Use Rekonq in place of Arora as Kubuntu default web browser. [wishlist]

[Rafael Belmonte]

I suggest the use of Rekonq http://rekonq.sourceforge.net/ in place of Arora as Kubuntu default web browser, because it is better integrated with KDE and flash seems to work better with Rekonq.

[Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen)]

Another reason to use Rekonq is the language support, Rekonq is translated to other languages than English (I supuse it uses KDE translation system), while Arora is just in English.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Nothing would need to be done with the arora package, so invalidating its task.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

[11:42] <Riddell> rekonq is nice but the upstream says it's not ready for use and has big re-writes coming so we go with what's ready
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2009/06/30/%23kubuntu-devel.txt

[Heimen Stoffels (vistaus)]

And what does Rekonq have that Konqueror doesn't have? I vote for Konqueror as the default web browser in Karmic, I like Konqueror and it integrates really good.

[7penselen (zienszo)]

Konquerer is not a really good browser and I never used it. I install Firefox directly after installing Kubuntu. I propose to make a MS style browser ballot and let the user decide what (s)he wants.

[Eric Drechsel (ericdrex)]

Jonathan: waaaaaaaah

Vistaus: we need to transition to webkit so that the web will unbreak. want kde to become beos?

7penselen: it is already possible to change the default browser. ubuntu has a fundamental rule for its derivatives: one default app per function, so new users aren't overwhelmed. It's a good rule, unfortunately it means that KDE's default browser will be a bit basic until Karmic+1

[Cédric Bellegarde (gnumdk)]

rekonq 0.3 is really good, should be kubuntu default now.

[Gatlin Johnson (q-launchpad-gatlin-oib-com)]

I'm using rekonq 0.3.0 right now and it's very fast, stable, and functional. Konqueror is just not up to the task of rendering some more modern pages. Rekonq is a native KDE app with a great rendering engine, and it does just what it should - it renders web pages.