Status of konqueror / dolphin as file manager

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2007 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> > > On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Kleag wrote:
> > > > > Indeed. I think ppl just should switch back to breadcrump mode if
> > > > > they want up... Or change the toolbar themselves. 'average' users
> > > > > most likely will use breadcrump anyway, someone who prefers using the
> > > > > text entry widget probably can change the toolbar too...
> > > >
> > > > But non-average users (again, if it exists) that want at a moment or
> > >
> > > non-average users can use the "edit toolbars" option. we're talking
> > > defaults here, not possibilities.
> >
> > Toolbars cannot be customised in KDE, how often do I have to repeat that?
> > In fact, *every* user customised change is *lost* on each rc version
> > upgrade which at the maximum happens between each minor version upgrade,
> > more than enough between patchlevel releases, too.
> 
> i've had my konqueror toolbars just the way i want them for years.
> 
> as Thomas noted, perhaps you're using an app that changes constantly (shoot 
> the maintainers ;) and at some point we really ought to find a way to merge 
> these things better (i wish LiveUI had become a reality =/ )

AFAIK LiveUI had no configurable toolbars at all, it was "in the TODO list, to be done somehow".

The problems described here can be fixed with xmlgui, all we need is indeed to keep
track of removal/additions, as has been said before. Saying it over and over again
won't fix the bug though, someone has to put their hands into the code for that.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).