[CS-FSLUG] Qt relicensed as LGPL

[Fred A. Miller]

Ed Hurst wrote:
> 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.

QUITE right! Like it or not, it IS THE standard! I used to use Kongi
almost exclusively, now I seldom use it.

Fred

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