Konqueror missing one trick

[Art Alexion]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:10:20 Derek Broughton wrote:
> Art Alexion wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 August 2008 2:21:25 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> > I think this points to the real tragedy here.  The guardians of KDE
> >> > have declared that they are moving the marvelous file functions that
> >> > have been mentioned to Dolphin, which is a poor file manager in
> >> > comparison, and
> >>
> >> Er, no, not really.  They _can't_ move those functions to Dolphin,
> >> because they're kio slaves - ALL of KDE has access to them.  What
> >> they're saying aiui is that the slaves are implemented as Dolphin parts.
> >>  I don't have an issue with that
> >
> > I have KDE 4-something installed from the PPA alongside 3.5.9.  I work in
> > 3.5.9 and log into 4.x once a month or so to see the progress.  I don't
> > know if the PPA version is the same as the version you get when you
> > install KDE4
> > to be your main environment.  Dolphin still lacks a lot of the stuff I
> > can do with the kio_slaves in konqueror, I doesn't do tabs, an I can't
> > manage online
> > stuff like it was a local drive, like I can with Konqueror.
>
> Sure - but this stuff isn't going to go away in Konqueror.  I have no plans
> to ever run dolphin, but Dolphin's file kio slaves will be available to
> konqueror, and konqueror will still have access to all the slaves it has
> now.

Is that the latest word?  Last time I paid attention to this issue, the people 
claiming to be involved in the changes kept repeating "Konqueror is the web 
browser; dolphin is the file manager."


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