Why do people dislike Dolphin?

[Derek Broughton]

Billie Walsh wrote:

> Herman Holmström wrote:
>> Honestly. I've recently started using KDE instead of gnome, and I like
>> Dolphin a lot more than Nautilus. I just don't understand why people
>> think it's so bad. I mean, I'm no hardcore user. I want to be able to
>> browse and move my files. Which pretty much any file manager does. I can
>> understand if a file manager is utterly retarded and crashes and, well,
>> just doesn't work. Why is it that so many hates Dolphin?
>>
>>   
> Since sometime before forever Konqueror was _the_ file browser/internet
> browser, and just all around Swiss Army Knife, of KDE. Dolphin is
> something "new" AND it _ISN'T_ Konqueror.
> 
> In other words, It's something new and different. People don't want "new
> and different". They want old and familiar.

While that's true of people in general, we are all more flexible than that
or we'd still be using Windows.  We want new and _better_, and we'd darn
well better never lose anything we're still using.
> 
> In all honesty Konqueror was/is [ IMHO ] a much better file manager than
> it was/is a net browser. ... It will have to make
> a few quantum leaps before I trade in Firefox for it.

Not to mention an attitude change from the developers who refuse to do
something wrong, just because everybody else does it.  If a web page
displays in FF and IE, then it has to display equally well in Konqueror,
whether or not it complies with standards.
-- 
derek