Just a quick note, the article I wrote a few weeks ago about Konqueror is up on Linux.com. Konqueror is a great browser, but it tends to be overlooked time and again — so I thought it’d be a good idea to point out what a fantastic browser it is. It has a few warts as well, but it’s well worth a look for all the KDE fans out there.
A side note, yes, I do know about browser identification. (It is mentioned in the article, but apparently not prominently enough…)
As the current maintainer of Konversation, I was intrigued by your mention of the application in your article
. However, I disagree with your suggestion. Let me cite it:
“I’d love it if I could, for example, embed a Konversation tab within Konqueror so I could browse on one side and keep an eye on a conversation on the other.”
I’d argue that what you really want is a window manager that offers you an easy way to put a Konversation window and a browsing window side-by-side and move the shared borders at the same time, not actually cram Konversation in Konqueror.
Let me exaggerate to communicate my point: Let’s say we embed all apps in Konqueror, and allow switching between them via tabs. Then we allow those tabs to be made smaller than the full size of the Konqueror window and move them around inside the Konqueror window, all the while using the tab bar to put focus on them. What you get is basically what you already have with a regular desktop with windows and a taskbar … inside Konqueror. It doesn’t make much sense.
Instead of cramming everything into Konqueror, we need to look at new ideas in window management. Have a look at “ion”, for example, which operates with tiles rather than overlapping windows. Let’s put some of that into KDEs window manager kwin, for example.