Browser selection from Ubiquity

[Sam Sarette]

On "menu options" I really never liked how it felt to have this firefox
icon I never used in my menu.
An average user isn't going to know how to remove the
"kubuntu-firefox-installer" package if they don't intend to use Firefox.


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Ho Wan Chan <smartboyhw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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