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Subject: [websites/konqueror-org] faq: remove a bunch of Qt2/kde2 stuff
From: David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date: 2014-10-10 22:44:51
Message-ID: E1Xcivb-0000qY-P0 () scm ! kde ! org
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Git commit e257ec9233fc76e0faf4c023bfdced5402e58f48 by David Faure.
Committed on 19/12/2009 at 00:21.
Pushed by whiting into branch 'master'.
remove a bunch of Qt2/kde2 stuff
M +20 -79 faq/index.php
http://commits.kde.org/websites/konqueror-org/e257ec9233fc76e0faf4c023bfdced5402e58f48
diff --git a/faq/index.php b/faq/index.php
index 805a7f5..321b215 100644
--- a/faq/index.php
+++ b/faq/index.php
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
$faq = new FAQ("Konqueror FAQ");
-$faq->addQuestion("Konqueror refuses to login into netscape mail. Is there a fix for \
that ?", +$faq->addQuestion("Konqueror refuses to login into netscape mail. Is there \
a fix for that?", "By default konqueror does not accept cookies that originate from \
a site other than the one you are currently visiting. This is done to protect your \
privacy. Unfortunately, the netscape mail site requires that you accept cookies that \
come from sites other than their own. Hence, the @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ is unchecked.</li>
<p>
");
-$faq->addQuestion("Is there a way to change the default \
Accept-Charset/Accept-Language HTTP headers in konqueror ?", +$faq->addQuestion("Is \
there a way to change the default Accept-Charset/Accept-Language HTTP headers in \
konqueror?", "Yes. By default konqueror automatically uses the settings configured \
when you installed your desktop. You can manually override this behavior by adding \
the following settings to either <code> \$KDEHOME/share/config/kioslaverc</code> or \
<code>\$KDEHOME/share/config/kio_httprc</code>: @@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ \
$faq->addQuestion("Where does Konqueror store its history, and how do I erase it \
"There are several kinds of \"history\" stored by Konqueror. </p>
<ul>
-<li>The location bar combobox items and completion: since KDE 2.2, you can clear \
those with right-click, \"Empty Contents\".</li>
-<li>The history module in the sidebar: since KDE 2.2 you can clear it with a \
right-click on one of the host names, and selecting \"Clear History\".</li> +<li>The \
location bar combobox items and completion: you can clear those with right-click, \
\"Clear History\".</li> +<li>The history module in the sidebar: you can clear it with \
a right-click on one of the host names, and selecting \"Clear History\".</li> \
<li>The HTTP cache (known as \"Temporary Internet Files\" in other environments) can \
be cleared in the KControl module called \"Cache\", using the \"Clear cache\" button \
on the bottom right.</li> </ul>
<p>
@@ -86,42 +86,8 @@ File locations (<code>~/.kde</code> is only an indication. Your \
distributor, or <p>
"); // Last paragraph is a dummy paragraph for XHTML validation
-$faq->addQuestion("Why does KDE ignore the system wide proxy settings? (KDE 2.2.2 or \
earlier)",
-"This is due to a bug in a script used by the configuration update program. It
-has been fixed for 3.x release. For KDE 2.2.2 or earlier you can workaround
-the problem by simply replacing the last line of
-<b>\$KDEDIR/share/apps/kconf_update/proxytype.pl</b> with the following:
-</p>
-<pre>
-print \"ProxyType=\$proxytype\n\" if \$proxytype;
-</pre>
-<p>
-Another solution is to remove <b>kioslave.upd</b> located in the same
-directory mentioned above. Note that you do not want to do this right after
-upgrading KDE and before you have had a chance to start the new version for
-the first time. Otherwise, you might loose your exisiting configuration. Also
-note that this does not apply to upgrading to KDE 3.x since the problem has
-already been fixed.
-");
-
-$faq->addQuestion("Why does Konqueror 2.2 crash on every page with JavaScript?",
-"There are two cases where this is known to happen:
-<br />
-If you're using the SuSE i686 RPM's of KDE2.2 release you will experience
-that almost every page with JavaScript either does not work or crashes
-Konqueror. This is a bug in the objprelinking that was used to build the
-RPMs. Please use the non-experimentally marked RPMs instead, they will work.
-<br />
-<b>Please do not report bugs if you are using these packages.</b>
-<br />
-If you see a message about an undefined symbol on the konsole output,
-you hit the binutils bug. Exact reason for this is unknown, but upgrading
-to a recent binutils (>= 2.10) and recompiling kjs helped in every case up to \
now.
-If you installed from RPM you shouldn't be affected.
-");
-
-$faq->addQuestion("Why does Konqueror crash on every page with Flash?",
-"This is a result of a clashing symbol in both the flash plugin and the
+$faq->addQuestion("Why does Konqueror crash on every page with Flash? (old)",
+"This could be a result of a clashing symbol in both the flash plugin and the
XFree86 libGLU (OpenGL utility lib). Upon closing an embedded flash view,
the wrong function is called which heavily corrupts memory and leads to
either immediately or delayed crashes, lockups and worse.
@@ -137,7 +103,7 @@ gcc2's libstdc++, which is incompatible with gcc3's libstdc++.
");
$faq->addQuestion("Does Konqueror support automatic ftp logins via \".netrc\" \
files",
-"Starting with version 2.2 beta1 konuqeror does indeed support automatic
+"Ever since version 2.2, konqueror does indeed support automatic
logins as specified in the \".netrc\" file. However, there is no graphical
front end to enable this feature ; so you have to do it manually using the
following procedure:
@@ -159,7 +125,7 @@ will have to be manually enable it in subsequent releases by \
adding a \"EnableAu entry following the same procedure outlined above.
");
-$faq->addQuestion("I'm using an NVidia driver for X, and Konqueror hangs the \
system", +$faq->addQuestion("I'm using an NVidia driver for X, and Konqueror hangs \
the system (old)", "Add</p>
<pre>Option \"NvAgp\" \"2\"</pre>
<p>to the \"Device\" section for the NVidia card, in XF86Config.
@@ -237,23 +203,16 @@ This way you don't
<p> "); // Last paragraph is a dummy paragraph for XHTML validation
$faq->addQuestion("How do I set my 'home' page - the page loaded on startup?",
-"Start Konqueror with the \"Web Browser\" button, open the page that you want
-to be loaded in any new \"Web Browser\" window, and select \"Save View Profile Web \
Browsing\"
-in the Window menu. To have Konqueror start up with no page loaded (as it did in KDE \
2.0),
-use \"about:blank\".
-");
+"This is now available in \"Configure Konqueror\", page \"General\", field \"Home \
page\"" +);
$faq->addQuestion("Is there a way to change the timeout values in Konqueror?",
-"Beginning with 2.2 beta series, you can change the timeout settings
-in the control panel under <code>\"Network->Preferences\"</code>.
+"You can change the timeout settings in the system settings under \
<code>\"Network->Connection Preferences\"</code>. <br />
-If you are using the 2.1 series, however, you have to manipulate the config
-file manually to adjust these values to your liking. Here is the procedure
-for doing that:
+If you would rather do it by hand, the configuration file for this is \
\$KDEHOME/share/config/kioslaverc, +where \$KDEHOME is your local kde config \
directory (<em>usually ~/.kde/</em>). </p>
<ol>
-<li>Open \$KDEHOME/share/config/kioslaverc in your favorite editor, where
-\$KDEHOME is your local kde config directory (<em>usually ~/.kde/</em>).
</li>
<li>Add the following entries without any HEADING, i.e outside of any [] block.
Simply adding it to the top of the file will suffice.
@@ -277,14 +236,13 @@ DEFAULT_PROXY_CONNECT_TIMEOUT 10 // 10 \
SECONDS</pre> <pre>dcop konqueror-* KIO::Scheduler reparseConfiguration \
\"\"</pre></li> </ol>
<p>
-If you are running older than version 2.1 of KDE, upgrade.
");
$faq->addQuestion("Can I run Konqueror without running KDE?",
"Yes. Just install Qt, kdelibs and kdebase, and from your favourite
window manager, just launch Konqueror. It should work just fine,
but if it doesn't (KDE developers don't test that case often), report it
-to http://bugs.kde.org and try running \"kdeinit\" before running Konqueror,
+to http://bugs.kde.org and try running \"kdeinit4\" before running Konqueror,
it usually helps.
<br />
This is of course the same for any other KDE application.
@@ -316,44 +274,27 @@ $faq->addQuestion("How can I connect to an FTP site that \
requires a login and pa If your username contains the '@' sign, replace it with %40.
");
-$faq->addQuestion("Konqueror crashes when viewing PNGs (e.g. in the image preview)",
-"All KDE applications are affected by an incompatibility between Qt 2.2.1 and
-libpng 1.0.8, when they try to display PNGs.
-This applies to Konqueror, but also to ksnapshot and many other KDE applications.
-Either upgrade libpng to 1.0.9, or Qt to 2.2.2 or 2.2.3.
-See <a href=\"http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html\">the libpng home page</a>.
-");
-
-$faq->addQuestion("I get many problems / crashes with the beta releases or with KDE \
2.0",
-"Update to the latest KDE, many bugs have been fixed, and Konqueror is much more \
stable
-than it used to be. See the <a href=\"http://www.kde.org\">KDE web site</a> for \
instructions
-on installing binaries and source.
-");
-
$faq->addQuestion("How do I add bookmarks to the bookmark toolbar?",
"Under the Bookmarks menu, select Edit Bookmarks.
This will bring up a new window, showing the contents of the bookmarks directory.
From there, you can copy bookmarks into the <i>Toolbar</i> sub-directory,
and every bookmark you copy there will appear in the bookmark toolbar.
<br />
-Using the \"Edit toolbars\" dialog for this won't work, it even tends to crash.
-Sorry about that, this toolbar shouldn't even appear there.
+Using the \"Edit toolbars\" dialog for this won't work, this toolbar works \
differently. <br />
-There is no way to control the order of bookmarks, in the toolbar or in the menu, in \
KDE 2.0.,
-but this has been done in CVS (will be in KDE 2.1)
");
$faq->addQuestion("How do I enable SSL support?",
"Most binary distributions come with SSL support enabled, but if you compile
-from sources, you need to install a recent openssl, remove config.cache
-and re-run configure, in kdelibs.
+from sources, you need to install a recent openssl, remove CMakeCache.txt
+and re-run cmake, in kdelibs.
");
$faq->addQuestion("How do I enable support for Netscape plugins?",
"Most binary distributions come from Netscape plugins support enabled, but if you \
compile
-from sources, you need to install lesstif, remove config.cache
-and re-run configure, in kdebase (check that it compiles the contents of
-kdebase/nsplugins/). If the auto-detection of the plugins fails, try
+from sources, you need to install libXt (e.g. package libxt-dev), remove \
CMakeCache.txt +and re-run cmake, in kdebase (check that it compiles the contents of
+kdebase/apps/nsplugins/). If the auto-detection of the plugins fails, try
running \"nspluginscan\" from the command line.
");
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