[kubuntu-devel] Thoughts on Arora

[clay weber]

Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> Some of these issues are fixed in 0.8.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 04:45:40PM +0200, Harald Sitter wrote:
>> * No icons in context menu... the context menu is considerable crowded
>> (not as much as konqui's, but still), however it does not provide
>> visual guidance (namely icons) to make it more understandable
> 
> There are icons for the actions which have them.
> 
>> * at least on netbooks the bookmark bar should go away, since it
>> wastes the rare display real estate (also... what to do since we might
>> want to have the bar on desktops, so we can't patch)
> 
> I got rid of the bookmark bar in the default setup.
> 
>> * also on netbooks, even though the bookmark bar is to be hidden, it
>> would probably be good to provide default bookmarks to fancy sites
>> such as youtube, facebook and twitter (also, since we probably want a
>> different set of bookmarks for the desktop => unpatchable)
> 
> I tend to think people can find youtube on their own.
> 
>> * homepage needs to be patched to kubuntu.org
> 
> It has a sensible about:home page now
> 
>> * flash-installer-recommendation needs to be implemented (possibly
>> like the media codec stuff?... though that would be for a browser evne
>> more out of context than for a media playback application I am
>> afraid)\
> 
> It calls update-notifier-kde to install flashplayer-installer
> 
> I'm still in favour of Arora by default since I think the most
> important usability in a browser is being able to browse websites and
> there are too many important ones now which Konqueror doesn't.  I seem
> to be outnumbered though, don't you people read slashdot?
> 
> Jonathan
> 

The only site I have problems with (using konqueror) are facebook and 
amazon. These seem to work fine in Arora. I don't go to slashdot much, 
but don't have any problems that I can remember.

I don't mind having a different browser as default, we just should 
probably make sure the users have the info that this can easily be 
changed in system settings and that Konquerior *is not* being killed off ;)

clay