I think this sums up nicely what should be focused on with KFM:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: kfm
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:27:40 +0100 (MET)
From: Oleg Mercader <O.Mercader@cesca.es>
Reply-To: kde@lists.netcentral.net
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Reference a kfm minimum desirable features.
(I remember that this question it has been discussed but ...):

- a local file manager;
- a ftp frontend (like xDIR + xget = (autorecoverable,recursive) ;-) ...
not yet
- a light HTML browser

-- 
Oleg Mercader