OSNews Talks With the Konqueror Team

JigSaw writes: "OSNews features an exclusive interview with the Konqueror team, KDE's integrated filemanager, image/document viewer and web browser. Dirk Mueller, Waldo Bastian, Carsten Pfeiffer and Simon Hausmann are answering questions regarding the future of Konqueror, its portability and the integration with KDE3 and QT3. And speaking about KDE3, OSNews is reporting what's new in the new version: KDE 3 will be based on QT 3.0 and will also feature educational and other apps (like Kompare and KWinTV) as part of the default installation, support for extremely large files, new versions for KNode and KMail, email templates in KMail, advanced Web Shortcuts, S/MIME support, plugins for the KMenu, a graphical Regular Expression app (KRegExpEditor) and much more. A (very early) alpha version is already available."

Comments

Re:What SHOULD have been asked, but wasn't:

[kisielk]

In case you haven't already noticed, Konqueror is NOT a web browser. It is an application framework for their KParts technology.

Konqueror is the file manager for KDE, and allows for embedded viewing of any files with KParts plugins (or whatever the correct term is). KHTML is just one piece of Konqueror, so your comments do not necessarily apply.

Additionally, Linux has always been about choice and freedom. There is nothing wrong with the Konq guys making their own HTML renderring engine. In fact, you can even use the gecko engine with Konq if you so desired, but in all honesty I think KHTML has it out-done. Konqueror does so many more things than Mozilla, and much faster too.

A more fair comparison of apps would be Konq vs Nautilus, as both of those have similar functionality.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents :D