Am Montag, 4. Juli 2011, 16:41:51 schrieb Anton Aylward:
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 simply lost its audience, developers and users, since it was never really good at browsing and apparently not compelling enough for other tasks as well. There is nobody working against konqueror, just nobody working for it. (I know there are still some people spending time on khtml etc. but it tends towards nobody)
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.
That's the thing about things created in people's free time. They get to chose how to spend their time because they "pay" the time they spend working on something. Anybody who wants to revive konqueror is free to do so.
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.
Not for me. bookmarks tab was always broken, lots of other issues with the sidebar like not being able to rename folders, web-browsing buggy, embedded viewers lacked functionality so I had to open external ones anyway, no integrated search, not versatile enough regarding sorting and grouping, crowded toolbars, (settings) GUI and menus, no "information tab but a buggy hack to get something almost there etc. pp. But that's me and if it fits your needs, that's perfect, use it, contribute to it but do not try to make non-konqueror apps konqueror – it will fail by definition.
Whatever happened to "If it ain't broke don't fix it"?
See above, it was broken in many ways. And there was simply nobody that cared enough, so chances are, there are not that many that actually like it as much as to start caring actively, i.e. contributing. And without contribution a oss app simply fades out and gets replaced by actively developed apps. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org