Quote:Original post by Ilici Konqueror properly configured provides the same functionality as Windows Explorer and much more features (archives, ftp, web, encryption, etc).
Windows Explorer has supported all that for quite some time (FTP isn't multi-threaded though, but then neither is Konq, so I rarely use that feature) just nobody seems to use it. In fact, there's a lot of functionality to Win Explorer that not many people seem to use or utilize.
Are you saying explorer does or doesn't support ftp? I find it to be a great feature when your doing web dev, I find it to be one of kdes killer features.
Quote: But then again, new users to Linux absolutely love using a console window and never realized Windows has one as well. Nobody ever bothers to use it.
Everyone knows Windows has one but there much more usefull on a unix like system with everything in /bin | /usr/bin.
Anyway, I think I switched to the "konq is to bloated" camp today when I realised it had a media player. WhyTF do you need a madia player in a FILE browser?
The problem I've noticed with most programs thiese days. is that as screen resolutions increase, people seem to think the size of everything else shoudl increase too. Icons become bigger. More white space appears. Personally I don't like this trend at all. I want to be able to fit more on my screen when I put the resolution up.
KDE and Gnome's file mannagers seem to both have one thign missing. A list view like the one in windows explorer. (not the detail view) One where it was a nice neat listing of files that went down in colums side by side. I find scrolling up and down a list of files is too confusing and hard to keep track of the file I was looking at. Because the file I was looking at was only 16 to 20 pixels high (as it should be) But thhat file's width is quite a lot more. and aswell as the small degree of whitespace at the end of the smaller filenames and the next row of files being perfectly lined up. So it's much less disorentating scrolling horisontally.
the Gnome file browser (I know it has good points, but for what I look for in my own personal preferencences) is absolutly appaling with some things. You can't decrease the HUGE size of the icons withought decreasing the text size too. I like to have my text to the configured to the right side of the icon below, which there's an option for, but then there's another huge icon width of white space between where it wraps the filename to the next line, and the next row of icons.
KDE and Gnome's file mannagers seem to both have one thign missing. A list view like the one in windows explorer.
It works for me in Konqueror under KDE 3.3. It's called MultiColumn View.
I agree about the part about Nautilus resizing fonts and cursors together and I dislike it too. Also i hate those huge icons that i see in some screenshots.
KDE lets you setup your fonts quite nicely, and i'm using the windows fonts: Tahoma 8 for everythign except Fixed Width font which i have as Courier New. I use some nice font for the window title, that's the only place i like having a fancy font.
KDE and Gnome's file mannagers seem to both have one thign missing. A list view like the one in windows explorer.
It works for me in Konqueror under KDE 3.3. It's called MultiColumn View.
I agree about the part about Nautilus resizing fonts and cursors together and I dislike it too. Also i hate those huge icons that i see in some screenshots.
Ah-hah. thankyou for pointing that out. I didn't realise that there were other view modes than that on the toolbar. And Konqueror doesn't resize it's font. Strance as I was sure when I first tried it it did. Konqueror should do fine enough till I find a better file mannager now at any rate.
I hope Konqueror desides to play nicely since I'm running in gnome. ;)
I hope Konqueror desides to play nicely since I'm running in gnome. ;)
I wouldn't hold my breath. I think Konqueror relies a lot on KDE with its protocols (kio_slaves), the devices section, integrated text editing (Kate), archiving (ark). It would be interesting to give it a try. If you manage to get it to look good, that's a big accomplishmen.t
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Original post by Scribbler But then again, new users to Linux absolutely love using a console window and never realized Windows has one as well. Nobody ever bothers to use it.
That's because cmd is incredibly crippled compared to bash or most other linux shell. Short line lengths, limited file regexp matching, almost no utilities ( grep / sort / diff / etc are non-existant ), and neither backticks nor pipes.
Well.. i can say that konqueror is bad. But it could get better. Such as faster, we more usufull features, and less stupid buttons.
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I just noticed another cool feature on Konqueror, when you open a music cd it can autimatically rip it too .ogg and .mp3 for you. What Konqueror seems to need is a better plugin system, something along the lines of mozilla. So you can start off with a basic system and onyl add the components you want.
I've got a suggestion for you, how about the ability to perform searches on your files and be able to save the results of those searches as a folder and have that folder automatically updated. So say you could search for all files edited in the last week save it as a folder and whenever you open that folder it's all the files you edited in the last week from the current date. (do you get what i'm saying?)
