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KDE 4.1 to bring back Konqueror tree view, other goodies

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 8 comments
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When I wrote about file managers in my review of KDE 4.0, I noted that several important features had been removed from Konqueror, including the tree-based detailed view. Many power users regard the tree view as the most effective mode for advanced file management and mourned the loss of this feature. Developer Peter Penz reports that the tree view has been restored and that it will be fully functional in time for the KDE 4.1 release.

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tuxchick ·
Quoting: The tree view was originally omitted from the 4.0 release because it had to be completely rewritten using Interview, a model-view-controller framework for tree structures that was introduced in Qt 4.


Good, I'm glad to hear it was technical problems and not because KDE was infiltrated with Gnome developers.

Quoting: According to Penz, the commonly-requested feature will be restored in Konqueror, but not enabled by default in Dolphin, KDE's new user-friendly default file manager.


How is removing useful features "user-friendly"? If you can't do anything, that's not very friendly. Dolphin is a big fat PITA that takes twice as many steps to do routine, simple tasks. Big Crayola icons and reduced functionality are not my ideas of user-friendly.
tracyanne ·
Quoting:Big Crayola icons and reduced functionality are not my ideas of user-friendly.


Nor mine. As Linus said "treat users like idiots, and idiots will use your stuff."
Sander_Marechal Story submitter ·
Quoting:Good, I'm glad to hear it was technical problems and not because KDE was infiltrated with Gnome developers.


Quit bashing Gnome. Nautilus has tree views. Had them for as long as I can remember.
dinotrac ·
>Quit bashing Gnome.

Gnomes are creepy little creatures. Using their creepy little creature desktop is not designed to instill warm fuzzies.

>Nautilus has tree views.

Big deal. So do my kitchen windows, and they make a lousy desktop.
thenixedreport ·
Man, what is with this GNOME bashing lately? GNOME ain't evil folks. I have used KDE, GNOME, and XFCE in addition to other interfaces that have their strengths and weaknesses.
dinotrac ·
>GNOME ain't evil folks

Yes it is. The desire to look like the GNOME-based Ubuntu led the Kubuntu folks to package a thoroughly crappy "KDE" based distribution.
thenixedreport ·
*sigh*

Quoting:The desire to look like the GNOME-based Ubuntu led the Kubuntu folks to package a thoroughly crappy "KDE" based distribution.


I don't know if that's a failed attempt of humor or what. I hope so.
dinotrac ·
>I don't know if that's a failed attempt of humor or what. I hope so.

I hadn't really thought of kubuntu that way.

Perhaps that explains it.

More like a failed attempt at a distribution.

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