Why do people dislike Dolphin?

[Billie Walsh]

Just for the record, here are a few of the things  like about Dolphin:

{ Disclaimer - I know everything here is available in Konqueror, et al }

1) I have it set to open at full screen width but about half height. 
Plenty of real estate for most functions.

2) Split pane makes it easy to drag and drop files and folders from one 
place/computer/hard drive to another.

3) The bread crumb trail helps me picture the file structure leading to 
where I am in a very concise manner not a big massive tree on the left 
side. It's easy to navigate back one view in only one pane.

4) Left panel is easy to find where I want to navigate. Home, Root, 
Storage Media, Network, etc.

5) Being CLI challenged and needing to edit a file I can navigate to it, 
hover over it, choose edit as root from the right pane. Usually Kate 
opens in and an automatic backup is made of the file.

6) If I need to have a terminal window in a particular directory for 
some reason it's easy. No messy changing directories in CLI.

7) The right hand pane. Somehow I managed to get Dolphin to always show 
details rather than icons [ sorry but I don't remember how I did it ]. 
When I hover over a file the image changes to a miniature of the file, 
or at least does it's best to do so. Makes it handy to find just the one 
I want. The usual right click options show below the image, no right 
click required. Just slide over and click.

I've had almost none of the issues I've seen raised lately. No crashes. 
It works fast. I have the forward and back arrows. The only issue I've 
noticed is that lately when I close Dolphin I get this box popping up 
that says it can't save bookmarks. It didn't used to do that but started 
suddenly a few weeks back. I think it somehow happened in an update of 
some sort. I haven't messed with it much in 8.10/4.x so it may be fixed 
in my clean install.

There are a couple things on my "wish list". Most notable is that I wish 
the "Show Hidden Files" would stick. Probably not a good idea for some 
people though.

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