30 May
2017
30 May
'17
5:57 p.m.
On Friday 26 May 2017 18:37:32 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Some of the improvements in Konqueror-KDE4, (in Debian 8.7), are that it can
play YouTube videos, there seem to be some enhancements of JavaScript, because
it can now handle MathJax, and display of some web pages, such as Wikipedia
pages, is improved.
On the downside, Konqueror-KDE4 seems to use substantially more memory than
Firefox, and occasionally, (perhaps once per month), unexpectedly uses so much
memory that I completely lose control of my netbook, (with 1GB memory), due to
paging, and it can then take 15 minutes or more to get that Konqueror window
closed, and regain control of the netbook. Konqueror-KDE4 also sometimes
drops the connection during a long download, (for example during the download
of a 10MB .deb). This is a long-standing problem with Konqueror, so I usually
use Konqueror for reading, because it seems more comfortable, and use Firefox
for downloads.
Alternative rhyming names for Konsole-Trinity could be Facility or Utility.
Chris
Konqueror has
improved since KDE 3.5, but I can run Konqueror-KDE4 in
Trinity from a menu item with the command /usr/bin/konqueror, and thus get
the best of both worlds.
What is better about the KDE4 variant of Konqueror? We have brought over
new features in the past from KDE4 into TDE, and it sounds like we might
need to do so again.
If Konqueror-Trinity and Konsole-Trinity need to be given new names in
order to get Trinity into the Debian distribution, (to avoid a clash of
names with KDE), perhaps I could suggest Clarity for Konqueror-Trinity and
Simplicity for Konsole-Trinity, since these names rhyme with Trinity, and
suggest some of the defining characteristics of TDE.
Thank you for your feedback on TDE! The names proposed are actually
somewhat interesting; at this point I might be open to (slowly) renaming
some of the larger more user-visible applications, although I don't think
the cost/benefit is there for the minor applications that are being
abandoned by KDE SC over time.