Is it time to allow Chromium in Fedora?

[Jiri Eischmann]

Gerald B. Cox píše v Út 11. 08. 2015 v 11:25 -0700:
> There has been a lively discussion within KDE regarding the Konqueror 
> browser; and subsequently it has been decided that a non-KDE, GTK 
> browser will be the default for the spin.  
> 
> Why, because Firefox is the only choice for Fedora, Chromium is not 
> allowed.

And how would Chromium make this particular situation better? It looks
even less integrated in KDE than Firefox.

Nevertheless, it looks like we will need to find a solution to this
because Qt developers have decided to replace Qt WebKit with Qt Web
Engine which is nothing, but a bundled Chromium. So if we want Qt apps
in Fedora to draw HTML in the future, we probably won't have a lot of
choice.

Jiri

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Dan Mossor <danofsatx at gmail.com>
 wrote:
> > The correct avenue here, in light of the news from the upstream 
> > products, is to keep the status quo regardless of the lack of 
> > usability. When we finally get a fully-featured Qt based browser, 
> > that is when we switch. We DO NOT switch to a GTk based browser 
> > that has zero integration with the Plasma desktop - single click 
> > selection of files and directories within Firefox doesn't even 
> > work, let alone the theming and other issues. Ironically, those two 
> > items, as well as integration with kWallet, work fine with Google 
> > Chrome (which is not a choice in this discussion).
> Tom Calloway has been working on Chromium - and his copr is up-to
> -date for anyone who wants to try it.  
> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/spot/chromium/
> 
> It's been a slow slog working through the issues keeping it from the 
> official repository, but progress
> has been made:  
> https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28287
> 
> Things have also changed over the years, and Chrome/Chromium's 
> popularity has continued to grow and is now packaged in Ubuntu, 
> Debian and Suse.   Firefox has exceptions mainly because it is deemed 
> "to popular" to keep out of the distribution.  I think it is obvious 
> to everyone that Chrome/Chromium is "at least" as popular than 
> Firefox.  
> 
> I realize we have our guidelines and we're not Debian, Suse or 
> Ubuntu... and that's a good thing.  But, if we're making exceptions 
> for Firefox because of it's popularity shouldn't we do the same for 
> Chromium. 
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