Is it time to allow Chromium in Fedora?

There has been a lively discussion within KDE regarding the Konqueror browser; and subsequently it has been decided that a non-KDE, GTK browser will be the default for the spin. Why, because Firefox is the only choice for Fedora, Chromium is not allowed. Here is a good excerpt: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Dan Mossor <danofsatx at gmail.com> wrote: > The correct avenue here, in light of the news from the upstream products, > is to keep the status quo regardless of the lack of usability. When we > finally get a fully-featured Qt based browser, that is when we switch. We > DO NOT switch to a GTk based browser that has zero integration with the > Plasma desktop - single click selection of files and directories within > Firefox doesn't even work, let alone the theming and other issues. > Ironically, those two items, as well as integration with kWallet, work fine > with Google Chrome (which is not a choice in this discussion). Tom Calloway has been working on Chromium - and his copr is up-to-date for anyone who wants to try it. https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/spot/chromium/ It's been a slow slog working through the issues keeping it from the official repository, but progress has been made: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28287 Things have also changed over the years, and Chrome/Chromium's popularity has continued to grow and is now packaged in Ubuntu, Debian and Suse. Firefox has exceptions mainly because it is deemed "to popular" to keep out of the distribution. I think it is obvious to everyone that Chrome/Chromium is "at least" as popular than Firefox. I realize we have our guidelines and we're not Debian, Suse or Ubuntu... and that's a good thing. But, if we're making exceptions for Firefox because of it's popularity shouldn't we do the same for Chromium. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20150811/83511c52/attachment.html>