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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sven Burmeister wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 5. Juli 2011, 08:23:25 schrieb Per Jessen:
> > I thought that might be a workable solution too, but even without
> > closing the default viewer (gwenview), it takes 3 seconds to open a
> > new picture, whereas it takes 1 second in konqueror in KDE3 (openSUSE
> > 10.3).  Wall-clock times, not overly scientific I admit.
>
> According to kanenas it works even with 11.1 and a new KDE4 gwenview,
> i.e. external viewers "in a fraction of a second" – and that although
> he is not really a KDE4 fan. :)
>
> Since 10.3 is long dead there might be some other reason to it. But as
> I said. You are not bound to gwenview in case optimising its GUI, e.g.
> disabling the preview bar, does not make it quick enough for you.

I do appreciate that, I guess I'm just not used to having to customize
KDE so much. 

> > Good answer.  If I may - the issue is that dolphin was touted as the
> > konqueror replacement, and you're now saying it isn't, should not and
> > will not be.  From the end-user's perspective, useful everyday
> > functionality has been taken away and (apparently) not replaced.
> > That is a Bad Thing(R).
>
> No, konqueror is still part of KDE, so how can you claim its
> functionality was taken away? You got more choice, not less. Konqueror
> is just not the default file manager anymore, neither is konqueror the
> default browser anymore.

Okay, that is true, you're right.  See my previous posting regarding the
status of konqueror though. 


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Per Jessen, Zürich (22.9°C)

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