A look at GNOME 2.14, comparison to KDE

[Tompos Ákos]

Hi,

To be honest: I don't use konqueror.
Here is why:
I'm an ortodox two panel filemanager user. So filemanagement is out. 
Yes, I've tried to set it up once as a two panel file manager, I've even 
changed most of the  keybindings to be the same as to good old Volkov 
Commander from DOS times. It had the same look, but the feel was nowhere 
near. I'm still using MC in a konsole.

Web browsing. I've used konqeror as a web browser for long. Altough I 
had a mozilla installed for pages that didn't display well. But than 
Firefox came with tons of plugins, and I switched. With the plugins it 
has a better feel.

>   man:/cupsaddsmb
>   info:/ls
>   
Hey I didn't know that. :)

>   fish://kpfeifle@linuxprinting.org
>   
I've already filed a bug report about this. It's still open. Fish 
transfer is slow gives only 10% of the speed compared to duing sftp from 
konsole. This is file managment.

>   smb://workgroup/windows_xp_box/my_share
>   
This was broken for so long, I've given up hope. I think it's working 
now, but I got used to smb4k. Anyway this is file management.

> In reality Konqueror is not bloated at all. Konqueror is very thin, and
> very lean. Konqueror is "only" an empty shell. An empty shell which is
> able to load other programs ("kparts") into itself and into its tabs so 
> that the user can access them from one place.
>   

I think the main problem is not the bloat. Lot of people use emacs. :-)
The main problem is the feel part of the interface.
Why use kwrite when you have kate?
The idea of the generic interface is good, but there are a couple of 
auxilary commands/functions that are necessary in a program which fall 
outside of the scope of the given kpart. Like tab order in a two panel 
file manger. You would have to heck konqueror to have the same tab order 
as Total Commander as doesn't have a real tab order. Or have you ever 
tried to handle konquerors two panel file manager from the keyboard 
only? It's awkward.

I think that's the main reason behind the "bloated program" argument. 
People want more specialized interfaces. They don't really care if it's 
the same program or not.

Brain