F7 KDE spin

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 16:57 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Gilboa Davara <gilboad <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > You don't want to remove Firefox because Konq is the better tool - you
> > want to remove [Firefox]* because it doesn't fit your purist view of KDE-only
> > distribution.
> 
> Not really (though I see how you could get that impression). I use some non-KDE 
> apps daily, X-Chat for example. (I like its C plugin interface, I have written 
> a few script-like plugins in C for X-Chat. Most users will probably be happy 
> with Konversation though, if they even use IRC at all.) I doubt the usefulness 
> of Firefox in particular (over Konqueror) though (and the usefulness of 
> Evolution even more, considering that I never use it whereas I use KMail all 
> the time, and that AFAICS it gets more flames than any other application which 
> ships with Fedora). Personally, I'd rather have X-Chat available than Firefox 
> or Evolution, but that is my very biased personal preference.
> 
> As for generally useful non-KDE apps (not just the one I happen to use the 
> most ;-) ), I think OO.o and GIMP qualify, but IMHO not Firefox and definitely 
> not Evolution. Ekiga might also be interesting, though that probably drags in 
> several GNOME libs too.
> 
> * I guess that's what you meant because otherwise your sentence makes no 
> sense. ;-)
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

Guess I jumped the gun. My mistake, I apologize.
I  seem to be suffering from a mild case of sleep deprivation which
makes a bit jumpy.

Firefox is not a leanest/cleanest product - no arguments there.
(Hopefully FF 3.0 will be a major improvement when it comes to bloat)
But for now, firefox has 3 major advantages:
A. Extensions.
B. Better site compatibility.
C. ... Extensions.

A well configured (and extended) FF 1.5 runs circles around
Konq/Opera/IE7.
I'm not saying the Konq doesn't work for you - or that Firefox should be
the default browser.
I am saying the removing it from the ISO is a big mistake.

- Gilboa