Will Rekonq be Updated for the LTS?

[jglen490]

While understand that one may CHOOSE to wrap a computing experience around an integrated set of OS and software, but to me that was my primary reason for getting away from Windoze so many years ago - to exercise choice. I still choose to do so.

The fact that Linux in general and Kubuntu in specific allows that free choice/beer/speech option, and the ease of operating within those parameters of choice is what keeps me from moving on to some other OS, even BSD. In picking and choosing when to upgrade from one package to another and then choosing which software options work best in my world for the task at hand, there's no way that OS/software integration can ever be as useful.

Even on this low end machine, the Kubuntu 10.04 LTS package has worked quite well. The move to 12.04 LTS should be as painless as the previous transition, once 12.04.1 is out. The rest is kid-in-a-candyshop. Firefox has never been problematic, is still the best browser on the planet, and well worth the effort to un-integrate Kubuntu's Konq defaults. OpenOffice over KOffice any day of the week, although the KOffice replacement may be worth a look. Mplayer, with the SMplayer front, is far and away the best media player on the planet - Amarok hasn't been worth considering in years (I know the transition from KDE 3 to KDE 4 took a huge toll on what was a fine piece of software). KMail, and the rest of the PIM, can't hold a candle to Thunderbird/Lightning. But I do still mourn the loss of KPilot (there's a clue!).

Again, I understand those who defend the applications that I just slammed, but the whole point is choice and openness. You want integration, go for it, but don't be hard on those of us who don't sign up for that approach.

[sumski]

http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=...95cd31bb5def1a

rekonq 0.9.90  a.k.a. "rekonq 1.0 beta"           
String freeze from now on,           
[B]rekonq 1.0 stable in (not less than) 15 days[/B]

[SteveRiley]

I'll install the kpart-webkit from your PPA and take it out for a spin.

[sumski]

Maybe i didn't express myself correctly - i meant on my particular combination of software and hardware. I haven't done any tweaks, except changed rendering from KHTML to Webkit.
Regarding flash, it works an all sites i checked, with which ones did you have issues?
That Google/scrollbar thing is present for me, but also on Rekonq.
Plus, (i don't know am i doing something wrong with Rekonq) opening of pages is faster with Konqueror, it can take a while for a certain sites to render/open in Rekonq.

[SteveRiley]

on my setup it works better!

Can you describe that a bit more? What about it is better?

I experimented with Konqueror in webkit mode several months ago and it mostly didn't work: forms would render wrong, no Flash, issues with Google sites that replace part of WebKit's UI (like the scrollbar, for instance).

I'd be happy to try again, sounds like some improvements have been made.

[sumski]

I have been testing konqueror + latest kwebkitpart, and i must say, it behaves rather nicely. While in looks for a browser, it's a little dated comparing to rekonq, but on my setup it works better! HTML yt videos work perfectly, i would dare say, better than ff.
Misc:
HTML5 test
Rekonq: 321 + 14 bonus points
Konqueror: 326 + 14 bonus
Setup: qt 4.8.2, qtwebkit 2.2.2, latest git rekonq, konqueror, KDE and kwebkitpart.
I know this really ain't a killer test, but for comparison, konqueror with KHTML scores 97 + 6 bonus points

[sumski]

http://adjamblog.wordpress.com/2012/...-tech-preview/

That’s it! Just let us fix and clean up our code and hopefully next month you’ll have a shining new rekonq version in your desktop!

If that really is the plan, and considering 4.9 will be released later* , it should not depend on 4.9.


*http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KD...DE_4.9_Release

[wrender]

That is really great news!

[sumski]

0.9.80 works with 4.8.x, so 1.0 will also probably work

[wrender]

Does the 1.0 release work with KDE 4.8.x libraries? or does it require KDE 4.9.x ?

[sumski]

I thought about not packaging it, but i decided i won't deviate from upstream, as much ugly it is.

[SteveRiley]

Steve, they forgot to mention the font (maybe it's covered with rekonq pages visual improvements)

Heh, you're right! Well I guess I'll have to set up a login script to keep purging that silly font.

For those going at what we're discussing... Someone on Rekonq decided it would be a good idea to bundle a font into the .deb, one that it uses for all its in-window (but not in-web-page) text. For example, a portion of my history list from the other day:



This is the font:

steve@t520:~$ locate -i nunito
/usr/share/kde4/apps/rekonq/fonts/Nunito-Regular.ttf

Sumski and I were PM'ing about this the other day. We concur that it is an especially ugly creature Curiously, the file fails to appear in lsof while Rekonq is running. You can easily delete it and Rekonq revert to your system's default font for in-window text. But, of course, it'll come back the next time Rekonq is upgraded. Ah, well.

[sumski]

Changelog:

1.0 - sync: sync bookmarks (just them for now) with google and with opera services.
- Fancy bookmarking: store (and share) infos about bookmarks via nepomuk.
- rekonq pages visual improvements
-Favorites page: drag & drop added (as requested), ability to reload preview (down left button changed)
- Bookmarks page: rewamped
- History page: faster load showing just 2 days as default + history search feature in the page
- Downloads page: initial notifications on what is happening to the downloaded file + search feature
- Settings improvements: added "privacy" and "advanced" widgets + options about.
- Default search engine check. If user has not a default search engine set, rekonq inform him.
- Included tab history when cloning a tab via the "clone tab" action
- adblock improvements: better adblock settings widget, letting users decide with 1 click what adblock subscriptions use
- adblock icon in the urlbar triggering a new dialog letting users to unblock/show blocked/hided elements
- new action to block (and hide) images

Steve, they forgot to mention the font (maybe it's covered with rekonq pages visual improvements)

[SteveRiley]

/me awaits with bated breath!

(Unlike fish, of course, who often loiter about the lakes with baited breath. I bet those worms taste really skanky.)

[sumski]

http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=...65253829c28894

rekonq 0.9.80

rekonq 1.0 tech preview!

- started the bug fix run