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mandrake #1 !? knoqueror best browser!?
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read the article off distrowatch... as I yet contemplating nuking my mandrake 9.2 rc2...
one interesting thing I read off it is their choice for best browser, Konqueror.
no problem with that, however, this is interesting note...
" and integrates perfectly into KDE (providing an advantage over Mozilla, which does not totally integrate into KDE or GNOME). "
Everytime I read something like this, I kept thinking what could be accomplish if there is a vision... we all damage the microsoft armor with valid criticism, yet in many of our arguments we invalidate our own argument elsewhere...
integration? good or bad... do mozilla cry foul of konqueror's desktop integration just like Microsoft buildin IE into its windows... Or does KDE's open access invalidate that argument... or does mozilla's own insistence to be platform independent invalidate their own stance? ie... while we can incorporate better with kde's specific code, we insist on being cross platform and therefore will not take advantage of that access, and encourage others to be developed as pure platform independent software.
(and you will note this very same argument many times on bugzilla where mozilla developers will simply not go that one base on ideology, rather than pure sense...)
anyway, back to mandrake... I have grown to like it alot... and previously I have always *lookdown* on mandrake being stupidifed... but I guess as I got older and less technically inclined, I like things that does not tax my brain power any more than it needs to. | |
| Papiya 2003-09-22, 9:09 am |
| Actually, I think the user should be free to choose whether to get this integration or not. Some may like, others won't. Personally, I do. usually when you have a desktop environment, you want everything to interoperate smoothly . . . I remember there used to be some apps in Linux that you couldn't cut and paste to with the mouse -- you could only do it within certain applications. I found this highly irritating. So to have total compatibility and a high level of integration is actually very useful, but like I said above, the user should be the ultimate judge. And since the source is open, there is nothing stopping the Galeon or Mozilla developers from creating a smiliar degree of intergaration for their own browsers within KDE or GNOME if they wish . . . |
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