On Monday 04 July 2011 21:41:51 Anton Aylward wrote:
Sven Burmeister said the following on 07/04/2011 03:48 PM:
Sorry, but you did not get it!
Dolphin is not konqueror2. It's a different app with different goals and philosophy. There is not only one way to do things right. If konqueror is what you want, use it. Most people don't need a "tries to be everything but fails at each of them compared to those apps that specialise on one task".
Oh but Sven I do get it. I see the verb, what is being done, rather than the noun, what is being said.
The one program that did it all, and in my opinion and based on questions and observations about Dolphin and reconq that have come up, did it very well, was Konqueror. it now seems that Konqeror is being depreciated in favour of this specialised file manager - that isn't as capable a file manager as Konqeror was named Dolphin, and this web browser that isn't as capable as Konqeror was named reconq.
It strikes me that each might have been better if they had started with Konqueror as it was about the days of KDE4.1/4.2 and started deleting stuff. Rather like the sculptor: take a block of stone and remove everything that isn't the final statue.
I *DO* understand Rob Pikes "Do one thing, just one thing and do it well" (Rob, like me, is from Toronto and I've met both him and Dennis here.) But Konqueror *DID* work and worked very well.
Whatever happened to "If it ain't broke don't fix it"?
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