[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

[Ahmad Samir]

On 7 October 2010 09:21, Graham Lauder <yorick_ at openoffice.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 07 Oct 2010 19:11:45 Mihai Dobrescu wrote:
>> I think that I read somewhere that Mandriva *started *as KDE centric.
>> AFAIK, Gnome, KDE and some other popular DE are supported and Mandriva
>> spent an important effort to make them look alike from the main menu and
>> other customizations point of view.
>> As file browsers I like Dolphin, Konqueror and I use Krusader a lot.
>> As internet browser, Firefox is my favorite, although I use Opera
>> occasionally (it's ergonomic, free but not open sourced). I would like to
>> see Firefox having Chrome's architecture (each tab in its process) and less
>> memory consumer (this is due to plugins too - the pluggable architecture is
>> what makes me stick with it).
>
>
> Don't kill konqueror it's my default ftp client.
>
> There are already a bunch of Gnome centric distros.
>
> KDE centric would be no issue nobody else is so in fact it would be a
> excellent point of difference.  In fact, if it was my decision I'd leave Gnome
> to Ubuntu, Redhat, CentOS, Debian, Solaris and all those Gnome centric distros
> and concentrate on being the best KDE environment.
>
> Cheers
> GL
>

I think all DE's should be supported as much as possible. Even in
Mandriva, which theoretically was a KDE-centric distro, both KDE and
GNOME were equally supported AFAICS.

-- 
Ahmad Samir