Change default file manager in Plasma 5.3

[Richard S. Crawford]

Hi Clay,

Is there a way to use Dolphin as the file picker? The file picker seems to
have no way to get to remote files.

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Clay Weber <clay at claydoh.com> wrote:

>  Do note that the file-picker is not the same thing as Dolphin, just for
> clarity's sake.
>
>
> The native KDE file picker should be configurable to show previews,
> Dolphin's Places as the like just as it always has. I know I use both of
> these nearly daily for previewing pics and browsing a remote location.
>
>
> I'm away from home so I can't specify what and where to change settings
> specifically, but the top bar on the picker has icons that toggle things,
> and depending on screen resolution, one may have to increase the
> preview/icon size for previews to be visible.
>
>
> Clay Weber
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> ------ Original message------
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> *From: *Dale Trombley
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> *Date: *Sun, Jul 19, 2015 12:38 PM
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> *To: *Kubuntu user technical support;
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> *Subject:*Re: Change default file manager in Plasma 5.3
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> I agree, with the new dolphin there isn't a way to set the fol ders to
> have preview in the file picker of apps like chrome. and by preview i mean
> the same preview that i get in just pure dolphin. so when the file picker
> opens up i see every picture and can pick at a mere glance which file i
> want. The new dolphin acts like gnome file picker (yuck) and i have to
> select each file before i see a preview.....
>
> This behavior isn't going to stay is it?
>
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Richard S. Crawford <
> richard at underpope.com> wrote:
>
>> Why are my applications not using it then? I'm very confused.
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Aaron Honeycutt <
>> honeycuttaaron3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dolphin is still the default file manager.
>>> On Jul 19, 2015 10:55 AM, "Richard S. Crawford" <richard at underpope.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've been using 15.04 for a couple of days now, and am frustrated by
>>>> what appears to be the new file manager, especially in applications like
>>>> Kate which I use to edit files directly on remote servers. In Dolphin I
>>>> could specify several remote server and get to the m from any application,
>>>> but now I can't.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to make Dolphin my default file manager? Or, at least,
>>>> add network locations to the new default file manager?
>>>>
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