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Month: November 2011

Re: [trinity-devel] Konqueror Web Browser.

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:00:23 -0600
> I would like that too, however with the lack of manpower, until there are
> some volunteers....
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Darrell Anderson
> <humanreadable@...>wrote:
>
>> > My main concern regarding Konqueror
>> > as a web browser is one of
>> > security.  I may be wrong, but my experience, with
>> > Slackware at least, is
>> > that the browser is part of KDE, and that there are no
>> > security updates
>> > for it.  The only time it gets updated is when you
>> > install a new version
>> > of KDE.  Since most web browsers require updates every
>> > few weeks, or
>> > sometimes after only a few days, I would like Trinity to
>> > have the ability
>> > to install security updates for the web browser, just like
>> > I can with
>> > Firefox, without having to update the whole D.E. or even
>> > the 'base' package.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Darrell

Just as a note, this really is a distribution packaging issue.  The KHTML
engine is already fairly well split within kdelibs, and if an external
renderer is used in the future then updates will be split by default.

Tim