[PATCH] Should we add 'Konqueror File Manager' to the menu

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 24 December 2008, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Per: DF's request, this is a patch to do one thing: add Konqueror File 
> Manager (KFM) to the menu.
> 
> So, this is a simple question: should it be on the menu?
> 
> I note that Dolphin is on the menu.  Therefore, I think that KFM should 
> also be on the menu.
> 
> I realize that there are other ways to open a file manager window. 
> These are OK for local use, but a file manager is also used for network 
> and web (e.g. FTP).
> 
> I find that in KDE that I open KFM both ways -- either with a directory 
> icon or with the Konqueror icon.
> 
> IAC, I think that to be consistent that if we have Dolphin on the menu 
> that we should also have KFM on the menu.

This seems reasonable to me (giving people choice), but I noticed that we don't
need a new kfm.desktop file for this, we have in konqueror a Home.desktop already
doing exactly that (same Exec line as your kfm.desktop). But it was marked as
NoDisplay=true by Jonathan Riddell in 789263, with the commit log
"hide from apps menu by default, already in Computer menu, see kde-core-devel 'Kubuntu Settings in KDE' thread"
Ah, he means the "Home" link, but if your default filemanager is dolphin then that one opens dolphin.

Well that's easy to change now that we have the file manager configuration in 
`kcmshell4 componentchooser`....
We provide choice already, as a global setting - I don't think we need to care
for the very rare case of someone wanting to use -both- dolphin and kfm as filemanagers?

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Qt Software @ Nokia to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).