Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 07, 2006 12:44 AM
I only wish it were possible to embed more KDE apps into Konq.
Have you ever thought about simply using a good window manager? Oh wait. You're using Konqueror as your window manager.
You've already got a program running on your system to do window management! Running a browser, in X, in a window manager, just so you have a nice application to arrange and view all your applications nicely, is incredibly bloated, convoluted, and silly! If you want Konqueror to be your window manager, then get rid of your other window manager so you don't have two running at once, and then just run Konqueror as the last thing in your<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.xinitrc file.
This same sort of thing is the problem with emacs. Well, not a problem with emacs per se, as emacs is still a perfectly fine text editor, but people start up a shell (upon login), then run X, then a desktop environment like KDE, then run a terminal emulator, then run emacs, then use emacs as a desktop environment! Might as well just put<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/bin/emacs as your login shell in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc/passwd and save some cycles! Oh the humanity!
Ok, so I realize that Konqueror is not completely suited to doing everything a window manager does, but the things you laud it for doing, and wish it did more of, are definitely window manager tasks. "Do one thing and do it well" has gone out the window here. If you require advanced-window-manager-type features, then get an advanced window manager. Don't use a browser with some halfway window managerish features tacked onto it.
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emacs-style bloat anyone?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 07, 2006 12:44 AMHave you ever thought about simply using a good window manager? Oh wait. You're using Konqueror as your window manager.
You've already got a program running on your system to do window management! Running a browser, in X, in a window manager, just so you have a nice application to arrange and view all your applications nicely, is incredibly bloated, convoluted, and silly! If you want Konqueror to be your window manager, then get rid of your other window manager so you don't have two running at once, and then just run Konqueror as the last thing in your<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.xinitrc file.
This same sort of thing is the problem with emacs. Well, not a problem with emacs per se, as emacs is still a perfectly fine text editor, but people start up a shell (upon login), then run X, then a desktop environment like KDE, then run a terminal emulator, then run emacs, then use emacs as a desktop environment! Might as well just put<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/bin/emacs as your login shell in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc/passwd and save some cycles! Oh the humanity!
Ok, so I realize that Konqueror is not completely suited to doing everything a window manager does, but the things you laud it for doing, and wish it did more of, are definitely window manager tasks. "Do one thing and do it well" has gone out the window here. If you require advanced-window-manager-type features, then get an advanced window manager. Don't use a browser with some halfway window managerish features tacked onto it.
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