Change default file manager in Plasma 5.3

[Richard S. Crawford]

Well, I did figure out the solution for my own issue, at least.

Right-click on the "Places" bar, and select "Add entry". Then, enter
"fish://<user>@<server>". That'll do it.



On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Richard S. Crawford <richard at underpope.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> ------ Original message------
>>
>> *From: *Dale Trombley
>>
>> *Date: *Sun, Jul 19, 2015 12:38 PM
>>
>> *To: *Kubuntu user technical support;
>>
>> *Cc: *
>>
>> *Subject:*Re: Change default file manager in Plasma 5.3
>>
>>
>> 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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