On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, I know life moves on, but this move has been a retrograde step for me. My > konqueror:5 recently updated seems to have a number of problems and <aheam!> > features I am not happy with. Grateful for any pointers to address these. In > no particular order. > > 1. The Bookmarks Toolbar will *always* show up when launching Konqueror. I > deselect Settings/Toolbars Shown/Bookmark Toolbar and relaunch the > application, only to find out my deselection will not stick. > > 2. The menu shows no icons, only text; buttons like open new tab/close current > tab show no icons, making difficult to guess. > > 3. When used as a file manager Konqueror will only open directories or files > if I double click on them. I have set up in systemsettings5 Hardware/Input > Devices/Mouse/Single click to open files and folders. Konqueror ignores it. > > 4. All my years of Bookmarks of Konqueror:4 gone. I had to import them > manually. > > 5. Network places, gone. > > 6. Left hand Panels with Places/Devices/Folders ain't thaa'r. > > 7. Konqueror Introduction page, no icons; unless I hover over them, > hyperlinked titles shown in dark grey over a blue background. I know my eye > sight is not as good as it used to be, but this is really akin to usability > sabotage. > > The are probably more problems I have not captured above, but my experience of > konqueror:5 is that of crippleware. I don't know if this has anything to do > with it, I am not running konqueror on a full plasma desktop, but as a stand > alone application. Have you observed similar? > > -- > Regards, > Mick
You should take your complaints to the project's bug tracker. I know they will take number 7 very seriously, and seeing as you've used the project for an appreciable amount of time they will likely consider most of your other issues. At the very least they would probably tell you how to do what you don't know how to do. If they can't insist that there has been a regression. On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Halfway through the KDE-4 lifecycle it became known that konqueror then > was essentially without a maintainer in the KDE project. Gut feels tells > me that has likely not changed and the minimum work was done to get it > to build under KDE-5. Just gut feel. > That is a good guess, but there has also been a transition away from skeuomorphism (traditional desktop icons) to what Google calls Material Design (which as far as I can tell was actually created by various experimental Linux projects who had no artists as contributors, so they just started drawing colored squares). The new UI for Konquerer may be completely intentional. I'd consider this not a failing of material design, which can produce extremely attractive interfaces, but as a failing of the program; it does look like there were features removed. To be fair a lot of things that developers do (after seeing Google support it) such as discoverable interfaces and minimalist UIs are often done incorrectly as there tends to be a huge gulf between developers and their users. And to everyone: KDE-5 doesn't exist, what you are probably referring to is Plasma 5.
