Comments on: How to use Konqueror without installing Linux

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:11:39 +0000

KDE is being ported to Windows, and it includes Konqueror. It’s still undevelopment, but it has a working version on Konqueror and a few other linux apps.

http://windows.kde.org/

By: Eleanor Robbins

Eleanor Robbins — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:21:21 +0000

Someone here said that the Windows API is less powerful (in favour of the words originally chosen) than Linux/UNIX. I have been programming for both the worlds since the last 10 years and I disagree.

In the more recent past I have been able to compile and run Amarok on Windows Vista and am running many K-apps on Windows with little or no problem at all. Konqueror however remains elusive because of its tight coupling with KDE (which is not a very good design IMHO).

The Windows API is quite powerful (if not as elegant as the Linux API) and though you don’t have a one-to-one mapping, you can find loads of stuff in the Windows API that have no counterpart (at least as of now) in the Linux world (and the reverse is true of course).

By: Christoph Dollis

Christoph Dollis — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:28:41 +0000

Safari's on Windows. Yippy, Apple!

By: Anders Moen

Anders Moen — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:18:56 +0000

I don’t really like this browser though. I like Opera best

By: zooplah

zooplah — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:43:50 +0000

Well, given some time I’m sure the Cygwin version will get updated to this new version (if it hasn’t already). Sure, it’s as slow as a snail in Cygwin, but then again, isn’t everything on Windows?

By: Jake Dust

Jake Dust — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:00:28 +0000

Just a bit of info: Konqueror needs the Qt library, which “doesn’t give a good Windows support” (or, in better words, the GPL version is new, needs the GCC and some other things which make easier using GTK than Qt, and the Konqueror is deeply connected with the KDE, which doesn’t contribute to a port).

Yet, anyone can use the KHTML engine and create a browser, it’s free software! And there is always the CVS version, for those who cannot wait and want to have fun first!

By: wkdown

wkdown — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:36:18 +0000

If we’re gonna port Konqueror to Windows, we need to get Safari to Windows and Linux. Ah, how nice it would be to browser test with ALL browsers!

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By: John Oyler

John Oyler — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:07:45 +0000

I had noticed that Webkit wouldn’t allow my checkbox styling trick… but originally Konq didn’t get this right either. I don’t think it was until 3.5.4 that it did. Until then, only Firefox and Opera 9 got it right.

Webkit supports the necessary selectors, but it won’t update an adjacent sibling when :checked changes… some bug in the code with dynamic updates. I believe one of the Konq guys claimed the same when I showed him (hmm… and didn’t 3.5.4 come out working just a couple weeks later?).

Anyway, they all need some work. Implementing selectors is nice, but often that’s only the beginning and there is often more work to do to get them right in all the most complex cases.

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:05:59 +0000

The selectors Konqueror does so incredibly well aren’t that greatly done in WebKit yet… They still have to be ported over, and that won’t be happening soon as WebKit’s source tree is closed at the moment for anything but P1 bugfixes.