A compromise solution.

Kaj Haulrich kaj at haulrich.net
Tue Nov 4 19:21:43 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 19:40 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/11/4 Kaj Haulrich <kaj at haulrich.net>:
> > 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.
> 
> Kaj, Konqueror is still available in KDE 4.1. It does use Dolphin for
> the backend, but the UI is Konqueror as we know and love it.

Yes Dohan, the konqueror as a web browser is still there, but try to use
it as a file manager.....    :-(

Kaj Haulrich.





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