Konqueror 4

John Sheu john-sheu at mail.utexas.edu
Sat Oct 28 22:01:56 BST 2006


On Saturday 28 October 2006 2:39 pm, Mark Rose wrote:
> As just a KDE user, I don't see the paradigms as so fundamentally
> different. I see Konqueror as a visual file accessing program. What's so
> neat about is that the transport mechanism is irrelevant. I really stop
> noticing whether I'm seeing something over http, ftp, fish, etc. Some file
> types Konqueror can display natively and others it opens in external
> viewers. A page of information and links known as a website is really not
> fundamentally different than a page of links known as a directory listing
> or folder view. For me, this seamless integration between local and remote,
> regardless of transfer mechanism, known as Konqueror, is the "killer app"
> for KDE and Linux. Konqueror is an absolute joy to use. Every other file
> app and browser pales in comparison.

As my first post to this list since joining a month ago, I second this.  
Wholeheartedly.

And it's nice too that all the KDE apps are transport-agnostic as well.

-John Sheu




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