Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 31 March 2012 18:52:31 Ilya Chernykh wrote:
> On Saturday 31 March 2012 16:45:43 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > You're absolutely right, I stand corrected.  It's Dolphin that is a
> > > bit
> > > awkward, not Konqueror.  I'd tried switching to Dolphin as that was
> > > the
> > > new default.
> >
> > It's what you're used too. The old Konqi is meant to be a swiss army
> > knife - doing lots of things reasonably well. Dolphin aims to be a
> > Filemanager and do THAT really really well, leaving other things to
> > other apps.
>
> No. Dolphin does not provide even the basic functionality for file
> management.
>
> I would well support an idea of separating the file manager and browser
> like in Nautilus and Windows Explorer, but if the file manager remains
> fully functional and not such a thumb like Dolphin is.
>
> It is definitely not a universal file manager, at best a narrow-purpose
> one.

But it beats the old Konqi any time. That one didn't have the + overlay, had 
no grouping, had no rating and tagging and the location bar was that old, 
stupid text-entry instead of a nice bar it is now. And there was no proper 
git or svn integration either. Face it, Dolphin can do lots of useful things 
Konqi couldn't.

It misses two things: arbitrary splitting of the screen (only useful to demo 
people what crazy shit it can do) and spatial browsing (which is so 
braindead even Apple and GNOME gave up on it).

Bang, Konqi lost the feature shoot-out. Just like KMail does. And Konsole. 
And Gwenview. And Kate. And KWrite. Sorry, but KDE 3 doesn't match up to 4 
in terms of features. The apps might not look as cluttered as but they have 
more functionality.