Konqueror 4

[Kevin Ottens]

Le lundi 30 octobre 2006 15:15, Martin Konold a écrit :
> I gave dolphin a try and I am not convinced. E.g. when I navigate to / I
> can't do this via a button or by clicking on icons. I am forced to use the
> menubar. As we all know being forced to use the menubar has usability
> issues.

Well, it's part of the "dolphin is young" cons. Not a big deal IMHO it could 
easily be improved.

> The next thing is that dolphin tries to be smart and hides most
> directories. E.g in / I can on my kubuntu system only see
>
> - debootstrap/
> - home/
> - media/
> - usplash_fifo
>
> This selection is a very bad idea. E.g. me navigating to /tmp should be
> easily doable.
> 
> After enabling the access to the hidden files (only available via menu not
> icons) I get presented all hidden files and directories including those
> starting with  a dot. Then when navigating to /tmp and back to / it forgot
> about my selection again. In practice this meand that navigating from $HOME
> to / and then to /tmp is not a reversable action. (The users needs to
> explicitly enable the access to the "hidden" entries again and again.
>
> IMHO this is a typical but lame attempt to make the UI simpler.
>
> Rule of thumb: Make it as simple as possible but not simpler.

If you're using kubuntu edgy, it has nothing to do with Dolphin. Kubuntu 
devels chose to patch kio file to obtain this behavior...

Regards.
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
"Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
Ne font reculer l'ignorance."
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