Status of konqueror / dolphin as file manager

[Luciano Montanaro]

Il Tuesday 30 October 2007 02:14:19 David Faure ha scritto:
> On Monday 29 October 2007, Martin Koller wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > is there a way to get the KDE3 style konqueror file browser instead of
> > the dolphin part in KDE4 konqueror ?
>
> Certainly not. You wouldn't want to resurrect K3IconView/K3ListView-based
> code just because of a few unfinished methods in dolphinpart, would you?
>
> > The Dolphin thingy is currently unusable.
>
> Dolphin is quite usable -- but I understand that you're talking about
> dolphin-in-konqueror here, i.e. dolphinpart, which is indeed quite
> unfinished. I plan to work on it this week.
>
> > - I can not create directories
>
> Works here (RMB / Create New / Folder). But many people reported problems
> with KNewMenu indeed (almost-empty Create New submenu, iirc) so I guess
> we'll manage to find out where that comes from.
>
> > - I can not move files via drag/drop from one window to another
>
> Yep, on my TODO.
>
> > - drag/drop moving a file also does not work inside 1 dolphin window
> > (between 2 columns)
>
> Here you say dolphin, but you do mean konqueror, right? Or is this about
> the column view in dolphin as well?
> DnD is TODO in dolphinpart, but should work ok in dolphin already [with
> maybe some problems in the column view though, since it's a bit newer than
> the rest].
>
> > - cut, copy, rename, move to trash is always greyed out (ah ... - not
> > always, but I had the situation where it was like this - dunno why...
> > restart of dolphin helped)
>
> Yes, the dolphinpart doesn't implement those actions yet - on my TODO.
>
> > - renaming a file crashes dolphin (always)
>
> Was fixed today by Kevin, update kdelibs.
>
> > - the highlighting in detail mode does not use a sensible highlight
> > color. It uses light grey, which makes it hard to see what's selected in
> > the middle of all other grey/white backgrounds
>
> True (dolphin bug). Hardly a reason for a KonqIconViewWidget resurrect
> though :-)

Another issue that bugs me is that there is not enough empty space where to 
click...
That makes selecting files quite difficult. Can't the active area be 
restricted to the icon + text, as it was in the old kpart?

And I really miss the treelist and the ability to zoom the icons with the 
scrollwheel...

Although I may wait for these things. 

Oh, since I'm already whining, in KDE3 it was possible to ask for 10 rows of 
text under the icon... but in that case, the space was used only when there 
were files/dirs with a ten rows long name. Now I either get too much empty 
space or incomplete file names.

Is there hope to see the old behaviour again?

Thank you all,
Luciano