“As some of you who monitor the KDE news sphere may have
noticed, there has been a recent addition to the kdebase module.
The Dolphin File Manager has been added to complement Konqueror’s
browsing capabilities. Read on for more information about this new
File Manager and its relationship to Konqueror and the rest of
KDE.“A brief history lesson so you can get an overview of how file
management has evolved with KDE: In KDE 1.x, KFM (the KDE File
Manager) was born. It was a very rudimentary, very basic file
manager with limited web browsing capabilities. Below is a shot of
KFM browsing files (from the kde.org screenshot archive) so you get
an idea of how it operated…”
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