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Re: [trinity-devel] What about updating Konqueror search providers with recent list?

From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 13:05:33 -0500
On 6 March 2012 13:03, Kristopher Gamrat <chaotickjg@...> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote:
>> On 6 March 2012 12:07, Kristopher Gamrat <chaotickjg@...> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote:
>>>> On 6 March 2012 07:46, E. Liddell <ejlddll@...> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 23:54:19 -0500
>>>>> Kristopher Gamrat <chaotickjg@...> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote:
>>>>>> > On 5 March 2012 23:26, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@...> wrote:
>>>>>> >> On 03/05/2012 09:45 PM, Kristopher Gamrat wrote:
>>>>>> >>> So far nobody's mentioned Bing. I know many hard-core FOSS peoples
>>>>>> >>> (myself included) would never touch it, but many new users might.
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Good point...
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I say we ignore it. Don't some of the features require Silverlight? At
>>>>>> > one point they did. My vote is no.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's Silverlight? I never heard of it. I just tested Bing in
>>>>>> Firefox, and it worked fine. The video previews in their video search
>>>>>> was a bit glitchy, but I was able to click the videos and watch them
>>>>>> normally. All their other search functions (web, images, maps, news,
>>>>>> and shopping) seemed to operate fine too. Although Bing is way to
>>>>>> flashy for me, and does not operate/organize itself in a way that I'd
>>>>>> consider using it,
>>>>>
>>>>> Silverlight was Microsoft's attempt at a Flash clone.  For obvious reasons,
>>>>> it never really caught on.
>>>>>
>>>>> While I, personally, dislike Bing and would never use it, I support adding it
>>>>> to the list of search engines, if only to make moving from Windows to
>>>>> Linux with Trinity infinitesimally easier for some people.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bing also probably doesn't render well or fast on Konqueror, another
>>>> reason to not use it at least until we switch away from KHTML.
>>>
>>> From personal experience, almost nothing renders well in Konqueror
>>> anymore. Google is the only thing that does for me out of the sites I
>>> normally frequent, and it's forced to use the "old-fashioned"
>>> interface from over a year ago because KHTML is severely outdated.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kristopher Gamrat
>>>
>>
>> Google renders well in Konqueror. It just uses the older interface
>> (which imho is cleaner and faster). Bing is partially broken.
>
> That's what I said, isn't it?
>
> --
> Kristopher Gamrat
>

Sigh,

You said most things are broken in Konqueror. I am not concerned about
"most things"  rendering well. I am trying to make sure a very certain
set of defaults render well. Therefore I was being rather particular.

Calvin