Something About File Managers

[Dave Vincenty]

Hi, everyone.

I've finally caught up on this list after deciding to delete 5,000 or so 
unread posts and then making myself skim through the most recent 600 or 
so, and I've noticed some rather alarming things said about Konqueror.

I don't plan on using KDE 4 until I read at least two good reviews of 
KDE 4.1.x, so I don't know what's going on there, but here is what I 
feel like I should say:

Konqueror has my favorite Linux app since the first day I ever used 
Linux.  Even after I switched to Ubuntu, I specifically downloaded 
Konqueror and used it for Gnome-related file-managing and such. (This 
was before I realized there was this thing called Kubuntu that was 
basically Ubuntu with all my favorite apps preinstalled.)

Anyways... correct me if I'm wrong here, but Konqueror is a 
multi-purpose program with a front-end patterned after Microsoft's 
Explorer... a file manager at heart which also contains a Web layout 
engine called KHTML (which is also at the heart of Apple's Safari) to 
handle HTTP and such protocols and display Web content.  In addition to 
that, it contains embedded components called KParts that let it display 
different kinds of files without having to open a new window or load a 
whole new program.  In addition to these things (that I think have been 
talked about already), it contains KIO (short for KDE Input/Output), so 
that it can handle remote files out there in the world someplace the 
same way it handles local files.

Okay, so here comes my point.  Konqueror is my file manager and my FTP 
client and my web browser for the purpose of testing stuff.  It's easy 
to say, open a few tabs at various folders on my hard drive, and open a 
few tabs at various folders in a Fedora-based web server that I'm paying 
for access on, and start editing things remotely in Kate (after I've 
connected via FTP using Konqueror), uploading other things, and looking 
at previews of both images and HTML pages on my local directories.

I'm sorry if this has already been asked and answered (since I've tried 
to pay especially close attention to anything that mentions Konqueror), 
but if Konqueror is changing, where can I find out exactly what's going 
on, and if I need to start using something else, what can I use to 
manage both local and remote files and test Web content as easily as I 
always have with Konqueror under KDE 3?

Sorry about the length of this post, by the way.

~~ dave ~~

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