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Re: god please no
by Jucato on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @21:23

I encourage you to first try out the latest stable version of Dolphin to really see its potential. I'm a die-hard Konqueror fan, But I do think that there are things that Dolphin gets right. That's not mentioning a cleaner code beneath.

The location bar in Dolphin is not removed. The devs would be crazy to do that. The button (or shorcut keys) to show it is clearly there. But the breadcrumb widget itself is more than a match for what Nautilus currently has.

Dolphin is apparently meant to be a light, simple, and fast file manager. It can never really replace Konqueror in functionality. So Konqi won't be going away anytime soon. I do hope, though, that a lot of this work will be somehow applied to Konqueror, too.

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Re: god please no
by Troy Unrau on Thursday 15/Feb/2007, @16:26

Dolphin and konq share things like icon views, and so forth. So improvements to Dolphin are also improving konq. Which is a good thing, because Dolphin, while a very smooth file manager, just does not have the power user functionality that I've come to rely on from konq. Things like splitting panes and then doing drag and drop from an ftp site to my server via fish, and so forth.

So, Dolphin will improve konq. and provide an easier to use file manager for more basic user needs. Analogous to how kwrite is a simplified kate, with reused components... (I know it's not a 1:1 analogy, but it's simple enough)

So it's all good. :)

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