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Re: Konqueror
by Bobby on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @08:12

"The fact that Dolphin will be listed in the K Menu will not harm your user experience in any way."

It's not the fact that it is listed in the file manager that bothers me. It's that (for most users) they will believe that the "file manager" for KDE is just as broken as it is in Gnome. When did we start to confuse a lack of functionality as a feature?

I have heard almost NO ONE (at least no one who is not already totally convinced to use Gnome regardless of what we do) who thinks that Konqueror web integration was a bad thing. Why are we changing this? Why?

0h, and just as an FYI.. someone type /home into your firefox browser... or open an html page in Nautilus... OMG web and file integration!

Bobby

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Re: Konqueror
by Tony O'Bryan on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @14:45

I have to agree. Dolphin seems like a solution in search of a problem. Every single Konqueror complaint I've read in this thread seems more easily addressable by changing the respective KParts than by creating a separate file manager.

Maybe I'll change my mind once I try it, but from what I've read so far, Dolphin seems to be quite a big step in the wrong direction. Konqueror is a fairly capable web browser (though it has at least two severe rendering problems: bad CSS and major slowness), but it seriously rocks as a file manager. I'll try to keep an open mind, but my gut instinct is that Dolphin is going to cause more problems than it solves.

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Re: Konqueror
by Tony O'Bryan on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @14:48

Actually, I can't say that the CSS problems I have are due to Konqueror (KHTML). It's entirely possible that the problem is with web sites that have bad CSS. However, Firefox renders those sites correctly.

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Re: Konqueror
by neal on Sunday 13/Jan/2008, @17:22

I agree with all the positives that have been said for Konqueror and love the integration and file viewing flexibility. When I am doing this and need to include viewing web documents it is perfect. When I just want to do some web browsing I use Firefox.

Please don't hide this easy to use and wonderfully flexible piece of software from new users. If anything, it should be treated as a flagship.

olaf

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