How a �Welded-to KDE3.5 User� Began a Move to KDE4.4 Part III �Konquering the Dolphin�
Jan 26, 2011, 16:04 (3 Talkback[s])
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"In this extension of his two part guest editorial and tutorial
Dr. Tony Young (an Australian Mycologist by trade) goes into detail
comparing the functions of Konquerer and Dolphin and along the way
discovers that he might actually keep Dolphin as his file
manager.
"Introduction
"In part II of this series, I stated that there were some
important ways in which I found that KDE4.4 was deficient when
compared with KDE3.5. These were the Personal Settings controls,
the file manager Dolphin and the way in which KDE4.4's complexity
has produced what I consider are abnormal situations in which far
more decisions are required to carry out simple tasks. As an
example of the latter, I showed that 11 separate mouse selections
are required to produce a result in KDE4.4 where a similar
practical result requires only two such selections in KDE3.5.
"In this section, part III, I examine one of these problems in
more detail: the Dolphin File Manager. I intend to show that,
despite my earlier statements, I was eventually able to make
Dolphin behave in a way that is almost identical to the behavior of
Konqueror in KDE 3.5 . The reader should also be aware that my use
of Konqueror in KDE3.5 was relatively simple. Most, if not all of
my activities involved: copying of files, relocation of files,
creation of folders, searching for folders or files and renaming
files or folders and I shall restrict myself to this set of
procedures."
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