<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I'm trying to use Dolphin - the file manager as konq used to be<br></span></div><div><span>Comments related to Dolphin<br></span></div><div><span>John<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", "times", serif"> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", "times", serif"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Kevin Krammer <krammer@kde.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> kde@mail.kde.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 6 April
2012, 13:28<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kde] Dolphin search anomalies KDE 4.6.0<br> </font> </div> <br>On Friday, 2012-04-06, John Woodhouse wrote:<br><br>> Another odd aspect is that I can only find all of them as root. I assume<br>> this is because the disk contains one of my old home directories.<br>> Searching as none root does bring some up though.<br><br>My guess would be that file system access restrictions prevent applications <br>running as your user from accessing those other directories.<br>In which case I wouldn't call that "odd" because that's how the file system is <br>expected to work.<br><br>> Bit worrying as I often<br>> view system files as an ordinary user - no chance of changing them unless<br>> I really intend to. I miss konq's file bookmarks for that sort of thing.<br><br>Hmm, Konqueror's file bookmarks still work for me.<br>Haven't used those in ages since I am only visiting a
handful of directories <br>regularily and I have added those to the Places toolbar/dock.<br>But I just tried and I could add and follow a bookmark to a directory.<br><br>> It's very handy and saves remembering where they are. I don't suppose I<br>> can still use kate in that way either when I do want to modify one.<br><br>No problems using Kate's bookmarks either, actually use them a lot.<br><br>> Mentioned on here because maybe subsequent releases have addressed these<br>> anomalies.<br><br>Bookmarks have definitely always worked. I use Konqueror as my main browser and <br>it doesn't make any difference locations as far as I can tell and all version's <br>of Kate that I have been using over the years had working bookmarks since that <br>feature was introduced.<br><br>> While use jargon might I also mention to Kevin that the real<br>> stake holders are the users. Devs don't really have the same relationship<br>> to their
work.<br><br>I think that largely depends on what kind of software we talk about and how it <br>is developed. For Free and Open Source software it is almost guaranteed that a <br>developer is also a user of that software.<br>This is basically the number one reason people work on certain programs, i.e. <br>needing the program yourself.<br><br>There are only a few exceptions, e.g. developers of assistive technology might <br>not need that assitance themselves, however then again some will work on those <br>because they closely relate to a person who does.<br><br>The two sets "users" and "developers" have such a huge overlap that one can <br>safely approximate "developers" to be a subset of "users".<br><br>Cheers,<br>Kevin<br>-- <br>Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer<br>KDE user support, developer mentoring<br><br>___________________________________________________<br>This message is from the kde mailing list.<br>Account management: <a
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