[gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> posted
d257c3560805310853j7bd01489pa5b74f1d69ae0383@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Sat, 31 May 2008 15:53:37 +0000:

> well, firefox 4 would go with webkit and qt4. there's an announce from
> the firefox project director. gecko is unmantainable and veryyyy slow,
> so the only one who will continue to use it would be iexploder. also the
> new qt4 utils and the ability to build an app that runs cross platform
> with much less work would be quite interesting. and now maybe also
> openoffice would think about switching to it.

That'd be interesting.  Safari/Konqueror/Firefox/Qt/Qtopia all using the 
same webkit core.  That'd pressure MS even more effectively.  I wonder 
what the chances of getting Opera online with it too, might be?  They've 
stayed proprietary, but with that sort of open source union going on, I 
could see them taking advantage of the LGPL renderer if it might have 
some chance of turning the tables on MS.  They could still keep 
everything else proprietary.

>> Hopefully klibido follows to KDE4.  It'd be a shame to see it stuck on
>> KDE3, after all the work that has gone into it and as sparse on the
>> ground as real binary news harvesters seem to be.
>>
> i really hope so. it's good to have it around.

I don't know if you've been to the site recently.  I just checked.  
Nothing since 2006.  It may be worth joining the user list if you haven't 
already and dropping and inquiry.  If that doesn't work, contact him 
directly and see.  That assumes the question hasn't been asked and 
answered and is in a list archive on gmane or something, already.  (Just 
checked gmane, don't see it there.)

> it's a little too complicated to me. i'm usually using pan just for
> browsing the newsgroups and read some text articles.

So you're not too serious about the downloading thing, like every day or 
whatever, only maybe once a week or so, when you get time?  I can see 
that, and in fact don't do a lot of binary downloading here, either, tho 
when I do, I tend to get REALLY serious about it for awhile.  Sort of 
like Charles with developing pan, I guess.  I'll go awhile without, then 
get REALLY serious and go to town on it for awhile, before I get too busy 
again...

Yeah, in that case, for simple browsing and pick and choose here and 
there downloading, most of the techniques I mentioned aren't particularly 
useful.

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