On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:27:59 -0700 Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, September 14, 2013 05:43:14 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > The best I've found so far is KDE4's Dolphin, but it's still no > > Explorer rival, has nothing like Tortoise (to my knowledge), it > > still has some irritating goofiness (ex: the horizontal scrolling > > in the tree-view panel is every bit as broken-by-design as in > > Vista's Explorer), and there's some other things, plus I don't like > > KDE4 :( (And I'd rather not have to pull in the bloat of KDE4 > > just for a file manager.) > > I'm a diehard Konqueror fan myself, but I also use KDE as my DE and > really like it. I'd probably be a bit lost without Konqueror, because > then I'd have to find separate programs for all of the various > protocols that Konqueror supports on top of file:// (e.g. ftp and > samba). It'll also do svn, cvs, and the like if you want to, though I > never use GUIs for source control. > I kinda liked KDE3 (and GNOME 2 wasn't too bad either, for the most part). My non-server Linux installations tend to be either Trinity or XFCE these days. I never thought to try Konqueror as a file manager. My mind always associates it with web browsing.