Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror:5 - why couldn't it be more like konqueror:3 ?!!

[Alan McKinnon]

On 19/04/2017 16:57, Mick wrote:
> OK, I know life moves on, but this move has been a retrograde step for me.  My
> konqueror:5 recently updated seems to have a number of problems and <aheam!>
> features I am not happy with.  Grateful for any pointers to address these.  In
> no particular order.
>
> 1. The Bookmarks Toolbar will *always* show up when launching Konqueror.  I
> deselect Settings/Toolbars Shown/Bookmark Toolbar and relaunch the
> application, only to find out my deselection will not stick.
>
> 2. The menu shows no icons, only text; buttons like open new tab/close current
> tab show no icons, making difficult to guess.
>
> 3. When used as a file manager Konqueror will only open directories or files
> if I double click on them.  I have set up in systemsettings5 Hardware/Input
> Devices/Mouse/Single click to open files and folders.  Konqueror ignores it.
>
> 4. All my years of Bookmarks of Konqueror:4 gone.  I had to import them
> manually.
>
> 5. Network places, gone.
>
> 6. Left hand Panels with Places/Devices/Folders ain't thaa'r.
>
> 7. Konqueror Introduction page, no icons; unless I hover over them,
> hyperlinked titles shown in dark grey over a blue background.  I know my eye
> sight is not as good as it used to be, but this is really akin to usability
> sabotage.
>
> The are probably more problems I have not captured above, but my experience of
> konqueror:5 is that of crippleware.  I don't know if this has anything to do
> with it, I am not running konqueror on a full plasma desktop, but as a stand
> alone application.  Have you observed similar?
>


Halfway through the KDE-4 lifecycle it became known that konqueror then
was essentially without a maintainer in the KDE project. Gut feels tells
me that has likely not changed and the minimum work was done to get it
to build under KDE-5. Just gut feel.

I gave up on konqueror as a browser during KDE-3 and switched to Dolphin
as file manager in KDE-4. Have you considered that?

Your points 2, 3, 5 & 6 all work in Dolphin familiarly to old Konqueror.

I found many things Dolphin couldn't do that don't matter, like snazzy
file views of directories that visually show how big sub-dirs and files
are. I can live without that. The only irritation that mattered was not
being able to repeatedly split panes in half vertically or horizontally;
Dolphin gives you just two panes, side by side. So I started opening
more tabs to get more panes :-)

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Alan McKinnon
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