emerging konqueror without kdebase-meta, the program loses a lot of important features, such any choise in Filemanger View Mode: only "File Size View" is available, which is funny, but a bit unconfortable... I think the ebuild should be integrated with a set of local uses, for konqueror-4.* users not running kde4.* envinronment. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. autounmask konqueror-4.2.r1 2. emerge =konqueror-4.2.r1 3. konqueror ~/ Actual Results: no other than File Size View mode is available. Expected Results: new uses are needed to allow adding more features.
We wont add kdebase as base dep just because user might use the deps. We stated on our website that @kdebase (kdebase-meta) is minimal instalation for usage, but some users might want to use just some other wms with some kde packages, so minimal, only by dependency-wise, is kdebase-startkde.
Sorry, kdebase-startkde adds ksplash to the system, but does not help konqueror to work as a filemanager in a standard way. Konqueror is a killer application in kde suite, not a minimal one. Konqueror is also an ebuild in portage and eix says: ~ $ eix konqueror Description: KDE: Web browser, file manager, ... If you don't wont fix this bug, you should completly remove the konqueror ebuild from portage and add the program inside the kdebase-meta ebuild in a silent way. otherways, your behaviour is uncorrect and uncomprehensible for users.
another possibile way to treate the problem may it be to add a new ebuild in the same way of kde-base/konq-plugins, which adds missing features to konqueror principal ebuild.
(In reply to comment #2) > Sorry, kdebase-startkde adds ksplash to the system, but does not help konqueror > to work as a filemanager in a standard way. > > Konqueror is a killer application in kde suite, not a minimal one. > Konqueror is also an ebuild in portage and eix says: > > ~ $ eix konqueror > Description: KDE: Web browser, file manager, ... > > If you don't wont fix this bug, you should completly remove the konqueror > ebuild from portage and add the program inside the kdebase-meta ebuild in a > silent way. > otherways, your behaviour is uncorrect and uncomprehensible for users. > Sorry, but as the KDE team as been stating for a *long* time, since the KDE-3.X days, we won't add optional run-time deps to apps. Besides, if you read the postinst message, you'll be warned about this. Here is konqueror's pkg_postinst pkg_postinst() { kde4-meta_pkg_postinst echo elog "If you want to use konqueror as a filemanager, install the dolphin kpart:" elog "emerge -1 kde-base/dolphin:${SLOT}" elog elog "To use Java on webpages: emerge jre" echo } About the web browser / file manager issue, you should be talking to KDE as it was their choice to split it - I happen to agree with the decision, but that's just me. So, as Thomas has already stated, WONTFIX.
