Status of konqueror / dolphin as file manager

[Peter Penz]

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> 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?

The empty space is configurable in the settings dialog. I've some ideas for KDE 4.1 to improve the selection functionality in general, but it is something where I really want to do some user testing before -> I need some time for this...

> 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?

Yes, there is hope :-) Especially those parts had to be completely rewritten because of the changes in Qt4 -> there are still some open issues which should (and can) be solved, but we are just running out of time for getting all those things into KDE 4.0.

It would be a gread help if you could submit your input to bugs.kde.org (although I have my internal TODO-list where I track input from e-mails like this, its no good replacement for bugtracking :-)).

Thanks in advance,
Peter