Bug#735057: konqueror: Please use (also) WebKit as backend
Package: konqueror
Version: 4:4.11.3-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I reported a problem (copied below) about being unable to see correctly a web
site with Konqueror (works perfectly with Firefox and Chrome), in:
https://discuss.makeplaylive.com/t/forum-website-not-working-in-konqueror/29/2
My original post (does not show a blank page now, more info at bottom):
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https://discuss.makeplaylive.com/
In Konqueror, shows a blank page.
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Aaron Seigo's reply (for those for whome the name does not ring a bell, he is
one of the most prominent upstream developers of KDE, and admin of that forum):
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Yes, KHTML is way behind the times. There is exactly nothing we can or will do
about that. Please use a webkit based browser such as Rekonq (Konqueror can use
the webkit part, btw), Chrome, Firefox..
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Rekonq doesn't seem available in Debian (was present a while ago but removed).
Arora (using webkit) doesn't show anything either, but the last version is
~1.5/2 years old and seems dead upstream.
I repeated with Konqueror and the front page is not blank, but when installing
kpart-webkit package and selecting it as backend in Konqueror ("General" ->
"Default web browser engine"), the support for websites that I generally use is
much better, and the zoom of the pages much more useful than with the default
KHTML renderer.
So I thought that it would be useful to pass on this information to the Debian
maintainers in the case that you are not aware, because if Aaron recommends to
use Webkit as a backend and it's possible to use Konqueror with it by default,
maybe we should switch the backend, or switch the default, suggest/recommend
kpart-webkit in the dependencies, or provide alternative packages using the
different backends (konqueror-khtml and konqueror-webkit), for example.
Hope that helps.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages konqueror depends on:
ii install-info 5.2.0.dfsg.1-2
ii kde-baseapps-bin 4:4.11.3-1
ii kde-baseapps-data 4:4.11.3-1
ii kde-runtime 4:4.11.3-1
ii libc6 2.17-97
ii libkactivities6 4:4.11.3-1
ii libkcmutils4 4:4.11.3-2
ii libkde3support4 4:4.11.3-2
ii libkdecore5 4:4.11.3-2
ii libkdesu5 4:4.11.3-2
ii libkdeui5 4:4.11.3-2
ii libkfile4 4:4.11.3-2
ii libkhtml5 4:4.11.3-2
ii libkio5 4:4.11.3-2
ii libkonq5abi1 4:4.11.3-1
ii libkonqsidebarplugin4a 4:4.11.3-1
ii libkparts4 4:4.11.3-2
ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.8.5+git192-g085f851+dfsg-2
ii libqt4-qt3support 4:4.8.5+git192-g085f851+dfsg-2
ii libqt4-xml 4:4.8.5+git192-g085f851+dfsg-2
ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.5+git192-g085f851+dfsg-2
ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.5+git192-g085f851+dfsg-2
ii libstdc++6 4.8.2-11
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1
Versions of packages konqueror recommends:
ii dolphin 4:4.11.3-1
ii kfind 4:4.11.3-1
pn konqueror-nsplugins <none>
Versions of packages konqueror suggests:
pn konq-plugins <none>
-- no debconf information
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