KDE SC 4: The good, the bad, and the broken

[Christian Mikovits]

> Also, where's the encryption certificate management?  At present, if my
> bank announces that one of their active certificates was compromised and
> is revoked, how am I as a user supposed to do anything about it, and how
> am I as a user supposed to have confidence in a system that claims to be
> ready for normal use, without giving me any way to fix it?  How can /any/
> modern desktop environment include a default browser without proper
> certificate management, and /still/ claim to be ready for ordinary use, in
> this day and age of Internet banking and shopping?  No way, KDE 4 simply
> isn't ready for ordinary use yet, and I've /no/ idea when that bug's going
> to be fixed.  Come on!  I don't care if it's fixed at the browser or
> system level, but while the current situation is arguably just fine for a
> beta, and could possibly be justified under extenuating circumstances for
> a release candidate if there was a definite plan for a fix, it's simply
> /ridiculous/ for anything claiming to be ready for ordinary use!  Browser
> or kde-wide, just fix it, or learn to live with people laughing and/or
> crying at your claim to be ready for the masses!
>
> Unfortunately, it's as if kde thinks they can just wink at such issues.
> Maybe if the reviews started mentioning it, or God forbid, some bank
> actually DID have a compromise that made headlines, with instructions to
> fix it in firefox and ie, and kde was left saying "Welllll.... our 'ready
> for ordinary use' desktop doesn't include that functionality yet, maybe in
> six months, with the next release...  Oh, but don't forget to put in the
> same PR announcement, we're *DEFINITELY* 'ready for ordinary use'; that
> feature isn't something people actually use, anyway!"
>
> See how utterly ridiculous that is?  So can anyone tell me, is that fixed
> for 4.5?

Mmmh, who's using konqueror / khtml anyways?

1. Some websites are completely broken (google maps, gmail, ...)
2. Some sites are usable, but there are ugly rendering problems
3. flashplugin is crappy within konqueror (its malware anyways)

khtml is dead end (sorry for the developers), some distris are already
on their way to switch or already switched from konqueror to rekonq or
others. I don't really see the point of sticking with konqueror as a
default browser.

Just my 2 cents.
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