Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:52:57 +0100 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <187f87f9767214b8$43779$4031116$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10habf6$15qla$1@dont-email.me> <10hbejb$n003$1@news1.tnib.de> <10mefsu$3d10r$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 4uXh1Nnv/pRgoxdHlucDaAJ0clkhDu9URVzIFOIqUQSwJCiIE4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:YbYwrAYIb8a9p5seev3WIL/n+pA= sha256:SSZCtW2HsLSe1TMMAvLu6sc9yZ9vHLf1SBZT5hbHe6c= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:707292 comp.os.linux.misc:81957 On 2026-02-11 21:50, rbowman wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:55:29 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > >> On 2026-02-10 20:34, rbowman wrote: >>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:32:14 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>>> KDE used to offer Konqueror as their all-singing, all-dancing >>>> universal browser for files, websites, man pages -- just about >>>> everything. And it still does: just give it a suitable URL, and it >>>> will figure out what to do. >>> >>> I've been running Fedora/KDE for some time and recently loaded openSUSE >>> leap 16/KDE in a VM. Neither has Konqueror even though they do have >>> Konversation, an IRC client. >> >> No konqueror? That's strange, because openSUSE has KDE3 still >> maintained. > > I installed it on the Fedora box and it still works. It comes up more like > a file manager than a browser and does see a NFS export on another > machine. > > Now I know why the openSUSE iso is so big. It installed K everything but > Konqueror. I like KPatience but had to install it separately on Fedora. It > has that, as well as KMahjongg, KSoduku, KMines, and KReversi. > > The KDE DE on EndeavourOS (Arch) doesn't even have a Games category. Also > openSUSE installed the LibreOffice stuff even though I thought I > explicitly told it not to. What it doesn't have is yast although that was > one of SUSE's high points for me. YaST was abandoned on Leap 16.0. The new installer has faults. > > I'll keep the VM around but I can't see a reason for using Leap rather > than other distros with KDE. > > > -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.