Why do people dislike Dolphin?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/11/3 Herman Holmström <herman.holmstrom at bostream.nu>:
> 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?
>

Dolphin is far superior to Nautilus, however, it is not as usable as
Konqueror was in KDE 3. The current Dolphin does have some features
that Konqueror 3 did not have, but Konqueror 4 (as it uses the Dolphin
component for file management) does have those features.

The reason that Dolphin has a bad name is before it was released there
was an early alpha version called d3lphin. d3lphin was a very
difficult to use and problematic file manager, but worse, KDE 8.04
used it as the default file manager in KDE 3. That ruined the Dolphin
name for many people. Also, early versions of Dolphin in KDE 4.0 were
feature incomplete (like all of KDE 4.0).

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