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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Modified Konqueror
From:       Martijn Klingens <mklingens () ism ! nl>
Date:       2001-10-17 11:59:20
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On Wednesday 17 October 2001 13:43, David Faure wrote:
> I'd be fine with a patch that adds a command-line argument to Konqueror,
> making it always fullscreen (adding checks around "go back to normal mode"
> to disable that, whichever way this would happen).
>
> A separate application is a good idea too - is yours opensource ? ;-)

The application is unfortunately not, but the code that deals with the 
KHTMLPart is so ridiculously easy thanks to KHTML's good API that Aviram 
should be able to write that in only a few days. If he's experienced with the 
KDE/Qt API even less.

The difficult parts of our app were all the specialized features that Konq 
couldn't provide anyway. And the necessary fixes to the KDE libs, like @media 
support. After all we should give something open back to the community, even 
though the app itself is commercial ;-)

<off-topic>
Seriously, I think this is the best development model for commercial use that 
one could wish: write a closed commercial app, but don't work around the 
quirks and missing infrastructure in your libs - instead fix the libs. It 
doesn't hurt your app's market value, since the lib changes alone do not hurt 
the commercial value of the app, but those same lib changes are of great 
value to the community and open software's market share (and hence potential 
customers!). And in the end it even improves the quality of your app, since 
workarounds are always hard to maintain.

Yes, commercial companies developing for open platforms should learn a whole 
new development model...
</off-topic>

Martijn

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