Re: [Trisquel-users] Rekong gives wierd suggestions not in line with FSF?

2017-12-20 Thread masonhock
It uses KDE Plasma as its default desktop environment instead of GNOME (the default in Trisquel) or LXDE (the default in Trisquel Mini). It's possible that Rekonq is a dependency of of the version of KDE Plasma in Trisquel 7, similarly to how you recently discovered that Pidgin and Lifrea a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rekong gives wierd suggestions not in line with FSF?

2017-12-20 Thread enduzzer
Yes, it is easy to add either when using the Netinstal ISO or as a meta package afterwards. https://trisquel.info/en/forum/do-we-have-kde-spin#comment-112382

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rekong gives wierd suggestions not in line with FSF?

2017-12-20 Thread masonhock
Trisquel is FSF-endorsed because it is committed to including only free software. Rekonq is free software. Although Facebook, Google, and Amazon are terrible companies who among other things create some proprietary software, their search engines do not require any proprietary software (just d

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rekong gives wierd suggestions not in line with FSF?

2017-12-20 Thread svenerik_vn
"Triskel, a KDE version of Trisquel" ? :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rekong gives wierd suggestions not in line with FSF?

2017-12-20 Thread enduzzer
Rekonq is unmaintained since 2014. Nobody should use it. It should be removed from the repos. Maybe it's been included because there is Triskel, a KDE version of Trisquel.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rekong gives wierd suggestions not in line with FSF?

2017-12-20 Thread svenerik_vn
Okay, I just don't understand why they keep it in the repository then. I'm no prgrammer, but shouldn't that be fairly easy to do? I mean... this whole OS is supposed to really FSF-recommended, and here they are offering me a browser which in turn recommend me Facebook, Google, Amazon and lor

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rekong gives wierd suggestions not in line with FSF?

2017-12-20 Thread masonhock
Rekonq is developed by KDE, not Trisquel. Apparently KDE does not see a problem with recommending Google or Amazon. That shouldn't be interpreted as an endorsement of those companies by Trisquel. Trisquel does remove from Firefox such recommendations as well as recommendations for proprieta

[Trisquel-users] Rekong gives wierd suggestions not in line with FSF?

2017-12-20 Thread svenerik_vn
So when I was going to set default search engine in the Rekong browser, it suggested various t, Google and Amazon sites. What's up with that?