New default web browser on KDE Spin

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Sun Aug 2 02:36:26 UTC 2015


Markus Slopianka composed on 2015-08-02 04:07 (UTC+0200):

> Gerald B. Cox wrote:

>> Markus Slopianka wrote:

>> > QtWebKit is still deprecated in favor of Chromium-based Qt WebEngine.
>> > KDE has nothing to do with this decision by Digia.

>> Ok... so?

> Don't play dumb.
> No browser using a deprecated, insecure engine should ever be default.
> There is no excuse to do it anyway.

You'd think not, but be realistic. Resources in upstream KDE chronically fall
short of what its ambitious and optimistic view developer pool is
realistically capable of producing, while employing a myopic view of what
loyal KDE users care about.
-- 
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words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)

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