Usually I just turn the icons off, but I was testing things. First strange behavior was when I turned off Printers, Web Browser, and My Network Places, a new 'System' icon magically appeared on my desktop. So I opened it, and it opened in dolphin - you're kidding right? Then I tred My Computer and Home on the Desktop and both opened in dolphin....
Why does 'Home' on the desktop open in that crippled dolphin while home from kicker open correctly in konqueror file manager? That just seems odd. I don't know where these hooks are made, but I would like to be able to set any desktop icons to open in konqueror instead of dolphin (dl3phin).
I don't know why we bother with d3lphin. Beta software.
Darrell
I don't know why we bother with d3lphin. Beta software.
Darrell
Hi!
The default behavior of TDE is to open the desktop icons with Dophin if Dolphin is installed. If Dolphin is not there, it will be open with Konqueror.
Like Dolphin or not, the problem is in the way it is treated. In the TDE Control Center, there is a place where you can choose the default applications for things like email, web browser, ... This is where TDE should have an option to let the user choose the preferred file manager.
When I work a lot on files, I usually use Midnight Commander, but when I simply want to choose pictures in a folder or just want to launch a document fast, I prefer Dolphin and its simplicity. Its side-panel with file previews and informations is well-made. But yet I have to agree that Dolphin appeared at the very end of KDE 3 life cycle, so it is still very basic, especially when compared with Dolphin on KDE 4.10. It is completely bug-free, but is is very basic.
Dolphin is great and not in the way of the users for simple operations, but it is not the best file manager for working heavily with files.
-Alexandre
On 02/03/2014 02:03 PM, Alexandre wrote:
I don't know why we bother with d3lphin. Beta software.
Darrell
Hi!
The default behavior of TDE is to open the desktop icons with Dophin if Dolphin is installed. If Dolphin is not there, it will be open with Konqueror.
Like Dolphin or not, the problem is in the way it is treated. In the TDE Control Center, there is a place where you can choose the default applications for things like email, web browser, ... This is where TDE should have an option to let the user choose the preferred file manager.
When I work a lot on files, I usually use Midnight Commander, but when I simply want to choose pictures in a folder or just want to launch a document fast, I prefer Dolphin and its simplicity. Its side-panel with file previews and informations is well-made. But yet I have to agree that Dolphin appeared at the very end of KDE 3 life cycle, so it is still very basic, especially when compared with Dolphin on KDE 4.10. It is completely bug-free, but is is very basic.
Dolphin is great and not in the way of the users for simple operations, but it is not the best file manager for working heavily with files.
-Alexandre
Alexandre,
Do you know where in the code the priority is set? The if have dolphin, use dolphin for desktop items, else use konqueror for desktop items? I would like to patch that for archlinux builds. That way I could still provide dolphin, but have the desktop items open in konqueror.
As a test, I just removed dolphin from the system and the desktop item do open in konqueror now. That is the way I want it by default. I've grepped tdelibs and tdebase for dolphin, but turned up nothing but the dolphine machine hardware in the admin dirs.
Alexandre,
Do you know where in the code the priority is set? The if have dolphin, use dolphin for desktop items, else use konqueror for desktop items? I would like to patch that for archlinux builds. That way I could still provide dolphin, but have the desktop items open in konqueror.
As a test, I just removed dolphin from the system and the desktop item do open in konqueror now. That is the way I want it by default. I've grepped tdelibs and tdebase for dolphin, but turned up nothing but the dolphine machine hardware in the admin dirs.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
I'd say that I am an advanced linux user, but I can't help with actually programming.because I don't have this knowledge. The easiest way for now is probably to let Dolphin out of the default TDE packages list that are installed at the first TDE install, just as it is made for the other builds. Then, if an user install Dolphin, it is probably because he/she like it. Another non-programmed way would also be to change the desktop icons to force them to use konqueror.
Yes, I agree that this problem of TDE should be resolved one day.
Hope it helps! -Alexandre
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