A compromise solution.

[Eberhard Roloff]

Nigel Ridley wrote:
> Kaj Haulrich wrote:
>> Just in case someone here ran into the same sort of problems as I 
>> did, I'll share a few ideas:
>>
>> I tried several times to upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10: no go. 
>> Everything locked up. Then, fresh install: still no go, only the 
>> upper half of my screen was visible. After some fiddling with 
>> X.org.conf I got a full screen and began to use KDE4. Then I 
>> discovered - like many others here - that I had lost a lot of 
>> functionality, especially Konqueror, but lots of other things too, 
>> like all the options to customize my desktop easily.
>>
>> OK, i gave up. Here's what I did in order to get happy again:
>>
>> Fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10. Well, no decent file manager here 
>> either, only the crappy nautilus. But the install went without a 
>> hiccup. Then, installed kubuntu-desktop, kmail etc.. Fine, but still 
>> no usable file manager. Installed krusader, which is a bit 'over the 
>> top' for me. So I found a fine compromise between unusable Dolphin 
>> and the geeky Krusader: 'emelfm2' (sudo apt-get install emelfm2).
>>
>> So, now I have the best of two worlds: KDE + Gnome + a very fine and 
>> potent file manager with a intuitive, graphic interface. Now I can 
>> keep on upgrading both flavours automagically until KDE4 reaches 
>> maturity. Happy days are here again...
>>
>> Kaj Haulrich.
> 
> I remember using emelfm2 in Feather Linux on my retarded [old] laptop - very nice and easy to 
> use. Also very feature rich!
> I liked it. I will install it when I get around to doing a fresh install of Intrepid on my 
> Inspiron 1525.
> 
> Thanks for reminding me of emelfm2 :-)
> 
> Blessings,
> 
> Nigel
> 
And when you are looking for something even smaller, albeit slightly 
less intuitive, use emelfm.
This is my favourite on any PC that is to slow to run Win98,     :-)))

Kind regards
Eberhard