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Quoted from "thetrivialstuff"

What exactly is awesome about Dolphin compared to Konqueror 3?

Quoted from "thetrivialstuff"

What exactly is awesome about Dolphin compared to Konqueror 3?

(When I say "Dolphin" in the list below, I'm also largely referring to Konqueror 4, because it uses a lot of the same crippled components as Dolphin. When I say Konqueror, I mean Konqueror 3.5)

Some of my gripes with Dolphin so far:

- Konqueror could split the view as many times as you wanted, horizontally and vertically. Dolphin is limited to one vertical split.

- In Konqueror, it's possible to switch quickly between thumnails view and details view. In Dolphin, it takes two clicks on different buttons (Icons mode, then previews on).

- Konqueror had more info columns in detailed view (symlink destination is the one I miss most).

- Konqueror had file info tips. These took up no screen space at all until you used them. Dolphin's info thingie constantly uses part of the window.

- Konqueror had filename-width select. For some reason I prefer that vastly over full-column select in Dolphin. (Probably 'cause I could do nifty tricks when selecting a bunch of files that all had longer names than their neighbours...)

- Konqueror scrolled quickly; Dolphin scrolls slowly (the motion looks choppy). This is probably something to do with the new visuals (which I've disabled or simplified to the best of my ability btw), but something as basic as scrolling should not get worse with new versions.

- Copying in the same folder is no longer possible with the mouse. I didn't realize how much I used this feature until it went away (I'm probably strange for doing that, but still )

- The resume button the "do you want to overwrite this file?" dialogue is apparently gone now.

- Dolphin does an auto-column-resize when you split the view. I find this very annoying, because I frequently need a very long Filename column and this always ruins it. Then I have to go and adjust it myself, and *then* because of full-column select (above), I have to travel a lot farther to the right when I want to select some stuff. Also, a very narrow filename column makes renaming files annoying.

- Dolphin has no option to display file sizes in bytes. This is a show-stopper for me -- I will not use a file manager that requires me to right-click a file and go to Properties to see exactly how big it is. I frequently use the exact byte size as a very quick indicator of whether two files could be the same. I'm used to arguing this one with people; a friend of mine once said "What, would you measure the distance from the earth to the moon in centimetres?" to which I replied, "If it was a perfectly exact number of centimetres; hell yes!" -- why approximate when it's not needed? If you can fit a much more precise measurement into the same amount of screen space (roughly), then do so.

- The free space indicator is visually identical to a progress bar, which is very distracting. I keep glancing at it expecting it to move rapidly, and it takes me about a second and a half of thinking each time to work out that it's not really something I need to watch.

- Konqueror had lots of configuration options. Dolphin has very few. I'm one of those who believes that there can never be too many config options (as long as there are sensible defaults and as long as having them configurable doesn't slow the program down much).

I'm sure there's other stuff I haven't discovered yet. I'd be interested to hear your responses, unless of course they're "well, ordinary people/users would never need that!" (which seems to be the philosophy behind KDE4...)

Rest assured, I'll be filing bug reports about all of this soon

~Felix.