Basil Chupin wrote:
Per Inge Oestmoen wrote:
Konqueror is a much better, more functional and configurable file manager than Dolphin. Dolphin does only display files, and cannot be tailored and configured to the same extent as Konqueror - by a long shot.
Get used to it. Dolphin, and whatever the enlightened KDE Team states, is the "in thing" and will be forced upon you irrespective of what you feel you want because you are now behind the times and out of touch from the MATRIX world.
Okay, you are using irony. It would most useful if we could agree to convey our opinions to the KDE developers.
Also, Konqueror 3.x is better than the 4.x version, at least in some ways. In Konqueror 4.x functionality is deliberately removed - and this has to be changed.
Aaaw, come on! "Has to be changed". You are urinating against the wind my friend.
The question is; does Konqueror become a better program if functionality like the one mentioned, or is such functions useful and adds to the value of the program?
The KDE Team and Novell Marketing Team have you by the short and curlies.
Absolutely not - they need input from real world users.
One example is the capability of extracting EXIF info from a photographic image, as an example. In Konqueror 3.x one can right-click the file and get a very functional menu, where there is a section for meta data. Click on that, and you get a full range of useful information without having to go to another program or open another window. But in Konqueror 4.x this function is, incomprehensibly, taken away! This has to be changed promptly.
"In your dreams, baby" :-D .
It must be possible to take a clear stand - failure to do so hardly results in a better world. Are we AGAINST or are we FOR configurability and choice? If the user can extract that info from any image file just by right-clicking on it, that is a much needed function for anyone working seriously with such files. Having to open another program or window in order to accomplish a task which was considerably easier in an /earlier/ version is not progress, and we need to tell the KDE people that. It has nothing to do with Novell, as far as I know the KDE teams are independent of any particular company. If some of the KDE developers have gotten the false idea that dumbed down software enhances usefulness it is about time that we as users tell them otherwise. Open Source software ought to give people something they cannot get in the Windows world, and a large part of that something is choice and the programs' capability of being configured to the user's needs. Per Inge Oestmoen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org