Today I found out that I’m way more productive with Dolphin then I was with KDE3 Konqueror’s file management.

I think it was at LinuxTag that Sebas showed that the single click method is actually implemented in a way that it is useable. After that presentation I decided to switch from doubleclick to singleclick. I must admit that I’ve struggling with it for a while, but now I’m slowely getting used to it.

The last remaining bit was that I found it difficult to rename files, I still want to click on it to select it and hit F2 after it to rename the name, but that always results in opening the file, which I then close and then I can rename. Today I found out that when you press F2 when you have multiple files selected, it even prompts you correctly so you can rename the files with a numeric indicator in the name. Totally cool.

Moving around on the filesystem can be done quickly with the favorites on the left, but also by holding the left mouse button on a part of the breadcrum path at the top, the other children fall down, so you can go to them quickly. I think there could be a debate if the pulldown shows what is expected, but that is not to me to decide. (I find myself clicking one level to high usually, so clicking on the folder I want to change, instead of on the parent).

O, and it was funny to read LinuxFormat claiming “Konqueror is still stacked full of file-management options.”, the reviewer obviously missed the tutorial about KParts ;-). Anyhow, if we remove the Dolphin kpart for Konqueror, we have mad users who want to keep using Konqueror for useing file management. If we make it possible for Konqueror to do filemanagement with a Dolphin KPart we get complains that there is no clear separation. In short: there is no way we can make everyone happy.

As expected, Aarons blog resulted in a comment about the question if such a posting should be aggregated to planetkde.org.

The posting ends with the statement ‘So please deside, be a developer or a journalist’. It is a silly statement. You need to rethink what planetkde.org does. It aggragates personal blogs into a one stop site. So you do not need to keep 200 bookmarks and visit them daily to spot a new blog of someone. How can you ask Aaron to choose between being a developer (which seems to assume: no personal viewpoints) and journalist (viewpoints, but accept comments)? He is just filing his own private space and that happens to be aggregated to a place called planetkde.org.

In short, I think if you don’t like personal, non-kde related blogs on planetkde.org, just fall back to the good-old-bookmarks-system. Although I doubt you will be free from personal stuff, or strong viewpoints.

Even stronger, I like personal blogs. It makes developers more human (if that makes any sense to anyone). It gives a developer a face. So please post viewpoints, talk about food, holidays or whatever. It’s also the reason why I’m a bit reluctant about #kde-cafe vs #kde-devel. #kde-cafe being the social twin of #kde-devel. The absense of social talk on #kde-devel would make it a rather unpersonal channel with a lot of distance between developers. In practise there is social talk in there, and I understand that in a rather busy channel, the social talk can distract a lot.

So, I hope the people who complain about personal stuff on the planet think again. Some people actually like those posts.