Konqueror problems

[Willy K. Hamra]

Knapp wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Willy K. Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Man, all this makes me NEVER want to switch to KDE 4!! Is it true that
> 8.10 will only have kde 4 and thus I will be forced to use Dolphine??
> 
> 
> 

the last time i checked, the devs were saying it's going to be hard to
let KDE3 be installable in 8.10 since the default directories for KDE4
are no longer .kde4, but rather .kde , which means more work on KDE3
packages for intrepid, which they're trying to avoid. so in short, don't
let your hopes high for KDE3 in intrepid. if you want KDE3, stick to
hardy, it's LTS and won't go stale for a while now, there is really no
need to upgrade to intrepid if you're looking for hardy's stability.
so far, i've tried feisty, gutsy, hardy, and now intrepid. and to be
honest, hardy is the best version i've seen so far, most of the
instabilities i witnesses in previous versions are gone, and it's
constantly updated will programs and desktop environments to the moment,
and will continue to. if you're not the type of ppl who want bleeding
edge software, no matter how unstable they are, then seriously, stick to
hardy, it's the best there is.

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