KDE 4.0.0!

Clay Weber claydoh at midmaine.com
Mon Jan 14 01:13:52 UTC 2008


On Saturday 12 January 2008 6:19:04 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
> Terence Simpson wrote:
> > TED FISCHER wrote:
> >> Before Dolphin came out with 7.10 Konq was both a file manager and a web
> >> browser! and it worked well. for some unkown reason, to most of us, they
> >> created Dolphin to be a File manager. they must have striped some of the
> >> functionality out of Konq for KDE4.
> >
> > Yes, they stripped the file managing out of Konqueror, it uses parts of
> > Dolphin to manage files.
> > The point is that it's not a bug, it's like saying "Why can't I use
> > Firefox to move a file from one place to another", the answer is to use
> > a file manager instead.
>
> Of COURSE it's a bug!  We like Konqueror as the wonderful swiss-army knife
> it's always been.  If it becomes impossible to browse _files_ with it in
> future, I may very well just give up on KDE.
>
> I'm well aware that there are people who believe that Web browsers
> shouldn't manage files.  They have Nautilus and Firefox, and I'll be damned
> disappointed if KDE's going the same way.
>
> As for "it uses parts of Dolphin to manage files", that sucks.  It's always
> been Konqueror's strength that it can swallow applications whole, and I see
> no reason Dolphin should be crippled inside Konqueror.
> --
> derek
At least I am not the only one who reported this:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155349


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