On Friday, 23 August 2019 09:27:55 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 23/08/2019 11:18, Mick wrote: > > Konqueror was the best file manager ever, with multiple vertical and > > horizontal window split, with kio-slaves which would process or play > > anything and everything you threw at it, with browser integration, ftp/s > > and sftp/fish, etc. Nope, evidently konqueror wasn't good enough, so > > here comes dolphin > From what I remember, it isn't that Konqueror wasn't good enough, it's > that the person who developed it lost interest or didn't have the time > for it anymore.
Yes, the world moves on and so do devs with their decisions. With the move from KDE3 to KDE4 some devs had the inspired decision to develop a new file manager, which would be a file manager only - Konqueror was like a Swiss army knife, a multitool in your Linux pocket. >From what they had written at the time I understand they came to an architectural decision for KDE4 to only keep one app for each task. It is reasonable to want to focus their horsepower on other KDE4 development needs and not diffuse their efforts on various applications just duplicating functionality. This decision also leads to simpler apps, simpler to maintain. > KDE isn't Apple or Microsoft. People work on whatever they want to work on. This was a conscious developer team decision, rather than some dev deciding to develop what gave them personal pleasure. Still, I'm missing Konqueror all the same. I now end up using more than one application to perform tasks where a multi-view Konqueror instance would suffice: - file manager - sftp client to remote server - webdav(s) client to remote server - audio CD rip/transcoder (it would present the audio content in multiple formats to drag and drop on your drive, ripping on demand) - PDF viewer - video player/viewer - archiver - gpg/smime file encryption/signing - internet browser - navigation (bookmarks/block devices/networks) Of course, Konqueror did not perform all these functions using some native code itself, but the GUI-fied seamlessness with which it hooked up to the requisite kio-slave to do what you asked without getting in the way, was what I really admired in it. -- Regards, Mick
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