QupZilla Web Browser Becomes KDE Falkon

[carewolf]

This is completely false, it's been a KF5 application since 16.12 - you even reported on it! https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...ications-16.12

I do question my subscription when there's so little fact-checking or research; the KDevelop articles have been similarly bad.

True, but David Faure who was porting Konqueror to work better and better with KF5 dropped it after I accidently introduced him to QupZilla.

[carewolf]

Hopefully it won't drag in everything and the kitchen sink as dependencies.

Unlikely. The whole point of KF5 is to be able to control your dependencies better, and the QupZilla developers don't want to add any hard KDE dependencies.

[gbcox]

I believe it's a great name... was getting tired of all the *Zilla, Chrome*, *ium names. Also appears they gave a nod to Konqueror which was a nice touch. Don't know what people are talking about this being sad... it's great news... KDE is getting an updated browser and if nothing else it should increase the usage and visibility of the project. I fail to see any negative.

[ypnos]

Exactly. It's the default browser used by Fedora's LXQt spin at the moment. I don't think it drags in half of KDE yet.

A lot of work pioneered by KDE found its way into Qt5. If you have Qt5, like LXQt has, you already have that 'half of KDE'. And btw., LXQt is using KDE's kwindowsystem. This library is a great demonstration in how far the KDE community went in getting rid of the monolithic KDE base concept. They deliver their framework functionality in completely independent modules -- based on Qt5.

I don't think there is any reason to expect new 'bloat' or dependencies for Falkon from this move at all.

[Damodread]

The name QupZilla was a little misleading (for me at least) since the name applies that the rendering engine is gecko -based, while it's webkit -based in fact. Therefore I welcome the name change.

It uses QtWebEngine now, so it's not a webkit-based browser anymore, but a Blink-based one.

[Cyber Killer]

Good for the name change, in my native language the "qup" part sounded very much like the word for "dung", which made it a very big effort to recommend this application to anyone. The "zilla" element also was making people connect it with Firefox, which some people dislike.

I just hope they will stay cross platform, KDE apps usually are problematic to get running outside of GNU/Linux.

[genstorm]

I just hope they will stay cross platform, KDE apps usually are problematic to get running outside of GNU/Linux.

Not at all, and kate,krita,umbrello,kdevelop on Windows/Mac are there to prove you wrong.

[Zucca]

It uses QtWebEngine now, so it's not a webkit-based browser anymore, but a Blink-based one.

True.
But I was referring to QupZilla not to QtWebEngine.

[cj.wijtmans]

qtwebengine is trash. even requires ruby now.

[genstorm]

qtwebengine is trash. even requires ruby now.

Nope, that's QtWebkit you're confusing it with (requires ruby at build time).