Why do people dislike Dolphin?

[Billie Walsh]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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?
>   
Grabbed a corner and drug it to where I wanted it. The setting stuck. I 
booted into 8.10 and tried the same trick and it stuck there also.

>   
>> 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 went into the setting on 8.10/4.1 and set it to use the same settings 
universally and something else I can't remember right off and the detail 
view stuck in 4.1 Dolphin. Play with the settings a bit and you won't 
have icon view unless you want it.

>> 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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