Konqueror 4

[Michael S. Mikowski]

As a daily user of Konqueror, here are my thoughts:

I use KDE /BECAUSE/ of Konqueror and the superior file selector dialogs.  
I /LOVE/ the integrated file and browsing.  It's the first thing I show the 
poor masses that use Gnome. I open up a webdav pane, a local file pane, and a 
samba share pane and drag and drop files between them.  I then view an html 
or pdf or image document on the any one of the panes.  The response is 
always "Wow.  I wish Nautilus could do that!" 

I dislike using FireFox because it lacks these features.  I feel very 
restricted.  For example, if I can see a list of files using the FTP 
protocol, why can't I drag and drop them into a new pane?

If I wanted an non-configurable, dumbed-down, lowest-common-denominator, 
disjointed, bread-crumb-hell desktop, I'd use Gnome.  The Gnome breadcrumb 
selector is absolutely annoying and inefficient.  I definitely puts 
the "dumb" in dumbed-down.  I'm shocked it actually meets the HID.

If you split the apps, who gets what?  Who gets to render HTML?  Images?  
PDF's?  Do both support multiple transports?  Will I need to open 2 
application to browse and manage files?  If so, what a pain.

In summary, I think Konqueror could maybe use a little bit of polish on making 
the menus cleaner, but it isn't "broken," so please don't "fix".  While I 
can't complain, I'd love it if all this effort could go towards things that 
definitely are broken, like Exchange support in Kontact.

Sincerely,

Mike


On Monday 30 October 2006 06:26, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Saturday 28 October 2006 01:20, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> >  - navigation (breadcrumbing, drop zones, integrated search)
>
> Nice idea, but I don't see any reason to replace the locationbar.
> Typing in a location is the fastest way to get to place and we for this
> very simple reason it would be folly to throw it away.
> So instead of this HELL*-inspired breadcrumb bar, we should have
> locationbar with active parts so you can click on any part of the path, and
> drag to any parts of it.
>
> * read GNOME
>
> `Allan

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