turning off konq extensions by default

Adam Treat manyoso at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 8 20:35:20 GMT 2005


On Saturday 08 January 2005 4:43 pm, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> 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.

Agree that all plugins should be turned off by default.  Disagree that the 
"Search Bar Plugin" should be the lone exception.  If this plugin should have 
special status and be turned on by default... why is it even a plugin?

> 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




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