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Title: New Konqueror (or Other Browser For Opie)
Post by: Mr. Sinister on April 19, 2005, 07:08:46 pm

The version of konqueror embedded that I have (from the official source) dates from 2003. Is there a more recent version available? Or a decent alternative browser for Opie?

Title: New Konqueror (or Other Browser For Opie)
Post by: lardman on April 19, 2005, 07:11:31 pm

Opera with the sharp-compat-libs should work.


Si

Title: New Konqueror (or Other Browser For Opie)
Post by: adf on April 19, 2005, 11:00:21 pm

that konqueror works pertty well these days, though.....

Title: New Konqueror (or Other Browser For Opie)
Post by: Mr. Sinister on April 22, 2005, 01:36:52 pm

But where can I get a modern konqueror?

Title: New Konqueror (or Other Browser For Opie)
Post by: drw on April 22, 2005, 03:30:52 pm

Konq/E is built upon Qt/E 2.3.x, and back when KDE was using Qt 2.x, it was fairly easy to support both the KDE and Qtopia/Opie versions from a single code base.  However, KDE has moved on to newer versions of Qt and newer versions of Konqueror no longer compile against Qt/E 2.3.x.  So while there have been bug fixes made to Konq/E, newer features have not been back ported to the older code base, and I don't see that happening any time soon.

So next you will probably ask why Opie still uses an ancient version of Qt/E?  Well, TrollTech itself has admitted that Qt/E 3.x is not really suited to use in limited resource devices such as PDA's.  And though Qt/E 4.0 is supposed to be much better, we are still waiting for a pre-release version which compiles/works.

Title: New Konqueror (or Other Browser For Opie)
Post by: Greg2 on April 22, 2005, 03:37:23 pm

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But where can I get a modern konqueror?

Here are the latest snapshots created by Luciano... now all you have to do is build it and they need Qt/E v3.1.x or above. The current OE/OZ build is using Qt/E v2.3.x and the latest snapshots are 2003. I'm guessing that if or when OE would use Qt/E v3.1.x or above they could use these... but I think I remember reading about another problem with that.

Then there is the possibility that I'm wrong about the whole thing!

http://www.cirulla.net/kdenox-snapshots/ (http://www.cirulla.net/kdenox-snapshots/)

Edit:
In the time it took me to find that link drw has already explained it better than I could.

Greg