mitch.
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