Comments on: A cursory look into KDE 4 file management: Dolphin beta

By: Rudd-O

Rudd-O — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:31:53 +0000

No, this is Dolphin 4. Pay attention to the theme. It’s Oxygen.

By: Evan "JabberWokky" Edwards

Evan "JabberWokky" Edwards — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:16:15 +0000

It's really quite important to point out that Kubuntu Gutsy does not have dolphin. It has d3lphin, which has a symlink from the command dolphin (do a ls -l which dolphin). d3lphin is a neat little backport of an earlier version of dolphin with some features disabled. It's certainly worthy of review, but it also is not dolphin. This is a review of d3lphin.

By: Dasy2k1

Dasy2k1 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:46:13 +0000

Ive used dolphin3 and like it quite a lot, the only things are, i cant resise the preview icons (with ctrl scroll)

and there dousent seem to be a tree view available,

tree view > breadcrumb trail IMHO

By: Darkelve

Darkelve — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:30:57 +0000

“And it’s not like they can’t associate inode/directory back to Konqueror, can’t they? “

Actually, I believe I read that you will be able to change this preference in KControlCenter/Personal settings.

By: Leo S

Leo S — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:07:04 +0000

@sede

Kubuntu includes the old version of Dolphin, based on Qt3. It is very different from the one that will be included in KDE4. However, if you are looking for a good Dolphin for KDE3, check out D3lphin. It's the KDE3 version of Dolphin, with a few bugfixes (show hidden files is in the menu for example, and other things).

By: sede

sede — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:49:32 +0000

Seems like Kubuntu Gutsy (I upgraded from Feisty) has an older or buggy version of Dolphin. If I change the preview images largest size it's still the same. The same applies to the sidebar preview images, they don't resize. One time it showed me resolution info at ONE image, but no more since then.(???)

I found the show hidden files icon, thanks for it!

By: Rudd-O

Rudd-O — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:02:32 +0000

To increase the size of the previews, go to the preferences in Dolphin.

The preview resizes itself with the width of the sidebar.

Show hidden files can be added to the toolbar as a toggle button.

The next dolphin 4 changes the preview/icons behavior to one you'll like even more.

By: sede

sede — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:32:18 +0000

I upgraded to Kubuntu Gutsy and found that the file manager is changed to dolphin. I was happy with it for a while (because faster startup), until I started to work seriously with it.

-In the preview view I cant change the size of the images large enough to use. -Too much space between the images. -At the right sidebar there is a preview, but too small and without image resolution info. (Konqueror shows a larger preview image in a tooltip with more info) -In Konqueror easy to switch the “show hidden files” item, it’s in the menu. In dolphin it’s much harder. I need this all the time.

Sorry, but it’s one step forward and two (or more) steps back.

By: Arun

Arun — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:36:47 +0000

KDE rocks.. I am eagerly waiting for the version 4. Hope dolphin will be much faster than konqueoro

By: aseigo

aseigo — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:24:06 +0000

sort by type.

click on “Details” in the toolbar, right click on the headers in the file listing (the ones that say “Name”, “Size”, “Modified”…) and select Type. now click on the newly displayed Type column. presto: sort by type.

a minor usability bug atm is that the View -> Additional Information entry only works with icon views not detail views.

these are sorts of little bits of refinement we’ll see between now (4.0beta3) and 4.1.

regarding strigi/nepomuk integration, the information sidebar uses them for metadata such as ranking and tagging. but yes, it’s not as integrated as will eventually become. the really good news is that this integration will largely happen using the xesam spec (which was spearheaded by the strigi team on freedesktop.org) which means that one will be able to use it with any search back end that implements the xesam query language system.

By: aseigo

aseigo — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:21:21 +0000

sort by type.

a minor usability bug atm is that the View -> Additional Information entry only works with icon views not detail views.

these are sorts of little bits of refinement we’ll see between now (4.0beta3) and 4.1.

By: InTheLoop

InTheLoop — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:06:12 +0000

Great article! I am really glad to see Konqueror being replaced by Dolphin. I can’t wait for KDE 4. I just wrote about this article on my site.

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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:03:36 +0000

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By: Nikoolinux

Nikoolinux — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:26:43 +0000

One very important thing is missing in Dolphin : - sort by type.

I can't understand how the developpers did forget such a functionality...