Konqueror problems

[Willy K. Hamra]

Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 09/25/2008 Alain Muls wrote:
>>  This makes me wonder why konqueror is so much liked,
> 
> Konqueror is/was the "Swiss Army Knife" of KDE. And, you know how people 
> love their Swiss Army Knife. Try to take it away from them, or change 
> it, and they will fight you.
> 
> Being fairly new to Linux/KDE [  just  couple years now ] I was 
> originally struck with how much Konqueror "looked" like Windows Explorer 
> in file manager mode. [ I don't know which came first, Konqueror or 
> Explorer but have my suspicions ] When Dolphin first showed up on my 
> desktop I was kind of wondering why, but soon learned that for a light 
> weight file manager it does it's job quite well. I like it as well. I 
> can do some things intuitively in Dolphin that I didn't see how to do in 
> Konqueror.
> 
> I use 8.04/3.5.10 so don't know much about Dolphin and Konqueror in 4.1 
> but I can't recall ever having Dolphin having an issue. Perhaps I just 
> haven't pushed it hard enough yet.
> 

i can't say that either dolphin or konqueror are lightweight in KDE4.
they are both waaaay too sluggish, even with desktop effects turned off.
clicking a menu needs around 3~4 seconds, and I'm talking about a 3.0
GHz CPU with hyper threading, and 1.5 GiB of RAM! in KDE 3.5, konqueror
was blazing fast, even dolphin, but still, i found konqueror faster and
more responsive than dolphin! but here i KDE4, file management simply
sucks on both of them, forcing me o resort to dear old konsole for most
of my file management. even browsing directories through other programs,
like Kate's "save as" dialog, is just too slow. and i hate how now
konqueror and dolphin uses this stupid vista like selection method of
clicking a plus sign on a file when i need to select multiple files!

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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