[kde-linux] Konqueror KDE-4.8 BRANCH

[James Tyrer]

On 01/14/2012 09:35 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On 11/01/12 09:34, Duncan wrote:
>> You don't use a different file manager depending on what you want to do,
>> you use the default dumbed-down dolphin if you're the type who can't
>> figure out shell wildcards let alone regular expressions and presumably
>> can't figure out how to change the default file manager either, otherwise
>> you use an intelligent file manager that lets you do what you want,
>> whether that's always the same thing with the same file manager, or
>> different things with different managers depending on the task at hand.
>
> Far from being dumbed down, for a while I was using Dolphin in KDE 4 and
> Konqueror (3.5) in CentOS 5 and kept being utterly frustrated that
> Konqueror was so much less able as a file manager.  If filtering by
> extension is what you need, you do it in much the same way as you would
> in Windows - use the Details view, ensure that Type is one of the
> details shown, and select that column - simple! :-)
>
And can you do that for multiple types?

Actually, this is simple.  In Konqueror:

	Tools -> View Filter

This feature is not available in Dolphin.

In KDE-4.6 there was a string filter available in Konqueror.  In 4.7, it 
has gone missing.  For some tasks, this means a large decrease in 
usability -- looking for files in large directories.  So, I switched to 
using Dolphin.  I find that Dolphin doesn't have the filter by extension 
tool.

And, I didn't previously mention that Dolphin doesn't have Bookmarks.  I 
think that I can partially replace that with places.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch