Why do people dislike Dolphin?

[Billie Walsh]

Herman Holmström wrote:
> Honestly. I've recently started using KDE instead of gnome, and I like Dolphin 
> a lot more than Nautilus. I just don't understand why people think it's so 
> bad. I mean, I'm no hardcore user. I want to be able to browse and move my 
> files. Which pretty much any file manager does. I can understand if a file 
> manager is utterly retarded and crashes and, well, just doesn't work. Why is 
> it that so many hates Dolphin?
>
>   
Since sometime before forever Konqueror was _the_ file browser/internet 
browser, and just all around Swiss Army Knife, of KDE. Dolphin is 
something "new" AND it _ISN'T_ Konqueror.

In other words, It's something new and different. People don't want "new 
and different". They want old and familiar.

In all honesty Konqueror was/is [ IMHO ] a much better file manager than 
it was/is a net browser. And it WAS/IS a really good file manager. It 
does some things much better than Dolphin. Supposedly KDE is intending 
to make Konqueror into more of an internet browser and much less a file 
manager in the future, thus the need for a new application for file 
management duties. Not so sure that's a good idea with all the great 
browsers out there already but that's their choice. It will have to make 
a few quantum leaps before I trade in Firefox for it.

Dolphin is a very handy lite duty file manager and I reach for it much 
more than I do Konqueror these days. I quite like Dolphin and when it 
matures a bit more people will most likely quit bitching about it.

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