On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Monday, February 04, 2013 04:08:26 PM James Cain wrote: > > I'll circle back to a comment above and if forced to choose one default, > > I'd vote for Firefox with the Firefox Blue Shell PPA enabled by default. > > Either way, it is how I personally set up new users in Kubuntu and will > > continue to do so. > > That's not something we can do. > > Scott K I understand, Scott. In my (admittedly naive reasoning), if we can package Kubuntu versions of Ubuntu packages, i.e. kubuntu-restricted-extras and apturl-kde, why can't we make the KDE-friendly modifications made by the Blue Shell PPA a requirement for Firefox in Kubuntu? I'm guessing that it could only be included officially if there's a Kubuntu developer willing to commit to maintain it, and move it to an official Kubuntu PPA? Since Blue Shell devs are also Kubuntu Devs (AFAIK) is this really an issue? I don't want to totally bikeshed this thread, so I'll drop out of the discussion after this post. At the end of the day, if rekonq isn't up to snuff as a viable replacement for Firefox/Chrome, then it shouldn't be the default. Kubuntu is the only Community flavor of Ubuntu that ships upstream's browser by default. There are GTK-based browsers out there, but they are not included by default elsewhere. Having rekonq as the default browser when every other official *buntu variant uses Firefox or Chromium will be a turn-off for at least a certain percentage of anyone trying out Kubuntu for the first time. Anything that could provide a "WTF" moment to a new user should be eliminated. Thanks for listening :) -- James Cain
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