Rekong gives wierd suggestions not in line with FSF?
So when I was going to set default search engine in the Rekong browser, it suggested various t, Google and Amazon sites.
What's up with that?
Rekonq is developed by KDE, not Trisquel. Apparently KDE does not see a problem with recommending Google or Amazon. That shouldn't be interpreted as an endorsement of those companies by Trisquel.
Trisquel does remove from Firefox such recommendations as well as recommendations for proprietary add-ons (the result is Abrowser), but doing the same for Rekonq is probably not a priority since Rekonq has been discontinued for several years.
Okay, I just don't understand why they keep it in the repository then.
I'm no prgrammer, but shouldn't that be fairly easy to do?
I mean... this whole OS is supposed to really FSF-recommended, and here they are offering me a browser which in turn recommend me Facebook, Google, Amazon and lord knows what.
I'm actually... kind of disappointed tbh.
Trisquel is FSF-endorsed because it is committed to including only free software. Rekonq is free software. Although Facebook, Google, and Amazon are terrible companies who among other things create some proprietary software, their search engines do not require any proprietary software (just don't use them with JavaScript enabled).
I agree, though, that Rekonq should not be in the repository. Fortunately, it looks like Rekonq has been removed in Trisquel 8.
Rekonq is unmaintained since 2014. Nobody should use it. It should be removed from the repos. Maybe it's been included because there is Triskel, a KDE version of Trisquel.
"Triskel, a KDE version of Trisquel" ? :)
Yes, it is easy to add either when using the Netinstal ISO or as a meta package afterwards.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/do-we-have-kde-spin#comment-112382
It uses KDE Plasma as its default desktop environment instead of GNOME (the default in Trisquel) or LXDE (the default in Trisquel Mini).
It's possible that Rekonq is a dependency of of the version of KDE Plasma in Trisquel 7, similarly to how you recently discovered that Pidgin and Lifrea are a dependency of GNOME. In this case, Trisquel 7 would have had to include Rekonq even though it shouldn't be used anymore (Konqueror has replaced it as the KDE browser).