Browser selection from Ubiquity

[Ho Wan Chan]

I knew I am a new guy on Kubuntu, but here are my suggestions.

You see, I am also subscribed to Lubuntu's QA list. From what I saw in the
mailing list, updating Chromium is a difficult thing to do. Also I think
that since Chromium is not that stable (sort of like Google Chrome
Dev/Canary channel). I would not choose Chromium.

Firefox is much better. Less bugs, and more stable. Although it's KDE
support/integration is not well, it is still a strong solution. If not, why
would Ubuntu/Edubuntu/Xubuntu/Ubuntu Studio be still using it?

One thing that's great about rekonq is that it ensures good KDE
integration. That is one important factor to be considered.

So here are my suggestions: Keep rekonq as the default browser, but ask if
they want Firefox or rekonq at installation. We should also provide menu
items, so if people are installing Kubuntu on top of things like the mini
ISO, we could let them know they could use Firefox or Chromium.

smartboyhw
On 2013-2-1 上午12:30, "Rohan Garg" <rohangarg at kubuntu.org> wrote:

> Sounds like a good idea. Anyone opposed to having the firefox
> installer in the kickoff?
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thursday, January 31, 2013 08:24:45 PM Rohan Garg wrote:
> >> > In this case, you still get rekonq if there's no network during
> install.
> >>
> >> Yep, the same way you get a Kubuntu without multimedia codecs without a
> >> network.
> >> > I don't see any significant advantage for doing it during the install
> >> > versus making it easy to do post-install.  Why do you think it's
> better?
> >>
> >> I'm open to suggestions on how to make it super easy for users to
> >> install another browser post-install. Especially since users migrating
> >> from Windows/OS X have no concept of 'packages' and even installing
> >> something like firefox can be daunting task. Personally, I'd expect
> >> them to go to firefox.com and download the sources instead of
> >> downloading the binary packages since that's what they're accustomed
> >> to.
> >
> > How about putting the Firefox installer in the 'favorites' so that if
> someone
> > can at least click on the K menu they'll see the familiar icon and
> (hopefully)
> > click on it?
> >
> >> > Also, if we start having application selection during install, what
> else
> >> > ends up there?  It's a slippery slope.
> >>
> >> True. As always there are tradeoffs to be made here. But if you have a
> >> look around, people seem to be comfortable with dragon as their video
> >> player as compared to rekonq as their default browser ( just an
> >> example ).
> >
> > There was a time where Kaffeine versus Dragon was just as controversial.
> >
> > Scott K
> >
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