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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] KDE and Konqueror deficiencies
From:       Jim Philips <jimmyc () speedfactory ! net>
Date:       2004-09-11 11:41:49
Message-ID: 200409110741.49404.jimmyc () speedfactory ! net
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On Saturday 11 September 2004 12:46 am, Lauren Wolcott wrote:
> There are 2 deficiencies in KDE that are significant enough to keep me
> from using KDE.  If I am overlooking the answers to them, they should be
> made more evident.  There are also a couple things that bug me but
> aren't critical.  My KDE is Release 3.1.3, as is my Konqueror.  I am
> using these on Libranet, a debian OS.
>
> 1) I can find no way to put an Internet activity monitor/applet on the
> taskbar/panel as has Windows, Xandros, and IceWM, for examples.  For
> dialup (I can't speak for other modes) I don't want to be without that,
> so therefore I cannot use KDE.  A CPU monitor is nice too, as IceWM has.

If you search at kde-look.org, there is a nice system tray app called Knemo 
that does what you want. This kind of thing would not show up on the task 
bar, which is only to show open applications.


> 3) The Konqueror File Manager always comes up in the Icon mode.  Try as
> I may, I cannot find a way to make it default to the list mode.  There
> isn't even that setting in the Configure Tool.  Why doesn't it save
> settings as default?

It is there. When you're in file manager mode, go to "Settings" pulldown and 
you should see "Save view profile 'File Management'". At least, I have that 
in KDE 3.3.


> 4) There are 3 dates in Konqueror that are named "Modification Time",
> "Access Time", and "Creation Time".   "Creation Time" is, however,
> always greyed out.  Why is this??  The only other File Manager I've
> found that has all three is emelfm, but it's not nearly as useful as
> Konqueror.  (The 3 fields are named Modified, Accessed, and Changed,
> which makes no sense at all - what's the difference between modified and
> changed??  And it doesn't give the year!!) So it would be a real
> advantage if you could make that field active in Konqueror, or tell me
> how to do it.

In KDE 3.3, I don't even see how to get the view that you have, much less the 
one you want. You may want to take a look at Krusader at:

http://krusader.sourceforge.net/

It's a very sophisticated file manager for KDE. But there are some things it 
doesn't do as well as Konqueror. For the real answer on dates, I think you 
need "man ls". The command prompt will always be the most flexible.
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