Why do people dislike Dolphin?

[nepal]

On Monday 03 November 2008, 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?

1. Being forced to use it by default.

2. Poor use of on-screen space, showing information in 
panels that I only need occasionally. This is achieved much 
better by tool tips than wasting screen real estate.

3. It is cluttered and poorly thought out to look at, and 
merely seems like some other piece of software is being 
copied in order to 'stay with the gang', Instant impression 
was its trying to be like some well known m$ software.

4. Software panels that keep reconfiguring themselves after 
one has made setting changes is not f****ing friendly but 
stupid as someone else said. Years ago when I wrote 
software I would never do that to my users.

5. There is a perfectly good file manager called Konqueror 
which I have grown to love, if I want to use another 
filemanager, which I do occasionally, I use Krusader. I 
would never use D**phin and never will.

6. After having D**phin installed as default and the 
experience of its constant rearranging of *my* settings, it 
is unlikely I will ever look at this bit of softare again, 
*EVER*.

7. Just for good measure, its pig ugly!

nepal.