From kfm-devel Tue Jul 24 10:56:35 2007 From: James Richard Tyrer Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:56:35 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Re: Dolphin with tabs Message-Id: <46A5DAE3.40004 () acm ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=118527465704277 K N wrote: > I forgot to mention this. In windows there a two seperate programs, one > for browser files and one for browser the web. Many users are going to > confuse this with dolphin being the folder browser of windows and > konquer being internet explorer. Perhaps that is where the idea comes from. I do not have a recent version of Windows. I think I have 3.x for DOS somewhere. So, I will have to ask how this works in Windows. I have IE6 installed with CXOffice so I know how it works. It is like Firefox, it will browse anywhere -- even on Linux with CXOffice, it will browse my local files if you give it a phony path. However IE will not manage files. That is how Konqueror is different, it is a browser that will also manage files (and also has the icon view/thumbnail preview display). So, the question is what the other Windows browser does. Will it browse? That is, can it display the contents of files or does it only open them in the appropriate applications? If so, then it is a file manager like Dolphin. Note that there is nothing strictly local about managing files. You can also manage files on a network or with FTP over the internet. Dolphin would make a good FTP app if it could store the needed book marks. So, the current purpose of Dolphin is to satisfy users that don't want to manage their files with a browser. I don't see that it should be lacking features; it doesn't need to be overly simple; it just needs to be ONLY a file manager. We can add Konqueror features as long as we maintain this limited purpose. As for tabs. I don't see that that is a power user feature. I just find it more convenient than opening more browser windows. -- JRT