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.