Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > What advantage does Falkon have over upstream Chromium? Serious question.
Better desktop integration. (Especially KDE Plasma integration, but there is also a gnome-keyring plugin available. The KF5/Plasma integration plugin uses KWallet, of course, but also does other things.) E.g.: * native Qt widgets for everything outside the web view (what the Firefox source code confusingly calls the "chrome" with a small 'c' – perhaps unsurprisingly, I have not seen that term used that way in Chromium code): menu bar, toolbars, tab widget, status bar, dialogs, * native file dialogs wherever Qt has native file dialog support (KDE file dialogs, GTK file dialogs, etc.), otherwise the default Qt ones are used, * a native Qt scroll bar instead of the Chromium one for the site's main scrollbar (somewhat hacky, but usually works), * support for storing passwords securely in KWallet (though sadly as binary blobs and not in the key-value format that KWallet is designed for) (*), * crash handling with KCrash and DrKonqi rather than homegrown Breakpad (*), * additional URL protocols using KIO (e.g., man:, info:, gopher:, etc. – try, e.g., man:grep, info:grep, gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world) (*), * a "Share page" menu using the KDE Purpose Framework (*). (*) These features require the KDE KF5/Plasma integration plugin, i.e., the optional falkon-kde subpackage. Everything else is built-in into Falkon and/or Qt. Even on GNOME, with QGnomePlatform and the falkon-gnome-keyring plugin, Falkon ends up integrating better in some aspects than Chromium or Firefox. I use Falkon as my daily browser. It is normally the only browser I use on my desktop and notebook. (I have Firefox as a fallback, but do not normally need it, because QtWebEngine is 99+% compatible with Chrome.) And my smartphone is a PinePhone running Plasma Mobile, on which I use Angelfish as my one and only browser, a mobile browser also using QtWebEngine. Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
