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On Friday, 23 August 2019 09:27:55 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 23/08/2019 11:18, Mick wrote: |
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> > Konqueror was the best file manager ever, with multiple vertical and |
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> > horizontal window split, with kio-slaves which would process or play |
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> > anything and everything you threw at it, with browser integration, ftp/s |
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> > and sftp/fish, etc. Nope, evidently konqueror wasn't good enough, so |
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> > here comes dolphin |
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> From what I remember, it isn't that Konqueror wasn't good enough, it's |
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> that the person who developed it lost interest or didn't have the time |
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> for it anymore. |
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Yes, the world moves on and so do devs with their decisions. With the move |
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from KDE3 to KDE4 some devs had the inspired decision to develop a new file |
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manager, which would be a file manager only - Konqueror was like a Swiss army |
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knife, a multitool in your Linux pocket. |
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From what they had written at the time I understand they came to an |
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architectural decision for KDE4 to only keep one app for each task. It is |
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reasonable to want to focus their horsepower on other KDE4 development needs |
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and not diffuse their efforts on various applications just duplicating |
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functionality. This decision also leads to simpler apps, simpler to maintain. |
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> KDE isn't Apple or Microsoft. People work on whatever they want to work on. |
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This was a conscious developer team decision, rather than some dev deciding to |
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develop what gave them personal pleasure. Still, I'm missing Konqueror all |
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the same. I now end up using more than one application to perform tasks where |
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a multi-view Konqueror instance would suffice: |
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- file manager |
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- sftp client to remote server |
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- webdav(s) client to remote server |
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- audio CD rip/transcoder (it would present the audio content in multiple |
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formats to drag and drop on your drive, ripping on demand) |
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- PDF viewer |
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- video player/viewer |
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- archiver |
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- gpg/smime file encryption/signing |
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- internet browser |
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- navigation (bookmarks/block devices/networks) |
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Of course, Konqueror did not perform all these functions using some native |
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code itself, but the GUI-fied seamlessness with which it hooked up to the |
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requisite kio-slave to do what you asked without getting in the way, was what |
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I really admired in it. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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