Konqueror rules, Dolphin must die

Jonas Norlander jonorland at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 13:49:35 UTC 2008


2008/11/2 Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes at yahoo.com>:
> Jonas Norlander wrote:
>
>> 2008/11/2 Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes at yahoo.com>:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I should say that Dolphin is a very stupid application. Some would say
>>> again that I don't want to change, but I don't understand why it is my
>>> default file manager and who did spent time for programming this and why.
>>> It does not do some things like it should and it appears right then as
>>> default, when konqueror finally started working for me. I suppose some
>>> developers "intelligence" behind the scene.
>>>
>>> So does anyone knows how to replace Dolphin with konqueror systemwide?
>>>
>>> I would just remove dolphin binary and link konqueror to it, but this is
>>> not nice way to do so.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>
>> It has been answered many times on this list and one way to do it if
>> you don't want to remove D3lphine is to...
>>
>> <snip from old mail>
>> Open Konqueror, click on 'Settings' > 'Configure Konqueror' > 'File
>> Associations' >
>> 'inode' - select directory and system_directory and in the 'Application
>> preference order' list move Konqueror above Dolphin.
>>
>> / Jonas
>
> Thanks for the answer. It works. Now I press the desktop (Home) icon and
> konqueror starts and complains
>
> Internal error. Can not find parent element file:///home/emanoil in the tree
>
> or something similar (I have non EN localisation)
>
> what is the problem with it. I mean it starts with my $HOME opened but I
> would say that the default setting is dolphin related?
>
> Thanks again
>

I have no answer for that. For me it worked with the above settings
and with no errors.

/ Jonas




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