KDE 4.0.0!
Terence Simpson
stdin at stdin.me.uk
Mon Jan 14 22:53:42 UTC 2008
Art Alexion wrote:
> On Sunday 13 January 2008 01:19:13 Terence Simpson wrote:
>
>>>>> 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 you are wrong. Is this a Kubuntu thing or the direction of upstream
> KDE?
>
This is from upstream KDE
> IMO Dolphin is the first successful Linux virus. If you are right, it
> destroyed my beloved Konqueror.
>
> Is there a way to restore the KDE 4 Konqueror to the previous profiles and
> capabilities?
>
Not unless those features are added upstream
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