KDE 4.0.0!

Terence Simpson stdin at stdin.me.uk
Sun Jan 13 06:19:13 UTC 2008


David McGlone wrote:
> On Saturday 12 January 2008 6:14:33 pm Terence Simpson wrote:
>   
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>     
>>> On 12/01/2008, Terence Simpson <stdin at stdin.me.uk> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Well, Dolphin is the file manager and Konqueror is the Web Browser. Did
>>>> you expect the Web Browser to have all the features of a file manager?
>>>>
>>>> Terence
>>>>         
>>> Well, yes, as it originally _was_ a file manager before it was a web
>>> browser. And so far as I've been led to understand (please RTFM me
>>> with information otherwise) Konqueror retains all it's features for
>>> KDE4.
>>>
>>> Dotan Cohen
>>>       
>> No, Konqueror uses the Dolphin KPart to use some file managing features.
>> (A KPart is like a plugin, not exactly the same but a decent analogy for
>> this)
>>     
>
>  Terence, 
>
> first off, let me laugh. LOL I'm sorry man are you new to linux or kde? 
> Konqueror has been a file manager since I don't know how long, let me say RH 
> 6.1 or somewhere around there. can anyone verify? Anyway I've been using 
> konqueror as a file manager for quite a few years I'd say a good 6 or 8 years 
> and been using linux for around 10 or 12 years. Also from what I can see, I 
> believe you got it backwards, wouldn't it make more sense if dolphin was 
> using the konqueror kpart since konqueror has been around as a file manager 
> for a long long time. Matter of fact all dolphin is, is a stripped down and 
> re-arranged konqueror with a different name. :-)
>
>   
David,
To answer your questions:
1) No
2) No
3) Didn't say it wasn't
4) There is no Konqueror KPart for file managing, only the Dolplin KPart.

I hope that answered all of those queries.





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