Konqueror bugs

[Cristian S]

Greetings,

Honestly, I really do not care how many replies I get. They can be zero or minus 10 as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not a socialist media fan or promoter.

I'm just commenting on a state of facts.

Comparing KDE 3.5 to KDE "latest and greatest" is like comparing Windows XP with Windblows 13, 17, or whatever the mama version Bulls**t Gates puts up these days, I don't even have any idea because I ditched Windblows completely 20 years ago.

Comparing KDE 3.5 to KDE "latest and greatest" is like comparing Einstein with Stalin.

This only serves as proof (for a millionth time) that the theory I formulated 20 years ago is always true: "OLDER=BETTER && NEWER=CRAPPIER". And this is a universal principle, it applies to every (living or inanimate) thing.

Because 20 years ago I chose absolute freedom, I had of course to fight for it, it's just that in the last decade the fight grew 30 times bigger.

I'm using Linux at a level most would not even comprehend.
I actually use it as the one and only OS to solve all my daily needs.

As far as KDE is concerned, the only 2 things from it that I use are Konqueror as a file manager and Kwin as a window manager.

But of course, even these two I had to patch for dumbfixes to eliminate various cretinisms.

I had to patch Konqueror to make it display the date+timestamps in standard ISO format (YYYY-MM-HH hh:mm:ss), which is the only format that makes sense for brain owners (instead of stupid things like "yesterday", "the day after tomorrow" and other such idiocies).

I had to patch Konqueror also to make it display file sizes as exact values in bytes, instead of the "Kikimimibibigigi" retarded baloney where you need to waste a minute just to figure out what the mama that means.

Also I had to figure out what trick up the sleeve should I use to restore the facility of using the F4 key to get a "Konsole Here" action, which of course got screwed up too, at some point in time (NEWER=...).

I had to patch KWin to make it possible to have non-zero-width borders, so I don't have to waste an hour trying to grab a zero-size border every time I want to resize a window.

I also had to patch it to make it possible to retain a resizable border on maximized windows so I can move-resize windows very fast.

As I said, the only two things out of KDE that are actually usable (after heavy dumbfix patching) are KWin and Konqueror.

Other than that, of course I also have TDE installed plus a whole bunch of other window managers, desktop managers, desktop environments. For instance I have four different FTP servers compiled from scratch with custom install paths so they can coexist.

I have an older generation Linux with 32 different kernel versions installed.

I have 100+ different versions of Firefox that I can use any time I want, any number at the same time, each with its own separate profile and a single-click launch list.

Regarding Konqueror, the reason I use it is that, since 15 years ago, I wrote a lot of scripts and context menus to achieve a whole lot of tasks by right-clicks on certain file types, directories etc. I get things done very fast and very efficiently with Konqueror as a file manager. For instance, I mount or create ISO files with a single click and I join PDFs with a right-click plus left-click.

Aside from that, the Konqueror file manager has a unique feature they introduced a while ago, the file view can display a tree of directories AND files at the same time, something the old Konqueror did not have.

Combined with a file size in bytes and date+timestamps in standard ISO, this is of huge help to me.

But, to have all this, I gotta fight entire battles and wars.



On 11/16/2025 04:27 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> This might be my only reply to this thread.
>
> Cristian S - 15.11.25, 15:49:28 CET:
>> As of Konqueror 21.04.0, there is no method available anymore to change
>> the toolbar and menubar fonts, and the detailed view column headers
>> font.
> This version is more than 4 years old and highly outdated.
>
>> In the "Configure - Konqueror" window, the content of [File Management]
>> -> [View Modes], [Navigation], [Services], [General] tabs have NO
>> "Apply" button anymore (programmers too hungry and ate it?).
> I do not even really have [File Management] => [View Modes] here, but just
> [View Modes] on the top level. And in there is no [Services] / [General]
> tab or at least I do not find it right now. I bet it will be somewhere. I
> bet there has been some kind of restructuring going on between Konqueror
> 21.04 and 25.04. Konqueror may not be that actively developed anymore, but
> it is a 4 year difference!
>
> However I do seem to find an "Apply" button on every configuration page I
> tried so far.
>
>> Back in the day, KDE 3.5 was something really great.
>> Today it's all dull & dumb.
> If you wonder why you just got one reply so far, look at what you wrote.
> If I were a KDE developer I would not reply to such a rude way of
> expressing your frustration. Why are you even using current KDE software
> anymore if you are so unhappy with it? No one is forcing you to use it.
> You are actually attacking those who develop the software you are using
> mostly in their free time. Not a good plan, if you ask me.
>
> Mind you, Konqueror has been kind of deprecated for file management a long
> time ago. Maybe it would have been better to remove the file management
> part from it altogether, but eventually I believe it is basically using
> the same components than Dolphin uses for at least most of it. I love the
> Konqueror ability to tile the window as often as you want, but I got used
> to the optional two pane display of Dolphin meanwhile. Current Dolphin is
> an excellent file manager.
>
> Anyway I do not concur with your general assessment of the state of KDE.
> Plasma 6.5 is a really, really nice desktop. Some KDE software still has
> issues, like Akonadi, but in general things are really working quite
> smoothly. I am actually quite happy with the state of KDE software on my
> system.
>
> And if you like to have something similar like KDE 3.5 back there is an
> option for that as well. Just not within the KDE project and within the
> scope of this mailing list.
>
> Best,