Konqueror bugs

[Duncan]

Cristian S posted on Sat, 15 Nov 2025 09:49:28 -0500 as excerpted:

> As of Konqueror 21.04.0

So I haven't had konqueror installed for years now (actually use CLI 
commands or the mc/midnight-commander TUI for most file management as it 
works at a text login too, with gwenview for images/video and dolphin 
trivially, and konqueror hasn't been a serious web browser since the kde3 
era) and thus can't answer most of your questions, but one I can...

> This one is really funny, although so deplorable it begs an IQ test: If
> I select Help -> About KDE from the Konqueror menu, the info window that
> shows up only contains a ton of blah blah, but NO VERSION ! I guess when
> speaking about KDE, mentioning a version string made up of digits and
> dots requires too high of an IQ ?

So the snark level's a bit high but whatever...

What you seem to have missed (and it initially confused me too but I'm 
used to it now) is that modern kde-frameworks based apps usually have 
*two* *different* about dialogs available in the help menu, the "kind of 
fuzzy" (agree with you there) "About KDE" dialog that applies to pretty 
much anything kde and can thus be the same unchanged dialog in every app, 
every reasonably current version...

And the much more specific "About <specific app>" (here "About Konqueror" 
I imagine) dialog that contains in multiple tabs the app- and version-
specific information like app version, frameworks version, running and 
built-against qt versions, distro and GUI platform (including X/Wayland), 
app description, license, authors, thanks-to...

I understand why they do it that way -- gives them more space to present 
the information and lets them separate the mostly unchanging info from the 
app and version specific stuff.  And as I said I'm used to it now.  But 
every time I need to look up the specific stuff I still have to think for 
a moment and choose the app-specific dialog.

It just occurred to me that one way to fix the confusion could be a button 
in each dialog that would invoke the other, for users like you and me that 
get confused when there's two of them and frequently invoke the wrong 
one...  Maybe I should feature-request-bug that?

> Back in the day, KDE 3.5 was something really great.
> Today it's all dull & dumb.

The 3.5 -> 4.x upgrade was a fiasco, in no small part because of a very 
public and equally publicly broken promise to support the earlier version 
until the later one actually worked properly.

YMMV and it's likely partly because after that I switched to non-kde 
alternatives for many of my "production critical" needs in addition to the 
kde folks learning not to force an "entire-world-switch" quite as fast by 
allowing it to be app-by-app, but the 4 -> 5 upgrade was smoother here, 
and the 5 -> 6 upgrade even smoother.  (Tho the latter is surely likely 
also due in part to my taking the time during covid to complete my own 
xorg -> wayland transition while still on kde/frameworks/plasma/gear and 
qt 5, so the 6 upgrade was just to that and not trying deal with a switch 
to wayland too.)

But meanwhile, if you are really serious about wanting the kde3 style 
stuff back, take a look at TDE, the Trinity Desktop Environment, with the 
R14.1.5 release just this month (November 2025).  It's apparently still 
based on an also updated qt3, now called Tqt (I had read about a qt4 port 
at one point but I guess they gave up on that?), and claims support for 
Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/RHEL/OpenSUSE.  A quick look shows Gentoo (my distro 
of choice) in a screenshot too, with the wikipedia entry saying at least 
two (other) distros default to it.

https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Desktop_Environment

https://9to5linux.com/trinity-desktop-environment-r14-1-5-released-with-
support-for-debian-trixie

It's there if you're serious about wanting it...

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