turning off konq extensions by default

[Frank Karlitschek]

I agree completely.

The novice should have a simple application without extensions. The advanced 
user can enable the extensions he needs. 

The only exception is the "Search Bar Plugin" which helps new users who don't 
know "gg:" yet.

Cheers
Frank



On Saturday 08 January 2005 19:54, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> Hi folks --
>
> After finally getting frustrated enough with the Document Relations
> extension to figure out how to turn it off I discovered a funny situation
> with Konqueror extensions at the moment.  Basically most of the extensions
> done for Konqueror tend to reside in KDE packages.  And we turn them all on
> by default.
>
> This is silly.
>
> Just because we happen to keep the plugin repository on the local disk
> rather than online somewhere a la Mozilla doesn't mean that we should turn
> on every plugin in existence for Konq.  In fact, I think we should turn
> them all off by default.
>
> Konqueror is already a bit hefty, as we're all too familiar.  Turning off
> the plugins here gives about a 20% startup time boost to Konqueror as well
> as removing the clutter from the Tools menu.
>
> And I'm really not convinced that a single one of them should be on by
> default.  For the most part they're semi-confusing, power-user features
> that in fact more or less weren't *designed* to be part of the default
> interface. That's why they're extensions.  I don't think that installing
> kdeaddons is implicitly saying, "Please, turn all of these things on!"  So
> how about it? Got any takers?  ;-)
>
> (At some point, potentially KDE 4, I think we'll have to come up with a
> more useful way of packaging Konq extensions, but that's a debate for
> another list at another time.)
>
> -Scott

-- 
Frank Karlitschek
karlitschek at kde.org