[Gllug] Linux config suitable for everyone...

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Wed Nov 27 00:26:52 UTC 2002


Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On Nov 26 2002, Stig wrote:
> 
>>>Why not galeon or konq? 
>>
>>I don't know... I've not actually used Galeon or Konqueror for years :P
> 
> 
>>From my 3 minutes with Konqueror, I see that it does not use tt-fonts.
> Mozilla, however, does. I cannot find any font settings in Konqueror's
> settings-menu, but I probably didn't try hard enough (yet).
> 
> Konq is _ugly_ though, but I'm sure that's configurable too. Here's what
> they both look like on my system (advertising my own webpage to boot):
> 
> 	http://printf.net/~stig/konq.png
> 	http://printf.net/~stig/moz.png

I just rendered it on Konqueror with proper true-type fonts etc and it 
looks fine. I think the Konqueror you get with Debian is from KDE 2, 
whereas I've got the KDE3.1 (RC3) version.

>>>Good reasons I think are stability, GUI consistancy and user
>>>friendliness.
>>
> 
> I notice Konq acts like a file browser too. 
> That's an area Mozilla could be better...

Konqueror is more integrated to the desktop in many respects.

Steve


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