Why do people dislike Dolphin?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/11/4 nepal <nepal.roade at googlemail.com>:
> 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.
>

Agreed, that was a bad decision on Kubuntu's part.

> 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.
>

Only us power user think that. Really. And we can configure that.

> 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.
>

I need more detail than that. Something specific.

> 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.
>

Sounds like a bug. Can you please elaborate?

> 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.
>

And you have that choice! Isn't FOSS great?

> 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*.
>

Wait until KDE 4.2 at least then.

> 7. Just for good measure, its pig ugly!
>

Could you be more specific? What would you change to make it not pig
ugly? What components do not look good to you?

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