Does anyone know if the KDE team is planning to make Dolphin the default file manager instead of Konqueror?
I do not like Dolphin _at all_. Hope they don't make this mistake. I think it would be a huge one for them.
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Konqueror vs. Dolphin
On November 14th, 2007 Mike Roberts says:
Last week I installed Kubuntu 7.10 and Dolphin was the default file manager. I tried it but didn't care for it myself. I'm just used to how Konqueror behaves when it comes to views and the apps it associates files with. Dolphin just felt clunky to me. Setting Konqueror as the default file manager was not immediately obvious to me despite reviewing docs and googling. The best solution I found was apt-get remove dolphin. I don't use Konqueror for web browsing and instead use FireFox.
This link includes the announcement that dolphin is the default file manager down in the "Highlights" section:
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Hi, To replace Dolphin with
On November 30th, 2007 RobertM (not verified) says:
Hi,
To replace Dolphin with Konqueror as a default file manager go to kcontrol
Then Click on KDE Components -> File Associations and expand the inode section.
Highlight directory and move up Konqueror above Dolphin, next highlight system_directory and move up Konqueror above Dolphin.
Konqueror is now the default file manager.
Hi, To replace Dolphin with
On November 30th, 2007 RobertM (not verified) says:
Hi,
To replace Dolphin with Konqueror as a default file manager go to kcontrol
Then Click on KDE Components -> File Associations and expand the inode section.
Highlight directory and move up Konqueror above Dolphin, next highlight system_directory and move up Konqueror above Dolphin.
Konqueror is now the default file manager.
Re: K vs D
On November 14th, 2007 Shawn Powers says:
I haven't actually used KDE recently enough to see dolphin in action. I'm curious what makes it cruddy for you?
Personally, I like the idea of cutting ties between the file manager and web browser. That always had the stink of Internet Explorer for me.
Is Dolphin clumsy? Not integrated enough? Slow? Boring?
I might have to download Kubuntu to try it out...
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thanks to the editor i
On December 13th, 2007 Anonymous (not verified) says:
thanks to the editor i removed dolphin with apt-get and now I'm cool again with konquerer. sorry but dolphin sucks!
Not a fan of Dolphin either
On December 18th, 2007 Bobofett (not verified) says:
Thanks to who posted above about the File Association to change. I knew it had to be in there somewhere but was going crazy trying to find it, and that did the trick just fine. Now if I feel so inclined I can use Dolphin in the future, but don't really see that happening.
My main problem with Dolphin (Besides the fact the Kubuntu folks, just decided that's they way to go..and not even warning or making it an option during upgrade), is how it handles embedded viewing (at least out of the box from this 7.10 upgrade), which is to say it doesn't really handle it at all and just passes it right to and opens the needed app. In short no Kpart integration, makes it quite clunky, as someone mentioned before.
I also was not a big fan of trying to integrate so many apps into one, but as it turns out that was only because I'd never really seen it done well before. That changed when I started using and getting used to Konqueror. Infact the way Konqueror intergrates so well with KDE and other apps, and allows me to have just one window open to do the vast majority of my work, is the major reason I've been a continuing fan of KDE.
Don't get me wrong I do see how I may potentially use Dolphin. It's not a bad app in and of itself. I just don't like the way Kubuntu automatically sets it to the default manager...when so many of us have been using Konqueror for so long. Dolphin does have some nice file specific widgets on the right side (ie. If jpeg is selected, drop down options for reencoding, rotation, etc..), which I can see would make life easier....humm turn Dolphin into a Kpart and integrate to Konqueror...lol
We are the Konqi. Resistance is Futile...man that was bad, but I couldn't resist.
Dolphin vs Kongueror
On March 9th, 2008 burdicda (not verified) says:
I install alot of linux but had not done a full kubuntu install and personalize before...
Yesterday I installed kubuntu 7.10 for a friend and we went thru all the personalizations and seting up...and wow I don't like Dolphin.
Probably nothing wrong with Dolphin but it really caught me off guard when it came up instead of konqueror and I'm so used to hitting ctrl-n to open another
copy of it on screen for copying. Also I could not get it to view text mode view...it only offered details...which still had stupid icons in the view...
It just seemed not at intuitive...I clicked around trying to get rid of the additional navigation panels and wound up in some weird mode that didn't show and of the files or views at all. Thank goodness the linux world is all about
choices and forced changes...For the life of me I cannot understand why either
the "buntu" or kde folks removed kcontrol as an entity in the kstart menu..
wow was that a dumb mistake....file associations are soooo important to let
the user have easy access to.
my 2 cents tnx for listening
burdicda
ditto on Dolphin
On January 7th, 2008 Mark Groen (not verified) says:
It was having to right click on everything that I couldn't just get used to. Although a pointer icon (hand) is on the file name or folder line, it doesn't highlight when you click on the line to then delete/copy etc. with your free hand.
Missing smooth Subversion integration and would rather secure FTP with Konq than say, Filezilla running in yet another window. For web site veiwing, only use Konq for the KHTML engine to test layouts for Safari etc, when developing, Firefox rules otherwise for web browsing.
svn integration
On January 14th, 2008 hemna (not verified) says:
I'm not a fan of Dolphin either as I don't see that it has subversion integration. I was able to find a KIO slave for subversion integration for Konq, which worked.
Subversion for Konqueror
On March 3rd, 2008 Jonathan Rawle (not verified) says:
Slightly OT, but how did you integrate SVN into Konqueror? I can only find KSVN, which hasn't been maintained for a long time (since Subversion 1.0); and KdeSVN which looks well-maintained, but doesn't seem to integrate with Konqueror at all.
Dolphin
On May 16th, 2008 Mike (not verified) says:
I just wanted to also display my distaste for dolphin. Konq has done a great job, is feature rich, stable, and makes efficient use of pixel space, dolphin not so much. Please, give us Konq back as the default file manager!
--Mike
I was looking for solution
On June 9th, 2008 Alfas (not verified) says:
I was looking for solution with Dolphin. It is so hard to use. I can not do anything. It is excellent idea to remove it. I hope it will help.
Dolphin
On September 1st, 2008 Dr Craig (not verified) says:
The basic problems that turns this one off to Dolphin is #1 no worthy documentation and #2 useless to move files are do anything that is not within home directory. What is that? Honestly it makes me wonder are these guys working Fedora just trying to cram as much as possible into the GUI as humanly possible without considering usefulness? Convenience, Hello Fedora, you guys know what that is? The internet is full of complaints about Dolphin but very, very few solutions. Most that I have noticed are to remove the program. It is good for just viewing files but nothing else. So why not call it file viewer as that is all it really is. A big waste of time so it seems.