[CS-FSLUG] Qt relicensed as LGPL

[Ed Hurst]

Eduardo Sánchez wrote:

>> What KDE really needs is to get someone from Mozilla over to run the
>> organization. KDE reminds me a lot of Mozilla back in the bad old
>> days when the behemoth later known as Seamonkey was Mozilla's main
>> offering. It was too complicated and unwieldy. Firefox and
>> Thunderbird are successful in large part because they are clean and
>> easy to use, with great guis using commercial grade logos and icons,
>> but also extensible for power users.
> 
> Oh no. I hate Firefox. It's a bloated mess. Why should I need a 10 MB 
> download for a single browser? Firefox is like a cancer. I use it 
> because some sites (such as GMail) won't work with Konqui.

On this one thing I would pretend to know a thing or two.

The Gecko engine in the ONLY webpage rendering engine capable of doing 
the right thing with text. If I decide I need to save the contents of a 
webpage for future reference, given there is almost never any reason to 
save it as HTML, Gecko alone will render that page into plain text properly.

- links are preserved in brackets where they are anchored in text
- full paragraph breaks with blank lines between
- semi-tagged attributes for italics and bold

etc.

Further, this shows during cut-n-paste operations. KHTML removes the 
vertical space between paragraphs, and it makes a huge mess. This may be 
a "feature" in the eyes of the developers, but people who do research 
and preserve documents will never accept that rendering. I really don't 
care what face or toolkit is pasted on top, and I know almost nothing of 
what is underneath, but in terms of results, the Gecko engine IS the 
standard.

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Ed Hurst
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