Why do people dislike Dolphin?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/11/4 Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net>:
> 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.
>

How do you set this?

> 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.
>

I love this, and even have it as a Firefox addon, called Location2.

> 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.
>

I haven't seen the bookmarks issue. Could you start a new thread with
the exact error message? This may be a bug.

> 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.
>

I'd like to hear your wish list. I will look into the 'show hidden files' issue.

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